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Attention Firefox users: version 20 of the browser is out. The Mozilla Blog has the goods on what's new in the latest release,...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Remember that browser-based Unreal Engine 3 demo we showed you on Thursday? Well, Epic is also porting Unreal Engine 4 to the web—and it's...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet Software

The biggest hardware launches of the past week or so were undoubtedly AMD's Radeon HD 7790 and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost....

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cases Storage Systems

Unreal Engine 3 works on just about every platform out there, including Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, and all the modern consoles. There's even...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet

We first heard of BitTorrent's peer-to-peer video streaming protocol two years ago, when creator Bram Cohen demoed it. The protocol was supposed to...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Google rolled out the latest update to its Chrome web browser today, and in the process, it introduced an intriguing new feature: an enhanced spell...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Dell may not go private after all. In February, the PC maker agreed to terms on a deal that would see investment firm...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

The Radeon HD 7790 launch is dominating the news today, and things appear to be pretty slow otherwise. Also, it's Friday, so let's...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet

A couple of days ago, Google acidentally unveiled Keep, its cloud-based note-taking service. Keep was only online briefly before being pulled, but it...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Internet Software

EA has caught a lot of flak for making some games exclusive to...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet

Many things about YouTube fascinate me: the apparent decision of nearly everyone to go easy on copyright, the distinct possibility that it's enabling post-literate human...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet

This week in our roundup of miscellaneous announcements, we have news of fresh products from Corsair and Thermaltake. We also have the skinny on an...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling Miscellaneous Memory

If you're an avid consumer of RSS feeds, chances are you saw this news last night. Google has decided to retire its Reader aggregator as...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

It's quite possible flames have burst out of other PC components in Damage Labs over the years. I've smelled the acrid smoke from a...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Power Systems

Wow. I guess Asus isn't the only one to think there's a market for jumbo-sized convertible all-in-ones. On the heels of the Transformer AiO's

Type: News story Tags: Systems

A couple of months ago, Xi3 unveiled a "grapefruit-sized" small-form-factor PC allegedly designed to run Steam and Steam's Big Picture mode. Well, now, Xi3...

Type: News story Tags: Systems

We're all familiar with convertible tablets—plug your slate into a keyboard dock, turn it into a bizarro laptop. Simple, straightforward, sensible. Well, that wasn't enough...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Mobile computing

This is a pretty exciting year for gamers. Sony has unveiled the PlayStation 4, Microsoft is about to do the same with the next...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Game consoles