Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips
Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations. The new ThinkPad P series are aimed at high-end professionals who need a lot of...
50 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2015Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 616, 412, and 212
Today, Qualcomm launched a set of new SoCs, namely the Snapdragon 616, 412, and 212. These are updates to the Snapdragon 615, 410, and 210 respectively. If you were to...
22 by Joshua Ho on 8/10/2015Google Reorganizes Into Alphabet: Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google
Today, Google announced that they will undergo reorganization to better represent the growth that the company has seen in the past few years. As a result, Google the company...
34 by Joshua Ho on 8/10/2015OpenGL @ SIGGRAPH 2015: OpenGL ES 3.2 & OpenGL Extensions Announced
Kicking off this week in Los Angeles is SIGGRAPH 2015, the computer graphics industry’s annual professional conference. As the biggest graphics event of the year this show has become...
5 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2015Google Redesigns Hangouts for Android With Version 4.0
Today Google shipped a major update to their Hangouts application for Android. Ever since Hangouts for iOS was updated to 4.0 a little over a month ago Android users...
37 by Brandon Chester on 8/10/2015Vulkan Status Update: Will Use Feature Sets, Android Support Incoming
Along with updates on OpenGL, Khronos is also offering a status update on the development of Vulkan at this year’s SIGGRAPH show. Khronos’s next-generation low-level API was announced last...
28 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2015Skylake CPU Package: Mini-Analysis
As a short side piece from our in depth review on Intel's 6th Generation Core processors, codename Skylake, the well-known overclocker Splave has posted some very interesting images on...
86 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015Intel Quietly Launches Mobile Xeons: Skylake Based E3-1500M v5
In a rather understated blog post, Intel made an interesting move at the end of last week by announcing that for the first time the Xeon platform is heading...
23 by Ian Cutress on 8/10/2015Aleutia Updates R50 and T1 Fanless Industrial PCs with Partial Copper Chassis
Aleutia's fanless industrial PCs have seen deployment in a large number of developing countries as well as other extreme environments, thanks to their rugged nature and low power requirements...
8 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2015Verizon Eliminates Contracts and Device Subsidies
North America has always had a fairly unique pricing structure for buying mobile devices. In many places, the concept of purchasing a device for a heavy subsidy and committing...
115 by Brandon Chester on 8/7/2015NVIDIA FY 2016 Q2 Results: GPU Sales Are Strong But Write Downs Hurt Bottom Line
Today NVIDIA released its quarterly results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2016 (yes, 2016) and they had excellent sales of their GeForce GPUs, but have decided...
55 by Brett Howse on 8/7/2015Corsair and Cherry Introduce New, Quieter Mechanical Keyboard Switches
After languishing in relative obscurity for a few decades, mechanical keyboards have exploded in popularity in recent years. Almost every maker of input devices for computers has joined the...
32 by Billy Tallis on 8/6/2015Basemark & Crytek To Develop New VR Benchmark
After a very public development process over the last couple of years, this year we have seen the consumer release of virtual reality headsets become a matter of when...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/6/2015Google Commits To Monthly Security Updates For Nexus Devices
Security updates on mobile operating systems have typically been bundled inside larger patches that include other bug fixes and improvements. Unfortunately, the world of security exploits isn't tuned to...
41 by Brandon Chester on 8/5/2015Seagate Announces 2TB Game Drive for Xbox At Gamescom 2015
Today Seagate is announcing a new product aimed squarely at the console market, and specifically at the Xbox brand. Seagate partnered with Microsoft to create the Xbox branded Game...
28 by Brett Howse on 8/5/2015Xbox One Will Be Upgraded To Windows 10 In November
Just a couple of days ago, Windows 10 was launched for the PC and the rollout is underway. But that is just a single aspect of Windows 10, and...
25 by Brett Howse on 8/5/2015Xbox One To Get TV DVR Capabilities
Those that never got to experience Windows Media Center as the hub of a home entertainment system likely wonder why there is such a vocal group of people who...
19 by Brett Howse on 8/4/2015Toshiba and SanDisk Announce 48-layer 256Gbit TLC 3D NAND
This week Toshiba and SanDisk are announcing a new milestone in their joint development of flash memory. Back in March Toshiba announced a 48-layer 3D NAND technology that they...
28 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2015Seagate and Micron Announce 1200.2, S600DC SAS SSD Families for Enterprise
Today Seagate and Micron are jointly announcing their latest generation of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) MLC SSDs for enterprise use. The new families of drives are designed to significantly...
15 by Billy Tallis on 8/4/2015Acer Announces Ultra Low Cost Cloudbooks With Windows 10 Home
Today Acer is launching a new line of low cost notebooks, which are branded as Acer Aspire One Cloudbooks. There will be an 11.6-inch model, and a 14-inch model...
45 by Brett Howse on 8/4/2015