By Phil Iwaniuk If you’ve had the pleasure of trying out Kingston’s superlative HyperX Cloud headset and sampled its thunderous bass, you’d say its 53mm driver units were big enough to power any gaming audio kit. The industry, however, apparently disagrees. We’ve had Asus with its Strix Pro boasting 60mm drivers and now Turtle Beach…

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Les Pounder When the Raspberry Pi appeared In 2012 few could have envisaged how popular the Raspberry Pi would be. In the years after its release the Raspberry Pi has become the most popular single-board computer on the market and spawned many imitators, but none with the rich community that has grown organically around…

By Hugh Langley For the past couple of years, Valve’s impenetrable fortress has felt, well, even less penetrable. Aside from its Steam Machines, we have little idea of what Gabe and his crew have been up to. Valve recently told TechRadar that it will have a big Steam Machine presence at GDC 2015 – but…

By Hugh Langley For the past couple of years, Valve’s impenetrable fortress has felt, well, even less penetrable. Aside from its Steam Machines, we have little idea of what Gabe and his crew have been up to. Valve recently told TechRadar that it will have a big Steam Machine presence at GDC 2015 – but…

By Justin Dealber We’re back with more hot deals and today we’re going to kick off with some great prices on some bigscreen TVs. Firstly, how about this great deal on the 39-inch Panasonic TX-39AS500 LED TV? It’s currently going online for just £289.99. Meanwhile, the 48-inch Samsung UE48H6240 is available for £359.99. If you’re…

By Jon Russell In a PR stunt reminiscent of Amazon’s Black Friday drone revelation in 2013, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is dabbling with drones with a teeny, tiny pilot program. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Darrell Etherington Disney says that it’s looking at other ways to work with services like Dish’s Sling TV, which offers unbundled content to broadband subscribers independent of a cable or satellite TV subscription. That’s not the best part, though: Disney’s planning around this possibility includes Marvel and/or Star Wars-specific offerings, which could mean that…

By Darrell Etherington The *New* Nintendo 3DS XL doesn’t exactly have a name that rolls off the tongue, but it does reflect that what you’re getting is hardware that’s very similar to its predecessor, albeit with some fresh paint and new features that really do help make a big difference in very specific areas. The…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor from last…

By Chuong Nguyen ARM is announcing its next generation ARM Cortex-A72 processor based on the 64-bit ARM v8-A design. ARM claims that the new chip delivers as much as 50 times the performance gain compared to processors from just five years ago, or 3.5 times the performance gain of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor. The new…

By Darrell Etherington If you’ve been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting, Amazon has a new option for you: Kindle Convert, a program for Windows that turns print books into digital versions fully compatible with Amazon’s Kindle software, including adjustable font,…

By Kyle Russell Razer is once again proving it’s capable of squeezing a lot of power into a tiny space with the debut of the 2015 Razer Blade, the latest in the company’s series of flagship laptops that put an Apple-like spin on the gaming segment. Read More …read more Source: TechCrunch Gadgets

By JR Bookwalter Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a second. As megahertz (MHz) speeds have given way to today’s faster gigahertz (GHz) processors, however, there’s more to…

By Hugh Langley We expect it won’t be too long before the Xbox One and PS4 get their inevitable refresh, and there’s a good chance it could come around the time of their two year anniversaries in November 2015. Those odds are now looking even better. Netflix exec John Hunt claims that Sony “promised” a…