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.”…
Gravity, ghosts, and gunplay! It’s a huge week in the world of PlayStation with more than 10 new games launching this Tuesday. Leading the pack is a familiar (and still exhilarating) adventure: Gravity Rush Remastered on PS4. Gravity Rush Remastered follows the mysterious young hero Kat and her incredible, gravity-defying powers. Traverse a beautiful city…
Who Knew Raiding Tombs Could Be So Difficult? You have to love Lara and her single minded focus on getting whatever she wants. And if you’re like us, you’re also jealous that she has all the money and equipment needed to jet set around the globe to all sorts of exotic locales. I have to…
Fancy pants PCs Quick, name three different boutique system builders. Was CybertronPC among them? Probably not (unless you were swayed by the headline), though the company’s been around since 1997 and boasts that it’s the 15th largest system builder in the U.S. Out of how many, we don’t know, though CybertronPC is attempting to boost…
Not for the faint of wallet It’s been less than three weeks since G.Skill announced its big and bad Ripjaws 128GB DDR4-3000MHz memory kit, and now it’s back with another kit that’s just as big and even faster at 3,200MHz. Like the previous offering, this newest Ripjaws V series memory kit consists of eight 16GB…
Making it rain in Redmond Microsoft gets to head into the weekend on a positive note. That’s because the numbers for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2015, are in and they’re cause for celebration. All of its businesses combined, Microsoft collected $25.7 billion in revenue (non-GAAP) during the quarter. Though that’s down from…