Mozilla has recently come out with version 15 of its popular Firefox web browser. Among a few new features, the most notable is the silent update feature.
Remember back in July when Apple launched that new ad campaign? People all around the web were very critical of how.. basically stupid it made Apple users look.
Amazon and NBC have reached an agreement where Amazon's Prime Instant Videos will get NBC Universal's video library. Details like how much Amazon is paying NBC for their library were not released.
To the dismay of pretty much every PC gamer, Dark Souls was released with a resolution cap at 1024x768. That's pretty terrible, considering there are monitors out there with resolutions up to 2560x1600, and 4K is right around the corner.
Samsung has recently released a teaser trailer for an upcoming Windows 8 laptop. According to the description, this laptop is their "newest Windows-8-ready innovation." Nothing more was released.
For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft has updated their logo. With all of the market share Microsoft has been losing to Apple, it seems like Microsoft is finally getting their act together.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently added a cloud storage solution called Glacier. It's not so clear if it's available to everyone or just to businesses, but it's looking like it's available to everyone.
AMD announced today that Corporate Vice President Darren Grasby will be taking over EMEA sales, which covers Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Those of you who like to eat at your desk and frequent spill things are sure to like the newest keyboard out of Logitech. They designed it to be washable in up to 11 inches of water, as long as you keep the USB cord out of the water.
If you're a fan of giving your computer more powerful, you know doubt know the important of a good power supply. If you're putting three giant videocards in SLI or Crossfire, you're going to end up needing quite a few watts.
PopCap Games, a subdivision of Electronic Arts that makes simpler games of the likes of Peggle and Bejewled, recently announced the sequel to one of their most popular games: Plants vs. Zombies.
One of the computer engineers who helped Intel design the 8088 processor family, Victor Poor, died last Friday at the age of 79. Poor had a very interesting life.
Earlier today marked the first public launch of Windows 8 as Microsoft released the operating system on TechNet. So now that it's out, is it worth switching to?
Microsoft cloud-storage product SkyDrive has been in preview for quite a while now. I've used it here and there, and it works the same as DropBox or Box.net worked, for me at least.
Back in June, VIA's $49 APC, which is an Android-powered computer similar to the Raspberry Pi, was made available for pre-order. Late last night I received and e-mail saying that the product was finally released.
We PC gamers must not be very liked compared to console gamers. Ubisoft, for an unknown reason, decided to release the PC version of the upcoming title Assassin's Creed III later than the Xbox version.
It was announced today that Google will pay a $22.5 million fine to the FTC for violating Google's own privacy terms. Apparently Google didn't follow the default do-not-set-third-party-cookies setting in Apple's Safari browser.
We've heard about Windows 8 tablets being in development from companies other than Microsoft, but we've yet to see any product announcements: until now. Lenovo today announced their ThinkPad Tablet 2, which is their own Windows 8 tablet.
With Windows 8 now being finished and sent off to manufacturing, it's pretty much a waiting game. If you're impatient, Microsoft's controversial operating system has been sighted online in its finished form.
Ever since IBM started looking to make personal computers in 1980, there has been controversy over whether or not Bill Gates, the famed founder of Microsoft, had stolen MS-DOS from another popular OS from the time, Control Program/Monitor (…
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad, Lenovo today announced the lightest 14" ultrabook ever: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Coming in at just 1.36KG (just under 3LB) thanks to its carbon-fiber body, this ultrabook is pretty crazy.
This is something I'm sure we've all thought of: a multitouch screen on a laptop instead of a keyboard. Well, it looks like a company called NajmTek ("najm" means "star" in Arabic) is taking that idea and putting it into a product.
It's been a long time coming, but Windows 7 is almost about to have more market share than Windows XP. According to a recent study, at the end of July Windows XP had 42.86% of the Windows market share while Windows 7 had 42.21%.
Jim Keller, who is most popular for leading the team that designed the processors inside of Apple's iPads and iPhones, is moving back to AMD after a long run from company to company.
Ultrabook sales are expected to grow 92% by 2017, which has OEMs all over the place scrambling for ways to make theirs better, and has the hardware manufacturers finding more and more ways to make ultrabooks better.
A big thing with companies these days is virtualization. Even just on for the network admins, being able to have multiple servers running on one machine is an amazingly helpful thing.
Apple has recently launched a new ad campaign, and it's very.. interesting. They follow the life of an Apple "Genius" who gets asked to fix everyone's problems.
In Microsoft's annual US Securities and Exchange report for the last fiscal year (ended June 30, 2012), they talked about the usual stuff: their products, services, revenue streams, all the boring stuff.
Remember a year ago in March when everything in the news was about Google rolling out fiber optic cable? Well, since then there hasn't been much news about what Google has been doing with it.
Recently there were rumors all over the news about a Swedish website posting Microsoft's Surface tablet starting at what compares to $1000 for the entry-level model, with three other SKUs costing even more.
If you were expecting a flood of Windows RT tablets to come out at the launch of Windows 8, you may be shocked. Microsoft is strictly limiting who can make Windows RT tablets.
Get ready, WoW fans, Mists of Pandaria got a release date. Pre-purchases are available now, and you'll be able to pre-download the content for the game's release on September 25.
Ever since the USB 3.0 standard was near finalization, everyone was talking about being able to charge power-hungry devices such as laptops through USB 3.0.
ARM, who makes most mobile SoC's (system on a chip), and TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, have inked an agreement wherein TSMC will produce the next generation of ARM SoC's.
Good news for fans of both Raspberry Pi and the Chromium OS: a developer nicknamed "Hexxeh" has ported over the Chromium OS binaries to work on the Raspbian image for the Raspberry Pi.
It's a sad day indeed for those who are fans of Microsoft: their recent quarterly earnings report showed the first loss ever for the company since they went public in 1986.
Some stories just restore your faith in humanity. In this one, Yang Yuanqing, who is the CEO of Lenovo, shared his $3 billion bonus with the junior-level employees of Lenovo instead of taking it for himself.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has recently announced a new feature for the OS: WebApps. These aren't your regular webapps, though, that just sit in your browser.
Can't wait to get your hands on the final release of Windows 8? Yeah, I can wait, too. Just kidding. But really, the release date for Windows 8 has been confirmed: October 26th.
'Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently had a meeting with various journalists and analysts concerning Q2 2012's numbers. In the meeting, he said that there are currently 140 different ultrabook designs in the works from various OEMs.
With all of the protests that have been going on all over the world for the past year, and with all of the footage being posted on video sharing websites like YouTube, there's a lot of concern or privacy.
About a year ago there were some major breakthroughs with phase-change memory (PCM), and now Micron has recently announced that they've started mass production of 45nm PCM.
Back in April, rumors about Valve developing a native Linux Steam client, as well as Valve porting over the Source Engine, were confirmed by someone who toured the Valve offices.
If you've been wanting to get your hands on the highly-demanded Raspberry Pi but haven't been able to because all that are made are immediately sold, you'll be happy to hear that production of the Raspberry Pi Model B is being ramped up.
It looks like Apple removed their no-virus claims from their website just in time, as Kapersky just discovered more malware for OS X. It looks like this is a backdoor that infiltrates through an e-mail attachment.
There are those among us who like to stick with official drivers, and that's fine. But for those of us who like to get every bit of performance (no pun intended) out of our GPUs, we know that beta drivers are a good place to start.
In a recent interview with gamesindustry.biz, EA Labels (EA Studios and development teams) has said that they will eventually become 100% digital. According to Frank Gibeau, President of EA Labels, it's inevitable.
As a reminder to everyone out there, multiple ISPs launched a "six strikes" program yesterday in collaboration with content groups like the RIAA and MPAA.
At the beginning of last weekend, rumors were floating around the Microsoft's Surface was causing OEMs like HP, Asus, Dell, etc., to back out of Windows 8 tablet production.
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.
A leak of the Windows 8 Release Preview, which is the final beta-build for Windows 8 before the retail release, has happened over in China, and thanks to the wonderful internet we can see screenshots of it in all of its glory.
With every new generation of consoles comes a debate about the cost of PC gaming vs the cost of console gaming. It eventually boils down to performance and price, in which the PC loses in price but wins by far in performance.
The terrible flooding over in Thailand sent prices into the sky and supply into the ground. Well, it's been a while since the flooding has been over, but we haven't seen prices fall all that much.
Corsair has had a busy morning. They've both released the Force Series 3 SSD with a migration tool, as well as registered for an IPO (initial public offering).
For the past few weeks, Oracle and Google have been battling in court over Google's alleged infringement upon Java copyrights in Google's Android operating system.
Last Friday, there were rumors floating around that HP was going to announce a restructuring plan with its Q2 Revenue Report that they were due to release today. Well, the rumors just about right.
Running on the heels of the recently-shipped Raspberry Pi, a new project from VIA called APC is developing an Android-powered computer with a $49 price tag.
It was announced recently that Foxconn, who makes many of Apple's products like iPads and iPhones, will be investing $210 million in a new plant that will be used to make more Apple products.
If you were in the market for a low-end graphics card, perhaps for upgrading an old computer, beware of the low end GeForce 6xx cards if you're looking for a Kepler card, as they aren't.
DOCSIS 3.0, or Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification 3.0, has been around for a while now. Most users don't see that much of a difference between a DOCSIS 2.0 and 3.0 modem because they're not paying for that tier of service.
Microsoft announced recently that they're dropping the resource-guzzling Aero Glass from the Windows 8 UI. Aero Glass is a feature first introduced in Windows Vista, and was brought over to Windows 7.
EA has recently announced that any fully-funded, ready-to-be-published game funded via Kickstarter or other crowd-funded games will get a free ride on Origin, EA's digital downloading service, for 90 days.
HP's new-ish CEO Meg Whitman is said to be cutting 30,000 jobs as soon as next week. Around 10% of HP's 324,000 work-force could be either voluntarily retired or laid off.
Last December, Comcast had said that they were not switching over to tiered internet plans. Today, Comcast has announced that they're going to be testing out tiered internet plans.
Ever spend the day at work waiting to get home to play the newest title out on Steam, only to have to spend the entire evening downloading the game? Well, this is no more, thanks to the most recent feature added to Steam.
Back around the time when Windows 7 was coming out, Microsoft announced a plan that would upgrade the operating system on computers purchased from a certain date from Windows Vista to the version of Windows 7 most closely matching the versi…
The Pirate Bay, one of the leading torrent hosting websites as well as the receiver of most media attention regarding piracy, has fallen to a DDoS Attack.
Good news for you AMD-lovers out there, Trinity has been released. For those of you who don't know, Trinity it's AMD's next generation of APUs featuring "Piledriver" (the next generation after Bulldozer) 32nm architecture.
Ivy Bridge just barely came out, and Intel has already announced what they're working on next. If you didn't know, Ivy Bridge uses a 22nm lithography, which is ridiculously small.
Back in April, there came out a report from Overclockers.net claiming that Intel used thermal paste instead of solder in Ivy Bridge, which explains why the chips run so much hotter than Sandy Bridge processors do.
If you're like me, you're a big fan of ultrabooks. The mixing of the extremely thin and light form factor, pretty-good performance, and fantastic battery life makes for a wonderful laptop for use when you're away from your desktop.
Back in March, Irrational Games announced the release date for Bioshock Infinite, setting it for October 16 of this year. Well, they announced yesterday that the game has been delayed until next year.
NVIDIA announced today their release of the GeForce GTX 670 card, based off of the 28nm Kepler architecture that the already-announced GTX 680 and GTX 690 are based off of.
Today, HP has announced a whole slew of new laptops, ultrabooks, and "sleekbooks." From a refresh of their Pavilion series of laptops to new Envy ultrabooks and sleekbooks, there's something for everyone here.
If you've been trying to buy one of NVIDIA's new GTX 6xx series cards, you probably haven't been able to. They've been out of stock probably since day 1.
While Ubuntu is remarkably easy to use nowadays, one of the big hurdles the operating system needs to overcome if it wants to become mainstream is adoption.
Today Micron announced the first fully-working DDR4 DRAM module. Based on Micron's 30-nanometer technology, DDR4 memory is expected to bode well in tablets and ultrathin because of its low-power-usage to performance ratio.
If you didn't read it before, Windows Media Center won't be included in Windows 8, but will be available an upgrade (that you have to pay for, of course).
Yesterday, GameInformer broke the news that ZeniMax Online Studious has been working for years on an MMO set in The Elder Scrolls universe. It was said that today an announcement trailer would be released, and it has been.
Aside from the Alienware M11x, most gamers who wanted 11.6 in. gaming laptops were out of luck. And right now, it looks like the M11x is nearing extinction, so what are mobile gamers to do? Well, luckily AVADirect has come to the rescue.
While Oblivion and Skyrim were wonderful games, a lot of people missed the ability to go on quests with their friends, or trade gear, or do many of the things that they're used to doing in an MMO.
Hopefully you had a chance to check out the Diablo III beta the other weekend. If not, you only have to wait until May 15 for the game to be released. In the mean time, a nice way to prepare is to read up on the game.
