A new version of GPU-Z is out! Grab it if you want to use the latest and greatest version! GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and Continue reading “GPU-Z Video Card GPU Information Utility v0.4.3 Released”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2010 at 8:40am
Dressed in white, the traditional color of mourning in China, the father of 19-year-old Ma Xiangqian weeps outside the gates of a sprawling electronics complex. His wife and daughter kneel alongside. Ma is one of Continue reading “Foxconn Suicides Finally Make Mainstream World News Headlines”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2010 at 8:13am
VIA Labs, Inc., a leading supplier of USB 3.0 integrated chip controllers, today announced the VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 Host Controller. Adding to the industry’s leading line-up of USB 3.0 products, the VL800 is Continue reading “VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 4-Port Host Controller Announced”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2010 at 7:47am
Media Temple, Web hosting provider for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks, was hit with a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Tuesday. The outage began about 3:50 p.m. PDT, when Media Temple’s domain Continue reading “Web Host Media Temple Shut Down By Attack”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 26, 2010 at 6:36am
A group of amateur astronomers claim they have found the US Air Force’s “top secret” space shuttle, the X37-B. The minature space shuttle was launched from Florida last month amid speculation that it was to Continue reading “Astronomers Unravel X37-B Orbit, Say Likely Used For Deploying Spy Satellites”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 11:26pm
BP had agreed to provide a live video feed of the spill at the bottom of the ocean but Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts said Tuesday that BP said it will terminate the Continue reading “BP Will Kill Live Video Feed Of Oil Spill During Top Kill Attempt”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 5:49pm
Antec just announced that the LanBoy Air chassis has been awarded the prestigious COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 Design & Innovation prize for excellence in design quality in the Components and Parts category. Check out some pictures Continue reading “Antecs LanBoy Air Open Case Wins Award Prior To Computex!”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 2:26pm
Today NVIDIA put up a blog post that introduced the GeForce GTX 480M GPU, the worlds fastest notebook GPU. This is a big deal as it is the companies first DirectX 11 graphics processing unit Continue reading “NVIDIA Realesed The World’s Fastest Notebook GPU – GeForce GTX 480M”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 2:11pm
Remember a couple weeks back that we informed you that the eighth and ninth employee committed suicide at Foxconn China plant in just 3 months? Well, one more employee just jumped from the roof of Continue reading “Tenth Death Reported at Foxconn China Plant”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 10:33am
Lexar Media today announced that it is shipping Lexar Professional 133x Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards in 16GB and 32GB capacities to retail outlets. With the 16GB and 32GB capacities of the Lexar Continue reading “Lexar Now Shipping 16GB and 32GB 133x SDHC Cards”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 9:57am
ZOTAC International today unleashes the worlds fastest air cooled GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards the lightning-fast ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 AMP! Edition and GTX 470 AMP! Edition graphics cards. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 Continue reading “ZOTAC GeForce GTX 480 and 470 AMP! Video Cards Launched”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 8:32am
Walton Chaintech Corporation is ready to present itself at the world’s largest computer exhibition during COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan from 1 ~ 5 June 2010. This year, Walton Chaintech will demonstrate its full-line Continue reading “Walton Chaintech Launching Mobile Phones At Computex”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 6:13am
ASUS presents Seagate Technologys new take on hard drive technology, one that combines the instant access speed of solid state drives with the great value and mass capacities of a traditional high-performance 2.5 hard drive Continue reading “ASUS ROG G73Jh Notebook Now Faster With Momentus XT Drives”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 25, 2010 at 6:09am
Wal-Mart says it’s cutting the price of the most up-to-date iPhone in half. That’s another sign Apple is getting ready to unveil a new model. Wal-Mart says that starting Tuesday the iPhone 3GS with 16 Continue reading “Wal-Mart Cuts Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Price in Half – Just $97”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 24, 2010 at 9:09pm
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday said the social networking service has made blunders that it hopes to fix with coming changes to its privacy controls. Zuckerberg issued a mea culpa in an email exchange Continue reading “Facebook founder out to fix “a bunch of mistakes””. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 24, 2010 at 9:05pm