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By Kevin Lee Western Digital is fluffing up its wireless drive offerings with a new My Passport Wireless Pro portable hard drive and My Cloud Pro NAS solution. The earlier is a follow up to Western Digital My Passport Wireless released in 2014. The Pro version brings a redesigned drive with AC Wi-Fi and a…

By Darren Allan These days, we might be used to some fairly big numbers in terms of core counts for processors – such as the likes of Intel’s whopping 72-core Knights Landing supercomputing chip – but researchers have just produced a rather mind-boggling 1,000-core beast capable of carrying out 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Yes,…

By Darren Allan These days, we might be used to some fairly big numbers in terms of core counts for processors – such as the likes of Intel’s whopping 72-core Knights Landing supercomputing chip – but researchers have just produced a rather mind-boggling 1,000-core beast capable of carrying out 1.78 trillion instructions per second. Yes,…

By Joe Osborne We all know about the incredibly affordable and awfully powerful AMD Radeon RX 480 that was shown off just a few weeks ago. At 200 bucks for a VR-ready graphics card, we didn’t think the firm could go any lower. Well, it went and did just that in teasing the rest of…

By Joe Osborne We all know about the incredibly affordable and awfully powerful AMD Radeon RX 480 that was shown off just a few weeks ago. At 200 bucks for a VR-ready graphics card, we didn’t think the firm could go any lower. Well, it went and did just that in teasing the rest of…

By Kane Fulton Best PC gaming headset No PC gamer worth their kill/death ratio would skimp on a decent headset. Arguably more important than a mechanical gaming keyboard or a weighted mouse, a worthy pair of cans make the difference between guessing where enemies are and hunting them down like a sonically-enhanced ninja. Pick the…

By Kane Fulton Best PC gaming headset No PC gamer worth their kill/death ratio would skimp on a decent headset. Arguably more important than a mechanical gaming keyboard or a weighted mouse, a worthy pair of cans make the difference between guessing where enemies are and hunting them down like a sonically-enhanced ninja. Pick the…

By Darren Allan Good news for those who have been unable to contain their excitement at getting their mitts on a GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card – you can now grab one of these temptingly priced pixel pushers online. The GTX 1070 is on sale as of now and is a more affordable slice of…

By Darren Allan A wide range of connectivity is obviously important, but nobody likes ports and cables which clutter up the place – but the good news is that the likes of USB ports are decidedly on the wane as we look towards a future of wireless notebooks that dispense with physical connectors completely. That’s…

By Darren Allan These days, an increasing number of devices are adopting fingerprint readers as a far more secure alternative to a simple password, and some notebooks have these built-in – although if your existing laptop doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner, you can always add one courtesy of a new dongle from Synaptics. Synaptics USB…

By Darren Allan These days, an increasing number of devices are adopting fingerprint readers as a far more secure alternative to a simple password, and some notebooks have these built-in – although if your existing laptop doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner, you can always add one courtesy of a new dongle from Synaptics. Synaptics USB…

By Darren Allan If you’ve been having issues with the fan on your shiny new GeForce GTX 1080 Founder’s Edition – a gremlin which may have somewhat taken the shine off your freshly purchased card – then you’ll be pleased to hear a fix is expected to arrive later today. The problem in question is…

By Kane Fulton INTRODUCTION Update: Looking for an affordable USB Type-C adapter dongle that’s more about convenience than versatility? Get your quick fix at spot number 3! What the port Gods giveth, they taketh away – so the saying goes. USB-C is the newest port on the block having found a way into everything from…

By Darren Allan Intel has unleashed its new Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 v4 range of processors which offer what the company claims is remarkable performance improvements over predecessors, with CPUs boasting up to 24-cores. The Xeon E7-8890 v4 is the high-end 24-core effort (running at 2.2GHz with 60MB of last-level cache), and it offers 1.3…

By Darren Allan Intel has unleashed its new Xeon E7-8800 and E7-4800 v4 range of processors which offer what the company claims is remarkable performance improvements over predecessors, with CPUs boasting up to 24-cores. The Xeon E7-8890 v4 is the high-end 24-core effort (running at 2.2GHz with 60MB of last-level cache), and it offers 1.3…