After quite a bit of waiting, Sony has jumped on the ultrabook bandwagon with the new Vaio T13 Ultrabook. If you've seen other ultrabooks this really isn't anything special, as it's just Sony's take on the spec.
For the past few years, online TV-streaming website Hulu has enabled people to watch all of their TV shows without a requirement that you had to be paying for cable.
Since before Ivy Bridge launched, there were reports floating around from the engineering samples sent to reviewers that Ivy Bridge runs considerably hotter than comparable Sandy Bridge CPUs.
A while ago, NVIDIA posted a simple image with two words on their Facebook page: "It's Coming." Rumors floated around about either a GTX 690 or a mid-range card with the Kepler GK104 architecture.
It's a sad day for the internet, and for freedom. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, has passed the House of Representatives and is now awaiting a vote from the Senate.
Since its release over a year ago, fan boys have been waiting and waiting for a (good) map creator for Portal 2. We've been promised one for quite some time, and now Valve has announced that they're making good on that promise.
AMD's Catalyst 12.4 Driver Suite was recently released, bringing with its usual slew of updates support for Linux operating systems, both x86 and 64 bit versions.
Firefox 12 was released, not so surprisingly, just over a month after Firefox 11 was released. Usual updates come with it, but the best is probably their new update method.
Google's latest project to be released, Google Drive, has launched. As rumored, it offers 5GB of storage free, in addition to 10GB for GMail storage and 1GB for Picasa storage.
It's getting closer and closer to the release of Windows 8, and now Microsoft has set up a release preview time-period, meaning that we might see the final product on store shelves as soon as July, if not sooner.
If you're like me, you've been eagerly awaiting Intel's release of their Ivy Bridge processors, which are the 3D-transistor bearing successor to the popular Sandy Bridge line of Core processors.
AMD has recently announced that their Trinity APU and Brazos platform have been shipping since last quarter, so they should start popping up in stores soon.
Missed out on the Diablo III closed beta, but still want to give the game a try? I hope you're free this weekend, because from earlier this morning until Monday, Blizzard will be hosting an open beta for the highly-anticipated game.
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux platform, was recently added to the list of Millennium Technology Prize laureates, meaning he will become one of the winners of the very sought-after prize.
With rumors floating around about Google Drive being launched within the next week, other cloud storage companies are probably scrambling to figure out how to compete with the (rumored) 5GB of free storage that will be offered by Google, an…
A recent report claims that by the end of the year, there will be at least 32 Windows 8 ARM tablets on the market in an effort to take some of the iPad's market share.
Many people have complained about EA's Origin service, and its seemingly-harsh terms of service. In the past, if you were banned for breaking the Terms of Service, you'd be locked out of access to every game you bought on Origin.
In the past, many Windows users (probably more average-Joe's than power-users) have been troubled over all of the different editions of each version of Windows.
For a while now there have been rumors floating around trying to answer the question on everyone's mind: "What is Vavle's newest secret project?" Almost all we knew that was it was hardware-related, which led many people to believe it would…
After tons of hiccups, from materials sourcing problems to having the wrong ethernet jack, the Raspberry Pi computer is now in stock in their warehouse.
Here's a shocker: the controllers that OCZ toted as an Indilinx controllers that were used on the Octane and Vertex 4 series are actually Marvell controllers with Indilinx firmware.
Intel today introduced the SSD 910 series, which is a PCIe solid state drive designed for server applications for things like cloud computing, virtualization, and online transactions. There are two sizes: 400GB and 800GB.
Ultrabooks, the wonderful thin and light but still powerful laptops, have been out for quite some time. I don't see why anyone wouldn't want one, based on their portability-to-power ratio.
With all the ridiculousness of the government trying to invade our privacy online with bills like SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA, it's a wonder why different telecommunications providers won't join the user's side and try to give them more privacy.
In preparation for the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors, motherboards with the new Intel Z77 chipset have been released. Using Socket 1155, these boards are compatible with Sandy Bridge processors that use the same socket.
It's not often you hear about AOL recently. They used to be big with their dial-up internet service, but since dial-up got replaced by DSL and Cable, they've drifted from mainstream to just about no-stream.
If you were like most fans of Mass Effect 3, you were probably disappointed with the game's ending. BioWare, the game's developer, has received all sorts of negative feedback about this.
If you've been wanting to try out Star Wars: The Old Republic, this weekend is your chance. Neither payment information nor game cards are required, simply just sign up and start playing.
CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act that is gaining in popularity in the United States House of Representatives, is being called the new SOPA, and many are wondering how the online community will respond once word gets…
With just about every company that makes a laptop coming out with their own version of an ultrabook, which is an extremely slim but surprisingly powerful laptop that fits certain specifications set by Intel, there has to be a greater demand…
HGST, which is the new company owned by Western Digital that formerly was called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, has recently announced the world's first 4TB Enterprise HDD: the Ultrastar 7K4000.
The IDC recently released a report that lays out their projections for the whole hard drive debacle. Since the flooding in Thailand last October, hard drive prices have soared while supply plummeted. Nowadays, a 1TB HDD costs around $100.
There have been rumors floating all around the internet about Google's upcoming Drive cloud storage service. It was recently leaked that everyone would get only 2GB of free storage space at launch, but new leaks are saying it's much more.
Last week, Razer posted on Facebook that if that particular post could get 10,000 "Likes" by April 21, they would begin development on a left-handed version of the Razer Naga.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mad Catz, the company responsible for the Cyborg R.A.T. line of gaming mice, has recently released a new gaming mouse intended for MMO use, namely the Cyborg M.M.O. 7.
If you haven't heard, the data-storage website MegaUpload was taken down by the FBI, and seven of its administrators, including founder Kim "Dotcom" (pictured above), were arrested, all in the name of copyright.
That's right: Blizzard is auctioning off the original World of Warcraft Blade Servers, realm-specific. That means that you can buy the server you used to play on if you played WoW from the beginning.
Last month news came out from LEGO's CUUSOO, a place where regular people can submit their Lego creations for a chance for their creations to become an official LEGO product, that Minecraft-themed LEGOs were gaining support.
A project that's been going on for a while called "Raspberry Pi" aims to bring a high-powered computer down to a more than reasonable price. For only $25, this computer can do quite a lot.
Blizzard has recently sent out a press release claiming that Blizzcon 2012 will not be held, instead their main event of 2012 will be the 2012 Battle.net World Championship.
Western Digital released on Monday their second quarter financial results, and it doesn't look bad. Even with the flooding in Thailand, they've still made quite a profit.
ArenaNet, the child-company of NCSoft, today announced their plans for the beta of the highly anticipated Guild Wars 2. After recently finishing their closed beta of the game, ArenaNet is ready for the next step.
After much rage from the internet about Anno 2070's draconian DRM that blew up after Guru3D tried to do VGA performance benchmarks but couldn't continue after changes out the graphics card three times, Ubisoft has finally changed the game's…
Even if you've been playing the Diablo III Beta, you probably will want to read this. Blizzard is making quite a few big changes to the game, but most seem actually like good ideas.
Just minutes ago I received an e-mail from Fight for the Future, one of the main activists in the fight against SOPA and PIPA, saying that the two horrendous bills have been dropped as a result of the protests that took place on Wednesday.
If you're an older gamer, you no doubt look back wistfully at the 90's and the difficulty of the games. Games where they didn't hold your hand through everything with checkpoints every minute.
If you've been having problems with your Crucial m4 SSD, you may like this one. Crucial has released a firmware update that fixes a fairly major bug that would make the drive stop responding after 5184 hours of up-time.
Tomorrow will be a darker day for the internet, as many websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are planning to black out for most of the day, if not all.
The highly anticipated Mass Effect 3 has had quite a bit of questions surrounding it, but thanks to a recent Q&A on Bioware's forums, a lot of those have been answered.
The Stop Online Piracy Act just hit a big bump: Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that the House will hold off on a vote for SOPA until a consensus is found.
Anti-virus software vendor AVG is reported to be filing for an IPO. While AVG didn't release the IPO amount, Reuters reports they will try for $125 million, which isn't a far cry based on their revenue last year that was well over that.
Recovery of all of the factories over in Thailand seems to be going pretty well, but according to Hitachi Vice President Brendan Collins, the industry won't do so well.
A few weeks ago, news came out that AMD's Radeon HD 7950 would be delayed until possibly mid-February for unknown reasons. This saddened a lot of people, but since it's only a month or so wait it didn't matter all that much.
In your hard drive that's in your computer right now, eat bit of data stored requires millions of atoms. This requires data densities to be rather low, meaning there's a lot of "wasted" space on a hard drive.
Comcast, pretty much the largest internet service providers in the US, has been in the midst of rolling out their new DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) technology, which basically allows for safer internet browsing for users.
According to the research form Gartner, PC sales have been doing down while Apple computer sales have been going up. In the U.S. alone, PC sales dropped 5.9% in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Today at CES, Razer showed off their new gaming tablet/computer. Rather than use low-powered processors such as other tablets use, the Razer Fiona uses a full-fledged Core i7 processor.
Reddit, a very popular website similar to Digg, will be protesting SOPA on January 18 by hosting a blackout, where they will block off all access to the website.
If you've been around various tech blogs you've most likely heard about Eye-Fi, which is a card that uses WiFi to wirelessly upload photos to either online photo blogs or to your computer.
Since OCZ bought Indilinx, they haven't seem to have done much with their memory controller technology. While there were a few SSDs, such as the Octane series, using Indilinx's Everest platform, there hasn't been much out of them.
AMD recently released the Catalyst 12.1a preview driver to fix some problems that the most recent version Id Software's Rage. So updating isn't the biggest deal if you don't play the game, but it's a nice plus if you do play.
If you've been interested in products like OCZ's Synapse, which combines an SSD with an HDD via software for increased performance, but were waiting to see what other companies have to offer, you'll be happy to know that Crucial is launchin…
Roku has recently announced a novel idea: a streaming media player about the size of a regular flash drive. With the new HDMI standard MHDL (Mobile High-Definition Link), this idea actually works.
Contract laptop manufacturer Quanta, who makes laptops for companies such as Dell and HP, is suing AMD because they believe that AMD sold them defective chips that overheated in their laptops.
Just yesterday MSI revealed a new 15.6 inch gaming laptop, but left out pricing and release information. Today MSI is actually releasing a new 17 inch gaming laptop.
HP already has the Folio for business, but now a teaser video for their Envy ultrabook has been released. The Envy Spectre 14 was approved by the FCC in December, and it looks pretty good from the glimpse or two you get from the trailer.
What would you do if major internet companies such as Ebay, Craigslist, Amazon, Facebook, and Google all took their websites down, even if just for a day? Well, that could soon be a reality.
There have been pieces of information floating around about ASUS's upcoming Eee PC Flare netbooks, which make use of Intel's recently-shipped Cedar Trail CPUs. Well, Notebook Italia has gotten their hands on some more solid information.
Everyone has been getting excited about the January 9 release of the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and many people were hoping that the HD 7950 would come out at the same time so they could save some money.
Recently a team of material scientists have made two types of transistors out of common yarn. The first is a field-effect transistor (FET), which is similar to the one found inside of a CPU.
Today was an odd day for Microsoft, because they released an out-of-band security update. The new update fixes four big security holes, but only one of them is public.
Not only do companies such as Sony, Fox, Universal, and the RIAA pirate using torrents, it appears that even the House of Representatives was caught doing the deed.
News that Intel will be bringing Thunderbolt to PCs was recently told by Intel to top-tier PC makers. It's expected to launch in April 2012. Thunderbolt, like Firewire, was taken up by Apple but now will be joining the PC market.
LG had previously announced that they will debut a 55" OLED HDTV at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, but details other than that were skimpy. Well, more information (including a couple pictures) has been released.
Recently there's been an outlash against Go Daddy for their vocal support of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and many have threatened and started to move their domains to other providers.
Earlier this week news came out about Mozilla and Google reaching an agreement for Google to be the main search engine for Mozilla's Firefox web browser.
Last week, AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7970 specifications were leaked, and now benchmarks have been released. Although it has a $549 price tag, the card is looking pretty amazing numbers-wise.
Razer's upcoming release of the Blade gaming laptop has been delayed, sadly. Its initial launch date was set for Q4 2011, but Razer was unable to meet that.
Recently news came out that IP addresses assigned to the RIAA were caught by TorrentFreak and YouHaveDownloaded using torrents to pirate music, TV shows, and applications.
If you didn't know, Mozilla makes a lot of money from Google based off of their Google search default home page. The agreement the two companies had is just about over, but luckily for both sides a new agreement has been reached.
Oh hypocrisy, will you never end? IP addresses from the RIAA, one of the most staunch anti-piracy firms around, have been caught doing the same thing they're trying to stop: pirating.
Specifications about AMD's recently announced Radeon 7970 have been leaked, thanks to OBR-Hardware.com. The specs card, taken from the previous link, follows:
EA has recently announced an interesting title (read on for the interesting part), namely Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances. The interesting part? It's a free-to-play in-browser MMO strategy game, and it doesn't look half bad.
