'World of Warcraft' Patch 5.4 Launches Tuesday
Blizzard announces the release of Patch 5.4 for World of Warcraft bringing with it new zones, 'Flexible Raids', a new solo Proving Grounds area and much more.
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Top-Level Domains Increasing in Number, Diversity
What has been promised for a long time now is finally about to be fulfilled: Hundreds of new TLD's will be available to consumers. If you are in the market for a more descriptive extension for yourself or your business, check out its availability early and register it as quickly as possible. Even though there is an abundant supply, chances are the best and most descriptive domains will go fast.
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is the organization responsible for releasing the new names but you will be able to apply for a domain name with one of the new TLDs from 1&1, Go Daddy, 123-reg and other companies that sell domains.
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Surface Power Cover to Ship This Year
Microsoft is readying a new accessory for the Surface Tablets, called the Power Cover. (Microsoft really knows how to grab your attention with their nifty naming schemes) The new addition will, as the name suggests, contain a battery pack and a 'real' keyboard. Availability date and pricing have not been announced.
The device will provide a Type Cover-like typing experience and "significantly" enhance the battery life of compatible devices.
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Kim Dotcom Teases New Music Service
It was a sure bet that the Internet's favorite bad boy, Kim Dotcom couldn't stay out of the spotlight for long. He's back now, taking up an old pet project of his to transform the digital music industry. Next up: Baboom.
"I am really excited about Baboom. I can't wait for artists to see what i have created for them. Their entire career can be managed on Baboom. Artists never had more freedom, transparency and control."
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California Poised to Implement First Electronic License Plates
California is about to become the first state in the union to test the feasibility of electronic license plates. Several other states have considered the proposal, but have taken no action so far. The pilot program bill is on Governor Brown's desk awaiting his signature.
"It just happens to coincide with the NSA issues and the surveillance cameras all over the place—this is not designed or intended to interact with that."
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Marksmen Line Up for Drone-Hunting Permits
We reported this summer about what began as a small town tongue-in-cheek protest against drone aerial surveillance by issuing permits to hunt drones. Now, the townspeople of Deer Trail, Colorado have had hundreds of requests for the drone hunting licenses as far away as Canada and the UK. Looks like it might be open season on drones pretty soon in Deer Trail.
When the idea made headlines this summer, the Federal Aviation Administration took a dim view of firing at aircraft, even if it was just a publicity stunt.
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Google Launches a New Kind of Desktop Chrome App
Chrome Apps; not just for the Net any longer. Chrome has introduced a new class of Apps made specifically to operate natively on your desktop and operate offline.
And, in a major new feature, Google is now introducing the Chrome App Launcher for Windows machines, which will live in your taskbar and allow you to launch Chrome apps almost like any other application on your computer.
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PrioVR: A Full-Body Mo-Cap Suit for Gaming
If you really like to really get into your gaming, really get into gaming, a new Kickstarter project should grab your attention. The project is called PrioVR, a full-body sensor array which transfers body motion directly into game play.
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Assange Fails in Bid for Australian Senate Seat
WikiLeaks' Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange has failed in his attempt to win a Senate seat in Australia. Assange found it difficult to campaign for the Senate while still stuck in Ecuador's London Embassy to escape a European arrest warrant. I guess being famous, or infamous in this case, doesn't translate well at the polls.
Assange had hoped that election to Australia's Senate would make it easier for him to finish his extended couch surfing stint in Ecuador's embassy and come home
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Experiment with the Internet's First Quantum Computer
Want to try your hand at quantum computers? You might get your chance if you can make it past the simulator to prove you have the knowledge needed to give the real thing a go. Give it a shot.
As awesome as it all is, the little quantum processor isn't going to do anything your normal computer can't do already. This baby chip isn't nearly complex enough for that. But the biggest challenge for quantum computing right now is just figuring out how to do anything reliably.
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Apple Planning 6-Inch 'iPhablet'?
The rumor mill has it that Apple is getting ready to make a big leap into the emerging phablet market, which has proved to be gaining on both laptops and tablets in 2Q13. Apple is said to be looking at phablets with screens up to 6".
This is just the latest in a series of reports to suggest that Apple is experimenting with larger iPhone displays.
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Indies Begin Signing Up for Microsoft's ID@Xbox
As soon as the registration for Microsoft's new ID@Xbox was opened, independent developers began to sign up by the hundreds…..literally.
"Our relationship with the indie development community has always been strong," Spencer says. "It doesn't mean everybody loves us. But if you look at the flow of content during the 360 generation and some of the indie hits that debuted on console on 360, people were clearly investing in putting their games on our platform."
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Happy Belated Birthday Google!
Google quietly passed its 15th year in operation with very little fanfare, so little it seems, that many missed the event entirely. Much has been accomplished since BackRub, as Google was first known, was conceived. Check out the 15 Google fun facts in celebration of Google's 15th anniversary.
"Its early days of setting the golden standard for searching for stuff online never even hinted at what it may, one day, become. With fingers in, what seems like, every conceivable pie, it has changed the shape of the mobile industry, led the charge on a proposed 'renewable energy tariff' and is pretty close to innovating and lobbying driverless cars into reality.
