10 tech trends to watch for in 2012 Predicting the future is a tricky business. Some of our picks for 2011 didn't turn up - Augmented Reality remains a potentially great thing rather than a popular, useful thing - and others were damp squibs, such as Google's supposedly world-conquering Chrome OS. [......]
GPU-Z is one of our favorite tell-all utilities to carry around on a USB stick. It doesn't require any installation, it has a small footprint (around 900KB), and it reveals just about everything you could want to know about your videocard, from the BIOS version to the number of ROPs. TechPowerUp is pretty good about keeping GPU-Z updated, and the latest build adds support for AMD's Radeon HD 7970 and 7350 graphics, as well as a few other enhancements[......]
Here’s a product announcement that should come as a surprise to, well, no one. [......]
Tablets and smartphones and hybrid eReaders, oh my! Google would love to rule them all, and perhaps one day it will. In the meantime, there are more than 700,000 Android activations taking place on a daily basis, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, Andy Rubin, stated on his Google+ page last night. [......]
Three cheers to Bethesda, who finally rolled out a small patch for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on the PC through Steam that shows big love for gamers rocking more than 2GB of RAM. [......]
The TechRadar Christmas wishlist The weather outside may be frightful but the tech around these days is so delightful that we simply had to share with you just what's on our Christmas wishlists this year. We hope Father Christmas understands that we're not really and truly expecting £9,000 TVs and expensive cameras in our stockings – we haven't been that good – but hey, a tech writer can dream. So, in the spirit of Christmas and mass consumerism, and on the off chance that a wealthy benefactor is waiting in the wings of our lives to swoop in and spoil us with all the tech our hearts desire, here it is: the TechRadar Christmas Wishlist 2011[......]
Great news, Kindle Fire owners. [......]
Zalman is best known for its cooling products, and especially its popular CNPS line of CPU coolers. The company also builds cooling solutions for graphics cards, but why stop there? It's a question Zalman's decision makers asked themselves, and according to a Russian website, the answer they came up with is to try their hand at building videocards as an add-in board partner (AIB). [......]
After encountering stiff opposition from the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T announced Monday that it was abandoning its bid to take over T-Mobile. [......]
It seems there are as many questions surrounding the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet as there are answers. When will it be available? Will the combination of an Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and Google's Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) result in the best tablet money can buy[......]
The Intel Core i5-2500k and i7-2600k processors were revolutionary when they launched. [......]
Who's got the most oppressive internet censorship in the world? If you answered USA! USA! USA! you've clearly been listening to Google. [......]
The Maximum PC ethos can be summed up in two words: MORE POWER! (Harder, better, faster, stronger would work, too, but that’s twice as many words – not exactly better.) MSI, it seems, heard our Tim Taylor-like grunting from afar. The company just released a modified version of its X79A-GD45 motherboard (which was only released a month ago, mind you) that includes twice the DIMM slots of the original. [......]
AMD this week rolled out a couple of new Catalyst driver packages to play with, one of them a finished build (Catalyst 11.12 WHQL) and the other a preview driver with support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with CrossFireX configurations and a new Stereo 3D mode over HDMI 1.4a (Catalyst 12.1). The Catalyst 11.12 download delivers official support for the OpenGL 4.2 specification, enables support for AMD HD3D technology when using a 3x1 Landscape Eyefinity display group, and makes improvements to better facilitate the enabling and control of the Dual Graphics within the Vision Engine Control Center, according to the release notes. Otherwise, Catalyst 11.12 is mostly a bug-fix release with several resolved issues for Windows 7 users[......]
The comedy stylings of Louis C.K. isn't for everyone. For example, monks probably won't appreciate his vulgar language, and those British Royal Guards in England hardly laugh at anything[......]
