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Closing the gap It’s not unusual for grade school teachers to assign their students homework that requires Internet access. The problem is that more than half of all households making under $25,000 don’t have broadband Internet service, versus a 95 percent broadband penetration rate among households with incomes over $150,000 per year. To help close…
Packing a big punch in a small footprint Boutique system builder Origin PC decided to literally downsize things with its new Chronos small form factor desktop for gamers. What makes this particular iteration special for Origin PC is that it uses the smallest SFF case it’s ever offered. The new Chronos SFF desktop measures just…
Think small You may have noticed an increase in the number of small form factor computer cases to choose from these days. That’s because SFF builds are suddenly vogue, and to assist with builders looking to piece together a compact system, Corsair today announced the release of its first ever SFX form factor PSUs. Don’t…
We may have AI similar to HAL 9000 sometime in the future, but it will take a lot of learning before it gets there. What’s in your pocket? Most of us move through our daily lives with a rudimentary form of AI in our pockets or purses. We tend to think of them as apps…
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey recently spoke with Shacknews about the price of the upcoming Oculus Rift VR headset, his Tesla Model S car, and supporting Apple’s Mac platform. The interview took place in San Francisco during the Windows 10 Showcase event in late February. Oculus VR was there demonstrating Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition running…
Unnamed sources informed the Wall Street Journal last week that Intel is working on an augmented reality solution based on its RealSense 3D camera technology. The company will likely offer a headset design to other manufacturers rather than market a first-party model itself, similar to what Microsoft is doing with its upcoming HoloLens headset, according…
AMD’s Guennadi Riguer said in a recent interview that the company is pushing for 16K per eye at 144Hz and above for nearly latency-free virtual reality that’s served up in a wireless, small form factor package. He also added that AMD has a “robust” roadmap that will tackle a wide range of issues and bring…
On Friday, Amazon backtracked on its stance regarding encryption and Fire OS 5, stating in an email to the press that the company will re-enable the option for full disk encryption in an update this spring. The option for encryption was actually removed with the release of Fire OS 5 back in September 2015, but…
Last week brought reports that the second wave of Windows 10 “Redstone” wouldn’t arrive until spring 2017. Originally, “Redstone 2” aka RS2, was slated to arrive by the end of calendar 2016, packing features that didn’t make it into the first Redstone release slated to arrive this June. No reason was given for the delay….
Nvidia has updated its GeForce blog with news that the new GeForce Game Ready 364.47 WHQL drivers are now available to download. The big news here is that it’s the first set of WHQL drivers from the company that support the new Vulkan graphics API. Nvidia originally began supporting Vulkan by releasing fully conformant drivers…