Adding to the cluster of ultrabooks already on the market, today Dell launched the XPS 13 ultrabook, and it's not too shabby. Aside from the usual, it touts a few nice touches. Read on to see more pictures and read about the new computer.
Since MegaUpload was shut down by the FBI, file-sharing websites all around the internet have been going crazy trying to make sure they won't suffer the same fate. Some even shut down completely.
Rising labor costs in China could lead to higher prices from companies like Dell and HP, who are trying to decide if it's best to absorb the cost themselves or pass them on to us, the customers.
It's been a great week for consumer privacy: first the White House releases a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" that will give limitations to how companies can collect and use your data that the government can enforce (if Congress can pass…
For some reason it seems like companies are jumping on the dubstep bandwagon for their trailers. First Far Cry 3, now Borderlands 2. If you don't feel like watching the whole trailer, it will be released on September 18.
President Obama has recently released a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights," which gives the government a framework for consumer privacy that they can enforce.
About a month ago the FBI raided the home of Kim Dotcom, the famed founder of MegaUpload, and arrested him on charges of copyright piracy, money laundering, and racketeering.
Guild Wars 2 is now hosting a closed beta! To try to get in, you need to send them your system specifications (they give you a .exe that does it automatically) and other stuff like your e-mail, age, and country. Go here to sign up.
The state of California tried to pass a law about five years ago that would require stores to pay a fine of $1000 for selling a game that allows "for assassination, violent crimes, rape, etc." to a minor.
NVIDIA has recently released the 295.73 WHQL-certified GeForce drivers, which add some nice performance tweaks to Mass Effect III, Diablo III, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
A new project out of Canonical will make an Android phone be able to sort of dual-boot the Android OS and the full desktop version of Ubuntu when you plug it into a dock.
Starting April 1, if the plans get shareholder approval, Samsung's LCD division will become Samsung Display Co. Rumors have been going on for a while, but until Monday nothing had been announced. Samsung Display Co.
VideoLAN, one of the best all-around media players out there (in my opinion), has finally released VLC (video-lan client) 2.0, dubbed "Twoflower." Aside from a slightly new interface (not much has changed from the first version), there are…
Thanks to both a recent trailer and a financial report, we now have the release dates for both Assassin's Creed III and Far Cry 3. Assassin's Creed III will, if all goes to plan, be released on October 30 of this year.
The die size of today's newest NAND flash memory that used in solid state hard drives is 25nm, but it wasn't always like that and won't stay like that for long.
Apple has recently announced their newest operating system, namely OS X Mountain Lion. From what I could see all that is new is a lot of new applications.
Everyone knows of Google's love for Beta, so it's really something when one of their projects comes out of beta testing. The most recent big thing to come out of Google's beta testing is their public DNS server.
Apple said recently that they will begin to allow the Fair Labor Association to review factory worker conditions in the Foxconn factories from which Apple receives a majority of their parts.
A committee has been drafted by a technological standards group to form the standard for the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), more commonly known as "H.265." Currently H.264 (MPEG-4) is what everyone loves, as it really is a great codec,…
Back in November, Valve warned us that Steam's user database had been hacked. At the time, they didn't seem that anything sensitive (credit card information, names, billing addresses, etc) was taken.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the European Union have approved Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility, despite some concern by many how Google will use the patents it acquires through the purchase.
Activison-Blizzard, the company responsible for games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft, released its 2011 Q4 financials, as well as released a "targeted launch date" for the upcoming title Diablo II…
If you don't know the name Alan Parsons, you probably aren't an audiophile. He is most noted for his sound engineering work on a couple of the Beatles albums as well as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Hitachi GST announced Wednesday the launch of their new Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise-class line of SSDs. Using a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s interface, the drive packs a wallop.
Remember HP's Envy 14 Spectre? It's HP's almost-ultrabook, "almost" because it's just outside of the ultrabook specifications. Well, it's available for pre-order now.
Avast!, a popular anti-virus program, is changing up how they do updates, kind of. Instead of the program having to check online every so often for definition updates, Avast! will start to "stream" the updates.
The much-anticipated Windows 8 Consumer Preview, in contrast to the Developer Preview that's out now, will be released on February 29 to the public. In this release, the App Store should be working.
For a while now Adobe has been working on a sandbox for their Flash player, which basically limits its activities to avoid malicious activities and exploits.
Raspberry Pi, the eagerly anticipated $25/$35 computer than can easily play 1080p video (making it the perfect home theater PC) among other things, has started its manufacturing stage. The U.K.
If you're a Steam user as well as one of the many users of Avast! Antivirus, you probably ran into a problem on Sunday where Avast! falsely deemed Steam as a trojan and locked it up in the vault.
NVIDIA's upcoming Kepler graphics card lineup was recently leaked, and it's full of those lovely details all of us love. Before I post the specs, I should reference that they're all taken from here.
Dropbox, the popular cloud-storage service, usually offers 2GB of storage for free, and if you want more you have to pay or do some tricky things like linking GMail accounts.
Ubisoft will be moving their servers starting on February 7, meaning that some games will become completely unplayable during the down time. There are only a few games that will be completely unplayable.
As earlier reported, AMD's Radeon HD 7950 was released today. The lowest price on Newegg, if you're curious, is $459.99. For all that cash you'll get quite a powerful card.
