PC Gaming
Over the last several months, we’ve taken a close look at a network attached storage (NAS) device provided by Thecus called the N5810PRO. It’s a five-bay storage solution that was released last summer, built for small- to medium-sized businesses, and is packed with its own built-in mini-UPS and a quad-core Intel Celeron J1900 processor. The…
Long live the floppy! I still own several 3.5-inch floppies and even some 5.25-inch disks. They’re mostly game installs for old school adventure titles, but in my basement they sit, these boxed up relics of a bygone era. After seeing what a modder did with this old floppy disks, I’m tempted to dig them out…
Fresh out of the oven In celebration of its fourth birthday, The Raspberry Pi Foundation has cooked up a new version of its highly popular Raspberry Pi mini PC with a giant assist from fellow chef Broadcom. The newly released Raspberry Pi 3 is quite the treat—it’s faster that previous models, more functional, and backwards…
Officially a two-horse race After all the hype and anticipation, you can finally place a pre-order for HTC’s Vive headset today, just as the company promised last week. The cost, as stated previously, is $799, with the first batch of headsets slated to ship in April of this year. There’s also an estimated $30 shipping…
Can’t beat the price Valentine’s Day is in the rear view mirror, football season is finished, and the NBA playoffs won’t start for more than a month. Find yourself looking for something to do this weekend? That leaky faucet still needs fixed, but if you’re not up for manual labor, you can log some multiplayer…
Pissed off penguins Linux users are chastising Microsoft for not paying enough attention to its Skype software on their platform of choice. They’re ticked off that Skype had gone without an update on Linux for over a year and a half, and that the the long overdue upgrade that was rolled out this past Monday…
Burning Bridges Microsoft wanted to make it easy for mobile app developers to port their software over to Windows 10 without having to rewrite their code, so it created a series of so-called bridges. They’re essentially toolkits designed to do the dirty work for developers. There was one for porting Android apps to Windows 10…
In response to the US government request that Apple create special software to access a locked iPhone 5c, the company filed a motion on Thursday to reverse the court order, stating that the dispute isn’t about one isolated case, but the “dangerous power” that could be given to the Department of Justice and the FBI….