This Week in Tech 426: Solar Umlaut
Silk Road, identity and anonymity, consensual hallucinations, swarm bots, and more.
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Hardware, Technology
Prototype Steam Machine hardware revealed
Last week, Valve made three announcements geared towards bringing Steam into the living room, one of which was Steam Machines:
Hardware, Technology
Microsoft: “System processing” takes up 10 percent of Xbox One GPU time
The Xbox One’s ability to run up to four apps in the background (or on the side via Snap mode)
Hardware, Technology, Windows
With new Venue tablets, Dell signals its PC division is alive and kicking
Dell sent a message that it intends to keep its PC division alive with the launch of new Venue tablets
Hardware, Technology
Intel sees 'no holiday cheer for PCs', says analyst
Things aren’t looking so great for the PC market, and much of the same can be said about the chipmaker
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This Week in Tech 425: The Maggot That Cleans the Wound
Kindle Mayday, tale of two Surfaces, Balmer raw, YouTube comments plus, and more.
Hardware, Software, Technology
Valve's Steam Box made official as 'Steam Machines', beta coming soon, final hardware in early 2014
Valve on Wednesday announced Steam Machines, a hardware beta for the company’s upcoming planned takeover of the living room. In
Hardware, Technology
Benchmarks don't lie: SSD upgrades deliver huge performance gains
I’ve upgraded dozens of systems with solid-state drives. In every case I’ve gotten a “W” reaction, as in “Wow!” “Whoa!”
Software, Technology
RealNetworks launches RealPlayer Cloud, cross-platform storage and video playback service
RealNetworks is still around? – NCCT RealNetworks has entered the cloud storage market with their just-released RealPlayer Cloud app. The
Hardware, Technology
AMD unveils 'Hawaii' Radeon R7, R9 generation of GPUs
AMD announced the Radeon R7 and R9 series of “Hawaii” graphics cards and cores on Wednesday, an attempt to storm the