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Forced retirement It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for Google to maintain two separate but similar photo services, and so it’s not going to—Picasa is out and Google Photos is in. Google didn’t come at this decision lightly. Instead, Google said it decided to phase out and retire Picasa over the coming months…
Ready, download! Street Fighter V arrives on PC tomorrow (along with PlayStation 4), and if you want to be prepared for the brawls that await, Nvidia has a new Game Ready driver available to download, version 361.91. This is not an unexpected driver release—Nvidia and its driver team works feverishly “up until the last minute”…
A lightweight contender When someone sits down to work or play games, the expectations of a headset can vary wildly from one person to another. The average length of time you expect to wear it per session should be a major factor in choosing a headset. As it turns out, the Creative Sound BlasterX H5…
Top Deal: Is your PC feeling a little sluggish? Are you still rocking a mechanical hard drive? If so, it’s high time you step into the modern era with a solid state drive. Doing so can breathe new life into your PC, and these days it’s a relatively affordable upgrade. Just check out today’s top…
Don’t try this at home Most Chromebooks are pretty rugged, as they have to be in order to withstand the daily rigors of school age children treating them like regular objects. Even so, we wouldn’t recommend standing on top of one, not unless you’re looking to crush the screen for some odd reason. That attempt…
Building an IoT development platform The fast growing Internet of Things (IoT) market is ripe with opportunities for developers, though several of the solutions are based on ARM’s architecture, like the Raspberry Pi. That’s not inherently a bad thing, but for developers needing more power and not wanting to venture out of their comfort zones,…
Clearing up confusion There’s seems to some confusion swirling around the release of Quantum Break, which was once touted as an Xbox One exclusive. That’s no longer case—it’s also shipping to Windows 10 PCs, and if you pre-order a copy for Xbox One before it launches on April 5th, you’ll receive a complimentary copy for…
Google said this week that its Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing service will now be based on 100 percent HTML5 in order to reach more devices and to offer the best browsing experience. That means the company is phasing out advertisements based on Adobe Flash, a move that’s being seen across the Internet…
This week, Asus introduced a new monitor called the ROG Swift PG27AQ, the latest member in the company’s line of gaming panels. The big news with this release is that Asus crammed a 4K IPS panel together with Nvidia’s G-Sync technology, providing extremely high-resolution and flicker-free gameplay for those with a GeForce GTX 980 GPU…