PC Gaming
Getting ISPs to respect your privacy The moment you hop online, you can pretty much kiss your privacy goodbye. There are steps you can take to limit how much of your privacy you give up, but for the most part, your online activities are logged, tracked, sold, and everything else. To ensure that ISPs don’t…
We’ve always stated that you should get the best product that your budget allows. In some cases, it’s even better to save for a bit and get the product you really want, rather than settle for a second choice. Personally, I’ve always recommended that you should invest in products that directly impact your senses, like…
Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, and yet PC human-machine interfaces (HMIs) haven’t changed much since the addition of the mouse. It’s difficult to imagine a computer without a keyboard or mouse, and perhaps that’s why various attempts to replace them have been unsuccessful. But according to former Intel-Israel President Mooly Eden, the…
Top Deal: Not all wireless routers are created the same. Some are more feature rich than others, and just as important, some models beam a stronger signal, allowing you to more fully take advantage of the Internet service you’re paying for, especially at longer distances with obstructions along the way. If you’re looking for a…
New driver package AMD has a new version of its Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver package available, and it contains quite a bit of goodies. First up is official support for the Vulkan 1.0 API. Vulkan, which is the successor to OpenGL and based in large part on AMD’s Mantle API, provides developers with low-level…
Bold speed claims Opera Software believes the key to making its browser run faster is by building ad-blocking software directly into the browser’s engine. That’s the case with Opera’s newest developer version, available today, which the company claims is nearly twice as fast at loading webpages. “Once enabled, the ad-blocking feature speeds up webpage load…
Turn real friends into virtual ones When Facebook announced that it had acquired Oculus, there was a moment of panic that resonated across the Internet. The fear was that a promising VR technology had fallen into the wrong hands and that the best we could look forward to were virtual versions of Farmville. That hasn’t…
Setting the stage Digital security is everyone’s business. There, I said it. Even if you’ve never encrypted a single file on your own, if you’ve never created a PGP keypair, if you’ve never created your own simple substitution cypher as a kid, there’s a near 100 percent chance that if you’re reading this online, you…
Lightweight and fast It was nearly two and a half years ago when Corsair Gaming first introduced its Sabre RGB mouse. At the time, it offered two versions—one with a 6,400 DPI optical sensor and one with an 8,200 DPI laser sensor. Both are now old news, as Corsair this week announced the availability of…
Third time’s the charm Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no stranger to Reddit’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions. The billionaire software developer turned philanthropist took part in his third AMA yesterday answering questions on several topics, including his take on Apple’s standoff with the FBI over iPhone encryption. The way Gates sees it, there has…