Release roundup: Mining mobos, colored coolers, and USB 3.0 thumb drives
This week in the roundup, we've got announcements from Biostar, Lepa, and Silicon Power. Exciting, I know. My fingers are trembling with anticipation as I type.
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Mozilla prepares Firefox for the VR web
We haven't seen a production version of Oculus' Rift VR headset yet. Even so, Mozilla feels that the product will be revolutionary not just for games, but also for the web, and it's preparing accordingly. In a post on his blog, Vladimir Vukićević, Mozilla's Director of Graphics, JavaScript, and Gaming, has posted some early builds of Firefox that are VR-ready. He's also shared some principles for how VR content should work in the browser.
Stereotypical musings about Snow Crash 's Metaverse aside, Vukićević describes where technologies will need to go in order to support future VR headsets. Unsurprisingly, support for VR in web standards such as HTML5's canvas element, WebGL, and CSS 3D transforms will serve as the foundation of browser-based VR ...
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Today on Steam: Deus Ex Human Revolution for $5, GTA IV for $6
No, the Steam sale hasn't run out of good deals yet, shockingly enough. Today's headliners include Alan Wake, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, GTA IV, and the wonderful System Shock 2.
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Nexus devices aren't going away, says Google
When rumors began to swirl around Google's Android Silver program back in April, Nexus fans worried that it spelled the end of their favorite direct-from-Google Android devices. Not so.
In an interview with ReadWrite , Dave Burke, head of Android engineering and Nexus devices, addressed these worries. "People have been commenting about Nexus ...
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Deal of the week: Thermaltake's Theron gaming mouse for $20
On the off chance that you haven't spent all your money in the ongoing Steam Summer Sale, we've collected a handful of enticing hardware deals. Some of them are familiar from previous deals posts, but that doesn't make the discounts any less sweet.
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60 FPS content, new creator options coming to YouTube
The latest YouTube statistics are pretty insane. Each month, the site serves more than six billion hours of video to over a billion unique users. Over 100 hours of content is uploaded every minute, YouTube claims, and creators will soon have a bunch of new tools at their disposal. The official YouTube Creators blog has outlined a collection of features due in the next few months, including support for higher frame rates.
Uploaders will soon be able to share clips recorded at 48 and 60 frames per second, which should make gaming and other action-packed footage ...
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AMD lauds Mantle gains in Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare came out earlier this week, and AMD wasted no time touting the benefits of Mantle support in that game. According to AMD, the new graphics API doesn't just help Radeon graphics cards eke out higher frame rates in Garden Warfare. Mantle also lets the FX-8350 processor play in the same league as Intel's much more expensive (and normally faster) Core i7-4960X:
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Overclocking the Core i7-4790K
Like lots of things in personal computing, overclocking has progressed mightily since its early days. Back when we first started experimenting on Celerons, CPU performance was a scarce and precious resource, doled out in small increments for hundreds of dollars each. Those of us who dared to violate the specs on our processors were viewed with suspicion by our peers and those in the PC industry alike. Sure, what we were doing wasn't technically illegal, but you'd think it might have been, given how some folks reacted. CPU makers talked about the voiding of warranties and, worse, warned ominously of the dangers of electromigration ending your chip's life early.
None of it slowed us down, of course, because PC enthusiasts saw a chance to grab more of that sweet, sweet computing power essentially for free. Raising the clock speed from 300 to 450 MHz meant 50% ...
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Dishonored, Black Flag among today's Steam deals
Another day, another round of Steam deals. If the bargains to date haven't already made you re-mortgage your house, there are even more nice ones up for grabs today: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Dishonored, Civilization V, and Left 4 Dead 2, among quite a few others.
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Google to bring Chromebooks, Android closer together
Google's Chromebook platform is gaining steam. In its I/O keynote, Google touted partnerships with eight OEMs, a total of 15 Chromebook models, and availability in 28 countries. The company also claimed that all 10 of the highest-rated laptops on Amazon are Chromebooks (more on that later). In keeping with the theme of I/O, Chromebook owners were promised more crossover between their laptops and Android devices.
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Android Wear paves the way for smarter watches
If today's smart watches aren't living up to your Dick Tracy fantasies, have hope. At yesterday's I/O keynote, Google discussed the future of Android Wear, its set of software tools for bringing Android apps to the wrist.
If you're like the average Android user, you check your phone up to 125 times per day, according to Google. Android Wear devices are meant to keep you informed about your digital life without this disturbance. Apps extended with Android Wear are supposed to present information at a glance, and interactions with the Wear apps demonstrated ...
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New Android graphics extensions power impressive UE4 demo
As part of its I/O keynote yesterday, Google revealed the Android Extension Pack, a set of graphics features built into the next version of the OS. These extensions to OpenGL ES add support for tessellation, geometry shaders, compute shaders, and texture compression, among other goodies. They can be used to generate compelling visuals, as the following Unreal Engine 4 demo illustrates.
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Android coming to TVs and standalone ''streaming boxes''
Android is coming to the living room in a big way. Dave Burke, Google's engineering director for Android, revealed during the I/O keynote that televisions are now being given "the same level of attention" as smartphones and tablets. Android TV will use the same SDK as those devices, and Google has equipped the developer kit with lots of couch-friendly interface goodies. Adapting existing apps for big-screen TVs is apparently easy.
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