PC Gaming
End of an era For nearly 13 years, Slysoft has been fighting the good fight by releasing software that allowed people to make backups of their optical media, both for games and movies. It’s also been the target of immense government pressure, and in a short statement on its website, the company announced that it’s…
Big speed boost for the Bay Area It’s a big deal when Google announces expansion plans for its 1Gbps Fiber service because it’s comparatively affordable and of course crazy fast. The service is also fairly rare—it’s only available in a few locations at the moment—but little by little, it’s expanding. One of the places Google…
Host of bug fixes AMD recently made available new Crimson hotfix drivers that purport to boost performance in select games while stomping out a whole bunch of bugs. Starting with the performance benefits, AMD said it worked with Stardock and Oxide to bring optimizations to the Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark 2.0. AMD also points…
Anything but average Our Midrange rig gets a lot of flak for its name. “An i7 isn’t midrange,” people say, “and a $1,500 budget is performance grade!” Yes, fair builder, for many our Midrange build would be considered a performance machine. But when we can build rigs with the X99 chipset, the title of Midrange…
Last week, Apple was served a court order requesting that it generate software for the FBI so that the agency can gain access to the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooting suspect Rizwan Farook. As the situation stands now, the FBI is faced with overcoming a security feature that will wipe the device if…
CBS News reports that the iPhone used by alleged San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook could have been unlocked by using mobile device management (MDM) software that the county purchased but never used. Had the software been installed, the FBI could have easily unlocked the iPhone remotely and gathered all the information stored on the…
Top Deal: It’s the season of tax refunds, and if you’re looking to splurge on a PC upgrade with all that money Uncle Sam returned to you, your graphics card might be a good place to start. Need ideas? Check out today’s top deal for a EVGA GeForce GTX 980 6GB SC+ Gaming w/ACX 2.0+,…
Ashes and APIs When last we looked at Ashes of the Singularity, it was one of the first DX12 titles with a benchmark that we could test, but it was also very early. Six months later, the second playable race is in place, and Oxide has had a lot more time to work on refining…
Never run out of ink again Amazon Dash, the nifty replenishment service that smartly and automatically reorders products and supplies for you, now works with select Samsung brand printers. Once you have it setup and configured, your Samsung printer will place an order for more ink once it detects it’s getting low. This is an…
Skylake in a little box We’re seeing a growing number of mini PCs emerge, and with good reason—technology has evolved to the point where you can have a fairly potent (or at least serviceable) setup in a small space. So it goes with MSI’s new Cubi 2 Plus, a handheld-size PC with Skylake inside. Inside…