PC Gaming
Durable design for students Acer today added to its Chromebook family with the launch of two new models, the 15.6-inch Acer Chromebook C910 and 11.6-inch Acer Chromebook C740. Though they differ in size, both new Chromebooks feature durable design qualities that make them better suited for school environments. It starts with using reinforced covers that…
Rumor has it the Radeon R9 380X will feature 4,096 GCN cores Keeping in mind that nothing is ever official until it’s official (one of the many mottos of Captain Obvious), purported details of AMD’s forthcoming Radeon R9 380X have started to emerge. If they turn out to be accurate, you can expect the Radeon…
Top Deal: In the early days of solid state drives, prices were sky high for small amounts of storage, and speeds weren’t all that impressive compared to today’s models. But why live in the past? These days, you can build a budget rig and still opt for an SSD. To prove it, check out today’s…
Fixes for vulnerabilities in 48 different products Oracle today rolled out a Critical Patch Update for the month of January 2015, which contains fixes for 167 vulnerabilities found in hundreds of the company’s products. The most severe of these received a score of 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), the highest score available…
A bigger size Android tablet with a Duet Pen It’s been rumored that Apple is going to come out with a 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet, but while iOS fans wait for that day, Android users have another large size option in the new HP Pro Slate 12, one of many mobile devices the company officially…
User a super hard password to guess, not a superhero Dark Helmit warned viewers way back in 1987 that 1-2-3-4-5 is the kind of combination only an idiot would have on his luggage, yet nearly three decades later, it ranks number three on SplashData’s list of the 25 worst passwords of 2014, which takes into…
The little engine that could With the US still lagging behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to the availability of high-speed Internet, there’s still a lot of need for high-capacity external storage. It’s also a good idea to have local system backups. A few years ago, your choices were mostly clunky…
Fancy new features graduate from beta In case you need any added incentive to hop on Steam and play games, there’s a Steam client update available that adds a few new features and a bunch of bug fixes. One of the big additions is that of Steam Broadcasting, support for which was first introduced to…
Groovy gift for 10-year WoW vets Our hats are off to anyone who has stuck around with World of Warcraft since the beginning. That takes some serious commitment, and as a token of its appreciation, Blizzard is giving away a rather neat looking statue to its most loyal WoW players, the ones who have been…
Using genetic glue to build vital organs It’s probably far fetched to think that we’re on the verge of being able to print off replacement hearts, kidneys, and other vital body parts, but perhaps your children or grandchildren will one day benefit from such a sci-fi scenario. The technology is closer than you may think…