Back in October, Hitachi and LG's joint venture Hitachi-LG Data Storage admitted to fixing prices and rigging bids of optical disk drives, giving Dell, HP, and Microsoft a hard time in that market.
Because ads are very important to the internet (heck, they support most websites like this one), Adblock Plus will start allowing a "whitelist" of ads that aren't obtrusive to Adblock Plus 2.0, which means pretty much just text ads will be…
A new supercomputer named "Gordon" has been revealed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). It will be one of the first to use massive amounts of flash memory to get over the bottleneck of disk-based-storage.
Hitachi has broken the current limit of hard disk drive capacity with their recently-released-in-Japan 4TB hard drive. If you didn't know, the previous limit was 3TB.
Budget notebooks. We all know the type: cheap plastic that's hardly holding together. Nothing against Acer, but they've put out their fair share of horrid-quality laptops.
A while ago NVIDIA's Rage graphics tweaking guide was all the rage (admit it, you laughed). The minor changes to the files produced some good results in graphics and performance for many.
If you've been reading around various tech sites lately, you should have noticed an increase in the amount of people talking about Internet Service Providers (ISPs) switching to tiered data services for home broadband.
When talking about their release of the official Microsoft App Store for Windows 8, one of the vice presidents at Microsoft (there are many) said that a feature-complete beta of Windows 8 will be coming out in late February of 2012.
Intel and its partner Micron have announced that their joint company, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT), has developed technology that can fit a terabit of information in a chip that will fit on your finger tip.
When most of us were kids, we loved to play with LEGOs. Many of us still build with them (why not?). If you're an avid internet user you've no doubt heard of Minecraft, which is sort of like building with LEGOs in a virtual world.
Back when all of the news of AMD's Bullzdozer line was coming out, AMD PR released the information that the flagship processor had 2 billion transistors. Well.. apparently that number was wrong.
The juicy details we've all been waiting for: specifications for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs has been leaked, as well as a release time-frame. Core i5's and i7's will be released in Q2 2012, but sans Core i3's until later in the quarter.
It's been a while since news about the major flooding in Thailand came out, but Western Digital recently released some information that should give us a little relief.
AMD has recently released yet another incremental driver update, this being the third. Catalyst 11.11c does the usual: bug fixes and performance increases. Read the full release notes and download the drivers from here.
If you've payed attention to the limitations of access to the internet by ISPs and Mobile Carriers recently, you've no doubt heard of the "bandwidth hog." Companies use these "people" as reason to limit the amount of data you can use per mo…
President of Acer Jim Wong expects ultrabook prices to drop to $499 in 2013, according to a recent article by Digitimes. Acer hopes to ship 250,000 to 300,000 ultrabooks by the end of 2011. As of now, they've shipped 100,000 per month.
Yesterday Spotify announced that it is launching an "app" functionality to its music streaming program. In the press release, it said that the "Apps" category will appear in the left pane.
In the past, Dell used to rent out the The Palms Casino and Resort's Hardwood Suite, deck it out in all of the latest Dell technology, and open it to the various CES-goers.
There's no doubt that Spotify, even with its extremely annoying commercials if you're using the free version, is a great service. Unlimited, free, high-quality music? What's not to like (aside from advertisements)?
It took a while, but Battlefield 3 has been banned in Iran. "Why?" you might ask? Because in the game you launch an attack on the country's capital, Tehran.
NVIDIA today announced a new, limited edition graphics card: the GeForce GTX 560 Ti With 448 Cores. Yes, for some reason that's the official name. The card, performance-wise, is very closely comparable to a GTX 570, and price is close too.
Seagate recently launched their newest addition to the Momentus family, namely the Momentus XT. While no actual numbers were given in the press release, Seagate claims performance is up nearly 70% compared to the last generation.
Less than a week ago AMD released Calayst 11.11a, and two days after that they released Catalyst 11.11b, which brings support for Crossfire in recently released games for the Radeon 6000 and 5000 series as well as some other issues.
Flash memory sales director at Kingston APAC recently said, "Average pricing for 1GB of NAND flash memory will likely fall to US$1 - a threshold that will trigger a meaningful replacement of hard disk drives (HDDs) by SSDs - sometime in the…
In our world today, just about every computer uses electricity to process its information. The transistor inside of a CPU is either on or off, depending on the flow of electrons.
You've got to give AMD some credit for staying on top of support for their video cards. But holy cow are they releasing a lot of drivers. It seems like every week there is a new update.
For a while now, hackers have been using the Xbox 360 Kinect's SDK to use their Kinect with their computers. Coming soon, though, everyone will be able to use Kinects with their computers.
Stephen Luczo, who is the CEO of Seagate Technology, recently revealed his outlook for the problems caused by flooding in Thailand. He said, "This is going to take a lot longer than people are assuming, until the end of 2012 at least.
Ever wonder what the Newegg distribution center looks like inside? Well, Matthew Murray over at ExtremeTech recently had the opportunity the tour the east coast distribution center.
Over 200 record labels, under the holding company STHoldings, have pulled out of online music streaming services such as Spotify, Napster, Simfy, and Rdio.
A Windows 8 blog post outlined a new feature called "secure boot" which would make it (supposedly) extremely hard for rootkits to infect the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard drive and thus gain un-restrained access to the entire drive.
Time to update your drivers, yet again. There aren't many new things, but it does fix a few problems in Windows 7 that you may have been experiencing. Releases notes can be read here and you can downloadhe suite here.
At Techonomy earlier this week, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that Intel and DreamWorks are working together to produce technology that can render animations in real-time.
Fun fact: 40 years ago today, Intel launched what it claimed to be "the first commercially available microprocessor - the Intel 4004..." Since then Intel has made quite an advancement.
If you're like most Windows users, you're probably often frustrated by Windows Update when it keeps bugging you to restart your computer after it installs some updates.
Back in July, rumors started floating around about Intel's Sandy Bridge-E platform. Well, they were almost right. Today Intel released two new processors, instead of the rumored three.
Interestingly enough, PETA Germany has recently lashed out against Battlefield 3 because, in the game, you can kill animals in the game in a "sadistic manner." The group claims that killing animals in this way can have a "brutalizing effect…
The IDC (International Data Corporation) has recently come out with a press release detailing just how badly the terrible flooding over in Thailand is hurting and will hurt the HDD market.
NVIDIA has recently released a new set of beta drivers that beef up 3D and SLI support as well as single-card performance for quite a few new games, including Skyrim and Battlefield 3.
If you've been paying attention to PC gaming for a while, you probably know that game developers have been getting crazier and crazier with their DRM policies.
As you may or may not have heard/seen on your radio and/or television, today was the first federal test of the national emergency alert system. If you did see it, good news! It works for your area.
Yesterday was Microsoft's infamous "Patch Tuesday," and Microsoft patched four security holes raging from "Moderate" importance to "critical" importance.
Back it August it was announced that the massively multiplayer online RPG World of Warcraft had lost 300,000 subscribers, bringing the total number of subscribers down to 11.3 million.
So yesterday Mozilla's Firefox 8.0 browser was released to those willing to go through FTP channels, but now it's officially released. You can download it here if you haven't gotten it already.
Seagate has recently announced that they will "streamline" the Barracuda series of hard drives, in hopes to reduce confusion in the markets as well as reduce overhead for companies dealing with all different types.
AOL used to be big, back in the day, because of its dial-up internet service. Back in 2002, they had over 26 million subscribers. Since then it has been in decline, but it's still surprisingly popular.
Have you been refreshing and refreshing the Firefox download page, anxiously awaiting the release of Firefox 8? Well, in order to download it there you will most likely have to wait until tomorrow.
OCZ has recently announced at the Needham 5th Annual HDD & Memory Conference that they will release a series of TLC (triple-layer cell) SSDs, much to the relief of a hurting storage market.
Grand Theft Auto fans should be happy, because Rockstar Games has released the GTA:V trailer. The new game is set to take place in LA where the character apparently wants to start a family.
AMD has released their Catalyst 11.10 Driver Suite, bring the usual heap of bug fixes and features. It's almost always best to have the latest drivers, so make sure to update if you're on an AMD card by downloading the suite here.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando will be host to the official announcement that Ubuntu will, if everything goes as planned, become a tablet and smartphone OS to compete with iOS and Android.
Heatsinks. We all use them. Most of us have installed them. They make our CPUs cooler, allowing higher frequencies without damage to the processor. But what's in it to make it so effective?
Firefox has teamed up with Microsoft for Bing users to bring Firefox with Bing. This is just a custom version of Firefox that makes Bing the default search engine for the search bar, AwesomeBar, and home page.
Rumors about HP spinning of its PC business have been floating around for a while, and indeed HP has been considering doing just that. But in an announcement today, HP has decided to keep the PC business apart of the company.
LSI, a semiconductor and software manufacturer, has announced officially that it will acquire SandForce, the famous SSD controller chip manufacturer, for $322 million in cash and $48 million in stock.
IBM, arguably one of the most influential companies in the history of computers, has announced that they have decided upon a new CEO, as Sam Palmisano has been due to step down from the position he took in 2002. Who is this new CEO?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is probably one of the most anticipated games right now, now that Battlefield 3 is released. All of the fancy previews and whatnot have got a lot of people begging the question: what will it take to run this?
AMD plans to release new APUs in hopes of gaining more market share in the coming years. These new processors will compete in the "ultrabook" market, as well as in the regular notebook market.
NVIDIA has recently released their newest set of drivers, namely the 285.62 WHQL drivers. As always it fixes bugs, improves performance and compatibility, yada yada. A list of new things will follow, taken from here.
If you haven't read by now, major flooding over in Thailand is affecting a whole number of factories, and companies such as Western Digital and Seagate have had to shut down production because of it.
Researches have found a way to identify a bit-torrent user through Skype, and even go so far as to call the user and initiate a handshake with the bit-torrent client.
For the World of Warcraft fans out there, Mists of Pandaria was announced. This brings all of the usual new features, such as a higher level camp, new zones and dungeons, a new class, a new race, and all sorts of other stuff.
Due to the flooding happening over in Thailand, where a lot of major hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate and Western Digital have their factories, hard drive prices are expected to rise in November.
If you have an SSD with the SandForce SF-2000 controller, you've probably had issues with blue screens of death because of the drive. All sorts of SSDs use this controller, such as the Kingston HyperX as well as OCZ's Agility.
StarTech, a company who makes connectors for different computer peripherals, announced recently a hard drive duplicator that doesn't need a computer. It has four SATA drive bays, with support for both 2.5in and 3.5in drives.
Floods happening in Thailand have hurt Western Digital's factories more than projected. Flooding first shut down their factories there a little under a week ago, but they didn't think the flood would damage anything in their factories.
Microsoft has finally closed the Skype deal, after problems getting approved by various places such as the European Union. I wonder if this is the last stop for Skype.
We all know Google is getting huge. From social networking to e-mail to mobile phones, the company seems to have its hand in most every market. But just how big are they?
Ubuntu version 11.10, dubbed "Oneiric Ocelot," was released today. The big main feature is the new and improved Unity UI, seen before in the netbook version.
Due to flooding over in Thailand, Western Digital (ironic that their factories are in the East) has closed down their HDD plants over there, which are responsible for 60% of the 54 million hard drives they shipped last year.
Microcenter, and increasingly popular tech company similar to Fry's, has confirmed that AMD's new AM3+ FX series (Bulldozer) processors will be released on October 12, 2011. Yes, that is tomorrow.
TDK has recently discovered a way to double hard-disk drive capacity, meaning that if they can figure out how to do this economically and find the right materials, HDDs will be in our future for even longer.
A while ago Netflix announced that they were going to split their DVD and streaming services into two different companies: Netflix for streaming and Qwikster for DVDs.
Years ago, HP discovered a new "element" in integrated circuits called a memristor, or memory resistor. Basically it's like the flash used in RAM, but it won't lose its data when power is removed.
Back in May, there were announcements that Microsoft was going to buy Skype. Well, the European Union has approved the deal, meaning that Microsoft is that much closer to finishing this deal.
Corsair recently announced two new SSDs that bring a little bigger size with a heaping helping of performance. Using the SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, the new drives from in 180GB and 480GB sizes.
Recently we posted about a patent filed by Facebook employees that provides for "A method for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain..." Later in the day I posted the article…
If you haven't tried out the Windows 8 developer build, it's calling you. For those of you who have, you'll probably understand all the complaints people have been having with Windows 8's new Metro UI in place of the Start Menu.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage (a joint venture between the two companies) has agreed to pay a $21.1 million fine and plead guilty to charges of rigging bids and fixing prices of optical disk drives.
For the first time since 1996, IBM is now worth more than Microsoft. This is due to IBM's stock price slowly rising 22% since the beginning of 2011, while Microsoft's stock price has dropped 8.8% in the same time.
A patent was recently found, filed by various employees of Facebook, that describes "A method for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain..." Yes, even after a Facebook spokes…
The long-awaited Ubuntu One Windows application is now out of beta and available to the public. This means that you can now access all of your cloud-stored data across multiple platforms.
