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…
A new nightmare in the iconic horror series is about to begin. The episodic experience Resident Evil: Revelations 2 arrives this week on PS4 and PS3, unleashing four weeks of chilling stories. Ready your nightlights. The first episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, titled Penal Colony, launches this week. Claire Redfield, one of the few…
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…
Showcasing the sexiest, most photogenic game screenshots this side of the Internet We’re celebrating February with a gallery full of amazing screenshots. As always we’ve got a few obligatory Minecraft and Skyrim screens, but we’ve also got shots from newer games like Dragon Age: Inquisition and Ultraworld. Some supremely helpful folks over at /r/GamerPorn have…
Better fact check whatever you Comcast agent tells you It’s getting increasingly difficult not to get pissed off every time Comcast makes the news. This is one of only two companies that’s been voted “The Worst Company in America” more than once by readers of Consumerist (Electronic Arts being the other), and it’s because of…
World’s top PC supplier admits it “messed up” Lenovo took to Twitter to issue an apology over Superfish, the visual search software it installed on consumer laptops and desktops without permission, and has posted instructions on how to remove it. Initially Lenovo issued a statement saying that it installed the software with good intentions and…
Timeline and video released to commemorate the occasion On February 19, 1990 a little program called Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released. Since then, there have been many versions of the image manipulation software and its popularity among graphics designers, artists, and creative minds has grown to the point that the word “Photoshop” is used as…