Gainward, a company that's been making video cards for quite a few years, has recently announced an overclocked, silent, and cool GeForce GTX 680, namely the Phantom II. Because of the special cooling, they can overclock the card.
For a while now, at various trade shows, we've seen flexible OLED displays. A flexible display is exactly that: a display that you can bend while the display keeps displaying what it displays.
AMD has recently released their Catalyst 12.3 driver suite, bringing with it the usual slew of bugfixes. This driver suite also fully supports the AMD Radeon 7900, 7800, and 7700 series of graphics cards.
Razer is, according to Min-Liang Tang (CEO of Razer), the "only brand in the world that makes a left-handed gaming mouse." Southpaw gamers still aren't happy, though, because the only left-handed mouse Razer makes is the DeathAdder.
Back in September of 2011, Spotify changed up their 10-hour-per-month free (well, ad-supported) music streaming plan so that you get unlimited music for six months after you sign up, and after that it will go down to 10 hours per month.
It's been a long time coming, but OCZ has finally released a firmware update to their Vertex, Agility, and Solid2 SSDs that were made after December of 2009. The firmware update increases some benchmarks by quite a bit, actually.
AVG, a popular anti-virus program that offers both a free and paid version, has added a do-not-track feature to their program to allow their users to browse the internet with more privacy.
For the past couple years, the Federal Trade Commission has been studying, learning, and enforcing consumer privacy. They've even gone after Google and Facebook for their less-than-praiseworthy privacy in the past.
Google I/O, a conference put on by Google for them to debut what they've been cooking up, is usually sold out in less than a day. Last year, it took and hour for tickets to sell out. Today? They were sold out of tickets in 20 minutes.
Adobe has released a new beta for its wildly popular image editing software, Photoshop. This particular version, CS6 (Creative Suite 6), includes many new features such as a new UI, new and re-engineered tools, and content-aware patching.
The increasingly-popular media center program both for your desktop, laptop, or for your Apple TV or Xbox (if you like tinkering), has released a new version: Eden.
Since the whole MegaUpload debacle is still going on, and Kim Dotcom's money is still frozen, the company that hosts for MegaUpload, Carpathia Hosting, is not being paid.
A new trailer for the upcoming Far Cry 3 was recently released. In it is information regarding the official release date and what pre-ordering will swing you. Read on for the trailer and more.
Last August, it was reported that NVIDIA's highly-anticipated Kepler graphics cards would be delayed until 2012. Well, the delay is finally over and they have been released.
HP is no doubt big on both the printing markets as well as the computer and server markets. In PC market share alone HP has been leading other companies like Dell, Acer, and Lenovo in market share since 2007.
Getting excited for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria? All around the internet people are wondering if it'll be enough to get them hooked again. I've got to say, playing as a Panda monk is pretty tempting. Will it be enough, though?
AMD today finished off it's triple play of GPU releases with its third release in three months. Well, four months since the Radeon HD 7900 was launched in December.
The Pirate Bay is almost always struggling against government agencies and industry groups, based on allegations of "copyright infringement" even though they host no files that anyone has a copyright on.
Starting on July 1, major ISPs like Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and others will start implementing a substantially more strict anti-piracy policy. If they suspect you of pirating they will send you a notice.
Kickstarter, a website devoted to giving publicity and funding to different projects like videogames and films, has gained enough funding-support for Wasteland 2 to become a real thing.
Probably the most highly anticipated game being released this year, Diablo III has finally been given a release date. The game will be "unleashed from the burning Hells" on May 15.
Marvell has recently announced a new SSD controller that promises to deliver top-of-the-line performance while lowering costs and power consumption. The Marvell® 88SS9187 SATA controller delivers up to 200MB/s per channel.
Yesterday it was posted that Firefox 11 was released through FTP channels, but now it's available officially. Release notes can be found here. You can download it here.
Happy Pi Day, everyone! Also, happy birthday to Albert Einstein! If he were to somehow still be living, he would be 133 today. So go bake a pie (pizza counts, too) or do some trigonometry.
Microsoft has recently received a report of a pretty big exploit in their Remote Desktop Protocol. While they haven't heard of any attacks happening, they said they wouldn't be surprised if they started happening in the next 30 days.
A few months ago, Asus launched their UX series of Ultrabooks with the UX21 and UX31. They were 12.1" and 13.1" ultrabooks, but they really didn't do all too well.
Firefox 11 was released through FTP channels, then taken off of those channels, but other websites have hosted the file and it's available for download.
A recent blog post announced that Diablo III will launch without PvP. Blizzard's reasoning is that while PvE is just about done, PvP isn't up to the quality they want it to be.
So your Raspberry Pi is getting shipped soon. We're all excited for it. But when you get it, what is there to do? It's not like you can just throw a copy of Windows on it and go about your life.
Back in June 2011, Valve made a big decision to make their triple-A title Team Fortress 2 free-to-play. This decision was big because there was a good chance that it would infuriate their current users who laid down the money for the game.
A problem in the manufacturing stage is the reason why you haven't received your Raspberry Pi yet. Apparently they got the wrong jack for the ethernet port.
The Linux Foundation, a group of major tech companies like Intel and AMD dedicated to the growth and support of Linux operating systems, has gained a new member: NVIDIA.
If you've been trying out the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you have probably found the lack of a start button and start menu to be a bit.. different. Some might even say confusing.
The guys over at AnandTech recently got to play with an Ivy Bridge system and were able to completely quite a number of benchmarks. The Core i7 3770K was the processor they tested, and it's looking good for Ivy Bridge.
A year ago (exactly, actually), Western Digital announced its plans to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, which is Hitachi's hard drive department.
Back in January, when Anonymous started their hacking spree in protest of the take down of Megaupload, those who were involved in the DDoS attacks unknowingly downloaded a trojan that gave the author online financial information and e-mail…
A new memory overclocking world record has been set by Christian Ney. He was able to overclock G.Skill RipjawsZ DDR3 memory to an astounding 1868.3MHz, which is 68.2MHz higher than the previous record.
It was announced recently that around 600 employees of Blizzard are being laid off, but a blog post by Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, says that Blizzard's upcoming titles are safe.
Intel and Micron have entered into an agreement wherein Intel will sell off its shares of two wafer factories to Micron (in exchange for $600 million), and Micron will supply Intel with NAND memory for their SSDs.
The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi computer has been released. If you haven't heard, it's a very cheap computer that's capable of doing things like streaming 1080p video flawlessly.
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which includes access to Microsoft's App Store for the Metro UI, was released earlier today. This is probably not the final build, but it's most likely pretty close.