AMD recently released their Catalyst 11.9 drivers. There are a bunch of updates, but since it's two days old the hotfix for Battlefield 3 will still need to be applied. You can read the release notes here and download the drivers here.
There have recently been research reports that both show Chrome will soon take the #2 browser spot from Firefox. When both Firefox and Internet Explorer lose market share, it appears that its losing that market share to Chrome.
Forget about getting left out of early access to Battlefield 3's expansions, PC gamers are now being left out of "an online competition you'll be telling your grandkids about." Virgin Gaming is teaming up with EA DICE to bring a massive Bat…
According to the most recent iSuppli Computer Systems research, Intel has gained microprocessor market share over second point, up 1.1% from 80.7% market share they had in Q2 2010. AMD, consequently, lost 1.1%.
Yesterday NVIDIA released a Battlefield 3-optimized driver beta. Well, Battlefield 3 must have some crazy problems with past drivers because AMD released their own optimized driver.
FoxConn, a computer-part manufacturer who is famous for making iPhones, iPods, and iPads but not very well known for also working for Dell and other tech companies, owns quite a few plants over in China.
AMD announced today their newest entry level discrete graphics processor: the Radeon E6460. This new processor brings support for up to 4 monitors as well as almost double the 3D processing power of the E2400 GPU.
If you haven't heard, the Battlefield 3 beta is opening up to pre-orderers tomorrow. In light of this, NVIDIA has released an optimized beta driver just for this.
Diablo III has been, very sadly, postponed until early 2012. Their original release deadline has been thrown out, most likely from problems experienced with the recently-opened closed beta.
I've hoped by now that you've at least tried to try out Spotify. It's a fantastic program that offers ad-supported music streaming as well as paid services. The ads can get annoying, but it's balanced with how nice the service is.
Although EA has assured us that Battlefield 3 has been developed with a PC focus, Tommy Ryding of DICE announced today that PS3 Battlefield 3 players will receive one-week early access to every and all Battlefield 3 expansion, starting with…
Whether or not you like their recent decisions concerning their PC division or not, HP is undoubtedly an important player in the industry. That's why it will be interesting to see what their new CEO does with her new position.
A recently-released graphics driver for Intel's second-generation Sandy Bridge processors brings some surprisingly good performance increases, especially for a driver update.
Remember OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid? Basically, it puts an HDD on a PCI SSD to increase both size and performance by using the SSD as a cache for the HDD using software called DataPlex.
Comcast started its $9.99 Internet plan for low-income families called "Internet Essentials." Basically its very low-tier Internet service for cheap. The advertised speeds are 1.5Mbps down and 384Kbps up.
We've known for a while how amazing Battlefield 3 looks. But of course, all of the videos you see are most likely from a computer with the highest-end parts inside.
Ever wish your entire desk was a multitouch interface? Or maybe your screen? Well, there's been this film around for a while that can turn just about any non-conductive surface (wood, glass, plastic, etc) into a touch interface.
Valve's amazingly popular Portal videogame is now free to own, but only for a short time. Grab it by Tuesday for Mac or for PC before it goes back to costing money.
Ok, this isn't about computers per se, but I have no doubt this will be modded over to work on computers. Razer opened a product-testing beta at the Tokyo Game Show to test and improve an Xbox 360 arcade stick.
The website of the popular torrenting application uTorrent got "hacked" recently. The application download was replaced with malware, meaning when you downloaded uTorrent and installed it you actually installed malware.
IBM's famous "Watson" supercomputer was recently hired by WellPoint Inc. WellPoint plans on using the computer to help doctors diagnose patients as well as suggest treatment options.
A new bill proposed by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), if passed, would impose regulations on companies who have the personal information of over 10,000 people stored on their servers on how that data is to be stored and kept secure.
Google recently came out with a blog post regarding the Google Docs outage that occurred on Wednesday. For those of you who don't know, Google Docs was inaccessible on Wednesday for about an hour. "So what happened?
Boot time has recently become a big issue, especially with laptops. Windows 7 made some remarkable steps in faster boot, but most computers still take over a minute to start up. That's not fast enough, according to Windows 8.
A relatively-unknown company called Invensas has found a way to stack DRAM chips on top of each other. You might be asking why this is news worth reading about.
The Obama administration has recently come out with a proposal that would put "cybercrimes" such as hacking into computers in the same boat as organized crime.
AMD has recently been running a promotion where people who buy their video card get a free copy of Dirt 3 via AMD4u and Steam. Basically, there was a large database of Steam codes for the game, and hackers got ahold of it and released it.
Gamers who were excited for the launch of Dead Island got a surprise when they downloaded the game from Steam the other day: they downloaded the developer version.
Those of you fond of GPU-Z as well as AMD's APUs will be happy to know that the former now supports the latter in the latest version. Revision notes follow, and you can download it here.
Windows 8's new explorer will have all new features in its UI, but probably the most interesting thing about Windows 8 is that Windows Explorer will only be an app, and the code will literally not be loaded unless you open the app.
In Germany there are more strict rules in regard to media, including videogames. Quite a few popular games in the US are restricted in Germany and put in the same category that pornography is in.
Back in July, Netflix announced a new plan system, which means new pricing. For current subscribers, the new, mandatory plans go into effect today. Instead of having combined streaming and DVD plans, they're separate now.
Google announced recently that Google Docs and Gmail will now have offline functionality again. "Google Calendar and Google Docs let you seamlessly transition between on- and offline modes.
Ever wish you could have speed and storage capacity when it comes to your hard drive? Well, with the RevoDrive Hybrid, you can have those two in sweet, sweet combination. OCZ announced the drive back in June, but it's finally released.
Transcend and Taiwan's ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) have announced that they have the technology to manufacture a 2 terabyte USB 3.0 flash drive. That's right, 2 terabytes.
A new Building Windows 8 Blog Post claims that Windows 8 will support native .iso and VHD mounting. For those of you who don't know, .iso files are disc images of either DVDs or CDs.
Crucial has recently released a firmware update for their m4 SSD line that, according to Tomshardware, gives up to a 20% performance boost in sequential read speeds.
Recently, GameStop was caught pulling OnLive coupons from retail copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and eventually they just pulled every boxed copy from their shelves.
Have you ever wondered where the aptly-titled "Bliss" wallpaper from Windows XP Came from? Or even wondered if it was real? Well, it's real, and the location where it was photographed has been found.
Acer's chairman JT Wang recently commented on the effect of tablets on the notebook market, saying that the "tablet fever" is already waning and people are started to get more interested in notebooks and quite a few people are interested in…
To some people, a terabyte HD seems incredibly large. Some people laugh at terabyte HDs. Well, could you imagine a storage device with 120,000 terabytes? It sounds crazy, but IBM has been contracted to build this.
We've all seen gaming laptops: big, bulky, heavy, and powerful. But what if you could have something that's thinner than an inch, less than 7 pounds, and packed with all sorts of power?
Oh, a new watercooling build? Cool. Oh wait, it makes a CPU cool to sub-zero (Celsius) temperatures? Way cooler. This new system cools the watercooling liquid to sub-zero temperatures, thus allowing your CPU to reach such low temperatures.
ArsTechnica recently came out with an article claiming that GameStop was opening PC copies of Deux Ex: Human Revolution and removing the OnLive coupon for a free online copy.
Ever wish your mouse could scan a document? Oddly, I probably have, too. Well now our wishes can come true: LG announced the LSM-100 - a mouse with a scanner built into it. If it works as well as the CG video shows it will be amazing.
A game developer actually removing DRM? Sounds incredible, but it's really going to happen. Ubisoft announced on their forums that they will remove the online authentication in their game From Dust.
A recent study done by Google found that 90% of people, among a sample size of thousands, don't even know about using Ctrl+F to find a word on a web page or in a document.
It seems like Razer is fighting for PC Gaming harder than anyone else. They've already launched pcgamingisnotdead.com, and now they've taken out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal to advertise PC gaming.
AMD released their latest graphics card drivers: Catalyst 11.8. As always, there are tons of new bug fixes and improvements and all of that. I'll post some below, but you can read the release notes here and download the drivers here.
CPU-World is reporting that some of Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs will be dropping in price in the coming months. A chart taken from the article shows that they're dropping just barely in price, but it's a drop nonetheless.
The rumors are true! AMD released a new tri-core APU, the A6 3500. It's a tri-core processor with 3MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 65W that runs at 2.1 GHz with a 2.4Ghz turbo-boost speed.
World of Warcraft, the most popular and most subscribed MMO ever, is finally losing subscribers. It kept growing up to 11.4 million subscribers, but it finally dropped by 300,000 subscribers to 11.3 million.
Yay! More Battlefield 3 Footage! This time it's multiplayer gameplay footage, and it looks awesome. Watch intense 64-player vehicle warfare - including jets - from our beautiful Battlefield 3 multiplayer map Caspian Border!
Apparently, some time ago the pro Counter-Strike: Source players were invited to Vavle's headquarters for a "random meeting." In this meeting, they were given the opportunity to play Valve's recently-announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensi…
A recent blog post by Steven Sinofsky about Windows 8 revealed that a pre-release will be coming out "in the coming months." There will be more blog posts from Microsoft about Windows 8 as the pre-release will certainly give many people man…
If you haven't heard of Counter-Strike, you've probably not been a gamer for very long. Originally a mod of the source engine, the game has blossomed into one of the most played PC games ever.
For years now, USB connections have been charging our phones, mp3 players, and cameras, but wouldn't it be cool if you could charge your laptop through USB?
Optical disc storage is no doubt a good way to store data for short-term, but it isn't meant to last for a lot of years. Hard drives fail randomly, so those can't be trusted for long-term data storage, either.
We all know Windows 7 is a great OS, but many people have been reluctant to upgrade from either Windows XP or Windows Vista, but research firm Gartner, Inc.
AMD is set to enter the desktop memory market under the now-recycled Radeon name. There are three different series, which will follow (taken from the product page): Entertainment – Series (1333 Mbps 9-9-9) Fast and reliable.
If you haven't heard, there were rumors going around that NVIDIA's new Kepler graphics card series were going to be delayed until 2012. Well, NVIDIA confirmed it today.
Scientists in Germany have developed a method to create a wireless network using white LED light bulbs. The up side of this? It can transfer data at speeds of up to 800Mbps using only light for transmission. The down side?
Galaxy, a pretty well-known manufacturer of video cards, announced recently that they are extending their video card warranty by another year, bringing it up to three years.
A recent study done by Avast! shows that 49% of their users still use Windows XP, and those installations are responsible for 74% of rootkit infections. Avast!
Thirty years ago on July 27, 1981, QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) was sold from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) to Microsoft for $25,000, and an era was started.
If you haven't heard, the US. Supreme Court struck down legislation that would inhibit stores from selling violent videogames to minors in the case Brown vs. Entertainment Software Association.
Those who purchased Medal of Honor: Limited Edition have probably received by now an e-mail about the upcoming Battlefield 3 Demo. I'll post a copy of the e-mail after the jump.
With all of the talk about how discs will no longer be needed because it's all "in the cloud," it's interesting to learn about the new disc developments.
Sony's insurance company, Zurich American Insurance, is going to court against Sony over the PSN Outage losses because they believe that, under the terms of their contract, Sony is soley at fault for not securing their own company.
Ever want to run an OS in a browser? Well, now you can. Thanks to Java and some cool people, a website lets you run Windows XP inside of a Java emulation. As well, you can also run Ubuntu Linux.
As Apple was hoping for, OS X Lion was released. For an easy $30 you can upgrade straight from Snow Leopard. It's a 4GB download you can get straight from Apple's App Store.
Sadly, Google is closing down Google Labs to "prioritize product efforts." Google Labs is where Google basically pre-beta-tested all of their features. Read on for the whole blog post, or read it on Google's blog.
Co-founder of reddit.com (co-founder is disputed) Aaron Swartz was indicted today for allegedly stealing over four million files from MIT. The files were either files from MIT or from JTOR, which is a collection of scientific journals.
The same website who reported AMD Bulldozer delays is reporting information on Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors. There are quite a few new processors.
Apple's Mac computers (just the computers, iPads were not included in this data) have increased in market share. At 10.7%, it's higher than it has been since 1991 where it was at 11.2%.
OCZ has recently launched their newest in the line of RevoDrives: the RevoDrive 3 and the RevoDrive 3 X2. For those of you who don't know, a RevoDrive is a super-speedy SSD that plugs into a PCI slot instead of a SATA port.
If you read other news sits you've probably read rumors of EA buying PopCap games. Well, the rumors have been confirmed by EA. The deal will go through in August for $650 million and $100 million in common EA stock.
Back in the last presidential election, President Obama (partly) campaigned on expanding broadband access to rural areas. Thanks to the stimulus package, he was able to accomplish some of that.
For you mobile-gaming enthusiasts (mobile as in laptop, not as in phone), prepare to be happy. AMD today launched the fastest mobile GPU on the market: the AMD Radeon HD 6990M.
