QNAP launches a NAS with Thunderbolt 2 technology QNAP Systems is claiming “world’s first” with the launch of its Turbo vNAS TVS-871T. The NAS unit comes packed with an Intel Haswell processor, eight drive bays, and Thunderbolt 2 technology, providing customers with both loads of performance and storage capacity. The company also introduced two storage…
Top Deal: We still love putting together hulking towers filled to the brim with high-end hardware, but we’re also willing to concede there are scenarios in which a much smaller (and less expensive) configuration is appropriate. It’s for that reason that today’s top deal falls on the other other end of the spectrum — it’s…
Cortana comes to Android Microsoft isn’t content to let Cortana exist solely on Windows devices, it wants to see its personal digital assistant spread its wings to Android and iOS, too. With that in mind, Microsoft today opened up beta access to Cortana for Android to the general public. There are several changes since the…
Not so identical after all Bad news for evil twins — it doesn’t look like you’ll be able to use your face to bypass your twin’s security in Windows 10, provided he or she is taking advantage of Windows Hello, a biometric authentication scheme that provides instant access to Windows 10 devices. For systems that…
PlayStation Plus members! Your voices have been heard. Thanks to our Vote to Play campaign — which gave you the ability to vote on a game for our September Plus offering — we’re delighted to reveal your selection, and the first title in next month’s free games lineup: Grow Home on PS4. If you voted…
Joining the Windows 10 party Acer on Monday announced that its 23.8-inch Aspire Z3-710 Series of all-in-one desktop PCs are now shipping with Windows 10, saving you the trouble of performing a free upgrade (from Windows 8.1). There are two models that ship with Windows 10 — the Z3-710-UR55 ($750) and Z3-710-UR54 ($900). The less…
Dreams do come true. Starting tomorrow, August 25th, Back to Bed — Indie Prize Europe’s nominee for Best Console Game and winner of the Dutch Game Awards’ Guts and Glory award — is walking its way onto your PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. In our last post, we introduced you to Bob, the sleepwalker, Subob,…
Text Editors for Code Monkeys If you’re getting into programming or coding of any sort, you’ll want to find a text editor that you like working with. A text editor is as blasé as it sounds: It’s software that you use to read and write files whose sole content is plain ol’ text. All coding…