After breaking the bad news about yet another delay in the release of GTA V for the PC platform, Rockstar Games today shared some new screenshots of the game that show off the kind of graphics you expect on the PC platform, at 4K resolution. The screenshots show off the enhanced visuals compared to the...
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The virtual reality market is expected to boom by the year 2018 as the number of unique users using such products is expected to rise to nearly 200 million from the current 60 million. Wanting a slice of the pie for itself, Apple could be looking at coming out with a virtual reality headset of...
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It looks like Intel’s upcoming Cherry Trail chips may not be very impressive with regards to performance as preliminary benchmarks seem to show tiny improvements in performance over the previous-generation Bay Trail chips. According to the leaked Geekbench scores, the Intel Cherry Trail platform manages to score around 5 to 8 per cent higher than...
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Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company Foxconn expects to achieve 70% automation of workforce at its factories to take over the assembly line work. Currently, Foxconn employs around 1 million workers in China alone for manufacturing various electronics products, including Apple’s iPhones and iPads. Worker conditions at the Chinese factories have been a matter of...
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It was only going to be a matter of time until traditional Swiss luxury watchmakers finally decided to step up and come out with smartwatches of their own to take on smartwatches from Apple and Android OEMs. The time has now arrived as a Swiss company called Manufacture Modules Technologies (MMT) has launched its line...
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The two year-old erstwhile flagship joins the ranks of the G3, G2 and G Pro 2 on the Lollipop bandwagon. Not to be outdone by arch-nemesis Samsung, the other major South Korean device manufacturer has just raised the count of smartphones under its belt running Lollipop to four. We mean of course handsets previously on...
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As hard as it was to believe, HTC seems to be actually preparing two marginally different flagship devices for MWC announcements. Stop the presses, the One M9 and M9 Plus specifications are in. Again. Anything surprising to report? Maybe something previous speculation didn’t cover? Not exactly, but a golden rule of journalism says to always...
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But it’s way too early to take anything for granted, especially with questionable Chinese sources at this story’s origin. As the decrepit Motorola-made Nexus 6 and HTC-produced Nexus 9 reached the venerable age of four… months, it was about time we started delving into the matter of sequels. We kid, of course, since the two...
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A surprisingly premium-looking mid-range smartphone and ultra-slim top-tier tablet, that’s what Sony has in store for the 2015 Mobile World Congress. As if we didn’t already know enough about Samsung and HTC’s MWC plans to dedicate our undivided attention to the Barcelona expo from Sunday to Wednesday, we have a third high-profile exhibitor incapable of...
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Tesoro Technology USA Inc. today unveiled its new high-tech Gungnir Black optical gaming mouse that comes with customizable RGB illumination. The Gungnir Black gets its name from the spear Odin used in Norse mythology. It comes with a 3500 DPI optical sensor that ensures smooth and controlled movements when you are targeting your opponents while...
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Samsung today introduced the first 128GB embedded memory for smartphones based on the UFS (Universal Flash Storage) 2.0 standard for next-gen flagship smartphones. The main highlight of the new UFS memory is the significant improvement in speed. The UFS standard makes use of the ‘Command Queue’ technology to speed up command executions in SSDs through...
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According to a report published on ArsTechnica, Google is planning on launching a new payment API called ‘Android Pay’ at its I/O developers conference scheduled to be held in May. The new ‘Android Pay’ platform will be used for in-store as well as in-app payments for third party apps. Android Pay will work similarly to...
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Imagination Technologies today revealed its new PowerVR Series 7XT GPUs that it will be announcing at the Mobile World Congress next week. The new PowerVR Series 7XT GPUs bring a significant leap in performance over the Series 6XT GPUs, with a claimed 1.6 TFLOPS in FP16 mode and 800 GFLOPS in FP32 mode. For comparison,...
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Nothing altogether shocking, if you think about it, but displeasing nevertheless. March 1 is shaping up to be one of the most eventful, exciting days in recent memory for mobile consumers in general and Android enthusiasts in particular. HTC will unveil a slightly redesigned One M9 and vastly enhanced M9 Plus on Sunday as part...
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Forget the Apple Watch, this baby is hands down the most stylish, feature-packed wearable around. Well, this is odd. LG literally just unveiled the Watch Urbane, billed as its first luxury Android Wear device, and already, an upgraded version is ready for primetime. Almost. It’s coming to Barcelona for the 2015 Mobile World Congress, and...
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After the recent class-action lawsuit and widespread criticism from consumers, NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has finally spoken about the issue. In a new blog post posted earlier today, Huang offered an explanation on the issue and also apologized to the customers who were affected by this whole ordeal. Huang wrote that NVIDIA came up with...