According to one of Mary-Jo-Foley-of-ZDNet's source, it's very likely that the Windows 8 RTM (release to manufacturer) would be released in April of 2012. Keep in mind, this is only from one source and is unconfirmed by Microsoft.
For months now we've all been excited for Battlefield 3's amazing graphics, but the question that's been on a lot of people's minds is, "What parts it take to run this?" Well, thanks to Gamestop, we now have a better idea.
Because efforts to prevent piracy have been so slow to come about, the RIAA and other such associations have teamed with AT&T, Comcast, Cablevision Systems, and Time Warner Cable (and probably other various ISPs) to stop piracy.
A few days ago, AMD released a hotfix for their Catalyst 11.6 drivers to add support for their new Llano APUs. Well, yesterday AMD released a hotfix that actually fixes something.
A big deal going on online now is privacy on the Internet. A lot of people are concerned that there isn't enough. Google, on the other hand, thinks there's too much, apparently.
The United States' Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) is claiming that they have jurisdiction over all .com and .net Internet addresses, meaning that they can extradite anyone from any country who owns a website doing illegal…
We all know Windows 7 is a great OS, but there are many things most people don't know about the UI. Well, luckily for us, the guys over at Maximum PC put together a handy little guide to a few keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7.
Google seems to be becoming too good to be true. Thanks to Google+, Picasa Online users will have unlimited storage for videos and pictures under the 2048x2048. Under the Picasa FAQ, Picasa has 1GB of storage for videos for free.
If you're one of the many, many users of GPU-Z, or you want to start using it, it's time to update. If you haven't used it before, GPU-Z is an informational program, like CPU-Z, that gives you detailed information about your GPU.
If you haven't heard, IBM has been working extensively with PCM, or phase-change memory. It uses a compound called chalcogenide, which is also used in rewritable discs.
MySpace has only been receiving bad press lately, but hopefully that will change now that Justin Timberlake joined with Specific Media to buy it for $35 million from News Corp.
Ever imagine life without a mouse? Well, Kevin Purdy of ITWorld tried it out for a week. His results are actually pretty interesting. I may as well not just copy everything he said, so go read his report here.
World of Warcraft, the amazingly popular, totally addictive, massively multiplayer online RPG will now be free to play, but only up to level 20. While it still has 11.4 million subscribers, World of Warcraft's popularity has been falling.
We all know what a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is, but how many of us know how they're made? A printer named Advanced Circuits let the guys over at Base2 take a tour, and they took pictures!
Rising from the ashes of Google Buzz, Google launched a new social networking websites called Google+ (Google Plus). Currently it's only available to a select few people, but it will be open up to more soon.
To reduce all of the time it takes for the US Representatives to do all of their business, a more secure version of Skype, as well as Oovoo, will be given to everyone to use.
Back in May, Adata announced the S511 series of SSDs. Well, they're out, kind of. Using the SandForce SF-2200 chip, they deliver breakneck speeds. A list of speeds and prices will come after the article. All the drives run with SATA 6Gb/s.
If you're a frequent user of Netflix's Instant Streaming service, you probably noticed that you can no longer watch movies from Sony through Starz Play.
White ARRIS is showing off a cable that can transfer information at 4.5Gbps, Comcast was showing off their next generation of technology: 1Gbps Cable Internet.
If you tried to buy Crysis 2 on Steam lately, you've probably had a problem doing so. Valve pulled the FPS from their store because thanks to Origin, EA's newly-released competitor to Steam.
For you ATI video card users out there, AMD released their newest version of the Catalyst drivers. As always, there are new features and there are bug fixes. New features will be below.
Pandora finished out strong today on the NYSE at 17.42 (according to Google Finance), above the starting price of $16 according to an LA Times article.
If you're a member of pretty much any website related to Bethesda, it's recommended that you change your password. If you use said password anywhere else, change it everywhere it's used.
Software Engineer at Google Amit Singhal, at Google Inside Search, unveiled quite a few new search options for Google. Even though mobile searches have surpassed desktop searches, both platforms will be getting updates.
Live in the Chicago area? ARRIS, "a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around…
Razer, the uber-famous gaming peripheral maker, has developed a new "4G" sensor that it will start to apply to re-released version of the Mamba and the Imperator.
New from Spire Corp, a maker of all sorts of computer peripherals, is an intriguingly-designed CPU cooler. Instead of many rectangular fins, this uses fins on a swirl.
Google Chrome 12 was released (not a beta). With it a bunch of bug fixes as well as a few new features, which will be below. You can check out the press release here and download it here.
Samsung announced yesterday that they'll be releasing a 500GB-per-platter 1TB laptop hard drive. Named the Samsung Spinpoint M8, the drive runs on SATA 3Gb/s with an 8MB buffer.
Due to the fact that a, "significant percentage of these drives do not perform to specifications," Corsair is recalling one particular drive in the Force 3 Series of their SSDs.
Based off of Mozilla Labs' Chromeless platform, a British programmer named Ben Franics has come up with a prototype for a web-shell much like Google's Chrome OS called "Webian:" If you’re anything like me then you’ll find that most of the s…
If you're a regular user of Skype, you've may have noticed this morning that you couldn't log in. Skype is aware of the problem, and they're working on fixing it as we speak.
Thanks to E3, we now have an official release date for Battlefield 3: October 25. This, so it is rather obvious, is to have it compete with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Have you ever tried brute-force attacking a password with a CPU? Then you probably know that when you get up to more characters with symbols, letters, and numbers, it could theoretically take hundreds of years to break the password.
If you haven't already heard, NVIDIA released the GeForce 275.33 drivers on Wednesday. There's a few things they fixed from the beta, as well as other updates and bug fixes. Download the drivers here, and check out the release notes here.
Pandora, the wildly popular online music streaming service that uses the Music Genome project to find music similar to other music you actually like, has filed for a $109.5 million IPO (initial public offering).
Have a Netflix, Pandora, Grooveshark, Hulu Plus, or any paid subscription that you give out the login information for to friends? That's soon to become illegal. In Tennessee, anyway.
Just hours after Apple's security update to fix problems with the Mac Defender malware, theirs an updated version called "Mdinstall.jpg" going around. Another name for it is Mac Guard. If you see this file floating around, stay far away.
For performance users, OCZ's Revodrives have become pretty popular. It combines the PCI Express bus with the speed of an SSD to get some extremely fast read and write speeds.
Back in February Apple released a developer-version of OS X Lion, and now they've given a time-frame for the consumer release: summer 2011. Like I said before, there are a ton of new features, some of which seem very useful.
Gigabyte announced their new 14" M2432 laptop, complete with its own docking station. This isn't any regular old docking station, mind you. The docking station has its own GPU inside of it, which is a GT 440 with 1GB DDR5 VRAM.
A while ago, HP issued a voluntary recall of many laptops' batteries. There was a big overheating problem with the batteries. HP planned to recall 162,000 batteries, according to DigiTimes, in both HP and Compaq laptops.
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act, or the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act.
As promised, Skype has released an update for its OS X (Mac) client to fix the problems some people were having logging in. Download the update for OS X here. Below is the blog post from Skype Heartbeat.
A lot more game specific fixes and improvements have been added in this second Catalyst 11.5 hotfix. If you plan to play Dirt 3, Witcher 2, or Brink on an AMD card you will want to grab the new driver right away.
In a complete turnabout from the other day's post about Apple's tech support, Apple (apparently two days ago, or that's the last modify-date) released a guide to removing Mac Defender and how to avoid it if you don't have it already.
Some Skype users experienced some problems with the VOIP program earlier today in that they could not log in. Not nearly all Skype users had the problem, however, as I'm using it right now and have been all day.
For a while now, most Dell laptops have been not the most attractive things on the planet. Generally they're a standard laptop, undeserving of any style points or anything of the sort.
Cisco, a very famous manufacturer of basically everything in the communication world, is now involved in a lawsuit for allegedly helping the Chinese government censor the internet and monitor those who would oppose the Communist government.…
As part of Mozilla's new rapid-release plan for Firefox, they've released the Firefox 5 beta 2. As always, there's what's new (which will be copied below) and a complete changelog are available.
A little over a week ago, Google showed off their new Cloud Music Storage beta, and had a sign-up page to sign up for an invite. Well, since then Google hasn't been really sending out invites.
The United States' Center for Disease Control recently released a short blog on what to do to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse. "There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for.
Recently Steam, the digital-download service of Valve, launched a new daily-deals program. If you don't feel like looking at Steam's front page every day, and you use Facebook or Twitter, you can follow Steam on both here and here.
Last week we posted a sneak peek of the non-TI Geforce GTX 560, and now they're released. They can be had for around $200, which seems pretty reasonable for what this card looks to be.
In the recently announced line of new HP desktops, HP chose to not support Thunderbolt while supporting USB 3.0. HP's marketing manager Xavier Lauwaert said, "We did look at [Thunderbolt]. We're still looking into it.
NVIDIA has given us a sneak peek at their new card, the GeForce 560. Note the lack of TI. They have the card running three upcoming games: Duke Nukem Forever, Alice: Madness Returns, and Dungeon Siege III.
VIA, who makes all sorts of USB 3.0 peripherals, recently announced that they've received the first USB-IF (universal serial bus implementers forum) certification for a low-powered USB 3.0 SATA bridge controller.
Recently there was a bunch of hubbub over Google's Chromebooks, whether they will have a subscription or not, their cost, etc. Well, a recent Engadget article clarifies everything from Google's I/O conference.
If you're one of the type of people who like to make game maps, then you'll enjoy this. Valve released the Portal 2 authoring tools, which are the same tools they used to make Portal 2.
Ever wish you had a place to store all of your music and be able to access it from anywhere you had internet? Well, it looks like you will soon be in luck. Google released a beta yesterday of just that: a cloud music service.
It seems like just last week AMD released their Catalyst 11.4 Drivers, and now 11.5 is already out. Aside from the addition HyrdaVision, a helpful tool for multiple Eyefinity displays, it's mostly just bug fixes.
Just a few weeks ago news came out that Diablo III was in the home-stretch of development, so it's no surprise that there's news now of a beta that is to be released in Q3 2011.
Last week there were rumors that Facebook was considering buying Skype, but now there are confirmed reports that Microsoft will purchase Skype for $8.5 billion, the biggest purchase in Microsoft history.
It didn't take long for the Counter-Strike: Source community to make a map modelling Osama Bin Laden's compound. Plans are to make this into a bomb or hostage map, but for right now it's a general-purpose map.
AMD, at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011, announced their release of their latest embedded GPU: the Radeon E6760. It's the first embedded GPU to support OpenCL as well as up to 6 independent displays.
Wanting a new iMac, but also wanting to play games? Don't fret, the embedded GPUs actually aren't too bad. An article by the guys over at Tested shows a chart of the specs for each card and what those specs mean for gameplay.
David Brabe, a UK man whose game studio brought us (among other titles) the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, has developed a computer that takes up the same amount of space as a USB stick.
Thinking about getting a triple-monitor setup for gaming, but don't know whether to buy the Radeon 6990 or the GTX 590 to power all of the monitors? Well, the guys over at Techspot ran some benchmarks to help you out.
Everything seems to be going 3D these days, even transistors! Intel announced today that their new Ivy Bridge processors will include technology Intel has been looking into for quite a few years: three-dimensional transistors.
Back in 2008, NVIDIA got involved in a class-action lawsuit over their GPUs and MCPs laptops. NVIDIA took out millions in reserve to repair the chips in Apple, Dell, and HP laptops.
Seagate, one of the most famous manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD), announced today that their newest HDDs break the current areal density record.
You read the title correctly: AT&T today starts throttling customer's bandwidth. Regular DSL users get a 150GB/month cap, while UVerse users get a 250GB/month cap.
For those of you on the more tech-y end of the internet, OpenBSD4.9 was released. There's a whole host of new features, all of which can be read in the changelog.
MSI, who is a popular manufacturer of everything from motherboards to video cards, announced their release of three new Radeon graphics cards, namely the R6770-MD1GD5, R6750-MD1GD5 and R6750-MD512D5.
It seems like just yesterday AMD released Catalyst 11.3, and now Catalyst 11.4 is out. There's a whole host of new features and fixes, which can be viewed here.
It's been in beta for months, and it's finally here: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal was released. There is so much new you may as well just read it yourself. The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.04, code-named "Natty Narwhal".
You'd think with all of the SSDs coming out that they'd be cheaper. Oh well. Crucial released their new 25 nanometer "m4" SSD in sizes from 64GB to 512GB. They boast a 415MB/s read speed and a 260MB/s write speed.
With all of the advertisers and all of the competition in the display market, there's a lot of misleading "specifications" for displays out there. Because of this, DisplayMate's Dr.
McAfee, who was recently bought by Intel, has put together a "Dirty Dozen" list of malware programs disguised as anti virus programs. As a side note, "AVG AntiVirus" is on the list.
Oh great, another SSD release. This time it's a quick addition to OCZ's recently released Vertex 3 SSD line, namely the Vertex 3 Max IOPS Sata III SSD.
A while ago Google, for the first time, showed off how parts of their data centers work, and now they're showing what security measures they have in place.
