Introducing the new AMD Catalyst Omega Driver
AMD is releasing a new driver called the AMD Catalyst Omega. This new driver contains many new features that AMD will update on a yearly basis. We'll go over what this year's driver update incorporates, there are features such as Virtual Super Resolution (VSR) that will allow you to run games at higher resolutions.
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ASUS X99-A LGA 2011-v3 Motherboard
If you are planning on upgrading your motherboard this holiday season, make sure you read our evaluation of the ASUS X99-A LGA 2011-v3 before you go shopping. This could be just the board you are looking for.
Today we review the basic no-frills ASUS X99-A motherboard and see just what ASUS has sacrificed, if anything, in order to keep the price in the $250 range. While Haswell-E CPU systems are not exactly for the budget conscious, saving cash on the motherboard gets you a lot closer to a budget-minded system build.
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Comcast Really, Really Doesn't Like Netflix
Comcast is smoking crack if it believes the public will side with them against Netflix.
Of course since neither Netflix or Comcast will allow anybody to see this data, people (and analysts) generally go with who they trust more in the equation and speculate accordingly. Given Comcast's bad customer service reputation Netflix tends to get the public benefit of the doubt. But the fact remains, despite endless analysis and pie charts on some fronts, nobody actually knows who's at fault yet because nobody except Netflix and Comcast has seen all the data.
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TGI Friday Drone Crashes Into Woman's Face
I have a great idea! Let's hang mistletoe from a drone and fly it around a crowded restaurant! What could possibly go wrong?
Yet that's exactly what happened to a photographer who visited a restaurant with a reporter last week to capture the restaurant's two drones in action. A smaller, 10-inch drone was supposed to land in the reporter's hand, but instead flew into the photographer's face, cutting her nose and chin.
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Americans Feel Better Informed Thanks to the Internet
Not only do Americans feel better informed thanks to the internet, most of us are now experts on everything....just ask us.
A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that the vast majority of Americans believe their use of the web helps them learn new things, stay better informed on topics that matter to them, and increases their capacity to share ideas and creations with others.
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Facebook Updates Its Search Feature
Facebook claims that its latest update to its search feature makes it easier to find your friends' old posts.
You've given us a lot of feedback on the Graph Search beta. You've told us the most important thing is being able to find posts you've seen before, and now you can. With a quick search, you can get back to a fun video from your graduation, a news article you've been meaning to read, or photos from your friend's wedding last summer.
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YouTube Helps You Avoid Music Copyright Issues
YouTube's Creators page has advice on avoiding copyright issues when you upload a video. Pass this on to your n00b friends that keep uploading copyrighted music in their cat videos.
But until now there was no way to know what would happen if you used a specific track until after you hit upload. Starting today, you can search the YouTube Audio Library to determine how using a particular track in your video will affect it on YouTube, specifically if it will stay live on YouTube or if any restrictions apply. You can uncross those uploading fingers now!
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Someone 3D Printed The Force Awakens Crossguard Lightsaber
You knew it was only a matter of time before someone did this.
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Treasury Dept: Tor a Big Source of Bank Fraud
A new report from the U.S. Treasury Department claims that Tor is a "big source of bank fraud." If you use Tor, chances are you are a crook! You use Tor and BitTorrent? There's already a warrant out for your arrest.
In the report, released on Dec. 2, 2014, FinCEN said it examined some 6,048 suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by banks between August 2001 and July 2014, searching the reports for those involving one of more than 6,000 known Tor network nodes. Investigators found 975 hits corresponding to reports totaling nearly $24 million in likely fraudulent activity.
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ASUS X99-A LGA 2011-v3 Motherboard Review
Today we review the basic no-frills ASUS X99-A motherboard and see just what ASUS has sacrificed, if anything, in order to keep the price in the $250 range. While Haswell-E CPU systems are not exactly for the budget conscious, saving cash on the motherboard gets you a lot closer to a budget-minded system build.
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Seagate Selling Affordable 8TB Hard Drives
Just when you thought 6TB drives were the "big" thing, Seagate is busting out "affordable" 8TB units.
Industry's first high-capacity hard drive designed for cost-effectively storing active archive data and cloud content.
High-density 8TB hard drives for petabytes of affordable and accessible long-term online storage
Enables significant system-level TCO savings with best cost-per-TB
Maximum storage efficiency with lowest watts-per-TB
Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
RV-balanced for high density environments
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Crooks Using Pizza App To Verify Stolen Card Numbers
It takes a crook to come up with a scam like this. Honestly, would you have thought of using a pizza app to check stolen credit card numbers?
In short, thieves working through lists of stolen credit card numbers were using a smartphone app that orders pizza to see which numbers still worked. When they found a number to be valid, authorities said, the thieves used it to order bigger-ticket items online — while people in pockets of Brownsville and East New York in Brooklyn ate the pizzas.
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Sprint Ranks Worst in Customer Satisfaction
I would be "disappointed" too if Consumer Reports ranked my company worst in customer satisfaction.
"Sprint was understandably disappointed in our survey results, and noted that in the last few months, the company has made 'dramatic changes in the two areas that matter most to customers—price and network,'" Consumer Reports stated. "Sprint's representative highlighted the company's new pricing plans, and said there had been improvements in voice and data quality."
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[H]ardware Round-Up
Cases: Bitfenix Pandora Windowed @ ocaholic
Cooling: Swiftech H240-X CPU Cooler @ techPowerUP!
ETC.: Intel Core i7 5960X @ TechnologyX
Tesoro Excalibur Gaming Keyboard @ pcGameware
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD @ CPCR
Video: Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming @ Technic3D
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Borderlands Online Announced For China
Borderlands Online has been announced as a free-to-play game in China. In China?!? I wonder why we aren't getting that here in the states as well? Hell, I'd play the Chinese version.
There's no indication this will head westward at this point, but here's word on what they're up to: "Players will be able to play as four distinct character classes that are similar to the characters found in the original Borderlands. The characters available are the soldier, hunter, siren, and what looks to be the berserker." Word is the game will be free-to-play.
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