Allura Alforsdotter

Allura Alforsdotter

Corsair’s latest mechanical keyboard is basically a light show with USB ports

Corsair’s latest mechanical keyboard is basically a light show with USB ports

By Darren Allan Corsair has announced that its new Lux range of mechanical keyboards are now on sale, with three different models available. The keyboards comprise of the K70 Lux RGB (pictured above), K70 Lux, and K65 Lux RGB, which follow on from the previous K70 RGB, K70 and K65 models (note that the K70…

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Silicon Week: Beyond silicon: We discover the processors of your future tech

Silicon Week: Beyond silicon: We discover the processors of your future tech

By Gary Marshall Introduction and carbon nanotubes Note: Our beyond silicon feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in October 2007. Today’s processors are made from silicon, which itself is fashioned from one of the most abundant materials on earth: sand. But as it gets harder and harder to make ever more…

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Silicon Week: Beyond silicon: We discover the processors of your future tech

Silicon Week: Beyond silicon: We discover the processors of your future tech

By Gary Marshall Introduction and carbon nanotubes Note: Our beyond silicon feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in October 2007. Today’s processors are made from silicon, which itself is fashioned from one of the most abundant materials on earth: sand. But as it gets harder and harder to make ever more…

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Sony Xperia X Compact, Xperia XZ (XR) Specs Partially Revealed Before IFA 2016: Snapdragon 820, USB Type-C And More

Sony Xperia X Compact, Xperia XZ (XR) Specs Partially Revealed Before IFA 2016: Snapdragon 820, USB Type-C And More

Sony has reportedly been busy gearing up for IFA 2016, and at least two powerful devices could debut at the show. Partial specs for the purpoted Xperia X Compact and Xperia XZ (or XR) have now leaked online, so here’s what’s in store. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Apple To Remove Iconic Home Button In 2017 iPhone: Rumor

Apple To Remove Iconic Home Button In 2017 iPhone: Rumor

Apple is rumored to be removing the iconic home button in the 2017 iPhone. The news lines up with previous reports about the smartphone looking like a ‘single sheet of glass’ and OLED display. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Faster graphics card production has slowed down and memory is to blame

Faster graphics card production has slowed down and memory is to blame

By Darren Allan There’s some bad news when it comes to the performance of future-generation graphics cards, thanks to the announcement of a delay in the arrival of faster GDDR6 memory. GDDR6 video RAM is the next step on from the current GDDR5X (as seen in the new GeForce GTX 1080), but over at the…

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Faster graphics card production has slowed down and memory is to blame

Faster graphics card production has slowed down and memory is to blame

By Darren Allan There’s some bad news when it comes to the performance of future-generation graphics cards, thanks to the announcement of a delay in the arrival of faster GDDR6 memory. GDDR6 video RAM is the next step on from the current GDDR5X (as seen in the new GeForce GTX 1080), but over at the…

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Alleged Retail Packaging Purports ‘iPhone 6 SE’ Branding Instead Of iPhone 7, But It’s Most Likely Fake

Alleged Retail Packaging Purports ‘iPhone 6 SE’ Branding Instead Of iPhone 7, But It’s Most Likely Fake

The media is showered with Apple leaks ahead of the company’s latest smartphone variant reveal. The latest image leak showcases a sketchy photoshopped case of the ‘iPhone 6 SE,’ which the source touts to be the rebranded iPhone 7. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

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Week in Gaming: Ask a Dev: Why do we have a love / hate relationship with boss battles?

Week in Gaming: Ask a Dev: Why do we have a love / hate relationship with boss battles?

By Kate Gray The ABCs of boss battles I’m going to preface this with a confession: I really, really hate boss battles. They’re stressful and difficult and they make my thumbs hurt. Also, I’m not very good at them. In games that give me the option to be aggressive or friendly, I’ll almost always go…

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The bizarre Russian free-to-play version of Halo 3 has been cancelled

The bizarre Russian free-to-play version of Halo 3 has been cancelled

By Jon Porter Halo Online, the PC free-to-play shooter based on Halo 3, has been cancelled. The news was announced via the game’s Russian VK social media page, which was noticed by Gamasutra. The news isn’t entirely surprising given how quiet Microsoft has been about the project, which has remained officially exclusive to Russia despite…

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Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash

Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash

By Darren Allan While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake integrated graphics were good enough to play Overwatch – a fresh leak has shown us more about what sort…

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Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash

Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash

By Darren Allan While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake integrated graphics were good enough to play Overwatch – a fresh leak has shown us more about what sort…

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These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now

These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now

By Darren Allan Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market. The company has unleashed a number of solid-state drives targeting different arenas…

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These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now

These are the fastest SSDs in the world and you can buy them right now

By Darren Allan Want a cracking fast SSD but don’t want to pay a lot of money for the privilege? Then you might want to take a look at the new 3D NAND sporting SSDs which Intel has just released onto the market. The company has unleashed a number of solid-state drives targeting different arenas…

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Silicon Week: Smaller, smarter, but maybe not much faster: The future of the CPU

Silicon Week: Smaller, smarter, but maybe not much faster: The future of the CPU

By Gary Marshall Introduction and power corrupts Note: Our future CPU tech feature has been fully updated. This article was first published in November 2011. It’s easy to think that some things will be around forever, but technologies change. Vinyl records became digital discs and then digital downloads. The internal combustion engine morphed into the…

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