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Motherboard maker takes lightning storms seriously Here’s the thing, folks — if you want to protect your PC from lightning strikes and other electrical surges, plug it into a UPS backup power supply with built-in surge protection. For added caution, shut down and unplug your PC during lightning storms. And if you’re super paranoid about…
Top Deal: One way to cool your PC is to submerge it in oil — no joke! Of course, that’s a messy way to go about things, but if you’re still wanting to get away from air, you have options. Options like today’s top deal for a Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Water/Liquid CPU…
Chides company and shareholders’ lawyers for ‘abdication of their responsibility’ We are sure Hewlett-Packard would like nothing more than to efface the memory of its disastrous 2011 acquisition of British software company Autonomy, but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon as right now it is struggling to get a federal judge to accept its…
Dev kits have reportedly already reached some developers Rumors of a virtual reality (VR) headset for Microsoft’s Xbox One console first began to swirl in March — around the same time as Sony’s Project Morpheus announcement at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) — but almost ten months later we have yet to see such a…
Available in the Dev channel Google’s hotword-activated voice search has been available on Chrome OS for a while now, but in its current form the feature is somewhat limited on Chromebooks. As of now, you can only search in this way from the App Launcher or when you open a new tab. Well, that is…
Ubisoft is offering a free game to Assassin’s Creed Unity Season Pass holders Announced late last month, the free Ubisoft game offer for those who own the Assassin’s Creed Unity Season Pass or Gold Edition is now live. In case your memory needs some jogging, let us remind you that this is not an act…
Weekend Thoughts About the Future It’s now December 20th, and I’ve spent a few short weeks at Future working with the Maximum PC team and interacting with the community. I’d thought it would be valuable to our readers if I share some of my thoughts. So many of you have reached out to me to…
Great games we love made possible by crowdfunding The Kickstarter scene exploded a few years back, as gamers discovered the crowdfunding platform and began to fund various video game projects. The plethora of games seeking funding ranged from new concepts to sequels that boasted new, unique features or appealed to our sense of nostalgia. Because…
Free app puts your Android device to work crunching data when it would otherwise be idle Scientists are hard at work looking for a definitive cure to Ebola, and you can help. More precisely, if you’re willing to donate idle time power from your PC and/or Android device, you can help the cause. How? The…
Cloud computing and IoT are pushing demand for more storage Don’t feel too bad for storage players as the prices of hard drives and solid state drives continue to come down — there’s still money to be made. Lots of it. By Western Digital’s estimation, the global storage market will reach $38 billion by the…