Components

By Darren Allan USB Type-C cables offer many benefits, but there is a darker side to the new technology, namely firms selling cheap but dodgy cables which when plugged in can potentially fry your laptop – an issue which the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has now announced a solution for. Over at IDF 2016 in…

By Darren Allan USB Type-C cables offer many benefits, but there is a darker side to the new technology, namely firms selling cheap but dodgy cables which when plugged in can potentially fry your laptop – an issue which the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has now announced a solution for. Over at IDF 2016 in…

By Darren Allan SteelSeries has revealed a new mechanical gaming keyboard which is ‘tournament-ready’ and aimed at eSports professionals and aspiring competitive players. The Apex M500 uses Cherry MX Red switches, meaning they’re linear switches that don’t click and actuate with the slightest pressure. They’re also guaranteed for up to 50 million key presses –…

By Darren Allan Helium-using hard disks will push storage capacities up to the 18TB mark in just a couple of years, according to a new report. Storage research firm TrendFocus reckons that drive manufacturers will be able to dispense with disk platter separator components, which will allow for more platters to be squeezed into a…

By Darren Allan Helium-using hard disks will push storage capacities up to the 18TB mark in just a couple of years, according to a new report. Storage research firm TrendFocus reckons that drive manufacturers will be able to dispense with disk platter separator components, which will allow for more platters to be squeezed into a…

By Darren Allan We now have a release date for AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo graphics card, at least according to the rumour mill, and the good news is this beefy beast of a pixel-shifter is due to drop soon. Korean tech site Hardware Battle, an often cited source of GPU-related speculation, reckons that AMD’s new…

By Darren Allan We now have a release date for AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo graphics card, at least according to the rumour mill, and the good news is this beefy beast of a pixel-shifter is due to drop soon. Korean tech site Hardware Battle, an often cited source of GPU-related speculation, reckons that AMD’s new…

By Desire Athow Two weeks ago, HPE announced a new memory type that promises to change make things slightly more exciting in the world of storage and computing generally. Dubbed Persistent Memory, it is initially geared at the high-end of the enterprise market although, as history taught us, many useful technologies that started in the…

By Desire Athow Two weeks ago, HPE announced a new memory type that promises to change make things slightly more exciting in the world of storage and computing generally. Dubbed Persistent Memory, it is initially geared at the high-end of the enterprise market although, as history taught us, many useful technologies that started in the…

By Dave James Amazon has been introducing its new PC Gaming Store with a round of hardware deals this week and for today only you can pick up a SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SSD for just £159.99. That’s one of the best SSD deals we’ve seen in a long time, with a hefty saving of…

By Tuan Huynh BMW chose the HTC Vive as its virtual reality headset of choice for its vehicle development workstations, proving that VR is more than just for gaming. The company plans on incorporating VR in the early vehicle development process to aid interior design and global collaboration. With the VR systems, BMW designers can…

By Tuan Huynh BMW chose the HTC Vive as its virtual reality headset of choice for its vehicle development workstations, proving that VR is more than just for gaming. The company plans on incorporating VR in the early vehicle development process to aid interior design and global collaboration. With the VR systems, BMW designers can…

By Joe Osborne Move over, Watson – if you haven’t already. Nvidia has just unveiled the DGX-1, the “world’s first deep learning supercomputer” built on the firm’s newly announced Pascal architecture. Designed to power the machine learning and artificial intelligence efforts of businesses through applying GPU-accelerated computing, the DGX-1 delivers throughput equal to that of…

By Darren Allan It looks like Apple is planning a Magic Mouse with Force Touch technology incorporated, or at least the company has filed a patent for such a peripheral. The Force Touch will function much as it does with the trackpad that was introduced with Apple’s MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display that debuted…

By Darren Allan It looks like Apple is planning a Magic Mouse with Force Touch technology incorporated, or at least the company has filed a patent for such a peripheral. The Force Touch will function much as it does with the trackpad that was introduced with Apple’s MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display that debuted…