PC Gaming
All your Chromebase belongs to Acer It was rumored earlier this month that Samsung and Hewlett-Packard were both working on Chrome OS all-in-one desktops, but it looks like Acer has beat them to the punch. Not only that, but Acer’s new Chromebase AIO is the first of its kind to sport a touchscreen display, the…
Upgrade your data resiliency with RAID 1 The sound of a dying hard drive can be terrifying. It means a headache, downtime, and replacement costs in the best case. In the worst case, it means sending the drive to a data rescue lab. Using a redundant array of independent disks with mirroring (RAID 1), you…
Top Deal: Everywhere you look these days, it’s mini ITX this and micro ATX that. In a world filling up with tiny PCs like the NUC and small form factor cases galore, is there anyone out there still building in full tower enclosures? You betcha! And if you’re one of them, have a look at…
Two years later… It was just over two years ago that Nvidia unveiled plans to build a futuristic campus located across the street from where it is now. The reason? What started off as a three-person startup some two decades ago has grown to over 9,000 employees spread out across 40 sites. Following the delay,…
Chips ahoy! The busy bodies at Intel released over half a dozen new Braswell SoCs and Broadwell CPUs ranging in price from $107 to $281, presumably in trays of 1,000 units (meaning retail prices will be a bit higher). Starting with Intel’s Braswell lineup, the new parts are based on a 14nm manufacturing processor and…
A new way for the company to make money Of the many notable social networking services out there, Twitter has been one of the most popular ones for a while. However, it has come to the point where its user numbers have begun to stagnate. A problem that hasn’t been helped by the company’s CEO…
Higher prices for customers when there is no competition Competition between rival services might be bad for a business, but it usually ends up being good for the consumer. In the case of Google Fiber expanding, competition between Google and other ISPs tend to result in lower prices between rival gigabit services. AT&T, for example,…
Another potential merger between cable providers Last year, Comcast caused quite a stir when it announced that it would purchase Time Warner Cable. So far, the merge has yet to take place as Comcast is still waiting for the government to approve of the merger. But now, two more cable providers are looking to merge….
Top Deal: It seems like storage drives fail at the most inopportune time. Not that there’s ever a good time for things to go sour, but inevitably, it happens when you’ve been talking about implementing a backup solution, but have yet to put one in place. You promise yourself, “Never again!,” and then it happens…
Plays.tv takes a bite out of Twitch and YouTube, Instagram style Raptr today announced the official public launch of a gamer-focused service called Plays.tv, a kind of Instagram for gamers, where the idea is that everyone and every game has an epic moment of some kind. The idea though, says Raptr, is entirely different from…