Nvidia Corp. on Thursday filed patent infringement complaints against Samsung and Qualcomm with both the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. District Court, in Delaware. The chip designer claims that virtually all modern graphics architectures used in mobile devices infringe its patents. As a result, Nvidia wants to …
Read More »Apple’s iWatch to feature NFC mobile payment system
Apple’s upcoming smartwatch devices will include the company’s payment system that will allow their owners to pay for goods in certain stores. The technology will significantly expand usage of the iWatch and will greatly improve buying experience. The Wall Street Journal reports that the addition of NFC tap-to-pay technology will reflects …
Read More »Nvidia to cut price of GeForce GTX 770 to fight Radeon R9 285
Based on previous reports, Nvidia Corp.’s next-generation GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is over a month away from its launch. However, the company needs to respond to the release of AMD’s Radeon R9 285 graphics board somehow. According to a media report, the GPU designer decided to significantly cut the …
Read More »Intel: Transitions to thinner process tech will get harder
Although Intel Corp. imagines its future many years down the road and has a solid vision, it admits that going forward it will be much harder to achieve certain goals as manufacturing technologies get much more complex. Like other huge companies, Intel Corp. has big plans for the future. Recently …
Read More »Matrox to use AMD graphics chips on future GPUs
Matrox Graphics this week announced that going forward it will use AMD Radeon graphics processing units as well as their drivers for its forthcoming multi-display graphics cards. The move will help to make Matrox Graphics’ graphics cards more competitive on the market. The company hopes that its proprietary software will …
Read More »Intel: We will not need EUV for 10nm process technology
Intel Corp. officially confirmed on Wednesday that it will not use extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for its 10nm process technology allegedly due to come online in 2016. Apparently, not only the EUV scanners are not ready, but backbones of certain fabs may not support the new equipment due to its …
Read More »Ubisoft doesn’t think Assassin’s Creed’s quality will ever drop
Ubisoft appears to be so confident in its Assassin's Creed franchise that it would be “unimaginable” to ever let its quality drop and according to AC: Unity Director, Alex Amancio, the dev team has the process “down to a science”. During an interview, Amancio said that they key to the franchise's success …
Read More »People are already lining up for the iPhone 6
It turns out that some people are already lining up for the iPhone six ahead of its impending announcement on the 9th of September. We normally see people forming lines outside Apple's stores a few days before release, rather than weeks. These people aren't all completely crazy though, the first …
Read More »Asus officially announces the ZenWatch
Asus has officially announced its ZenWatch, the new wearable will be powered by Android Wear and feature a custom user interface that Asus developed specifically for the new device. The smartwatch will pair up with any smartphone running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or higher in order to provide useful notifications …
Read More »Ryse Son of Rome PC release date and specifications revealed
Ryse Son of Rome, the former Xbox One exclusive has had its PC release date revealed alongside the minimum and recommended system requirements to run it. According to the Steam store page, the game will have a launch price of £34.99, the digital version of the title will be self …
Read More »New Nintendo 3DS will be region locked
Just last week Nintendo announced the ‘new' 3DS, a significant hardware upgrade over the original model. Since then, more and more details have been coming out surrounding the handheld, the most recent discovery is that Nintendo will be sticking with region locking, meaning that 3DS owners won't be able to …
Read More »UK Government warns search engines over piracy
The UK government has sent out warnings to Microsoft, Google and Yahoo stating that if these companies don't address the issue of online piracy and stop linking to illegal content voluntarily, then legislative action will be taken. Over the last year or so, the UK government has shown its full …
Read More »Australian consumer rights group outlines new rules for Valve
Last week it was revealed that the Australian Consumer Rights Commission was planning to take Valve to court over its refund policy. At the time, Valve stated that it was making “every effort to cooperate with with the Australian officials on this matter,” and now we know exactly what changes …
Read More »Sega turns on Gearbox in Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit
The Aliens: Colonial Marines class action lawsuit is turning ugly as Sega starts pointing the finger at Gearbox Studios, claiming that the developer mismanaged the marketing for the game and caused all of the controversy surrounding its release. Just last month, Sega accepted a settlement deal in the case, agreeing …
Read More »Intel: we need to develop processors for devices that could cost $0.5
Chief executive officer of Intel Corp. said at a conference on Wednesday that while ten years down the road the company will continue to get a bulk of its revenue from PCs and servers, a significant part of its revenue will come from mobile, Internet-of-Things and other emerging market segments. …
Read More »Google begins to work on quantum microprocessors
Google this week announced that has teamed up with John Martinis and his team at UC Santa Barbara on development of hardware quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics. The new initiative could revolutionize the markets of microprocessors and electronics in general, but will take years to accomplish. The Quantum …
Read More »Intel to discontinue first Core M ‘Broadwell’ chips ahead of launch
Intel Corp.’s Core M “Broadwell” central processing units are already late to market and will be available widely only in 2015. Moreover, the first Core M chips from the “Broadwell” family will be made in very limited quantities since the chipmaker has already issued a document about a plan to …
Read More »Wednesday night STEAM game giveaway!
