PC Gaming
Top Deal: HD-DVD lost the high definition format war and there was a collective cry about how much more expensive Blu-ray was. We all shook an angry fist at Sony, then got over it. But if you didn’t, instead choosing to hold a grudge and refusing to purchase Blu-ray hardware until it dipped into affordable…
Just adding to its resume It’s becoming increasingly difficult not to be impressed (or downright spooked) with the prediction engine behind Microsoft’s Bing browser. For its latest feat, Bing successfully predicted most of the top winners for the 2015 Oscars, correctly identifying 20 of the 24 results for an 84 percent success rate. That alone…
No big surprise Lenovo’s been in damage control ever since news broke that it was installing a careless piece of adware called Superfish onto consumer laptops and desktops, but the court of public opinion isn’t the only it has some explaining to do. According to reports, a class-action lawsuit against Lenovo and Superfish was filed…
The first fix, issued in October, turned out to be a dud The Samsung 840 Evo launched to some rave reviews in 2013. We gave it a “kick ass” 9 out of 10 and hailed it as “the fastest SSD we have ever tested by a sizable margin.” Unfortunately, some of that luster has since…
Gigabyte also tagged in proposed class-action lawsuit The furor over GTX 970’s specs refuses to die down. What was until recently a public relations debacle is now threatening to snowball into a costly lawsuit, with a class-action complaint being filed Thursday by Cass County, Michigan-resident Andrew Ostrowski against Nvidia and Gigabyte for engaging “in a…
AV vendor inadvertently crippled millions of Internet Explorer installations On Friday, a thread came up on the Norton Community forum from a user complaining of a Norton Internet Security (NIS) antivirus update breaking Internet Explorer on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. It soon swelled to multiple pages as droves of other users running Internet Explorer 9…
Company believes move to 7nm possible without EUV We are coming up on the semi-centennial anniversary of Moore’s law, a prediction in 1965 by Intel founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an (economical) integrated circuit would continue to double every 12 months until at least 1975, at which point he revised the…
No more clockblocking with March update Last week, Nvidia released a driver update that removed the ability for consumers to overclock their GeForce GTX 900M Series GPUs. The reason for this, the company explained, was that, “GeForce notebooks were not designed to support overclocking.” Since then, there has been a general outcry from PC enthusiasts…
Top Deal: Why is it that we never think about backups until it’s too late? That’s true whether the subject is storage or a power outage. Having a hard drive go bad or unexpectedly losing power will quickly remind you why you need backup. After all, you never know when someone’s going to veer their…
More free storage Like an overzealous patron at a gentlemen’s club who just inherited a fortune, Microsoft can’t help but to make it rain. Free storage, that is. It was only a week ago that Microsoft offered up 100GB of free OneDrive cloud storage for a year for signing up for Bing Rewards, and now…