Windows 8 Consumer Preview is coming:
Mozilla developing Metro-specific Firefox for Windows 8
Intel Core i7-3820 review: 
Double Fine Kickstarter campaign raises 1+ million, in one day
Hard drive pricewatch:Multiple monitor use on the rise despite declining desktop PC sales
- The act of running multiple monitors from a single computer was once reserved for diehard enthusiasts and IT professionals but a new article from The New York Times suggests that computer users are adopting multiple monitors at a quickening pace.…
Diablo III coming in Q2, WoW and StarCraft II expansions discussed
- Blizzard has once again announced that fans of the Diablo series will have to wait even longer to get their hands on the pending title. During a conference call to discuss the company’s fourth quarter financial results, Blizzard CEO Mike…
Digital game purchases: do we really "own" them?
- Gaming website Rock, Paper and Shotgun has published an interesting piece chronicling the ill-treatment received by one of its readers, a PC gamer by the name of Gimperial, from Valve.The gaming firm disabled his Steam account without citing an exact reason and thus…
Windows on ARM: desktop mode confirmed, sans legacy apps
- Microsoft has described in detail their Windows on ARM architecture in a bid to clear up confusion regarding the upcoming Windows 8 release. The exhaustive post by Steven Sinofsky on the MSDN Building Windows 8 blog gives a clear perspective…
Wolfram Alpha Pro introduces drag 'n drop, 25% of traffic from Siri
- Famed scientist, Stephen Wolfram, announced "phase two" of his online "computational knowledge engine": Wolfram Alpha Pro. The enhanced service features new ways to input data, understands even more data formats -- about 60 to be precise -- and allows users…
Apple loses preliminary injunction against Galaxy Tab 10.1N
- Dismissing Apple's attempted injunctions, a Duesseldorf court has cleared the modified Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N for sale in Germany. The decision comes after several rulings against Samsung in a series of bitter patent suits. Apple succeeded in blocking the original…
Engineers boost CPU/GPU speed 21%, could be a glimpse of AMD's future
- North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a method of boosting processing performance by more than 21%. Although many processing designs by Intel, AMD and ARM house CPU and GPU cores in the same package, the components still function mostly independently.
Download the entire Pirate Bay in just 90 Megabytes
- It is now possible to download a copy of The Pirate Bay via a single 90MB zip file. The recent switch to magnet links and a script written by Pirate Bay user ‘allisfine’ made the small backup possible, according to…
Google's cloud storage service 'Drive' to launch soon
- Google is reportedly getting ready to launch a cloud-based storage service that would rival the likes of Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive. Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal says the service will be known as 'Drive' and…
Justice Department to green light Google-Motorola deal
- Google could receive approval from the US Department of Justice for its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility as early as next week, giving the internet search giant a powerful armory of patents for its Android operating system, according to…
Double Fine Kickstarter campaign raises over 700k in one day -- make that 1+ million
- Video game developer Double Fine Productions recently launched a joint campaign with 2 Player Productions on Kickstarter to raise money for the development of an upcoming point-and-click adventure game. In less than nine hours, the team surpassed their goal of…
Apple to announce iPad 3 in early March, shares approaching $500
- Apple is said to be planning a media event for the first week in March where the company plans to debut their next generation tablet, tentatively known as the iPad 3. The event will be held in San Francisco, likely…
Swagg Security hackers hit Foxconn, release usernames and passwords
- Foxconn, the enormous manufacturing supplier to some of the world's largest technology firms has been hit by a new group of hackers looking to make a name for themselves. On Wednesday evening, a team calling themselves Swagg Security claimed they…
Google Wallet PIN vulnerable on rooted Android devices
- Security researchers over at zvelo have discovered a vulnerability in Google Wallet that could expose users' PIN codes to a brute-force attack. The flaw only affects users who have rooted their Android smartphone, so most people won't need to worry…
Tim Berners-Lee defends the open web from patent threat
- The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee testified in Federal Court on Tuesday giving evidence as part of the defense of a rather remarkable patent trial that’s getting under way in Tyler, Tx, where Michael Doyle is…
Apple sued for $1.6 billion for using "iPad" in China, apology requested
- A major Chinese display company, Proview Technology, has demanded that Apple cease using "iPad" in China. After engaging in "ambiguous" negotiations with Apple over the matter, executives at Proview have decided to take legal action by suing the company for 1.6 billion…
Intel Core i7-3820 Review: Sandy Bridge-E for the masses
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The i7-3820 is particularly intriguing because of its sub-$300 retail price -- far less than other chips in the Sandy Bridge-E family. For instance, the Core i7-3960X has an MSRP of $999 and sells for more like $1,049, while the i7-3930K has an MSRP of $583 and is fetching $599 at e-tail. Both are six-core CPUs operating over 3GHz with massive 15MB and 12MB L3 caches.
At roughly half the price of the 3930K, we expected Intel to butcher the i7-3820, and while that's partially true, the 3820 remains an impressive specimen with four cores operating at 3.6GHz, a 10MB L3 cache and HyperThreading support.
S&P cuts Sony rating, warns it could face further downgrades
- US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s cut the long term debt rating of Sony Corporation to BBB+ yesterday, issuing a stark warning that it could drop the Japanese electronics company a further notch within a year if it does…
Chrome 17 released with "instant" browsing, improved security
- Keeping with its snappy development cycle, Google has released the latest stable build of Chrome. The update comes nearly two months after the launch of Chrome 16, a month after Chrome 17 entered beta and only a day after Chrome…
Nvidia and Rambus settle four-year memory patent dispute
- In 2008, Rambus accused Nvidia of infringing upon 17 patents across six of their product lines. After four years of legal sparring, the companies have finally decided to resolve the matter privately. The newly struck deal will be valid for…
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