PC Gaming
Say goodbye to pump noise If you were interested in buying a Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card and were lucky enough to find one in stock, you might have been disappointed to find that it exhibited pump noise. While not all Fury X cards are affected, it’s a known issue with some early production…
Oh, my! Feeling a bit frisky and need some alone time? A company called Naughty America (NSFW!) has developed and released a virtual porn “scene” starring Nikki Benz, Jaclyn Taylor and… possibly you! That’s right: this scene will feature a threesome that can’t be described here. All you’ll need is Samsung’s Gear VR for Android,…
Windows 10 is expected to go RTM by Friday The latest rumor surrounding the upcoming Windows 10 platform is that Microsoft plans to finalize the operating system by the end of the week. Currently, the most recent build of the Technical Preview is 10162, which was the third release in just a week that also…
Top Deal: Maybe you’ve heard that Samsung introduced new 2TB capacity 850 Pro and 850 Evo solid state drives. With SSD capacities on the rise, you can run a large, single SSD for OS chores (rather than two in RAID 0) and a single, even larger hard disk drive for storage duties. If that sounds…
The wait is almost over If you’ve been champing at the bit (or chomping, if you want to get loosey-goosey with the original idiom) for Intel’s Skylake-S launch, you can rest easy knowing that you’re in the homestretch. Well, probably, While nothing is yet official, we’ve been hearing for some time now that Skylake-S chips…
Double the capacity We’ve come a long way since solid state drive makers tried pushing paltry 64GB and even 32GB capacity SSDs on consumers. Sure, you can still find them, but these days, much higher storage options are available. Such is the case with Samsung’s 850 Pro and 850 Evo lines, both of which are…
A better browser Ever since Mozilla switched to a rapid release schedule for its Firefox browser, new versions have lacked the same excitement that came when upgrades were fewer and far between. Be that as it may, Firefox 39 is here, and it brings with it a few interesting additions and changes. Perhaps the biggest…
Company has received orders from ‘several’ PC vendors In-cell displays, which are becoming increasingly popular among thinness-obsessed smartphone makers, could soon be commonplace in the laptop market too. South Korean company LG says the Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) display technology found in its latest Android flagship, G4, is ready to graduate to bigger screens. Its…
Part of the StoreJet 35T3 range Transcend has added an 8TB option to its four-year-old StoreJet 35T3 USB 3.0 external hard drive range, which also contains 3TB and 4TB models. According to the company, the drive boasts “real-world” transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and comes with 256-bit AES encryption. Tom’s Hardware suspects the…
A look at Microsoft’s revamped Settings panel At the risk of being too blunt, we’d say that Microsoft created a mess with Windows 8. The operating system, launched in October 2012, forced customers to use an entirely new UI while making the coveted desktop a secondary platform. Sure, all you had to do was click…