Microsoft Announces the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter
Today Microsoft introduced their new Miracast-based wireless streaming device for HDMI monitors and televisions. Its lengthy name is the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter and it's Microsoft's take on an...
56 by Brandon Chester on 9/23/2014Synology Launches Rangeley-based DS415+, DSM 5.1 Beta Goes Live
Synology has been relatively quiet over the last couple of months (barring the responses to various security issues), but, today, they are coming out with a couple of expected...
15 by Ganesh T S on 9/23/2014DisplayPort Alternate Mode for USB Type-C Announced - Video, Power, & Data All Over Type-C
Earlier this month the USB Implementers Forum announced the new USB Power Delivery 2.0 specification. Long awaited, the Power Deliver 2.0 specification defined new standards for power delivery to...
117 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2014MediaTek Labs and LinkIt Platform Launch Targeting IoT and Wearables
Companies such as Motorola, Apple, Nest, and Fitbit have been targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables market with devices for the past several years. However, if the...
7 by Stephen Barrett on 9/22/2014iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Results
While we’re still working on the full review, I want to get out some preliminary results for the iPhone 6. For now, this means some basic performance data and...
317 by Joshua Ho on 9/22/2014NVIDIA 344.11 & 344.16 Drivers Available
In the crazy rush to wrap up the GeForce GTX 980 review in time for the NDA lift yesterday, news of the first R343 driver release may have been...
39 by Jarred Walton on 9/19/2014Samsung Acknowledges the SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Bug - Fix Is on the Way
During the last couple of weeks, numerous reports of Samsung SSD 840 and 840 EVO having low read performance have surfaced around the Internet. The most extensive one is...
116 by Kristian Vättö on 9/19/2014Short Bytes: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 in 1000 Words
To call the launch of NVIDIA's Maxwell GM204 part impressive is something of an understatement. You can read our full coverage of the GTX 980 for the complete story...
41 by Jarred Walton on 9/19/2014Acer Releases XBO Series: 28-inch UHD/4K with G-Sync for $800
Monitors are getting exciting. Not only are higher resolution panels becoming more of the norm, but the combination of different panel dimensions and feature sets means that buying the...
57 by Ian Cutress on 9/19/2014Microsoft Details Direct3D 11.3 & 12 New Rendering Features
Back at GDC 2014 in March, Microsoft and its hardware partners first announced the next full iteration of the Direct3D API. Now on to version 12, this latest version...
24 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2014NVIDIA GameWorks: More Effects with Less Effort
While NVIDIA's hardware is the big start of the day, the software that we run on the hardware is becoming increasingly important. It's one thing to create the world's...
22 by Jarred Walton on 9/18/2014Hands On With ODG's R-7: Augmented Reality Glasses
While it's still unclear to me what the future of wearables will be, I must admit that all things considered I feel that glasses are a better idea than...
5 by Joshua Ho on 9/18/2014Intel’s Haswell-EP Xeons with DDR3 and DDR4 on the Horizon?
Johan’s awesome overview of the Haswell-EP ecosystem showed that the server processor line from Intel is firmly in the track for DDR4 memory along with the associated benefits of...
24 by Ian Cutress on 9/18/2014Logitech Targets Home Automation Play with Harmony Living Home Lineup
Home Automation and Control - Setting the Stage The increasing popularity of home automation (HA) equipment has fueled the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. However, the low barrier to entry...
28 by Ganesh T S on 9/17/2014USB Power Delivery v2.0 Specification Finalized - USB Gains Alternate Modes
The last while has been a busy time for the USB 3.0 Promoters Group, with the new USB 3.1 Type-C Connector detailed last month. Joshua was able to get...
46 by Brett Howse on 9/17/2014Testing Swiftkey for iOS 8
Earlier this week SwiftKey announced that they hope to have their keyboard available on the App Store when iOS 8 finally rolls out to users worldwide. They've been kind...
45 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2014Samsung's Exynos 5433 is an A57/A53 ARM SoC
There has been a lot of confusion going on over the last few weeks on what exactly Samsung's Exynos 5433 is. Joshua and I were pretty much convinced that...
41 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/16/2014Micron Launches M600 Client SSD for OEMs/SIs
Micron/Crucial has been one of the go-to manufacturers for value client SSDs during the past couple of years, but the one thing that the company has lacked is a...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 9/16/2014Adobe Brings EchoSign App to Android
EchoSign is a system for managing electronic signatures on agreements, contracts, and other documents that can be transmitted electronically. The product was acquired by Adobe in 2011 to supplement...
4 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2014NVIDIA Opens Pre-Orders For The SHIELD Tablet With LTE and 32GB Of Storage
NVIDIA's SHIELD Tablet arrived earlier this year and it was one of the first devices to use NVIDIA's Tegra K1 platform with 4 Cortex A15 cores and a single...
16 by Brandon Chester on 9/16/2014