PC Gaming
Amazon introduced its Echo “smart” speaker to the masses back in June 2015 after shaping the product with a closed group of customers starting late 2014. The device was available only through Amazon until this past holiday season when the company served up Echo in retail outlets such as The Home Depot, Staples, Sears, Brookstone,…
Top Deal: We’re big proponents of NAS boxes. They’re great for backing up data (among other things) and it’s better to have a solid backup in place before the need arises (trust us on this one). If you’re going to get one, mechanical hard drives still offer the best storage per dollar, and companies make…
Waiting on refunds There’s good news for nine out of 10 people expecting a refund after filing taxes—you’ll likely receive it within the 21-day window the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) quotes. And if you’re the unlucky sap in a group of 10? Well, who knows when it will come. The IRS is currently experiencing computer…
Fashionably late or right on time? Canonical is on a mission to reinvent the personal mobile computing experience. That’s not hyperbole on our part, it’s Canonical’s way of describing the significance of its new and first Linux tablet, the Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition, which it’s launching in partnership with Spanish device maker BQ. It’s a…
Think small Building a fast and respectable system doesn’t necessarily mean going big with your setup. Lest there be any doubt, Asus has three new small form factor motherboard options for system builders looking to go small. All three are based on Intel’s B150 chipset for Skylake. The first of the three is the B150I…
Google has confirmed with The Verge that it has removed an app called Adblock Fast from Google Play. The company did not provide a reason, but the app’s developer, Rocketship Apps, claims that Adblock Fast was removed because it violates section 4.4 of Google’s Developer Distribution Agreement. Adblock Fast was developed in conjunction with Samsung…
Can AMD’s Crimson 16.1.1 Hotfix Rise to the Occasion? Last week, Rise of the Tomb Raider launched and received fairly good reviews. We then benchmarked the game to see how AMD and Nvidia GPUs stack up, along with checking out the CPU side of things. At the time, AMD was running “unoptimized” drivers while Nvidia…
Need to know Product: Modmic 4.0Company: Antlion AudioPrice: $43 (starting)Options: Omni or uni-directional; muteless or mute-ableLink: www.modmic.com So you’re into gaming, which means unless you’re a gaming hermit, you’re probably communicating with your friends and other gamers via some sort of “gaming” headset. I never understood the word “gaming” for computer peripherals—they’re usually reserved for…
Comcast announced this week the rollout of gigabit Internet connections for a handful of cities across the nation. The new service will hit residences and businesses in Atlanta and Nashville in early 2016, followed by Chicago, Detroit, and Miami in the second half of this year. Comcast hasn’t yet provided pricing information. What makes this…
Got a lot of hard drives you need to pack into a single mini-tower chassis? You’re in luck, as Lian Li just introduced the PC-M25, a small form factor case that provides space for up to seven 3.5-inch hard drives. There’s even a hot swap HDD cage that supports up to five 3.5-inch drives, and…