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Breathe wireless like into those Wi-Fi dead spots Pesky obstacles like walls and doors can impede a wireless signal, especially the further away you are from your home’s router. Luma’s solution is to use multiple routers to create a mesh network that’s customized to your specific dwelling. Not everyone needs that kind of coverage. Maybe…
Top Deal: For many builds, a 500W or 600W power supply is plenty. But for the 1-percenters who go all out without multiple high-end graphics cards, enough drives to circle the planet if laid side by side, and a custom liquid cooling setup that’s the envy of anyone who’s ever liquid cooled? Ya, those builds…
Drivers optimized for Black Ops III As Nvidia is prone to do, it has new WHQL-certified drivers available just in time for a new game, this one being Call of Duty: Blacks Ops III. The newly available GeForce “Game Ready” 358.87 drivers come with the promise of delivering “the best possible experience” in Black Ops…
Two new premium laptops Samsung on Thursday updated its portfolio of laptops with two new models, one of which is the Ativ Book 9 Pro, the company’s first notebook to boast a 4K resolution display. That 3840×2160 resolution is packed into a 15.6-inch touch panel with real time HDR enhancements. It supports an “Outdoor Mode”…
Holding cable makers’ feet to the fire Listen up folks, not all cables are created equal. You might already know that, but to drive the point home, an engineer at Google has begun leaving user reviews on Amazon for a variety of USB Type-C cables. His name is Benson Leung and he has a vested…
This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A repository for more than you’d expect There are several places on the Internet that have become workhorses for free and open-source software projects. GitHub is definitely one of them, and the more I…
On Halloween night, one of our analytics providers (PageFair) suffered a security breach, allowing an attacker to take advantage of the hole and consequently serve an ad that claimed your Flash plugin was out of date and that you should update. This then lead to adware/malware installers that, well, then would attempt to attack you….
USA Today has posted an interesting write-up about Rufus Cuff, a communicator users wear on their wrist. The device sports a 3.2-inch touchscreen, making it bulkier than a smart watch but smaller than a tablet. Rufus Cuff’s overall dimensions are actually larger than that to make room for the 1175mAh rechargeable battery, speaker, front-facing camera,…
Unnamed insiders told Paul Thurrott that Microsoft is expected to green-light Threshold 2 this week. Unfortunately, they weren’t exactly forthcoming with a release date, but said that Microsoft is expected to finalize the “bits” this week and prepare the update for mass consumption. Microsoft is also not commenting on when the “upcoming update” will be…
Top Deal: Building a PC is all about matching the appropriate parts. For example, you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) pair a Titan X with a lowly dual-core APU, and while bother with a 1,000W power supply if you’re running a lower-end system that could thrive comfortably on a solid 400W PSU? That same philosophy extends beyond…