PC Gaming
Testing ground for VR Valve is getting ready to unveil a new virtual reality testing ground that will be familiar to anyone who’s played Portal or Portal 2. It’s called “The Lab” and it’s set in a pocket universe of Aperture Science, the scientific research corporation that appeared in both Portal titles. The Lab will…
Presidential hopeful told a lie Antivirus pioneer turned international fugitive and U.S. presidential hopeful John McAfee has been lying to the media, but he doesn’t think you should be mad at him over it. You see, he lied about how he would crack the now infamous iPhone model that belonged to one of the San…
Holding files hostage So called “ransomware” is increasing in popularity among cyber crooks looking to make a fast buck, so it’s not unusual to hear about a ransomware outbreak. However, there’s never been a successful ransomware campaign against Apple users running Mac OS X, until now. Some Apple users were the target of the “KeRanger”…
R.I.P Ray Tomlinson Ray Tomlinson, the man widely credited with inventing modern day email, passed away over the weekend from what some news outlets (like ZDNet) are reporting as a suspected heart attack (the cause hasn’t been confirmed). He was 74 years old at the time of this death. We take email for granted today,…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney launched an assault on Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative on Friday, saying that this platform must die if Microsoft doesn’t tear down the walls of its new platform-within-a-platform for Windows 10. His call to arms arrives after Epic unleashed Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Windows Store, which is…
Top Deal: Smartphones and tablets are great, but for being productive on the road, laptops still win the day. It’s boring enough having to type out TPS reports, but doing it on a virtual keyboard just adds insult to injury. On the flip side, so does spending a fortune on a notebook for basic computing…
AT A GLANCE Hot (+) Beautiful screen; gaming-capable laptop; all-around good design. Overheating (-) Bad trackpad; mushy keyboard; awkward camera placement; poor battery life. Surprisingly, this is a gaming laptop When it comes to laptops, 15-inch notebooks are in that awkward space between super sexy 13-inch Ultrabooks and 17-inch big-screen behemoths. Dell is trying to…
What the heck? While Apple fights with the FBI to avoid creating software that will unlock an iPhone, Amazon has silently discontinued encryption in its Fire OS platform. As a reminder, Fire OS is the operating system Amazon uses on its popular tablets and lackluster Fire phone, which upgraded to version 5.0 back in September…
Microsoft’s Gabe Aul, corporate Vice President of the Engineering Systems Team, today announced the release of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14279. This build was dumped into the Fast Ring for Insiders this week, providing an updated logon experience, the March update for the Xbox app beta, and a number of bug fixes. This release…