A while ago we posted about Apple negotiating unlimited downloads for users who bought songs on iTunes, so if somehow the songs got deleted then the user could simply re-download the songs.
PowerColor, a Chinese manufacturer of graphics cards, announced a single-slot Radeon HD 6850. Generally most higher-end cards take up two slots (beefier cards need beefier coolers), so this is something unique.
Just last week it was announced that AMD was going to release some entry-level GPUs, and now they have. The Radeon 6570 and the Radeon 6670 are available for $79 and $99, respectively.
The FTC recently did a study on how easy it is for children under 17 to buy CDs with the Parental Advisory label, M-rated videogames, and R-rated and unrated movies.
The DRAM market isn't completely void of all hope, as G. Skill announced a new DDR3 memory kit that, according to them, will be the fastest memory available at 2300MHz at CL9. The RAM, which is part of the Ripjaw-X series, only uses 1.65V.
It seems there will be no end to how small manufacturers can make things. SanDisk announced a 64Gb, 19 nanometer flash memory card with 2 bits per cell (like MLC, referred to as X2).
Samsung has recently been struggling in the hard drive market, and now Seagate will be buying up Samsung's hard drive department for a whopping $1.375 billion USD, half stock and half cash.
At the beginning of the year there were some talks of the Obama Administration coming up with an online identification plan. Well, the plan was released today, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
In a surprise move on Oracle's part, the popular Microsoft Word alternative Open Office will now be a community project and there will no longer be commercial suites.
If you're a Comcast user, or if you want to be come one, Comcast is now offering a 105Mbps Internet service. As a comparison, Verizon's FiOS tops out at 50Mbps at the highest tier. This speed is great, but it has its problems.
Just recently, Samsung showed off a 22in transparent LCD. Never to be out-done, LG debuted a 47 inch, 1080p, IPS, transparent, multitouch display reminiscent of Minority Report.
A recent paper estimated that 9.57 zettabytes (a million million gigabytes, or 10^21 bytes) of information was processed in 2008 by the world's ~27 million servers.
OCZ, who by now needs no introduction, has announced its release of the Vertex 3 SSD line. Running off of the Sandforce SF-2200 controller, the Vertex 3 has a max read/write of 550/500MB/s, respectively.
Commodore USA, whose website is has been up and down, is making a comeback with a new, revamped model. On the outside, you will see the classic machine in all of its glory. Inside, however, will be a completely new computer.
Own a copy of Dragon Age 2? Don't own a copy of Mass Effect 2? Then this post is for you! Bioware is offering a free copy of Mass Effect 2 plus the DLC to any owners of Dragon Age 2.
We all should know what Linux is. It's history, however, is not as well known. In commemoration of Linux's 20th anniversary, the Linux Foundation has made a new video outlines Linux's history and its uses today.
The hype for AMD's new Bulldozer CPUs is gradually mounting. The Bulldozer will be an 8-core processor built with a 32nm process. For Intel, a new CPU line generally means a new socket line. This is not necessarily true for AMD.
Texas Instruments, who really shouldn't need an introduction, announced Monday that, should it clear regulations and such, it will be purchasing National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in cash.
AMD announced that their (codename) Llano APUs (accelerated processing units) have begun shipping. While the names of the companies they're shipping them to have not been released, details about the APUs has been.
Last month there was a little blip about an extremely small group of indie developers making an amazing Mech FPS shooter. Well, there's finally some gameplay footage, and it looks amazing. Remember, this is a group of 9 developers.
G. Skill, a reputable manufacturer of SSDs and RAM, has announced a new SSD. The G. Skill Phoenix EVO SSD, pictured above, uses the SandForce SF-1222 controller and 2Xnm NAND flash memory.
Today is April Fool's Day, and there's a lot of false news floating around. Here's one from the Big Wigs: NVIDIA is revamping the 3dfx Voodoo line with the 3dfx Voodoo 590.
AMD's newest Catalyst 11.3 drivers have been released. The main new features is: "The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst.
A while ago there was a big hubbub over Google's announcement that they want to bring gigabit broadband everywhere. Well Google is finally doing something about that by bringing those speeds to Kansas City.
Mod Men Episode 5 was released today. In this episode they finally finish their custom PC (pictures are below). Honestly it looks pretty cool. Check out the show here and Mod Men's website here.
Paul Baran, one of the engineers involved with Arpanet (the precursor to the very Internet you're using to read this article), died on Saturday at the age of 84 due to complications with lung cancer.
Intel today announced it's new 320 SSD series. Oddly, Still using the SATA 3Gb/s interface, the 320 SSD series brings sequential writes to 220MB/s and sequential reads to 270MB/s.
Microsoft's Windows 8, the next in the long procession of Windows operating systems, is looking to have a "system reset" button that will restore the computer to default Windows settingss, and give you an option to delete or keep user files…
MSI announced today it's newest gaming laptop, namely the GX680. It's specs aren't anything super special, but if you're interested in gaming laptops it's worth a look. A component list taken from the press release will follow.
Samsung announced today that has started "the industry’s first production of four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using 30 nanometer (nm) class* technology earlier this month." This new, higher density, faster DRAM…
The video I'm about to link is believed to be at least a year old. What it is is a leaked video about the future of PC gaming at Microsoft. It's pretty bad.. Watch at your own discretion here.
As most of us are power users, we know the full usefulness of flash drives. They are slowly becoming the new DVD. They can take the time it takes to install an OS down to only minutes.
Mod Men Episode 4 was released today. This time they do more with the watercooling part of it. They frabricate a waterblock for their CPU and show how that works. There's also a short part about brush painting. Check it out here.
Firefox 4 has finally been released. There isn't much to say about it. Most likely you've tried the beta and/or release candidate. A download counter (that I doubt is real) can be found here. Download page is here.
Most power users know about CPU-Z and GPU-Z. They're handy applications for seeing detailed technical information about your processor, motherboard, RAM, and GPU.
Western Digital has come out with a new MyBook with a 6TB capacity. It's two Green 3TB drives in RAID 0/1 (your choice). It has four connections: eSATA, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, and USB 2.0.
If you liked the previous video of a guy upgrading from Windows 1.1 to Windows 7, you'll most likely like this one. This time, the same guy shows the upgrade process from all Internet Explorers.
OCZ, who needs no introduction, has bought Indilinx, who may need one, for OCZ stock equivalent to $32 million. Indilinx is an SSD controller maker who makes controllers for embedded systems.
NVIDIA has recently been touting their new GTX 550 TI, which is a mid-range replacement for the 450 in the $150 range. NVIDIA specifies that the card will have a 900MHz clock, but Asus decided to ramp it up.
Firefox has been coming out with all sorts of betas, and finally released an RC the other day. Well, since no major problems have yet been found with the RC, Damon Sicore is hoping to release the RC and Firefox 4 on the 22nd of this month.
Typically, for most power users at least, Internet Explorer is the browser that you use to download another browser. Well, Internet Explorer 9 was released, and this one might just change that.
The guys over at Mod Men have come out with their latest episode, episode 3. It shows more of their project PC building, as well as some other interesting things for modders. You can watch the video here.
Intel, through their standalone Intel Mobile Communications business, has purchased Egypt-based SysDSoft, who "designs state-of-the-art IP solutions in the software stack and physical layer domain, and RF/analog circuits embedded in mobile…
A University of Illinois research team has discovered a way to make a certain type of memory more efficient, such that it uses 100 times less energy than current PCM (power phase-change materials) memory.
Google introduced today a new Google search feature that allows you to block domains in your search results. What this is useful for is if there are certain websites you don't like, or certain websites that are not the greatest.
Ubuntu 11.10 has been announced with the code name of "Oneiric Ocelot." Oneiric, for those of you not so hip on your vocabulary, means "of or relating to or suggestive of dreams." An Ocelot is, of course, a leopard-looking but house-cat-siz…
After months of waiting, Firefox 4 RC 1 has finally been released. It brings with it, as usual, a ton of bug fixes, but nothing totally new compared to the last beta.
A small indie games studio, a group of only nine people, have done an amazing thing in just nine months. We've been having some troubles posting videos, but hopefully it's fixed and the video will be below. If not, watch the video here.
Major motherboard-maker Asus has begun selling Sandy Bridge motherboards with the revised chipset, and Gigabyte will start shipping Sandy Bridge notebooks in March.
Google Chrome 10, which has been in beta for a few weeks, has finally been released. It brings a whole host of speedy improvements, as well as some better planned features.
Samsung has broken the previous limits in hard drives to bring 1 terabyte per platter disks to the market. What this means is that we can expect to see 4TB HD's on the market soon.
Gabe Newell, who is Valve's CEO, made his Steam username and password open to the public in an attempt to show how good Steam's new "Steam Guard" is. Steam Guard is Steam's new security feature that links an account to a specific computer.
Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the hard-drive business, announced today that it has bought Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies company for cash and stock together worth $4.3 billion.
I normally try to keep out of Apple news as this is a hardware website and Apple is well-known for trying to keep people out of their computers, but lately Apple has been doing some awesome things in the music industry and I think they dese…
Browsing the web the other day I came across this new show called Mod Men. I watched the show (about 15 minutes long) and thought it was awesome, so I e-mailed the show's producers to make sure everything was ok with me posting it here.
In an experiment to see if you could upgrade (without having to reformat a drive) from Windows 1.1 to Windows 7, with every major OS in between, a man has also found out what settings made in Windows 1.1 would stick through to Windows 7.
Major motherboard manufacturer Asus announced that they will start making their motherboard shipping boxes able to hold and support an entire computer.
Intel yesterday announced their newest line of SSDs, the 510 series. This will be the first SSD line that makes use of SATA 6GB/s. What this means is that the new drives will be even more ridiculously fast.
Finally, Apple is all set to launch their new version of OS X (pronounced oh-ess-ten, not oh-ess-ex), namely OS X Lion. For a brief version history, there was OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, and now Lion.
Nvidia is planning on releasing a new dual-core GTX 590 in mid-March (at the earliest), according to Digitimes. Around this time AMD is rumored to be releasing their HD 6990.
Yay! More Battlefield 3 news! This time it's in the form of a "gameplay" trailer. In quotations because it's hardly a gameplay trailer. It does appear to show a little footage of in-game action, however, and it looks amazing.
If you haven't heard, Apple today announced their new lineup of Macbook Pros. If you want to see a good comparison of the past few revisions to the current, a good thing to look at is Tested's chart.
If you haven't heard, there's a big problem with the newest Sandy Bridge chipset. Intel has released information and pretty much all of the motherboard manufacturers have ways to get the chipset replaced.
If you've been reading this website for a while, you know doubt know that the new 2Xnm SSDs have a big problem. Another problem is that the newer drives use fewer NAND chips, meaning write speeds are slower than those drives using more.
As it's the 22 of February, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Home Server 2008 is now available for download. Head on over here to download, if you haven't gotten it via Windows Update by now.
In an effort to "curb piracy," since the first of the year Blu-ray player manufacturers have not been allowed to (by the AACS) have component connections on their devices.
Super Talent, who is big on the flash-memory scene, announced today their new line of "CoreStore" SSDs that are proposed to bring crazy performance to PCIe and mini-PCIe interfaces.
Intel is expected to launch their new 10-core Xeon server processor, the Westmere-EX. This is going to replace the old 8-core Nehalem-EX processor, that's built with a 45nm architecture.
NVIDIA is expected to launch a new GeForce 550 Ti on March 15, according to VR-zone. Leaked information shows that it should be 35% faster than AMD's Radeon 5770 in DirectX 11, and 10% faster than the same in DirectX 10.
This week AMD released it's new Catalyst 11.2 Driver Suite for the Radeon HD 2400 series up to the HD 6900 series. There's a big update list, as normal, that can be found here. The download is available here.
A new study by the Non-volatile Systems Laboratory shows that "naïvely applying techniques designed for sanitizing hard drives on SSDs, such as overwriting and using built-in secure erase commands is unreliable and sometimes results in all…
Recently, Bilzzard told investors that Diablo III wasn't in the financial outlook for the year because they aren't certain they will release it this year.
OCZ, who recently left the DRAM market to pursue SSD production, announced yesterday that it is the first manufacturer to move to the 2Xnm NAND flash storage.
Arctic Silver, who makes all sorts of cooling peripherals for computers, has released yet another CPU cooler: the Freezer 13 Pro. It's pretty much another oversized heat sink, but with a little twist.
Using the same controller as the X-25M SSD series, the 310 SSD series bring a 40GB and 80GB drive to anextremely small form factor. A handy performance chart, taken from techreport, shows all the numbers.
Intel has (seemingly silently) launched their new Core i7 990X Extreme Edition. For a whopping $1,049.99, this 6-core, 32nm, 6x256KB L2 cache, 12MB L3 cache, 130W, 3.46GHz (3.6GHz power boost) processor could be yours!
Yesterday Microsoft released their Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate. If you're interested, head on over here to download. If you've used the beta, there are quite a few new things different.
Windows's "patch Tuesday" patch updated some security flaws in Windows, but left VMWare View users unable to connect to their virtual Windows Desktops.