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More Info on IE11 Video Streaming for Windows 8.1 Revealed
With the release of Internet Explorer 11 just around the corner, Microsoft is beginning to fill in some of the blanks on what can be expected from the new version of IE, focusing on the much higher quality video without the need for plug-ins and the new power saving features.
The blog also claims that IE11 can optimize downloads of streaming media by sending the data directly to memory instead of first caching that data in a storage component like a hard drive disc.
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Microsoft to Patch Outlook Hack-by-Preview Bug
It's that time of the month again when Microsoft patches this month's vulnerabilities. Yes, it's time for Patch Tuesday again, this month offering up 14 updates, four of which are to be considered critical.
Of the 14 updates slated to ship next Tuesday, Microsoft pegged four as critical, the company's most severe rating. The other 10 will be labeled "important," the next step down in Microsoft's four-step threat system.
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GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
The GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H looks to be a solid bargain and a good value for the money. While this motherboard looks great on paper the devil is in the details and all it takes is one or two quirks to knock a product out of the running in a market literally filled with excellent motherboards. So how did the Z87X-UD4H fare?
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Intel Ivy Bridge-E Core i7-4960X IPC and OCing Review
We debut Intel's next $1000 Extreme Desktop processor, the Core i7-4960X, this time with Ivy Bridge architecture and a couple of extra cores thrown in for good measure. It is a beast of a CPU for those that can actually harness its power and bandwidth, but how much better is it than Sandy Bridge-E and Haswell at the same clocks?
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SilverStone Tundra TD02 & TD03 CPU Liquid Coolers Review
Silverstone is stepping in to the sealed all-in-one CPU cooler market which is far from deserted. Silverstone is however bringing some features to the segment which some others do not have. It is touting better radiator designs and builds as well as a better water block design. Will these features make a difference to the end user?
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist Image Quality Video Card Review
Splinter Cell: Blacklist is out, and we dive into this game and pay close attention to image quality and detail. NVIDIA and Ubisoft have implemented some first-time features ever seen in the Splinter Cell series, with DX11 Tessellation, HBAO+, and TXAA. We look at each of these technologies and see if it helps boost the quality of this game on the PC.
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ASUS Maximus VI Hero LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
The ASUS Republic of Gamers brand represents the best ASUS has to offer. Unfortunately the best usually comes with a high price tag placing such boards out of reach for many. Never fear for the ASUS Maximus VI Hero is here! OK with a name like that I couldn't resist. The Hero offers the core enthusiast features found in all ROG boards with less fluff.
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Seasonic X-Series: X-650 Power Supply Review
Seasonic's X-Series computer power supply comes to us boasting a patented fully modular design that minimizes voltage drops and impedance while greatly maximizing efficiency, cooling, and overall performance. Being a Seasonic unit, we can also count on it targeting the users looking for a quiet computing experience.
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GALAXY GeForce GTX 780 HOF Edition Review
If you are interested at all in the fastest GeForce GTX 780 video card we've seen out-of-the-box yet, then take a look at GALAXY's GeForce GTX 780 Hall of Fame Edition. You'll also find the highest overclock ever achieved on a GTX 780 waiting for you with this video card. You don't want to miss this.
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MSI Z87 XPOWER LGA Motherboard Review
Higher end products are niche items which don't make a lot of sense for the vast majority of users. Even gamers and enthusiasts sometimes shy away from these products unless the feature set aligns with their needs, desires, and budgets. The feature-packed MSI Z87 XPower is a fine example of this high end motherboard category.
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NZXT H630 Silent Full Tower Case Review
NZXT leads its H630 charge with the key talking points of, "Clean. Modern. Silent." Surely we think these are thee things that many enthusiast look for when putting together a new system build. Its huge fan support, steel construction, and airflow qualities that are reported to be specifically engineered for silent high performance operation are reviewed here.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 SLI Video Card Review
Take two GeForce GTX 780 video cards, enable SLI, add GeForce GTX TITAN SLI, and 3-way Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition CrossFire, sprinkle with a sampling of today's most demanding games, and add a dash of NV Surround and Eyefinity 3-display testing. We find out how tasty GeForce GTX 780 SLI is; the real world gaming results may surprise you.
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NZXT HALE90 v2 1000W Power Supply Review
The new NZXT HALE90 v2 1000 watt computer power supply has more than a few marketed points that talk it up like; clean currents, rock steady performance, eccentric design, and infused design elements. All that aside, we will put it through our brutal testing suite and find out if it is worth your hard earned cash.
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AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Frame Pacing CrossFire Driver
Has stuttering with CrossFire been getting you down? Today may make many AMD CrossFire owners happy. Catalyst 13.8 Beta includes Frame Pacing technology to create a more fluid CrossFire experience. At least up to 2560x1600 resolution, for now. Does it really do the job? We investigate this and tell you what the gameplay experience is like.
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Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
The motherboard we are checking out today is the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H which is on the lower end of the pricing spectrum but offers a solid feature set and looks to have all the ingredients of a winner. This motherboard is still very much focused on the enthusiast and overclocking crowd offering a very solid list of overclocking features.
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