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Intel’s Skylake based desktop CPUs may still be a few months away from release, but the first motherboard with support for the 6th Generation Intel Skylake processors was spotted at the ongoing Embedded World 2015 exhibition being held in Nuremberg. ASRock showed off an industrial motherboard at the event with the LGA1151 socket with support...
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A new report published on Tomshardware claims that the upcoming DirectX 12 version will include Explicit Asynchronous Multi-GPU capability. So far, you could only combine two or more GPUs from the same vendor, be it NVIDIA or AMD and not combine one NVIDIA card with another from AMD. However, with the new Multi-GPU feature that...
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After sharing plans of coming out with 7nm chips by the year 2018, Intel today revealed that it is looking at alternative materials for producing chips in 7nm node and beyond. Intel plans to use silicon to come up with 10nm chips expected to be available by the end of 2016 or early 2017. However,...
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It’s almost futile at this point to even hold the scheduled pre-MWC introduction event, with so many rock-solid visual leaks. Poor HTC, they’re close to doing everything right with One M8’s highly anticipated sequel, and can’t really savor the moment on account of all these connected tipsters who’ve spoiled the surprise. Pictured a number of...
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It looks like Sony plans to drop a (pleasant) bomb at MWC next week after all, despite putting off the announcement of the Xperia Z4 smartphone. Well, well, well, what have we here? It’s possibly the strongest Android-running iPad Air 2 contender, alongside Samsung’s imminent Galaxy Tab S 2. Ah, yes, it’s the long awaited...
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Also, a slimmer design, microphone, new “timeline” interface, and the same stellar battery life. Well, it was about time. Nearly three years have passed since the original Pebble smashed crowd-funding records on Kickstarter, and we’re sorry to say it felt like its creators rested on their laurels while Android Wear manufacturers drove smartwatches forward. Sure,...
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Toyota has unveiled the assembly on which the ‘first mass market’ fuel-cell car will be me made. The Japanese carmaker plans on producing 700 Mirai, which means “future,” by the end of December. That number is expected to increase to 2,000 units by 2016 and 3,000 by 2017. Akio Toyoda, the company’s president, claims that...
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Today we are taking a look at the newest X99 motherboard offering from Gigabyte, the X99-SOC Champion. The Gigabyte OC series motherboards are highly regarded amongst casual and extreme overclockers alike. Let’s see if the X99 SOC Champion follows in its predecessors footsteps. Introduction & Overview The X99 platform is arguably the most interesting platform...
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Three major carriers and Google are collaborating to develop launch an Apple Pay competitor, something which Google started nearly 4 years ago. Apple latest set of handsets boast a mobile payment option that do away with physical cards by turning them into virtual cards on the iPhones. Although Google had a head start, it wasn’t...
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A human face on a robot is often intimidating, and Japanese engineers are thinking that we should use something that offers a bit more warmth. What’s more welcoming and cuddlier than a teddy bear? Dubbed the ROBEAR, the Japanese engineered caregiving bot is capable of lifting patient from bed to wheelchair or assisting people while...
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Boxx today unveiled what it calls ‘the world’s most advanced computer workstation’. We wouldn’t really doubt that claim since the company’s new Apexx 5 comes with a 36-core CPU and up to five GPUs. The Apexx 5 is using two 18-core Intel Xeon 2699V3 CPUs with liquid-cooling to boot. The two CPUs have a base...
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AMD today revealed its new Carizzo mobile APUs targeted at the notebook market. The Carrizo APU will succeed the company’s previous gen Kaveri APU lineup. The main highlights of the new Carrizo APU are the new ‘Excavator’ CPU cores and the next-gen Radeon R-series Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPUs for improved graphics performance. AMD claims...
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Looks like Samsung is all set to beat Intel with the first mobile chipset manufactured on a 10nm FinFET process. The company is showing off the world’s first 10nm FinFET semiconductor manufacturing process at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2015 taking place in San Francisco, California. Although Samsung has not shared any details...
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Rockstar Games today broke the bad news yet again for fans of Grand Theft Auto V waiting for the game’s release on the PC platform. GTA V for PC was supposed to become available for PC gamers on March 24th but has now been delayed to April 14th. This isn’t the first time that Rockstar...
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It also includes the ability to share screens over FaceTime. Apple has been awarded a new patent today for a method that allows two or more iOS device users to share and interact with app data in real time. This would mean that iOS users will be able to collaborate on projects in real time,...
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Last year’s Win Q900s experiment worked, apparently, leading Xolo to unveil a sequel already. Aside from Microsoft, which is obligated in a way to keep refreshing and (trivially) upgrading the low to mid-end Lumia smartphone family, it’s safe to predict all other WP manufacturers will take five, and wait for Windows 10 to break. All...