Yeah, there's another Firefox Beta. Release notes can be found here, as well as the link for the download. The new things will follow, and the bug list can be found here.
Michael Kleef, who is the Senior Technical Product Manager with the Windows Server and Cloud division, announced in a blog post yesterday that on February 22, Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Home Server 2008 will be available for g…
According to Techspot, Google, as a result of their users of their free Wifi service and of their own employees, have received over 100 copyright infringement notifications.
Over the past couple days there has been more and more information coming out, and a recent article by Game Informer gives us a ton more. Read on for more the new info.
Aside from the mention of the Frostbite 2 engine and the teaser trailer, information on Battlefield 3 since the announcement has been very scarce. As a correction to my last post about it, Battlefield 3 will be released this fall.
If you've been gaming for a while, you've no doubt run across the Battlefield series. Fantastic games, honestly. The most recent, Bad Company 2: Vietnam, was all sorts of awesome.
If you've been keeping up to date with your tech news, you'll know that there's been fear of the internet running out of IP addresses. Well, those fears have been realized.
The pictures above are of a very tiny, tiny computer named Trimslice. That's right, it's a full computer. It uses a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, and has a ton of ports.
If you watch a lot of cop shows, you no-doubt know that phone records help them catch the bad guys. Well, the Department of Justice wants to apply that thinking to internet records.
Yep, another Firefox 4 beta. This one fixes a whole bunch of bugs, yet again, and has a couple of other updates which will be listed below. Here is the link for the bugfix list.
There have been rumors recently about a Radeon HD6950 with 1GB of RAM instead of the normal 2GB. Well, the rumors were true. AMD is reporting that it will release a 1GB Radeon HD6950.
You read it right: will.i.am will being joining Intel as the "Director of Creative Innovation." "Nearly everything I do involves processors and computers, and when I see an Intel chip I think of all the creative minds involved that help to…
Chet Faliszek, who is a co-writer for Portal 2, has said in an interview with NowGamer that Portal 2 mods will be available on everything platform, although developing mods will only be able to be done on the PC.
AMD reported their revenues for the quarter and year yesterday, and while it's no Intel, it's not negative. In the fourth quarter AMD made a $1.65 billion revenue with a net income of $375 million.
If you've been watching the DRAM market, you know that it's been incredibly low as of late. With prices for 2GB DDR3 around $17, DRAM vendors are having some troubles.
If any of you have recently sent in your iPhone 4 for repairs, or have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro and new Air, you have probably noticed that they no longer use only Torx and Phillips-head screws.
High-end case maker Lancool, in association with Lian-Li, has released three new cases, under the guise of the Knight Series. There are three models, the PC-K63, the PC-K59, and the PC-K57.
Back around the time StarCraft 2 came out, a lot of people were hoping for a StarCraft version of World of Warcraft. Well of course, a modder has been working on just that. You can watch the pre-alpha tralier here.
In what seems like a never-ending stream of Firefox betas, Mozilla has released their ninth in the series. Below is what's new, and in addition to that there are a ton more bug fixes.
Just under two weeks ago, Skype announced plans to buy Qik, which is a company that provides mobile-phone software for recording, storing, and sharing videos. Well, Skype announced today that the purchase is now complete.
According to the latest press release, Intel made a whopping $43.6 billion last year. That's up $8.4 billion from the previous year. Their net income was $11.7 billion, up $7.3 billion from the previous year.
According to telegraph.co.uk, the world could run out of web addresses as soon as November, unless it adopts the newer IPv6, which will provide trillions of new web addresses.
In a recent planning message to team Members, Dampn Sicore, who is the Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, announced that they hope to have a release candidate out by the beginning of February and a final product shipped by the end…
KFA2, which is a Galaxy sub-brand, has announced a wireless videocard. Wireless meaning there are no display outputs, only wireless transmitters. It remains the standard, aside from display-outputs, GTX 460 1GB, however.
Most power users know that to get the best prices they should look online rather than in a brick-and-mortar store (except if you're on the west coast and have Fry's nearby).
Over the past years there's been an increase in concern over internet security, and now the Obama administration is looking into it. President Obama is writing what's called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.
Intel and NVIDIA have announced a patent cross license agreement, meaning that NVIDIA will have the right to use Intel's patents (excluding x86 and certain other Intel products) and Intel will have the right to use NVIDIA's patents.
CES brought us many cool products and proof-of-concept prototypes, but one of the things I'm most excited for is Star Wars, every episode, coming to Blu-ray in September of this year.
Western Digital has added a 750GB hard drive to their Scorpio Black line, bringing a large capacity to the laptop scene. This 7200rpm drive has 16MB cache in 2.5in form factor.
NVIDIA announced their new GeForce 500M series, which is their newest addition to their mobility GPU series. There are five new GPUs announced, the GT 540M, GT 550M, the GT 555M, the GT 520M, and the GT 525M.
Last month, Samsung released 1.2V 2GB DDR4 UDIMM (unbuffered dual in-line memory modules) to controller companies for testing, and now they're announcing that they're in the process of completing JEDEC standardization of DDR4 technologies b…
Today, DRAM chip irces have reached a one-year low. Previously at $2.80 per 1GB commodity 1-Gbit DDR3 back in April and May last year, it's now at $0.84 for the same according to Taiwan-based DRAM trading platform DRAMeXchange.
With DSLRs shooting RAW photos at higher and higher resolutions, and now that they're capable of shooting 1080p video, the storage medium needs to be faster and larger.
As most of you know, game publisher Ubisoft has had a history of horrible DRM plans. Probably the worst making the player have a constant online connection while playing the game.
Recently, the Chinese government has enacted new laws banning all internet phone calls aside from the ones made over China Unicom and China Telecom, which are two state-owned networks.
There's always that one guy, and in this case that one guy was a 23-year old man from South Carolina. Apparently he thought real-life Frogger would work.
Today Mozilla sent out an e-mail to registered users of addons.mozilla.org alerting them that they accidentally posted a file to a publicly-available server that contained data from their database of users that includes first and last names…
People in the Russian government have tried to switch over to freeware in the past, but now President Vladimir Putin has signed a document outlining a transition to GNU/Linux freeware between 2011 and 2015.
Arctic Cooling, who makes more than just heatsinks, has recently launched 5 new input devices. First among them is a presentation remote with a built-in red laser pointer.
Although the basic net neutrality rules were made known since the voting, the FCC has officially posted a 194-page document detailing the actual rules.
Finally, news from the FCC that doesn't (totally) have to do with net neutrality. The FCC is said to ok the Comcast-NBC merger, provided they follow a list of rules to follow various laws dealing with large companies.
Firefox 4 Beta 8 was released yesterday. They fixed a whole slew of bugs, but there are only a few new features, listed below. Check out the release notes here, and the bug fix list here (there are too many for me to list).
So yesterday the FCC voted on Net Neutrality rules, and here are the results: three democratic commissioners for, two republican commissioners against. Not even all of the three commissioners who voted for were totally for it, though.
If you're one of the many users of Skype, most likely you're experiencing a connection problem. Don't worry, you aren't alone. This problem is affecting millions of Skype users.
If you didn't know, Portal 2 should be coming out in April of 2011. So with this, EA and Valve have announced a retail distribution agreement for Portal 2.
If you haven't heard, the FCC is going to be voting on the Net Neutrality rules today. These new rules, while not as bad as they could be, are not what is good for the consumer.
Lian Li, a famous maker of many PC chassis, has come out with their newest case, namely the "Huge" PC-A04 Mini-Tower Chassis. It's a feature-rich, versatile case in a mini-tower form factor.
3DMark 11, which came out a couple weeks ago, has come out with its first update. At 1.01, it fixes quite a few problems among the various versions released.
So Arctic Cooling has released an.. interesting product series. Called the "Land Riders," they're four remote-control vehicles. Yeah, I was shocked, too.
Dropbox, the massively popular file-syncing-between-computers program, has gotten up to 1.0, bringing along with it selective syncing as well as 50% lower memory usage.
CES is coming up, which means Intel will be debuting their new "Sandy Bridge" processors. At a recent event, Intel people claimed that the first generation of these new processors will be quad-core, with dual-cores coming out later.
Dr. Christopher Ferguson of Texas A&M International University conducted a study of youth studying what circumstances cause violence in youth, and he found that violent videogames did not cause youth to be more violent.
According to a recent study, Americans are now using the Internet more than they are watching TV. This is probably largely due to services like Hulu, iTunes TV rentals, and Netflix.
The Radeon HD6900 series has been released, and early reviews are saying that the higher model HD6970 bests Nvidia's GTX 580 (which is the higher model of the GTX's 500 series), while at a price point comparable to the GTX 570.
IBM has been contracted by German's Bavarian Science Academy to build a supercomputer able to compute at 3 petaflops. For reference, the current fastest supercomputer computes at 2.66 petaflops.
A recent study by the FCC found that 68% of the United States' internet connections that are advertised as broadband do not meet the requirements for an internet service to be called Broadband.
Crucial, trusted manufacturer of RAM and other computer components, has come out with their newest model of the Ballistix RAM series, the Ballistix DDR3-1866 and DDR3-2133 with Thermal Sensor.
In an effort to phase out VGA and other legacy video interfaces in favor of more power-efficient and better-looking display interfaces, leading PC companies such as Dell, AMD, Intel, Lenovo, Samsung LCD and LG Display announced yesterday th…
Today, NVIDIA released it's new GTX 570, which is meant to be the successor to the GTX 470. NVIDIA claims that the GTX 570 is "built from the DNA of the GTX 580" (the GTX 580 is the first 500 series card and is the more powerful model).
Futuremark, makers of the popular benchmarking program 3Dmark. has come out with its newest version of 3DMark: 3DMark 11. It includesfor DirectX 11 benchmarking, as well six new benchmarking tests.
According to a recent Politico article, Victoria Espinel, who is the Intellectual Property "Czar" under the Obama Administration, said that the President's administration will begin to crack down harder on copyright infringement, and that w…
So says a Bloomberg article. They say that "two men with knowledge of the matter" said that Seagate turned down an offer to be taken over by Western Digital.
Spire has come out with a new gaming chassis, the Sentor 6004. It's designed to have a very good cooling efficiency, and can have up to 9 120mm fans mounted. The side panel is mesh, which allows for greater air flow.
Matthew Crippen, a 28 year old hotel car-parking manager, was (unknowingly) video-recorded modding Xbox optical drives to allow them to be able to circumvent the normal security to play copies of games, pirated games, or homebrew software.
Net Neutrality is no doubt an important issue. Internet providers, such as Comcast, and wireless providers, such as Verizon, who offer data plans want to be able to legally control the data that we can access.
Sony, Nikon, and Sandisk are teaming up to produce a compact flash card that, theoretically, could hold beyond 2TB of information and have transfer speeds of 500 megabytes per second.
While only in 144th place for the highest overclock for a CPU, a Brazilian team has overclocked an AMD Phenom II X4 975BE (with a stock frequency of 3.6GHz) to 7,134MHz.
In a recent blog post, co-founder of the Spread Firefox project and member of Mozilla's leadership team Asa Dotzler claimed companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google were being "evil" because they sneak plugins from their programs (Google…
..On a five-thousand-seven-hundred square meter screen. That's just over 18,700 square feet. A rival guildmaster played a Chinese MMO called Magic World Online 2 on an IMAX screen, so this guy wanted to do something bigger.
In a recent IndustryGamers interview, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said to IndustryGamers said that he can "unequivocally say we will never, ever charge for the multiplayer." Fears started growing after an analyst outlined a pla…
Just a few days ago we posted about Dell's Microsoft Duo being available for preorder only at the Microsoft store. But for those of you who are just too far away from Bellevue Square to go there, you can order them online now for $549.99.
Arctic Cooling and sound systems? Weird, I know. But according to the press release, they've been in the business since the beginning of the year. And now they're selling four new 2.1 sound systems.
That's right, an SSD flash drive, with USB 3.0. In the size and form factor of a flash drive, it comes in 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB sizes. Its website claims "speeds of up to 260MB/s, but doesn't state whether it's read or write.
Remember the Dell Inspiron Duo we wrote about back in September? Well, it's out for pre-order now since the recent grand opening of the Microsoft store in Bellvue Square.
A new device from Viking Modular Solutions allows an SSD to be put into a DIMM slot. While this sounds fine and dandy, all the DIMM slot will do is allow the SSD to be powered.
The release date of the sequel to the wildly-famous Portal has been delayed two months, according to an announcement. Originally set for February 9, the new date is set for the week of April 18, 2010.
WinRAR 4.0 Beta 1 was recently released, and with it come many new features. Among those is a new compression algorithm, which can increase decompression speeds by up to 30%.
Rahul Sood, founder and president of Voodoo PC, has announced in a letter on his website that he has decided to leave the company. Rather than a paraphrase, you can read the entire letter on his website.
Intel has recently lowered the price of their X25-M Mainstream SSD series, with a suggested resell price of $199 for the 80GB model and $415 for the 160GB model.
