Razer Launches New Wildcat Xbox One Controller And New Version Of The Nabu Smartband
Today at PAX Razer announced a refresh of the Nabu smartband which they first announced at CES in 2014. They also announced that they will be selling the Razer...
11 by Brett Howse on 8/28/2015AMD Quietly Releases Radeon R9 370X, China-Only For Now
Back in June when AMD launched the Radeon 300 series, AMD made the unusual move of only releasing refresh SKUs for around half of their products. While the 390...
26 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2015Valve and HTC Push Wide Release Of Vive VR Headset To 2016
Valve isn't a stranger to product delays or discrepancies between promised launches and when a product actually launches. This is often joking referred to as Valve Time, and it...
5 by Brandon Chester on 8/28/2015Alienware Refreshes Lineup With Laptop Updates, And Liquid Cooled X51 Desktop
Today Alienware announced some refreshes to its lineup. On the laptop front, the Alienware 13, 15, and 17 notebooks have been updated, and the Alienware 18 notebook has made...
33 by Brett Howse on 8/28/2015AMD Announces Radeon R9 Nano; mini-ITX Card Shipping September 10th
Back in June at AMD’s R9 Fury X/Fiji GPU launch event, the company unveiled that there would be four products based on Fiji. Fury X and Fury – which...
95 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2015Logitech Announces Artemis Spectrum G633 & G933 Audio Headsets
This morning Logitech is announcing an update to the company’s popular high-end gaming headsets, the G930 and G35. The new headsets are the Artemis Spectrum G633 and G933, and...
17 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2015Obi Worldphone Launches The Worldphone SF1 and SJ1.5
Today Obi Worldphone, the smartphone company co-founded by former CEO of Apple and former president of Pepsi John Sculley, launched two new smartphones targeted at emerging markets. The first...
10 by Brandon Chester on 8/27/2015Intel's Skylake GPU - Analyzing the Media Capabilities
At IDF in San Francisco last week, Intel provided us with lots of insights into Skylake, the microarchitecture behind the 6th generation Core series processors. Skylake marks the introduction...
37 by Ganesh T S on 8/26/2015Exploring Intel’s Omni-Path Network Fabric
For several months now we have been talking about Intel’s Omni-Path network fabric, the company’s next-generation 100Gbps netwoking fabric technology. Typically Omni-Path has come up alongside discussions of Intel’s...
16 by Ryan Smith on 8/26/2015Understanding Smartwatch Design
Although I mentioned this in passing in the Apple Watch review, I’ve increasingly realized that it is difficult for both manufacturers and consumers to really understand what makes a...
35 by Joshua Ho on 8/26/2015Podcast 34: IDF Special! Interview with Dr Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow
Intel’s Developer Forum is an annual event in San Francisco focusing on how Intel attempts to enable product design and by extension, experience. Part of that is along the...
5 by Ian Cutress on 8/25/2015Microsoft Makes Cortana For Android Available As A Public Beta
Earlier this year Microsoft announced that their digital assistant Cortana would be making its way to iOS and Android in addition to its launch on Windows Phone and Windows...
12 by Brandon Chester on 8/24/2015Qualcomm Details Hexagon 680 DSP in Snapdragon 820: Accelerated Imaging
Although we tend not to focus too much on the tertiary aspects of a SoC, they are often important to enabling many aspects of the user experience. DSPs are...
41 by Joshua Ho on 8/24/2015Intel Launches New Socketed 5x5 mini-PC Motherboards
Over the last couple of years, the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) has emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Kickstarted by Intel's NUC (Next...
44 by Ganesh T S on 8/24/2015Understanding Intel's Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework 8.1: Smarter Throttling
In mobile, thermal throttling is effectively a fact of life as modern, thin tablets and smartphones leave little room for implementing high-performance fans. We can use CMOS scaling to...
32 by Joshua Ho on 8/21/2015NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 950; GM206 The Lesser For $159
It still doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago, but at this point it was 18 months ago when NVIDIA launched the first member of their Maxwell...
81 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2015NVIDIA Announces GameStream Co-Op, Beta Next Month
Alongside today’s launch of the GeForce GTX 950, NVIDIA is also announcing a new streaming mode for GeForce Experience, the company’s multi-feature game streaming and optimization tool. The new...
10 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2015Sony Unveils The SmartBand 2
Today Sony announced their second generation SmartBand wearable, the SmartBand 2. Like its predecessor, the SmartBand 2 is a fitness wristband that incorporates an accelerometer to track your movement...
11 by Brandon Chester on 8/20/2015ASUS Announces A 144Hz WQHD Gaming Monitor With FreeSync
Today ASUS announced a new monitor targeted at the gaming market. The ASUS MG278Q is a 27" TN panel with a resolution of 2560x1440 and a 144Hz refresh rate...
59 by Brandon Chester on 8/19/2015Windows 10 Insider Preview Continues: Build 10525 Released To Fast Ring
Even though Windows 10 is now officially launched, the Insider Program is going to continue. People that have joined the preview program now have a new build of Windows...
47 by Brett Howse on 8/18/2015