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The specs of the four just-unveiled low to mid-end handhelds are nothing to write home about, but their price tags should help them stand out. You may think LG’s recent notoriety gains and improvement of financial health are all down to impressive high-end gadgets like the G3 and G Flex smartphones, or the G Watch...
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At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2015), Intel has stated that the current chip design and manufacture techniques will be good enough to produce finer scale chips of up to 7nm by the year 2018. Intel’s senior fellow Mark Bohr explained to reporters during the conference call at ISSCC how the current processor manufacturing...
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New report coming in from motherboard supply chain sources are claiming that the desktop Intel Skylake chips may not be launched by Computex 2015 in June. Instead, the Skylake desktop CPUs are now rumored to launch by August this year. According to Digitimes, Intel has informed its motherboard partners about the delay of the 14nm...
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As good as any hardware may be, software optimization is always a key factor in extracting the best performance out of it. This is something AMD seems to have realized lately and is now looking at CPU engineers that can help it optimize its GPU drivers for optimum performance. AMD recently put up a new...
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AMD’s upcoming Carrizo mobile APUs aren’t likely to become available at least until a few more months. So it is quite surprising to find the AMD FX-8800P APU get benchmarked on the popular 3DMark 11 graphics benchmarking tool. Although we do not know for sure, from the specs listed on the 3DMark website as well...
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Manufacturer of Gaming PCs and notebooks, ORIGIN today launched its OMEGA line of living room gaming PCs. The OMEGA PC range is targeted at hardcore gamers who want to use them in their living room and play games directly on their big screen television in the living room. Being living room gaming PCs, each OMEGA...
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The Samsung 840 EVO SSD range was one of the most impressive as well as the fastest consumer SSDs in the market when they first showed up in 2013. Not only did the 840 EVO SSDs deliver crazy fast speeds, they were also quite affordable. Sadly, buyers of the EVO 840 series of SSD drives...
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The public will be allowed to test pre-release iOS software. Every year at its Worldwide Developers Conference Apple unveils new major software updates. Then the updates enter a beta stage in which pre-release builds are provided to registered developers who pay $99 per year for the privilege. Apple has always had a policy of not...
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Looks like the troubles for NVIDIA are far from over. After receiving a lot of flak from consumers over the issue of false advertising the GeForce GTX 970 memory specifications, the company has now been slapped with a class-action lawsuit over false marketing. The lawsuit says that NVIDIA misled its customers by marketing wrong memory...
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According to a report published on Wccftech, AMD will be taking on Intel’s Skylake microarchitecture in 2016 with its ‘Zen’ microarchitecture and might offer consumers most of the same features as Intel. The report claims that a senior AMD executive has confirmed to them that the AMD Zen architecture based processors will first be released...
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Google finally made Android 5.1 Lollipop official recently when it launched Android One smartphone in the Philippines market. However, despite the fact that the latest Lollipop version is now almost official, Google hasn’t yet revealed anything about the changes that are included with the update. Today a few leaked screenshots and a video of the...
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While Apple may be aiming at a 2020 launch for its first electric self-driving car, established car maker Volvo is gearing up to put its first self-driving cars on the road by the year 2017. The company aims to begin a public pilot program in 2017 by selling 100 self-driving cars to consumers around Gothenburg...
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Earlier this month, details on Apple’s secret car project surfaced online and caused quite a frenzy among Apple fans. A new report published today by Bloomberg should please Apple fans further as it claims that Apple is pushing for the production of their electric car to begin as early as 2020. The 2020 timeframe does...
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After a long and agonizing wait, the prayers of Apple MacBook Pro owners who suffered from the AMD graphics woes have been answered. Apple today announced that it will soon be initiating a repair extension program for 2011 to 2013 MacBook Pro owners. The models eligible for the free repair include the 2011 15” and...
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Based on data available so far, we were expecting the upcoming AMD Nolan and Amur APUs to be the first 20nm processors from AMD. However, a new report published today by WCCFTech claims that the AMD Nolan APU will be built on a 28nm process and only the Amur APU will be a 20nm chip....
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Earlier this month, NVIDIA got into a new controversy after the GeForce R347.29 driver update disabled the overclocking feature on the company’s GTX 900M series of mobile GPUs. The company has now accepted that it was indeed a ‘bug’ and that a driver update will be released next month to restore overclocking support. On its...
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It’s a Vibe stampede, and there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Even with the help of sister company Motorola, a reputable name on the Western mobile map, Lenovo, which is barely an esteemed smartphone producer in China, had no chance of standing out in Barcelona, opposite Samsung and HTC’s high-profile Galaxy S6 and One...
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What good is the colossal performance advantage over the competition if no one seems interested in actually using the X1? There used to be a time, not long ago, when Nvidia mattered in the mobile processing landscape in addition to towering above rival PC GPU makers. Just take a look at the interminable lists of...
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