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Last fall, we linked to a report that stated Windows 8 could be released in the fall of 2012, and if recent leaks are to be believed, that seems downright doable. According to the leak, acquired by Mary-Jo Foley, Microsoft's Windows 8 schedule is going according to plan, and "Milestone 2"...

It was only last month that OCZ announced its plans to accelerate the departure from the DRAM business, as to instead change focus towards morphing into a leading provider of solid-state drives. Although the news that OCZ would no longer be selling new memory was indeed surprising, just a quick...

Bulletstorm, the game created by the same guys who put out Painkiller in 2004, came out this past Tuesday. Like most brand-new games, I didn't know much about Bulletstorm, except that A) the graphics appealed to me, and B) the game was surrounded in controversy. Fox News, as an example, pretty...

It's a bucket wheel excavator, quite common in germany, used for both normal coal and lignite. But I guess it can be used for any kind of large excavation work.

Last spring, we posted an article that took a look at data recovery on SSDs; essentially, the difficulty of. Thanks to TRIM, once a file is deleted on an SSD, it's difficult to recover, and in our tests, common recovery applications simply didn't work. In a recent report, though, techies at the...

It's very hard to say if i'm to be honest. Dell systems are not forthcoming on the internals used. From what I can gather, that system uses either a Pentium 4 520 or 540, which means it uses the later generation LGA775 Socket rather than 478. The problem, largely to do with the chipset, is that...

This might just be one of the strangest ideas I've ever heard. It seems that some music execs have been in discussion with Apple to help get 24-bit audio onto the iTunes music store... and as Ars Technica appropriately asks, "Why bother?" You can read the rest of our post and discuss here.

To those prepped to make a MacBook Pro purchase... wait. It's been reported that Apple will be refreshing its line-up later this week, and that brand-new models will be shipping to customers within the next two weeks. Nothing much is known about the performance-related specs, but there are a...

Drinking in games can be a humorous past time, get a few giggles in before taking on a horde of bad guys under very one sided conditions (no force of evil can match the mighty Quick Save/Load). But ever stopped to wonder how realistic this drunkard behavior, slurred speech and floor collapsing...

Verizon's iPhone hit the market earlier this month, and though we know some of the limitations, is it worth jumping over to from AT&T? The answer depends a lot on what you want to do with your phone, and if you happen to make a lot of phone calls and often get disconnected on AT&T, then that's...

Minecraft, a game that we profiled after its initial release, has become one of the most popular games on the planet. It's been played by by millions, and purchased by 1.36 million (and growing). Its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, began development of the game himself, and up until recently...

Seagate's Momentus XT mobile hard drive is one-of-a-kind on the consumer side of things, as it pairs a mechanical drive with some NAND flash commonly found in SSDs, and in the end delivers great performance. It's effective because it allows the most common files to be read from the flash, while...

Watching the other links as well, I can so see this FPS happening... <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CyCyzB0CedM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Actually, Kougar is incorrect this time (sorry). 3D does incur a performance loss, of ~50%, sometimes a little more. This is due to the fact it has to render a scene twice from 2 different angles + overhead. Rob can't see in 3D, so he can't test it as part of the suite, since he wouldn't know...

Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen Duke Nukem Forever get a release date, and have also seen previews posted around the Web. So far, those previews seem to have mixed reaction, but one thing's for certain... this game is going to demand attention when it's released, and it seems unlikely...

We knew that a "PlayStation Phone" was en ruote, but now we finally have hard details of what to expect in terms of hardware and software. The first official phone to feature support for PlayStation-esque hardware is the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, and hopefully if it takes off, we'll see similar...

Should of asked earlier, but oh well.... Are the dropped keys random in nature? Are they specific keys that regularly fail? Is it Command-Key actions like Ctrl, Shift or ALT actions that fail? Is it only in certain applications? The problem might be a global application, OS or Widget key-hook...

A couple weeks ago, a group of modders decided to create nice little mod for StarCraft II, introducing MMO elements into custom maps for the venerable game. A pre-alpha demo was posted on YouTube which caught the attention of Activision Blizzard, which was quickly followed by a cease and desist...

Did a bit of digging, found this for firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-sidebar/ Not the most elegant solution, even with previews turned off, each side-tab is still quite large... too many oversized buttons clogging up the interface. Think Firefox 4 will be able to...

Good to see you around again Tango. Yeah, Rob did mention in chat that it could be a driver issue as well, but the method he posted is just a quick and dirty fix to get rid of it if you can't afford to reboot the computer, like in the event it's 5 hours in to a 12 hour encode, etc. The...