Tonight we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Dead Rising 3 (out soon on PC!). We announce …
Read More »Asus clarifies situation with OC sockets: CPUs have warranty
Asustek Computer on Wednesday clarified the situation with its custom LGA2011-3 O.C. sockets as well as warranty that covers Intel Corp.’s processors. The mainboard maker denied that Intel’s warranty does not cover chips used with O.C. sockets and stated that the sockets are absolutely safe to use. A new statement …
Read More »Samsung announces Galaxy Note 4 and Gear VR headset
Samsung has officially revealed the Galaxy Note 4 handset and its Virtual Reality headset, the Gear VR, which was in fact developed with the help of Oculus, just as previous rumors suggested. The Gear VR headset is designed to fit around the 5.7 Inch screen found on the just announced …
Read More »Ouya might soon be on the auction block
Remember the Ouya? It was another of the Kickstarter success stories that hasn't turned out quite as well as was hoped. While initially it seemed like a great way to mix up the console space and challenge some of the big boys at their own game, ultimately the little Android …
Read More »Google anti-fraud researcher created a Hearthstone match prediction tool
Google's anti-fraud and abuse researcher, Dr. Elie Bursztein, has created a personal Hearthstone tool which can count cards in order to predict an opponent's moves, while also establishing the value of every card in the game. However, despite showing it off at Defcon, the tool will not be made public. …
Read More »EA COO: EA Access is a sign of things to come
According to EA's COO, Peter Moore, the company's recently launched subscription service, EA Access, is just a sign of things to come and could very well be the way of the future, with more publishers possibly following suit over time. EA Access was announced back in July, granting Xbox One …
Read More »Saints Row 4 gets official mod support- Devs release SDK
Saints Row IV is getting official modding support today as Volition Studios has released a software development kit to get the community started. The kit includes weapon models for the upcoming Gat out of Hell expansion pack, meaning we could see modded versions of new weapons before they are even …
Read More »Bungie and Google team up for Destiny planet viewer
You can now explore the Destiny universe as Bungie has created a planet viewer based on the same technology that Google uses to power its Google Maps and Google Earth services. The new site lets you explore the worlds of Venus, Mars, the Moon and the Earth before the game officially …
Read More »Open Rights Group wants to build ORG Scotland
With the referendum on whether Scotland will remain part of Great Britain or go it alone coming in just two weeks time, whatever the result, many are hoping it leads to more rights for the Scottish people and certainly more control over their own future. With that in mind, the …
Read More »Tribler anonymises users with built-in Tor network
The developers for the decentralised torrent client, Tribler, have released a new update to help improve the digital security and privacy of its user base, by making them all anonymous and untrackable thanks to an implementation of the Tor browser network into the client. Traditionally, and with almost all other …
Read More »PewDiePie closes Youtube comments for good
The world's most subscribed Youtuber, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, has announced that he will no longer be allowing Youtube comments on any of his videos. He will however be looking to other avenues for back and forth discussion with the “bros,” through Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. The reasoning behind the move is …
Read More »Stomping Land purchase option removed from Steam
Dinosaur survival sim The Stomping Land was one of last year's little Kickstarter success stories, pulling in over $100,000 for the fledgling developer, SuperCrit. For a while all seemed well, with regular updates, trailers, feature lists and eventually, an early access release on Steam. However in the last three months, …
Read More »ARM signs 50th 64-bit ARMv8-A licensing agreement
ARM Holding this week said it has signed its 50th licensing agreement for its ARMv8-A technology, which includes support for 64-bit computing. The milestone indicates growing popularity of ARM’s 64-bit technology among developers of various system-on-chips. It is likely that going forward the adoption of the ARMv8-A will accelerate. ARM …
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