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Valid explanation or bogus excuse? You would think that adding support in Chrome for notifications to appear in the Action Center for Windows 10 would be an easy “Yes” for Google, but you’d also be wrong. As it turns out, Google has no intention of using the Action Center, at least not anytime soon. The…
Drats! Swap out your mechanical keyboard for a crappy membrane plank before reading any further. It’s just a precaution, should you decide to Hulk-smash your keyboard in frustration at what we’re about to tell you. Remember the Vive VR system being developed by Valve and HTC we told you about earlier this year? It’s the…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. It’s tempting to always get the biggest and fastest memory kit, but how much RAM do you actually need? Component lifespans are usually pretty easy to track. Processors get higher clock speeds, more cores,…
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Walk softly and carry a keyboard stick LG plans to unveil at IFA 2015 in Berlin what it claims is the industry’s first solid rollable wireless portable keyboard. The keyboard, which bears the unfortunate name of “Rolly,” folds up along its four rows into a stick that’s supposed to easily fit in a pocket, purse,…
Abducting Skylake It was three years ago to the day that we posted our review of Dell’s Alienware X51 PC game console to the website, which we called “impressively powerful for its size.” That was true at the time, though in the fast moving world of technology, the system’s Core i5-2320 CPU paired with a…
AMD R9 Nano: Small but Powerful The initial launch of AMD’s Fiji architecture has been a bit rough: The R9 Fury X failed to claim the performance crown from GTX 980 Ti, though it puts up a good fight. Stepping down a notch is the R9 Fury, an air-cooled take on Fiji with eight of…
Just a day before the start of PAX Prime in Seattle, peripheral maker Logitech unveiled the company’s latest entry into the gaming audio arena. At Logitech’s audio lab in Camas, Washington, we got a hands-on with the two units that are billed as the successors to the G930 headset. Like the G930 before them, both…
This article was published in the August 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. May you never know the agony of losing vital data files Some people have been driven nearly to suicide when their only working copy of an unpublished novel, dissertation, business plan, or photo archive…
David Marcus, Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook, revealed on Wednesday that America’s number-one social network is currently developing a genderless virtual personal assistant called “M.” This new AI will be located within Messenger, the company’s stand-alone chat client. So far there’s no indication when—or if—this virtual assistant will be released to the Facebook…