Analyzing Power Use: 80 Plus Bronze vs. Platinum
I’ve been toying around with updating my computer lately, and one of the topics I wanted to look at was the choice of power supply. For the most part...
79 by Jarred Walton on 10/30/2013Intel to Fab Altera FPGAs with ARM IP
In a story posted today on EETimes, Altera announced at the ARM Developers Conference that they have entered into a partnership with Intel to have their next generation 64-bit...
44 by Jarred Walton on 10/30/2013Sprint Announces Spark - Its Tri-Band LTE Network
Today Sprint announced the official name for its new tri-band LTE network, Sprint Spark. For those who have been following operator rollouts of LTE in the US, today's announcement...
33 by Brian Klug on 10/30/2013Intel Announces PCIe M.2 LTE Modules with XMM7160, Notes Galaxy Tab 3 (10.1) Socket Win
Intel has been ramping up how much it's talking about its first available multimode LTE solution, XMM7160, which we've seen public disclosure of and talked about before. For those...
11 by Brian Klug on 10/30/2013Motorola's Project Ara: Phonebloks from an OEM
Phonebloks was a campaign that focused upon attracting the interest of OEMs by showing that there was an incredible amount of interest for a modular phone. This was mostly...
55 by Joshua Ho on 10/29/2013New Version of Google Glass coming, Free Swap for Current Glass Explorers
One of the shortcomings of the initial Glass hardware was its inability to be used in conjunction with prescription eyewear. Although users could sometimes get away with wearing Glass...
13 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013NVIDIA 331.65 Game Ready WHQL Driver
Brian posted earlier today about the latest NVIDIA SHIELD update, and buried within that post is information that NVIDIA has released their latest 331.65 WHQL drivers along with GeForce...
7 by Jarred Walton on 10/28/2013AMD News: A10-6790K, 13.11 Beta6 Drivers, FM2+ Motherboards, Kaveri
AMD held a brief press conference this morning to disclose a new part that should be for sale shortly, the A10-6790K. The performance of the 6790K should be very...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/28/2013NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 780/770 Price Cuts; GTX 780 Ti Launch Date & Price
With the launch of AMD’s new flagship Radeon R9 290X only a couple of days behind us, NVIDIA has wasted surprisingly little time in responding the latest salvo in...
146 by Ryan Smith on 10/28/2013NVIDIA Updates Shield to Android 4.3, Adds Features, Brings GameStream out of Beta
It’s been a while since our NVIDIA Shield review, a Tegra 4 packing handheld gaming device running Android Jelly Bean. Today, NVIDIA is taking the lid off a big...
19 by Brian Klug on 10/28/2013A quick look at Blackberry 10.2 and web browsing performance on Z10
Blackberry has started rolling out OS 10.2 to BB10 devices such as Z10, Q10 and Q5. Update appears to be available in Canada and UK for a start. The...
45 by Rahul Garg on 10/26/2013iBUYPOWER Releases M8 Mini-ITX Gaming System
iBUYPOWER is no stranger to these parts; we reviewed a few of their desktop and laptop systems over the years. They're now one of the larger boutique PC vendors...
36 by Jarred Walton on 10/25/2013Promise Technology Announces Pegasus2 and SANLink2 Thunderbolt 2 Products
We’ve seen Thunderbolt products from Promise before, and we’ve even heard about some of their upcoming Thuderbolt 2 offerings. Today, Promise is formally announcing four upcoming Thunderbolt 2 products...
40 by Jarred Walton on 10/25/2013Seasonic to Power Hashfast Bitcoin Mining Equipment
Seasonic and HashFast Technologies announced that they have signed an agreement for Seasonic to produce power supplies for HashFast’s Bitcoin mining systems. Seasonic is one of the oldest and most...
30 by E. Fylladitakis on 10/25/2013Nokia World: GDR3 Phones and a Tablet
As expected, with the release of Windows Phone 8 GDR3, OEMs are releasing phones to go with the update. Nokia, the leader in Windows Phone, announced two phablets, a...
50 by Joshua Ho on 10/24/2013iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display include Qualcomm's MDM9615 baseband
We've had a few days to digest everything announced at Apple's recent event, and one of the remaining questions was whether the iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina...
10 by Brian Klug on 10/24/2013ECS Reveals Bay Trail-D Mini-ITX Line
With Intel's Bay Trail platform and Silvermont Atom cores in the news for tablets, we have spotted their use in mini-ITX platforms as far pack as Computex 2013 where...
41 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013iPad Air: Hands On [video]
Brian also just finished up some hands on with the iPad Air. Check out the video below for his impressions and a comparison to the new mini. We just played...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013iPad mini with Retina Display: Hands On [video]
Brian just spent some time hands on with the new iPad mini:
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 10/22/2013Synology Introduces Media-Centric DS214play
Synology has been pretty busy introducing its 2014 models over the last couple of weeks. While the DS214 was, in my opinion, a run-of-the-mill product (not taking away any...
19 by Ganesh T S on 10/22/2013