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Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata died of cancer on Saturday. The company provided a specific reason on Monday (pdf), saying that his passing was the result of a bile duct growth. Satoru Iwata was 55 years old. Nintendo’s announcement did not provide any clues as to who will replace Iwata. However, Reuters reports that…
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer hit the Internet browser scene back in August 1995 as part of the Windows 95 “Plus” pack. The browser mainly competed with Netscape and took the top spot in the browser wars thanks to Microsoft making Internet Explorer a native, pre-installed program. Now the browser is in its 11th version and is…
Top Deal: No fancy rhetoric is needed here, just an awesome deal on a lot of fast storage. Straight to the point, if you’ve been looking for a high performance solid state drive with lots of capacity and a relatively friendly price tag, then check out today’s top deal for an OCZ Trion 100 Series…
Swallow your coffee before reading further Comcast has gone and doubled the speed of Google Fiber and AT&T GigaPower, both of which top out at 1Gbps. However, hopping on Comcast’s 2Gbps connection comes at a hefty cost — try $299.95 per month, though that’s only the beginning. You’re also on the hook for a $500…
Patch related woes It’s been a tough stretch for PC gamers lately. First Warner Bros. decided to pull Batman: Arkham Knight from Steam after numerous reports of performance issues, then Square Enix followed suit by yanking the Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn from store shelves due to “various problems.” Now…
Consumers would welcome an alternative to passwords It’s a safe bet that part of the reason why so many people use easy-to-guess passwords like “123456” and “password” is because proper password security is a bother. This notion is underscored by a new survey suggesting that Internet users at large are very much open to password…
Get ready for a global celebration When Microsoft launched Windows 7, it tapped customers to host parties designed to showcase the operating system. Those who agreed received a special Signature Edition of Windows Ultimate. No such incentive is needed for Windows 10, as Microsoft is handing out upgrades like Halloween candy to anyone rocking a…
Once again tops the Top500 list According to the latest edition of Top500, a biannual list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, China’s Tianhe-2 (“Milky Way-2” in English) continues to be the most powerful supercomputer on the planet. This is the fifth time in a row that the 3,120,000-core beast developed by the Chinese National University…
All of them have already served prison time in another case The quartet, which was at the helm of The Pirate Bay’s affairs from the site’s founding in 2003 to its sale to a Seychelles-based company in 2006, can finally breathe easy. We are talking about the infamous torrent site’s co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik…
Windows 10’s unified Store experience includes apps, games, music, movies and TV shows A couple of months back, Microsoft unveiled a new Store app for Windows 10. This new Windows Store is supposed to be a one-stop shop for all your software and entertainment needs, delivering apps, games, music, movies and TV shows all under…