Meet the world’s first 15.6-inch Chromebook The primary appeal of Chromebooks is the price of entry — without a low price tag, these modern day cloud-based netbooks probably wouldn’t find much of an audience. This begs the question, is there a market for slightly more expensive Chromebook models with bigger size displays? Acer intends to…
You’ve been able to rent games through PlayStation Now for several months now, but many of you have asked –- what about a subscription? I’m pleased to announce that starting January 13th, we’ll launch a subscription service for PlayStation Now that will provide instant and unlimited access to a catalog of more than 100 PS3…
Will help drive auto-piloted cars You can’t buy driverless cars just yet, but Nvidia is hoping to change that over time with its new Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip. The SoC is an offshoot of Nvidia’s K1 chip and is based off of the company’s Maxwell GPU architecture, which is currently implemented in its GeForce GTX 980…
The Seagate Seven is a celebration of company’s 35 years in the industry Seagate earlier today announced what it says is the slimmest portable drive the world has ever seen. The Seagate Seven — called thus because of its 7mm depth — is as minimalistic as it is slim. Its unembellished steel enclosure, according the…
RealSense is an Intel technology Acer is bringing Intel’s Kinect-esque RealSense 3D camera to its Aspire V Nitro series of gaming laptops, the company announced in a press release Saturday. Available in North America since October 2014, the Aspire V Nitro family currently contains as many as a dozen models, all of which either have…
RealSense is an Intel technology Acer is bringing Intel’s Kinect-esque RealSense 3D camera to its Aspire V Nitro series of gaming laptops, the company announced in a press release Saturday. Available in North America since October 2014, the Aspire V Nitro family currently contains as many as a dozen models, all of which either have…
All three are powered by a quad-core Bay Trail processor E FUN, a California-based purveyor of cheap Android and Windows tablets, is going to CES 2015 armed with three new Windows 8.1 tablets. When they become available later this year, these devices will all be part of the company’s existing Nextbook line of 2-in-1 tablets,…
One is the world’s maiden G-Sync enabled IPS monitor and the other the first with an edge-to-edge frameless display Acer has officially announced the 27-inch XB270HU gaming monitor that we told you about in November. Specs-wise, it’s not exactly what we had expected it to be, though. What we thought would be another TN (twisted…
Get more out of Google Drive With 240 million monthly active users, there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you’ve used Google Drive before. The cloud-based file storage and synchronization service is far more than a virtual storage container, it’s also a parking spot for several of Google’s other services, such as the…
Did Google do the right thing? There’s a bit of debate brewing over whether or not Google did the right thing by posting a Windows 8.1 security vulnerability to the public before Microsoft was able to release a patch. The disclosure came from Google’s Project Zero program, which hunts down vulnerabilities in software and alerts…