Month: December 2016
- News
NASA Discovers Growing Hole Within Earth’s Sun
NASA astronomers have discovered a large hole in the corona of our sun, and it’s growing. While the anomaly is not a matter for concern, it does suggest that the sun is set to unleash an impressive solar storm in early 2017; it shouldn’t affect the Earth too much –…
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Facebook is Buying Data on Your Offline Activity
While most Facebook users are aware that the social network is tracking your interests and activities while using the site – you can even see what Facebook knows about you through its settings – you may not know that it is collecting data on your offline life, and it’s not…
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has Unlocked Frame Rate on PC
We are still a few months away from the release of BioWare’s new sci-fi RPG Mass Effect: Andromeda – with January 2017 set to see a massive publicity push for the game – but a recent Kotaku interview with BioWare producer Mike Gamble has revealed some significant details, especially regarding…
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Speedlink Omnivi Core Gaming Mouse Review
Introduction Speedlink has long had a reputation for being a budget-focused brand, and while that’s still true to a certain extent, they’ve been pushing the quality of their products up by a huge margin, moving into the stomping grounds of established gaming brands. Their Decus Respec Gaming Mouse is a prime…
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Intel Core i3 7350K Reportedly Missing At Launch
In first for Intel, the company is finally releasing an unlocked version of their Core i3 series of CPUs. As a part of the new upcoming Kaby Lake lineup, the i3 7350K is expected to offer a new alternative to the unlocked i5 in terms of overclocking and be tailored towards…
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Asus ROG GX501 GTX 1080 Laptop Just 16.65mm Thick
Asus is releasing a new Republic of Gamers laptop which packs in the mobile version of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card and is only 16.65mm thick, LaptopMedia has discovered. In addition to the GTX 1080 mobile, the Asus ROG GX501 boasts an Intel Caby Lake processor, a 15.6-inch 4K…
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Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini Graphics Card Unveiled
Zotac has revealed what it describes as “the world’s smallest GeForce GTX 1080,” which will be on-show at next year’s CES in Las Vegas this coming January. All we know about the graphics card so far is that it features a base clock of 1,620MHz and a Boost clock of…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Launch 1Gb/s Global Internet
Elon Musk is moving a step closer to establishing a global internet service with his plan to launch a series of satellites around the world via his private astronautics outfit, SpaceX. Musk’s company filed a proposal with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate a network of…
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Porting Games to Nintendo Switch Could be Difficult
While we await the official reveal of the Nintendo Switch’s hardware specifications – the unveiling of the Japanese company’s new console is set to occur in less than two weeks – we have to rely on leaks and insider speculation to get an idea of what the gaming platform can…
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Microsoft Files Patent for Automatic Object Tracking for AR Displays
While many see augmented reality as just another gaming platform, Microsoft has another idea in mind: automatic object tracking so you will never feel that frustration of trying to remember where you last placed your house keys, or your glasses, or your wallet, or everything else in your life. Microsoft…
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Sony Unveils LMX-001 Holographic Waveguide Display for AR Development
Sony has been working on an optical head-mounted display for several years now but have finally shown their latest LMX-001 hardware using holographic waveguide technology. Sony’s initial effort for head mounted displays in the market was with the Glasstron all the way back in 1996 which used two LCD screens…
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Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Delidding Analysis
Introduction Intel has been utilising poor quality thermal interface material since the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture which increases the thermal values and restricts the overclocking headroom. Modern CPUs are engineered with the silicon die being cooled through a pre-applied integrated heatsink and conductive thermal layer. This method is used because the die emits…
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South Korea Hits Qualcomm With Record $850M Fine
Every now and then, regulators take a good hard look at a companies practice. Other than the usual targets like Apple and Microsoft, Qualcomm has been facing various investigations from different countries. In a recent development, the South Korean KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission) has fined the American firm a massive…
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Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Tempered Glass Chassis Review
Introduction Phanteks are one of the best chassis manufacturers on the market today, having spent the last few years releasing one award-winning after another, including what I regard as one of the greatest premium chassis ever made, the Enthoo Evolve ATX, and one of the best mid-budget chassis ever, the…
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AMD Ryzen Sample Hits 5 GHz OC on Air
Earlier in the month, we got our first full review of the upcoming Ryzen processor. CPC Hardware, a French magazine publication, managed to get their hands on a Ryzen engineering sample and run a whole suite of tests on it. In a hidden easter egg just discovered, CPC has revealed…
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