Groovy gift for 10-year WoW vets Our hats are off to anyone who has stuck around with World of Warcraft since the beginning. That takes some serious commitment, and as a token of its appreciation, Blizzard is giving away a rather neat looking statue to its most loyal WoW players, the ones who have been…
Using genetic glue to build vital organs It’s probably far fetched to think that we’re on the verge of being able to print off replacement hearts, kidneys, and other vital body parts, but perhaps your children or grandchildren will one day benefit from such a sci-fi scenario. The technology is closer than you may think…
Intel is confident its relationship with Apple remains strong There’s a rumor going around saying that Apple is looking long and hard at ARM’s A-Series chipsets for use in future Mac releases. While it wouldn’t be the end of the world for Intel to lose Apple as a client, especially coming fresh off its best…
More overseas hacking shenanigans Weeks after Google’s Gmail service was blocked in China, Microsoft’s Outlook email service was the target of a cyberattack over the weekend, with fingers once again pointing to Chinese authorities. Online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org said that China initiated what’s known as a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, affecting people using email clients like…
Darker theme heads to Windows Phone users It’s been a battle for Microsoft to increase its Windows Phone market share, which sits at a distant third place behind Android and iOS. By the numbers, only around three out of every 100 smartphones is running Windows Phone, so it’s no wonder app developers take their sweet…
Top Deal: So you’re in the market for a new monitor, but don’t want to make the leap to 4K just yet, but at the same time, 1080p has become a bit of a bore, is that it? No worries — you can own a high-end monitor by nestling yourself in between those two resolutions….
Few things can top an Oculus Rift hack that involves hands and music A Kiwi design student named Bryon Mallett has come up with Pensato, a virtual reality interface for controlling music devices and software that, unlike most other Oculus Rift-based projects out there, makes pretty good use of human hands. In a video he…
Even files on external storage devices are not safe Barely a fortnight into the year and we have already got ourselves a strong contender (if not a shoo-in) for the year’s scariest Steam bug. The good news is that the vast majority of Steam users don’t have anything to worry about as the bug in…
Most updates are aimed at Surface Pro 3 Microsoft released new firmware updates for its Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro tablets on Thursday. A quick comparison of the latest change notes on each tablet’s respective update history page shows that it is the Surface Pro 3 that has received the most…
Dear HP, where is the New Year’s resolution? The launch of the third iteration of Hewlett-Packard’s Elitebook Revolve 810 tablet-laptop hybrid appears imminent, with the convertible’s official product page recently going live on the company’s website. There are two things that stand out in the upcoming Elitebook Revolve 810 G3’s spec sheet: the switch to…