Going free-to-play is, rather unfairly, considered a sign that an MMO is dying. World of Warcraft is pretty much the only MMO that has managed to maintain its monthly subscription fee for the entirety of its existence without any permanent price drops. While that hasn’t changed, the MMO has ad
Virtual reality is a rapidly growing field that everyone seems to want a foothold in, even Valve. Confirming earlier rumors, it has been revealed that the PC gaming giant has been working on its own virtual reality headset. Due to the company’s limited hardware experience, the headset is being
Micro-PCs may not have become very popular, but that hasn’t stopped companies from designing some pretty interesting ones. Obviously you have your standard mini box, even a few dongles, but the Mouse Box takes an even more interesting, and pretty clever approach, by putting a working PC inside
The idea of cloud heating won’t go away. Germany now has a company, Cloud&Heat, which offers free hot water from a distributed data center installed in your office. Cloud&Heat places servers on remote premises. They process data for Cloud&Heat’s data customers, and heat your building wit
Kickstarter’s decision to pull the plug on Anonabox, the alleged Tor-powered online cloaking device. and cancel all pledges to the controversial project left many Internet anonymity seekers disheartened. Now, as promised, Anonabox has made a comeback on Indiegogo, which is known for having a more re
The International Space Station (ISS) has been forced to fire the thrusters of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) in order to maneuver the station and its crew out of the way of potentially harmful debris. Such instances are rare, making a catastrophic scenario highly unlikely. However, wi
Don’t you think that it is long overdue for the Vatican to perform a digital scan of all of its manuscripts? After all, the Vatican happens to be an organization, or body, if you will, that has a collection of one of the oldest, most comprehensive, and most well preserved collections of ancient text
Today’s high performance SATA 6Gbps solid state drives top out at around 590MB/s for read and write transfers. If you need something faster, you can slap a pair in a RAID 0 configuration, or switch over to PCI-Express. G.Skill chose both with its new Phoenix Blaze Series. Kicking off G.Skill&#
Intel has unveiled the thinnest tablet computer in the world in partnership with Dell. The new tablet will come with the Android operating system. The Dell Venue 8 7000 series tablet comes with a 8.4-inch 2560×1600 OLED display and is just 6 mm thick. The device will also feature an Intel RealS
Solar panels suffer from two fundamental problems that have continued to persists even after decades of research: they’re not very efficient, and they cost a lot to produce. At least one of these problems has to be solved beforesolar power can overtake cheap energy sources like fossil fuels, and som
Just days after LG put its 105-inch curved Ultra HD television up for pre-order, it appears the electronics producer is preparing to do the same with a smaller model. The 65EC9700, a 65-inch Ultra HD curved television using OLED will apparently start shipping sometime in September, with a price tag
Touchscreens have typically been a one-sided affair. Most of the interaction is done from one side of the screen, usually with the one facing you. This means sense as the display and the other components are found on the underside, so it wouldn’t make sense for the user to interact from the other si