2015

Score a point in favor of the home brewed PC You don’t have to sell us on the merits of building a PC from scratch — it’s what we’ve been doing for decades, and it’s one of the core principles of our brand. Heck, the desire to roll your own rig may have even been…

The need for speed Now that Haswell-E and accompanying Intel X99-based motherboards requiring DDR4 RAM are here, we expect to see a lot of record announcements. It always happens when new platforms are introduced, and G.Skill is wasting no time adding to its virtual shelf of overclocking tropies — G.Skill today announced that it set…

Microsoft views Google’s disclosure as a “gotcha” During the holiday break, Google’s Project Zero team disclosed a vulnerability in Windows 8.1 after Microsoft failed to issue a patch within the 90-day deadline that Google gives vendors. That sparked a debate on whether or not Google did the right thing, and while many (not all) of…

Low power SSD hits ultra high speeds (2,150MB/s reads, 1,550MB/s writes) One of the biggest developments in the solid state drive market has been that of falling prices over the past couple of years. We hope that trend continues, though it’s not the sole storyline — there’s also the transition to PCI Express, and with…

Top Deal: As you wait impatiently for files to transfer from point A to points B and C, and as you spy stuttering in your in-home streams, have you ever thought to yourself, ‘There must be a better way?’ Well, there is, and it starts with tossing that 10-year-old router in the trash bin. You…

Yahoo recently replaced Google as the default search provider for Firefox in the U.S. In November, Yahoo and Mozilla reached an understanding to make Yahoo Search the default search provider for the latter’s Firefox browser in the United States and the results are already out there for all to see. According to the latest U.S….

The team at Mionix reaches their Kickstarter goal for the first biometric gaming mouse. One of the interesting things that we managed to get our hands on during CES this year was an unlikely candidate: a mouse. But unlike other more traditional gaming peripherals, Mionix’s new NAOS Quantified Gaming device is both a body sensor…

Company trying to get rid of multiple sync engines Microsoft drew the ire of many Windows 10 Technical Preview testers when Build 9879, which was released in November, was found to be missing a key OneDrive functionality: “smart files”, which are offline placeholders containing thumbnails and metadata of OneDrive files. At the time, the company…

New SSDs start at $69.99 There was no dearth of solid-state drive (SSD) announcements at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show. Of these, two were from Micron-owned memory and storage maker Crucial: the all-new BX100, aimed at the entry-level segment with the promise of “substantial yet affordable performance gains” over a hard drive, and the…