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Remember that 2.6 petaflop monster supercomputer from China, the Tianhe-1A, you know, only the fastest super computer known to man? That's so 6 months ago and so slow. This week saw a new supercomputer rise to the top spot, the K Computer from Japan with a dizzying 8.16 petaflops under Linpack -...

After we posted our look at Duke Nukem Forever, I followed-up with a post that encouraged Gearbox to not give up on the series, even if the reviews for the latest game weren't too flattering. Duke titles in the 90s were fun and well-received, and for the most part, there's been moderate success...

If some companies are to be believed, we all belong in the cloud. That includes our information, documents, photos, music and sometimes, even our movies. Either by phone or at home, we can use a lot of bandwidth, and with companies shifting some major focus to the 'cloud', that means data caps...

It is one thing to offer to sell an existing product to the server market, but quite another to offer to sell directly to enterprise customers looking for custom designs. That may be why OCZ has just announced the Deneva 2 SSD line. Not content with just offering static SF-2582 powered SSDs such...

MeeGo's future has never been too certain, and it was made even more uncertain earlier this month after a notable spat within Nokia involving MeeGo supporter Richard Green occurred earlier this month. At that time, it became questionable as to whether or not Nokia was even planning to fulfill...

Among the more than 100,000 movies Netflix offers through its on-demand service, a mere 30% are equipped with subtitles. This is a reason for concern, according to the National Association of the Deaf, whom declare that Netflix is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing...

ICANN, the organization responsible for the handling of the Internet's "names and numbers" has passed a rather historical plan that will allow companies or people the opportunity to create a custom "general" top-level domain (.com, .org, .net, et cetera). Picture for example focus.ford...

It's been a mere three months since we all welcomed Firefox 4 with open arms, but the time has come to put that out-dated browser out to pasture and move onto the bigger, better and badder 5! Alright, so this might be a 'major' release given that Mozilla has upped its release schedule to see...

Starting today, Steam, the online games distribution service from Valve, will be starting up a new service of sorts, free to play games. Steam normally sells games while offering demo downloads for free, but does not support actual free games. This is most likely down to a certain fiscal element...

During the unveiling of Mac OS X 'Lion' (10.7) at last week's WWDC, Apple talked a little bit about the "Find My Mac" feature, but didn't go into great detail of how it worked. With a Lion developer beta, however, further information has begun to trickle out, including the discovery of a feature...

When Nintendo showed off its Wii U last week at E3, its focus seemed to be a lot more obvious on the controller than on the games, and for that reason, few next-gen titles were even unveiled. From what we did see, it was difficult to surmise just how much better the Wii U's capabilities were...

Timed with the opening of E3, NVIDIA earlier this week announced that its PhysX 3.0 SDK is prepared for developers to snatch, and as the major version number would suggest, there's lots that NVIDIA brings to the table here. Perhaps of most importance, the entire engine has been rewritten, which...

At CES 2008, there was a TV being shown at Sony's booth that more than impressed me. For one, it was 3D, and two, it had the ability to deliver two pictures at once. With two sets of glasses, gamers could play some multi-player and not be able to see what their opponent was doing. In essence...

I'm oblivious to how it took me a full week to realize this, but last Thursday, Mozilla posted the first "rapid release" beta of its Thunderbird e-mail/messaging client. That's right... "rapid release" isn't just affecting the Firefox Web browser, but Thunderbird as well, which means its...

It's nothing particularly major, but YouTube added the ability to set newly uploaded videos as a Creative Commons based license. The means that it's possible to use bits or whole videos as part of another project without repercussions... the problem is that the feature is locked to the Cloud...

Just watch... it's all you need to know... <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RN7_8Yholm4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Yeah... it's pre-rendered, but holy hell... epic... What's with all the nostalgia... I know i'm getting old now because...

After being lambasted for inappropriate forum comments, making up stories about children's hamsters, distasteful wit in IRC and being involved in a rather unfortunate accident with a meringue and some 8 gauge wire; I ended up in Hell, forever listening to such great hits as Aqua's Barbie Girl...

In an announcement that may not come as a huge surprise to some, Kingston revealed at Computex plans to introduce a new series of solid-state drives featuring SandForce controllers. This marks the first time Kingston will have utilized any SandForce controllers in its products. This is...

At the D9 conference being held this week, Microsoft decided for the first time to give a public preview of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, and what a showing it is! Whereas Windows Vista had similar styling as XP, and 7 was simply an evolution of Vista, 8 looks to make the traditional interface...

With the recent launch of Corsair's H60 and H70 CPU coolers, it might have seemed unlikely that the company would be releasing even more models at this point in time, but thanks to the launch of 'Link', the company's hardware monitoring and control platform, something had to support it. And with...