PC Gaming
Security fail The team of geniuses on CBS’s action-drama show Scorpion routinely make it look simple to hack into government systems, and while it’s not supposed to be that way in real life, a hacker who wishes to remain anonymous didn’t have much trouble plucking personal details of 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and…
Are you looking at me? Ready for something trippy? MSI’s GT72SG G Tobii laptop with eye-tracking technology that lets you control game activity with looks, stares, and gazes, is now available to purchase. It’s the first gaming laptop in the world to feature Tobii’s eye-tracking tech, and with it you can do things like switch…
Razer’s flashiest snake to date, sans cord aT a Glance Snakes on a Plane: Great wireless performance; excellent sensor; attractive design; tunable button pressure; fantastic build quality; very comfortable.Snakes on your plane: High lift-off distance; battery life is meh; battery is non-replaceable, slow to charge; butt-heavy; pricey. Whoa, hold on. If you’re ready to dismiss…
Your passwords aren’t strong enough When it comes to contemporary security, the humble password (or passphrase) isn’t enough to keep you safe. It seems like every day someone breaks into an organization’s database and steals an array of passwords and user ids. Even if organizations could keep their systems totally safe, some people still use…
Epic Games reports that its Unreal Editor for Unreal Engine 4 is up and running in virtual reality, meaning developers should be able to strap on the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, don the accompanying motion controllers, and create virtual reality experiences in real time. The company says movement in the real world is mapped…
Ready…Set…Buy! Oh boy, like the diet that always starts on Monday so there’s an excuse to splurge one more time beforehand, Steam’s frequent game sales often prove too tempting to pass up. The discounted titles are like pieces of chocolate (speaking of which, guys and gals, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner) or some…
Take your settings with you Asus just added another mechanical keyboard to its Republic of Gamers (ROG) division, the Horus GK2000, which is wrapped in an aggressive looking chassis that gamers are likely to either love or hate. A mishmash of lines and angles is pretty typical of an ROG product, be it a laptop…
Look who’s joining the SSD party Sony sold off its Vaio PC business around this time a year ago, but apparently the company is still interested in the PC space, at least from a component angle. Proof of that comes in the form of Sony”s new SLW-M series solid state drives. The SLW-M series is…
The Zettabyte Era If you need another reason to complain about data caps—we’re looking at you, Comcast—consider that combined Internet traffic is expected to top the zettabyte mark this year, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index, an ongoing survey of web traffic and trends. What is a zettabyte? It’s equivalent to around: 1,000 exabytes 1,000,000…