In a series of ongoing lawsuits between Motorola and Microsoft, the latest has Motorola suing Microsoft for copyright infringement of at least 6 patents.
Recently released from Mozilla is the Firefox 4 Beta 7, which comes with quite a few updates from Beta 6. Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine WebGL is enabled by default on Windows and Mac OS X.
Recently announced from Sunbeamtech is the Rheosmart 6 Fan Controller. The interesting thing about this fan controller is the options of either having your motherboard control the fan speed or controlling it manually.
Recently announced from Sony Optiarc is a new Blue-Ray Rewritable drive that can burn single-layer BD-R media at up to 12x and dual-layer BD-R media at up to 8x. This means that it can fill a full 25GB Blue-Ray disc in about 10 minutes.
According to a recent Fertility and Sterility study, using a laptop cooling pad on your lap can still cause infertility from the heat given off by your laptop.
New SSDs seem like they're announced all of the time. So it's no surprise that Toshiba is announced a new series, namely the Blade X-gale. But far from par, these new SSDs are 42% more thin than the typical mSATA form factor. That's right.
Wholesale giant Costco is dropping the sale of iPods, according to an anonymous iLounge source. This comes after Costco being unable to carry Apple’s iPad while other stores such as Walmart and Target have them for sale.
Recently announced from Iomega are three 1.8-inch USB3 3.0 external SSD’s. They come in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB flavors and will be sold in early November for $229, $399, and $749, respectively.
The Naga, made by Razer, got an upgrade. Namely, the Naga Epic. It now features a wired/wireless option (letting you choose whenever you want whether to have it wired or wireless) and three interchangeable side plates.
Dell is trying hard to remain relevant in the ever-changing mobile world. Their latest product, the Insprion Duo, combines the familiar 10.1" netbook form factor which converts to a tablet with a unique swivel mechanism.
It was announced today that Valve will deliver ATI Catalyst driver updates via Steam. If an update to your driver is released and Steam is running on your machine then you will be notified and asked if you would like to update.
Remember back in the day when you strapped 80mm or bigger fans to your video card with zip ties just for that extra performance and to stop you from going crazy with that whiny 60mm fan droning in your ears all day?
According to Digitimes and their anonymous source, Nvidia has recently been developing an Intel chipset that combines the GPU and southbridge. Their goal is to reduce costs for PC manufacturers and to reduce size.
According to Hardware Canucks, customers of BFG products are starting to receive RMA denial letters. The letter is very short and doesn't even look real. There is a plain logo in the top left and address in the top right.
The latest CPU cooler from Glacialtech, the Siberia, reminds me of the old Thermalright XP-120, and XP-90. The big difference is that the Siberia uses two fans, one 140mm fan on top and one 92mm on the bottom.
Corsair used to rebrand Swiftech watercooling kits under the COOL brand name but since the release of the closed loop H50 CPU cooler they have gotten out of the full-blown watercooling kit market.
Starcraft 2:Wings of Liberty doesn't have the mass appeal or console port to crush sales records of games like Modern Warfare 2, but SC2 is selling faster than any PC game since 2008's Wrath of the Lich King WoW expansion according to Games…
Firefox 4 Beta 2 is now available for download. The beta update includes some of these new features from the previous Beta 1: Firefox 4 Beta 2 is available in 24 languages.
Arctic Cooling has launched a bunch of products over the past few months but it has been quite a while since they launched a product related to computer cooling. That has changed with the introduction of two new cooling products.
ADATA is the first to launch a Solid State Drive based on the JMicron JMF616 controller. The S596 Turbo SSD has a SATA II and mini-usb interface for flexibility and can be used as portable storage or as a main system drive.
Remember that Xbox Live project where Windows Live PC gamers could play with their console friends and everyone could happily frag each other in a Microsoft gaming utopia?
Microsoft has released official prices for their newest Kinect product and a new Xbox 360 model with 4GB of storage. The Kinect will be bundled with "Kinect Adventures" and sell for $149.
Lian Li has announced a new USB 3.0 2.5" hdd enclosure. The EX-10Q is made of aluminum and comes in red, silver, black, or blue colors. It is compatible with both SATA I and II drives with no external AC adapter needed.
Super Talent Technology has announced 4 new DDR3 kits rated at DDR3-2000. All 4 kits have SPD timings of 9-10-9-28. You can get them in individual 4GB sticks, 2x4GB dual-channel, or 3x4GB triple-channel kits.
Apple announced a remedy to the iPhone 4 antenna debacle today at an iPhone 4 press conference. Everyone who orders or has already ordered an iPhone 4 can get a free iPhone 4 bumper until September 30.
Arctic has been branching out into a variety of computer and electronics accessories. The Arctic Sound S111 is a USB powered portable speaker system. It has a 3.5mm stereo jack to connect to any audio source.
Tuniq, a division of Sunbeamtech, has branched out from PC cooling to consumer electronics with the HD-Box Full HD Network Media Player. The HD-Box is a set-top box for playing 1080p HD PAL or NTSC video on your TV.
GlacialTech has launched their latest CPU cooler called the Igloo Alaska. It is compatible with multiple platforms including Intel LGA775, 1156, 1366 and AMD AM2, AM3.
The Bluetooth 3 spec was adopted in April of last year. Basically all Bluetooth 3 did was allow device pairing and discovery to use the Bluetooth radio and any large amount of data to be sent through 802.11.
What happens when you die....in Guild Wars 2? Normally in MMORPG's when you die you have to run back to your corpse from a graveyard or be resurrected by a healer class. Sometimes you lose experience, currency, or equipment.
You may not have noticed but hard drive prices have been falling quite a bit. Digitimes reports that hard drive quotes in Taiwan have dropped 10-20% since the beginning of Q2 2010.
It felt like Battle.net was down for months but it is finally back online as of an hour or two ago. If you downloaded the 500MB-ish patch earlier today you can log in whenever you want.
ADATA has released its first USB 3.0 3.5" external hard drive. The Nobility NH03 drive includes 256-bit AES encryption and HDDtoGO file synchronization software.
In a decision that will have large implications on future Blizzard forum activity, Blizzard has announced that they will require anyone posting or replying on an official Blizzard forum to use their Real ID (first and last name) with an opt…
Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now available for download. The beta includes some of these new features New Add-Ons Manager: gives you more space to manage your Add-Ons, Themes and Plugins. Customizing your browser has never been easier!
It seems like everyone is fascinated by touchscreens. Touchscreen countertops, touchscreen phones, touchscreen monitors, touchscreen refrigerators, and now, thanks to NZXT, we have touchscreen fan controllers.
Today Corsair announced new Dominator GT GTX6 DDR3. The GTX6 is the fastest memory Corsair offers and is rated at PC3-21000 for a single 1GB DIMM. They are designed for benchmarking and record attempts.
MSI launched two new motherboards today, the P55A Fuzion and 870A Fuzion. Both feature Lucidlogix's Lucid LT22102 chip and exclusive Fuzion Technology which is like SLI or CrossFire but let's you use any combination of brands together.
GeIL has launched their new DDR3 EVO TWO Gaming Series Memory. It is available in 2GB or 4GB Dual Channel kits and is Intel P55 rated at 2000Mhz CL6-9-6-24 or 2500Mhz CL9-11-9-27.
Streaming Netflix is great on my Xbox 360 but I always come back to Hulu for current shows that aren't on DVD yet. With Hulu's new Hulu Plus subscription service you will be able to access Hulu's content on more than just your PC.
Crucial has added a 64GB SSD to their Crucial RealSSD C300 lineup. The drive supports SATA 6Gb/s (backwards compatible with 3Gb/s) and provides speeds of up to 355MB/s read and 75MB/s write.
What is the perfect compliment to a case with a black interior? A black heatsink! Who cares if it looks like the black plastic cover for a modern car engine; that's what it is supposed to look like.
Arctic Cooling has branched out into the input device market with their latest ARCTIC K381 keyboard and M551 and M571 gaming mice. The keyboard sports a low profile and clean design.
Intel updated their notebook CPUs on June 20th with a couple new models and prices. XM is the Extreme Edition. QM is the normal quadcore. UM is ultra mobile. Plain M is dual.
If you haven't read an issue of The Overclocker yet, you are missing out. It is a free electronic magazine made for hardcore overclockers. The production value and art is very high quality.
I'm a proponent of function over form but the new line of Apollish Vegas fans from Enermax just plain looks cool. Most LED fans use 4 LEDS spread out on the corners to give an acceptable but predictable style.
The new ATI Catalyst 10.6 drivers for AMD GPUs came out Wednesday with a bunch of improvements related to Flash H.264 GPU acceleration and Linux 2D performance improvements.
One thing that is attractive about the Nintendo Wiimote design is that you can sit on your couch and pretend like you are being active while playing games the same way you would if you were standing up.
People are demanding a few too many six-core chips according to Digitimes. This short supply is also impacting motherboard sales and southbridge roadmap.
Office 2010 is now available worldwide to consumers. Microsoft has some new delivery options for those people who don't want to go to their nearest software store or wait for shipping.
With every console manufacturer releasing motion controller devices by the end of this year, which one will end up being the cheapest and is Sony pricing themselves out of the market?
This is one of the coolest things I have seen lately. A printer made from Legos that uses a felt tip marker as the printer head. This sure makes the spaceships I made with my Legos look elementary.
As a huge fan of the original GPU lifetime warranty, I'm sad that BFG will no longer be offering graphics card products. Their warranty has been the best I've experienced.
I've been using Hotmail for over 10 years. Actually, I should say I've had a registered Hotmail account for over 10 years since it has been relegated to a spam address after I got a Gmail invite in 2004.
AMD's Fusion product line is aiming to combine the CPU and GPU in modern computers into a single package called an APU. This technology is a result of the merger between AMD and ATI in 2006.
I've been playing SC2 beta for over a month now and I've been really enjoying it. It makes me sad to find out that the beta will be going down for a few weeks while Blizzard does some testing.
I'm a huge Blizzard fan and I've been waiting for Starcraft 2 since Starcraft came out 12 years ago. I can't believe it has really been that long but the wait is almost over.
The Cryo-Z has been out for a year and a half and has never been updated for compatibility with the latest Intel sockets so OCZ's reseller Frozen CPU designed custom mounting hardware to finally add compatibility for 1156/1366 sockets.
One week ago on November 19th, the source code to Google’s Chrome OS was released. The open source version of the OS was released under the name Chromium OS.
Have a Windows Live ID (or MSN, Hotmail, Microsoft Passport)? If you do, you can now get a free Windows Vista RC1 key from Microsoft. The key is able to be installed on up to 10 PC's. Finally my Hotmail account comes in handy.
Intel's latest roadmap has been unveiled. The "Kentsfield" quad core chip, starting at 2.66Ghz, is scheduled to be released before the end of this year. Kentsfield is basically a Core 2 Duo E6700 with 4 cores instead of 2.
Rumors are like rollercoasters, one second they are at the top and the next they come crashing down to earth. The rumor that I posted yesterday regarding ATI's brand name was proven false today.
CustomPC is reporting that, after the takeover is completed, AMD will discontinue the ATi name. CustomPC cites a named source from AMD as the one who made the statement.
Rumors have been circulating about Dell offering AMD chips in their consumer lines ever since Dell announced that they would use AMD chips in their four-way servers back in May. The first confirmation of these rumors has come.
There are currently 50.2 million broadband subscriptions in the US. According to the latest report., broadband adoption jumped 33% last year. What is interesting is that DSL was more popular than cable.
Digitimes reports that on October 23rd, AMD will slash prices on Socket S1 Turion 64 X2 and S1/754 Sempron CPU's. Price cuts will be from 16-35%. The mobile price cuts would follow a series of desktop price cuts on the 24th of this month.
ATI shares were up 8% in after-hours trading today amidst a report saying AMD may be planning a takeover of the Ontario, Canada based graphics chipset manufacturer.
ECS shipped 2.5 million motherboards in July, but that isn't good enough for them. For the fourth quarter of 2006, ECS is targetting 3 million motherboards a month.
Up until now, Nvidia's Quad SLI technology has only been accessible to those who don't mind shelling out for a PC manufactured by a big OEM. Nvidia has released a beta Quad SLI driver to the public.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it filed 26 lawsuits against companies that were allegedly selling pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP. This is part of a crack down on people profiting from piracy.
Have you ever felt like Mario needed to run faster? Well now he can, thanks to some crazy Japanase modder. The Nintendo DS Lite 1.7x speed improvement not only speeds up the video of the game, but also the audio.
The "Cell" processor, the brains of Sony's yet-to-be-released PS3, is having some yield problems. It seems yields are as low as 10-20%. The new production methods for the complex chip still need some refining.
Although Microsoft is touting Vista as their most secure OS ever, Symantec examined the new Vista networking technology and determined that it had plenty of bugs just waiting to be exploited.
Rumors have been spreading in the past couple months about a technology called "reverse-Hyper-Threading". A site called X86-secret first mentioned the technology on April 9th.
If you haven't heard of the Optimus, it is a keyboard that has an OLED screen in each key. This allows the user to have custom static images and even animated images.
