Components

By Bill Loguidice Adventures in 3D printing There’s no denying 3D printing your own plastic creations is an amazing experience, one that lets you exercise your creative muscles and watch your very own products come to life right before your eyes. It’s fun to print an on-demand toy, smartphone case, guitar pick, or virtually any…

By Bill Loguidice Adventures in 3D printing There’s no denying 3D printing your own plastic creations is an amazing experience, one that lets you exercise your creative muscles and watch your very own products come to life before your eyes. It’s fun to print an on-demand toy, smartphone case, guitar pick, or virtually any other…

By Desire Athow Choosing between a Core or a Xeon processor is not as easy as one would think especially when there are literally hundreds of versions to choose from thanks to Intel convoluted strategy. Sure, you are usually tied to what you want to do in the first place but it is not clear…

By Desire Athow Choosing between a Core or a Xeon processor is not as easy as one would think especially when there are literally hundreds of versions to choose from thanks to Intel convoluted strategy. Sure, you are usually tied to what you want to do in the first place but it is not clear…

By Kevin Lee AMD wowed us with its affordable VR-ready Radeon RX 480 graphics card but the chip maker isn’t done with its mission to bring capable GPUs to the masses. The Sunnyvale-based company has unveiled some new key details on two new GPUs, the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460. For starters the…

By Jon Porter Introduction Keyboards are one of those things that at a certain point someone got so right that everyone else more or less stopped messing with it. It’s like smartphone displays. Someone (and I’m not going to get into the argument of who exactly this was), came along and cracked the formula for…

By Jon Porter Introduction Keyboards are one of those things that at a certain point someone got so right that everyone else more or less stopped messing with it. It’s like smartphone displays. Someone (and I’m not going to get into the argument of who exactly this was), came along and cracked the formula for…

By Gary Marshall Best Webcam What’s the best webcam for you? Despite laptops and all-in-one desktops having built-in webcams these days, regular desktop PCs don’t have this luxury. So, if you want to buy the best webcam for video calling using Skype or Google Talk, look no further – we’ve rounded up five of the…

By Gary Marshall Best Webcam What’s the best webcam for you? Despite laptops and all-in-one desktops having built-in webcams these days, regular desktop PCs don’t have this luxury. So, if you want to buy the best webcam for video calling using Skype or Google Talk, look no further – we’ve rounded up five of the…

By Gary Marshall Introduction In the fifty-odd years since its invention we’ve seen the humble mouse improve considerably, with the addition of weight systems, laser sensors and masses of buttons and flashing lights. The best mice combine all these elements in sleek, ergonomic shells or have a unique selling point that justifies their consideration. Choosing…

By Darren Allan There’s been plenty happening over at the Defcon 24 hacking conference in Las Vegas, and another worrying development is the emergence of news that the humble monitor can be hacked. A monitor, hacked? How exactly? Well, that’s a good question, and the simple answer is that it’s possible to do so if…

By Duncan Geere Quantum computing researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a logic gate with a precision of 99.9%. That’s not only a new record, it also hits the theoretical benchmark necessary to build a real quantum computer. Logic gates are one of the crucial components inside every computer, and – for that…

By Desire Athow Introduction You may well be sitting in front of your monitor all day, regardless of whether you’ve jumped on the laptop bandwagon or not, so making sure that you have the right one is essential for the benefit of your eyes and physical health. Choosing the right monitor doesn’t only mean getting…

By Kevin Lee AMD wowed us with its affordable VR-ready Radeon RX 480 graphics card but the chip maker isn’t done with its mission to bring capable GPUs to the masses. The Sunnyvale-based company has unveiled some new key details on two of its latest GPUs, the Radeon RX 470 and Radeon RX 460. For…

By Darren Allan We now have the full specs on the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards, the lesser and more affordable siblings of the already launched RX 480 – assuming the press slides which have been leaked are the genuine article (and they certainly look it). AMD has already released some details…