PC Gaming
Turning the Xbox One into a Steam Machine When Microsoft announced that anyone with an Xbox One would be able to stream their games to a PC running Windows 10, we thought, ‘Cool! Now let’s see that work in reverse.’ And to be honest, we’re a little creeped out — apparently Microsoft can read our…
Back to the future Microsoft made a bold move when it introduced Windows 8 back in October 2012. The platform provided a new Start Screen that focused on touch and live tiles instead of mouse/keyboard input and static shortcuts. While this touchy new interface was great for tablets, many desktop consumers weren’t happy with the…
Top Deal: Remember when you had hair? And sanity? That’s before you pulled it all out and lost your sanity trying to decide between the sweet performance of a solid state drive or the capacity and price-per-gigabyte of a mechanical hard drive. Tough decision, but if you can only choose one, why not choose both?…
Get a grip! There’s a new mouse that’s about to be let out in the wild — the Castor by Mionix. By who, you say? You get a pass if you haven’t heard of Mionix. It’s a Swedish company that was co-founded by Peter Nygren in 2007, and while it doesn’t have the same brand…
No pardon for you! The Obama administration is not going to pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who went on the lam after disclosing thousands of classified documents to the media. That much was made clear by the White House’s long awaited response to a petition seeking a “full, free, and…
New memory technology runs circles around NAND Few would argue against the notion that today’s high performance solid state drives are blazing fast, especially compared to mechanical hard disk drives, but imagine what tomorrow’s SSDs will be like. Before you do that, take into consideration that Intel and Micron just unveiled a new non-volatile memory…
Getting ready for Windows 10 So you’ve decided to upgrade to Windows 10, which is a good thing, because it’s free. It’s also faster than Windows 8.1 and comes with DirextX 12. The most important thing you can do is grab all the necessary drivers you’ll need for your system. We’ve compiled a (huge) list…
Built-in Qi wireless charger and AMD FreeSync technology Samsung launched on Monday the “world’s first” monitor, the SE370, that offers built-in wireless charging for phones and tablets. The company is offering the SE370 in two sizes, 23.6 inches (S24E370DL) and 27 inches (S27E370DS), that are compatible with the Qi wireless charging standard developed by the…
Top Deal: Pay for security software? PAY for security software!? It’s a foreign concept to many savvy PC users, and true enough, you can protect your PC for free. However, paid AV solutions bring additional features to the table, and when the right deal comes along, you barely have to open your wallet or purse….
Major flaw in Android could affect 95 percent of devices A mobile security firm is sounding the alarm on a flaw in Android that could potentially allow an attacker to gain control of a smartphone simply by sending a text message. What’s scary about the threat is that in many cases, it doesn’t require any…