Use Good Headphones with a Modmic

Need to know Product: Modmic 4.0Company: Antlion AudioPrice: $43 (starting)Options: Omni or uni-directional; muteless or mute-ableLink: www.modmic.com So you’re into gaming, which means unless you’re a gaming hermit, you’re probably communicating with your friends and other gamers via some sort of “gaming” headset. I never understood the word “gaming” for computer peripherals—they’re usually reserved for…

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Comcast Rolling out Gigabit Internet via Cable

Comcast announced this week the rollout of gigabit Internet connections for a handful of cities across the nation. The new service will hit residences and businesses in Atlanta and Nashville in early 2016, followed by Chicago, Detroit, and Miami in the second half of this year. Comcast hasn’t yet provided pricing information. What makes this…

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New Lian Li Case Has Lots of Drive Mounts

Got a lot of hard drives you need to pack into a single mini-tower chassis? You’re in luck, as Lian Li just introduced the PC-M25, a small form factor case that provides space for up to seven 3.5-inch hard drives. There’s even a hot swap HDD cage that supports up to five 3.5-inch drives, and…

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Malwarebytes Scrambles to Plug Security Holes Pointed Out by Google Researcher

Time’s up Google’s Project Zero team doesn’t mess around when it comes to security vulnerabilities—if it finds one that’s noteworthy, it gives companies 90 days to fix the issue before going public. Surprisingly, one of the latest disclosures involved Malwarebytes, a popular anti-malware program. No anti-malware program is perfect, though in our experience, Malwarebytes does…

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Battleborn: Two More Badasses Join the Fight

Let’s recap for a second. So far, we’ve introduced you to 18 of the 25 playable heroes in Battleborn at launch: axe-wielding dwarves, mountain men with miniguns, sentient mushrooms, laser sword space vampires… oh, yeah, and a penguin-piloting a mech suit — all fighting to save the last star in the universe. Today, we’re introducing…

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