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Remember when those $200 tablets looked to be a great deal? Well, it seems that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble are doing all they can to lessen the attractiveness of their respective tablets, with the help of updated firmware. Amazon recently forced an update through (isn't that nice?) to all...

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's hypocrites - and right now, there's none bigger than the RIAA. The Recording Industry Association of America is a stranger to almost no one, as it's become famous not for being the backbone to the music industry at large, but for its unparalleled greed...

I don't often post about health news, but this seems a little too good to ignore. Canadian researchers have been given the go-ahead to begin testing a vaccine on humans to treat HIV/AIDS, with testing to begin on 40 HIV-positive persons next month. Following success there, another 6,600 at-risk...

At 11:00AM this morning, I decided to get on some benchmarking I had to get done. A problem arose, however. I needed to rebenchmark the GTX 580, but the one in the test machine had an after-market cooler, making it less-than-ideal for temperature testing (in a head-to-head / apples-to-apples...

The number of examples that could potentially violate this patent is unfathomable. Software of all stripes have been doing things like this patent describes forever, long before the patent even came to be.

Apple has secured a big win in the courts this week against HTC, with the ruling able to halt imports of HTC phones by the spring of 2012 if the offending patent violation isn't corrected. The description of the patent is a little broad, but in essence it seems to relate itself to the ability of...

Not a single person is blown away by this?

Having just wrapped up its "Autumn Sale" a couple of weeks ago, it's become clear that Valve doesn't mind making it feel like sales are a regular occurrence rather than an occasional perk. I'm a bit late on posting about this, but the company launched its "Holiday Sale Gift Pile" promotion...

Last night I found $20 offerings on Amazon, but those seem to be gone. There are a lot of sellers selling it for close to that though: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Logitech+K360&x=0&y=0 More options could be found here...

Think that fancy new DSLR of yours is impressive for being able to shoot photos at 12 FPS and video at about 30 FPS? Well, I'm here to rain on your parade. A team of researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have created a camera that can capture images at a trillion frames-per...

Despite the fact that securing your PC with a password is an easy way to at least try to keep your digital goods safe, many people find typing one in on each boot to be a hassle - and to be honest, so do I. But the fact remains, having no password at all is as effective in securing your data as...

For someone like me, who uses the PC a lot, I'd never expect this to live up to the 3-year claim. I would expect that to be hit for those who use their PCs like normal people though, not eight hours or more each day. Unfortunately I have doubts I'll be able to use it quite so long to see what...

Game load times happened about twice as fast on average on the SSD vs. the HDD. On a boot where I was loading the game over and over, the best I could do on a hard drive was about 52s, while on the SSD I had it load once at 18s. On a fresh boot, the HDD did it in about 1m 12s, while the SSD did...

The Register has dug up information that indicated that first Western Digital, and now Seagate, have instigated new year resolutions for 2012 that’s to trim hard drive warranties across the board. This isn’t the first cut in warranty periods from either vendor, and one has to wonder slightly at...

Looking for a new keyboard on the cheap, but would love to go wireless? Enter the K360 from Logitech. Sporting a compact design, the K360 offers a reliable wireless connection and is touted as being able to last up to three years on a single set of batteries. It's not perfect, but at $20, it's...

Mobile apps are big business, and it goes without saying that if you are a developer with a great idea, there are mega-opportunities to be had. Look no further than Angry Birds developer Rovio. The folks there released what's in all regards a simple game, but it's been downloaded and played by...

Of all the available computer chassis on the market, a personal favorite of mine is the SHIFT, from MAINGEAR. First touted as being the base to a "supercomputer", the company has remained ardent in keeping the chassis exclusive to those who purchase a complete PC. For those who have craved...

When I installed a solid-state drive into my personal PC this past spring, it was magical. All of a sudden, I booted into my OS faster, applications opened quicker, and there wasn't ever a time when I encountered OS lag due to a slow I/O. It goes without saying that games also stand to see a...

As expected, benchmarking results from the last version to this one remain comparable. The changes are as follows: - Bullet physics library updated to version 2.79 to improve compatibility with future CPUs and GPUs. - For most systems containing multiple GPUs, for example integrated...

City of Industry, California, December 15th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the ‘Xmas and New Year Contest’, its latest overclocking competition run in conjunction with HWBOT.org. The GIGABYTE ‘Xmas and New Year...