PC Gaming
Computex can’t get here fast enough The annual Computex convention kicks off next week (June 2) and one of the highlights could be Nvidia’s new graphics card, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti. First pics of the forthcoming card have found their way to the web, along with a few specs. Both Videocardz.com and WCCFTech.com posted…
Android partners line up for Office Part of the reason Steve Ballmer stepped down as CEO of Microsoft was so that fresh blood could navigate Redmond in the mobile era that we now find ourselves in. Enter Satya Nadella, current boss of Microsoft, who continues to push an aggressive multi-platform strategy for the company’s top…
A semiconductor Mother Nature would approve of U.S. and Chinese researchers have come up with a potential solution for all the electronic waste that’s created by obsolete semiconductors — wooden chips. No, not the kind you decorate your yard with or use to fuel a camp fire, but biodegradable computer chips made out of cellulose…
Charter announced today that it’s buying Time Warner Cable, with the intent to bolster its number of subscribers across the States. With the purchase of Time Warner Cable, Charter also announced that it would acquire Bright House Networks for $10.4 billion. The three companies will form a new company under the name New Charter, and…
Top Deal: Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber had it all wrong, the most annoying sound in the world isn’t him screeching. What’s even worse is that dreadful clicking and grinding sound your hard drive makes when it’s on its last legs. And of course it always during that brief period where you’ve neglected to…
SSDs at HDD prices Have you ever shopped a promising looking laptop only to be turned off by the fact that it’s running a mechanical hard drive instead of a solid state drive? SanDisk feels your pain, and to alleviate the problem, the company came up with the Z400s line, purportedly a cost effective solution…
How to figure out whether your system is going to put a damper on your video card upgrade plans Tax refund, graduation gift, bonus from work… you’ve got some long green burning a hole in your pocket and you want to use it for a sweet video card upgrade. There’s just one hiccup: Your rig…
Choose your own adventure — Fedora 22 Cloud, Server, or Workstation It was barely more than a month ago that Red Hat made Fedora 22 available in beta form. If you’ve been holding out for a final release, today is your day — Fedora 22 received its final coat of polish is now available in…
New playgrounds for Cortana It’s been sort of expected that Microsoft would eventually make its Cortana digital voice assistant available on Android and iOS, especially with its multi-platform push for other software, like Office. And wouldn’t you know it, Microsoft today announced plans to make available separate Cortana apps for each platform. Cortana on Android…
Braswell crashes the mini PC party Intel continues to release new NUC models, the latest of which feature 6-watt processors based on the company’s Braswell architecture inside. There are two models, the NUC5CPYH with a Celeron N3050 and the NUC5PPYH with a Pentium N3700. Braswell is the 14nm successor to Intel’s 22nm Bay Trail-D line…