Will help drive auto-piloted cars You can’t buy driverless cars just yet, but Nvidia is hoping to change that over time with its new Tegra X1 system-on-a-chip. The SoC is an offshoot of Nvidia’s K1 chip and is based off of the company’s Maxwell GPU architecture, which is currently implemented in its GeForce GTX 980…
The Seagate Seven is a celebration of company’s 35 years in the industry Seagate earlier today announced what it says is the slimmest portable drive the world has ever seen. The Seagate Seven — called thus because of its 7mm depth — is as minimalistic as it is slim. Its unembellished steel enclosure, according the…
RealSense is an Intel technology Acer is bringing Intel’s Kinect-esque RealSense 3D camera to its Aspire V Nitro series of gaming laptops, the company announced in a press release Saturday. Available in North America since October 2014, the Aspire V Nitro family currently contains as many as a dozen models, all of which either have…
All three are powered by a quad-core Bay Trail processor E FUN, a California-based purveyor of cheap Android and Windows tablets, is going to CES 2015 armed with three new Windows 8.1 tablets. When they become available later this year, these devices will all be part of the company’s existing Nextbook line of 2-in-1 tablets,…
One is the world’s maiden G-Sync enabled IPS monitor and the other the first with an edge-to-edge frameless display Acer has officially announced the 27-inch XB270HU gaming monitor that we told you about in November. Specs-wise, it’s not exactly what we had expected it to be, though. What we thought would be another TN (twisted…
Get more out of Google Drive With 240 million monthly active users, there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you’ve used Google Drive before. The cloud-based file storage and synchronization service is far more than a virtual storage container, it’s also a parking spot for several of Google’s other services, such as the…
Did Google do the right thing? There’s a bit of debate brewing over whether or not Google did the right thing by posting a Windows 8.1 security vulnerability to the public before Microsoft was able to release a patch. The disclosure came from Google’s Project Zero program, which hunts down vulnerabilities in software and alerts…
FTC settles charges with Snapchat At the conclusion of a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission approved a final order settling charges that Snapchat deceive consumers in regards to the way messages sent through the video and chat service supposedly disappear. As part of the settlement, Snapchat is required to implement a comprehensive privacy…
Yes, even routers now have touchscreens Amped Wireless is beginning to integrate touch functionality into its home networking devices. We saw it first with the TAP-EX, a high-power Wi-Fi range extender with a built-in touchscreen, and now there’s the TAP-R2, an AC750 Wi-Fi router with touch display. This isn’t the first router with a touchscreen…
Hi Everyone, Happy New Year! Since access to PlayStation Network was impacted during the holidays, we wanted to show our appreciation for your patience by offering all PlayStation Plus members that had an active membership or free trial on December 25th a membership extension of five days. The extension will be automatically applied, so no…