Two new drivers all in one day? It's like Christmas! Except not so much. AMD has released their Catalyst 12.6 Driver Suite as well as the Catalyst 12.7 beta drivers.
Last week Acer's founder Stan Shih said that Microsoft's Surface tablet was a ploy, that it was just to drive competition to drive Windows 8 adoption, and that Microsoft would drop the Surface fairly shortly after its release.
The controversy in the Kim Dotcom case never ends, so it seems. A New Zealand High Court Judge has ruled that the search warrants used in the raiding for Dotcom's mansion were illegal.
Ever wonder what you could do with a Raspberry Pi? Of course, there's always the option of throwing Fedora on it and using it for an HTPC. But what about something more.. unique? Well, that's where FishPi comes in.
The release date for the long-awaited Guild Wars 2 has been announced. Also with this announcement comes the dates for the Beta Weekend Event. Guild Wars 2 will be released on Tuesday, August 28.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have come up with a way to automate one of the most grueling parts of building a CPU: taking the CPU core architectural designs and implementing them.
Seagate, a well-known storage solutions company, and DensBits, a not-so-well-known company who is touted as the inventor of the first "Memory Modem," have teamed up to make worse SSDs better.
Verizon Wireless has lately been trying to buy more of the electromagnetic spectrum from cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast to use for its mobile network, much to the displeasure of other companies.
In a recent interview with Kotaku, Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore said something very interesting (paraphrase): free to play may be the business model of the future.
Currently, one of the biggest challenges with designing computers is cooling. With the most widely used design of a CPU heatsink, it's a matter of balance between efficiency, noise, and size.
It's an Acer kind of day, I guess. Newly announced from Acer is yet another ultrabook, this time in the Timeline series. Namely, they've announced the Timeline M5 ultrabook.
If you haven't heard of Microsoft's Surface tablet that was recently announced, you must have no been on the internet much at all in the past couple days.
Just yesterday the internet was abuzz with the story of Linus Torvalds' (the man who came up with Linux) giving NVIDIA the finger (both in sign and in words).
A new protocol called SPDY (pronounced the same way was "speedy," and it's no an acronym) has been making the rounds around the internet. The protocol is meant to be more secure and faster than the currently-used HTTP.
If you haven't heard the sensationalized news, Linus Torvalds had some.. fiery words for NVIDIA. Even more interesting than just that was the entire talk that that short bit of news came from.
Verizon's FiOS internet service, which uses fiber optic cables rather than telephone or television cables like DSL and cable internet use, has gotten an upgrade, yet again. All internet tiers aside from the lowest have gotten new speeds.
For those of you who have upgrade your Intel Core systems without dedicated graphics cards to the Windows 8 Release Preview, Intel has released a graphics driver for Intel HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 graphics.
Logitech has announced a new addition to their G Series gaming mice: the G600 MMO gaming mouse. Similar to Razer's Naga, this mouse includes 12 programmable thumb-buttons. The total number of buttons is 20, up 3 from the Naga's 17 buttons.
Acer today announced what they're calling the thinnest ultrabook ever. At .44" at the thinnest point and .59" at the thickest, they definitely take the cake. While the thinnest ultrabook is nice, does it really matter?
TSMC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has been granted the necessary permission from the Taiwanese government to build a 450mm (almost 18") wafer factory.
Skype, one of the most popular VOIP services, has announced they will introduce "conversation ads" into 1:1 Skype-to-Skype calls. It looks like it will only be in audio calls, so video chatting is safe for now.
With the release of Intel's Ivy Bridge platform, pretty much every major laptop manufacturer has started gearing up for selling laptops with those processors inside of them.
Back in May, VIA announced a $49 Raspberry-Pi-esque Android-powered computer. There wasn't any word on availability, now there is. Pre-orders are up, sort of. They sold out almost immediately.
In the past, we've seen the idea of a smartphone-powered laptop. If you don't quite understand what I'm talking about, it's basically a keyboard and a screen in a laptop's body, with all the processing done in the smartphone.
At Computex 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD 's director of Global Marketing, John Taylor, blamed Intel's very specific guidelines for a laptop to be called an ultrabook for the ultrabook's relatively high price.
In the wake of the eHarmony and LinkedIn hacks, many people have been thinking about the strength of their own passwords. A secure password isn't difficult to come up with.
Back in May, there was a story released about how HDD prices are staying high even though production and shipments are up to pre-Thailand-floods levels.
David DeMartini, who's the head of Origin, recently had a Q&A with GamesIndustry and talked about Origin's first year and where he hopes to take the digital downloading service.
Today, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba all unveiled their new line of laptops and ultrabooks. They're pretty much all standard laptops and ultrabooks, but man are most of the ultrabooks pretty.
Mozilla has released the latest version of their Firefox internet browser: Firefox 13. Aside from the usual bugfixes, they've added a most-visited page that pops up when you open a new tab, like Google Chrome.
About a month ago, Sony announced that they'd be releasing an ultrabook, and the expected launch date was in early June. Today, Sony unveiled their new line of Vaio laptops, including the T series ultrabook.
Toshiba today, on the 25th anniversary of their invention of NAND memory, announced their new line of 19nm process based SSDs, which use a ridiculously small amount of power while doubling the speed of Toshiba's HD3 SSDs.
Usually AMD releases a new Catalyst driver for their video cards about once a month. This kept people updating drivers frequently, but also helped resolve issues quickly.
Love free things? That's a silly question, everyone loves free. That's why you'll like this story. Valve has launched Dota 2: Spoils of War free to play, with free access to all heroes, though admission into the game is still selective.
Lately there's been a lot of debate over whether or not an optical drive is still needed. On the PC side, there's always the option for an external drive.
Finally, a day before the rumored time frame, the Windows 8 Release Preview has been launched. This includes quite a few updates from the previous Developer and Consumer previews, such as an updated desktop theme and more features working.
