February 2016

Getting attached to detachables Well look at what we have here, another quarter of declining tablet shipments while detachable 2-in-1 devices reached an all-time high, according to data released by International Data Corporation (IDC). This is notable on a number of levels. First, long time Maximum PC readers might remember a time when analysts were…

Number three or number two? The first month of the new year is in the books and with it comes a new ranking for Windows 10, now either the second or third most popular operating system in the world, according to updated data by Net Applications. If you count Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 as…

Unnamed sources have told the Financial Times that Apple has created a large team of experts to develop virtual and augmented reality devices. This team consists of employees poached from other companies as well as staff from recent acquisitions. This team has been working on prototypes for the past several months, sources say. As the…

Until now, Google’s VirusTotal merely scanned URLs and “suspicious” files (up to 128MB) that are uploaded to the site including Windows executables, Android APKs, PDFs, images, and more. Now, PC World points to a new tool added to the VirusTotal service that will scan firmware for known malicious code. Firmware is at the root of…

We’ve known for a while that Apple has been trying to launch a streaming TV service, but has met resistance from Hollywood studios and networks over pricing and how media will be served up. At one time there was even talk that Apple was creating an actual TV, but as of late we’ve only heard…

An engineering marvel When Nvidia told us that it managed to shrink its desktop GTX 980 GPU to fit inside notebooks, we went through two stages of denial. The first stage was disbelief. “The 980 is a huge and powerful card,” we thought to ourselves. The second stage was dismissiveness. “It’s got to throttle tremendously.”…