Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows is available now for $25
Microsoft has had a PC wireless adapter for the Xbox One controller in the works for months, and now we'll finally be able to buy one. Xbox luminary Major Nelson says Microsoft has started shipping the adapter—officially, the "Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows"—to retailers today. As promised, it'll cost $25 on its own, or $80 when bundled with an Xbox One wireless controller.
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The One A9 is HTC's attempt at a budget flagship
HTC has fallen on hard times, and it's trying to turn its fortunes around with the One A9. This phone offers a blend of high-end and mid-range components wrapped in an all-metal frame that has a familiar look about it.
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The Force Awakens trailer looks promising
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. It's safe to say the Star Wars universe needs no introduction, and the official trailer for The Force Awakens is out. Watch it right here.
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Revisiting the Killer NIC, eight years on
Onboard Gigabit Ethernet: we don't think about it too much. We've had it for a long time, and for the most part, it just works. The folks behind the Killer Networking products first burst on to the scene trying to change that, and they're still at it. It's been just over eight years since we first took an in-depth look at a Killer NIC. Now that a good number of gaming-focused Z170-based boards and laptops include Gigabit Ethernet (and wireless networking) powered by Killer, it's the perfect time to do some fresh testing.
A few weeks ago, I visited the Killer Networking folks at Rivet Networks . While I was there, I got a chance to pick the brains of Killer CEO Mike Cubbage and Chief Marketing Officer Bob Grim. Cubbage is one of the ...
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Nexus 5X and 6P review roundup: the droids you're looking for
Google's Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P smartphones are in reviewers' hands now, and some sites have already published their takes on the latest iterations of the Android device as it's meant to be. So far, impressions of both phones are largely positive.
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Gigabyte's C230-series mobos put E3-1200 v5 Xeons to work
Intel's Skylake-based Xeon E3-1200 v5 CPUs aren't meant for consumer-focused chipsets like the Z170 or H170. Instead, those workstation CPUs need motherboards based on the workstation-focused C230 series chipsets. Gigabyte has a quartet of motherboards based on that line, and the flagship has some interesting expansion options.
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Report: iPhone 6S battery life isn't significantly affected by SoC source
Much hullabaloo has been made of late over Apple's dual-sourced A9 SoCs. Some enterprising YouTubers fueled a panic when they demonstrated considerable differences in battery life between Samsung- and TSMC-powered iPhone 6S handsets under certain conditions. Consumer Reports has gone in-depth to put those findings to the test, and the company found that there isn't any reason to worry over which foundry's A9 is in your shiny new iPhone.
To measure the phones' battery life, Consumer Reports carried out two different tests on two iPhones: one with a TSMC A9, the other with a Samsung chip. One test simulated web browsing on Wi-Fi. Each phone was set ...
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Yoga Home 900 27" all-in-one doubles as a tablet
Lenovo's Yoga Home 900 is 27 inches of portable all-in-one desktop. No, you didn't just misread that sentence. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, I know.
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Lenovo's Yoga 900 is an astoundingly thin convertible
Thin is in these days, and Lenovo just fired another salvo in the war to shave off every possible millimeter from the laptop PC. Its 13.3" Yoga 900 convertible weighs 2.8 pounds and measures in at just 0.6" thick. Despite that razor-thin chassis, this machine is powered by Skylake Core i7 processors (perhaps with Core i5 and i3 options, depending on the configuration). The Yoga keeps those CPUs cool thanks in part to a redesigned cooling system with a fan that's only 0.1" thick.
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Intel powers up entry-level workstations with Skylake Xeons
The Intel CPUs that we recommend in our System Guides may be fine for the average builder, but workstations are a different beast. Those systems have requirements that regular PCs don't, like support for ECC memory, and they usually come along with a Quadro or FirePro graphics card, making integrated graphics redundant. Intel is extending Skylake performance and workstation-friendly feature sets to the lower end of that market today with the Xeon E3-1200 v5 product family.
These quad-core chips all support up to 64GB of DDR3L or DDR4 ECC RAM. The major differences between the various models are clock speeds, integrated graphics, Hyper-Threading support, ...
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Valve promises to improve Steam support by the end of the year
Steam's support has issues, and Valve knows it. The company spoke to Kotaku about the the ongoing complaints about its customer service, and shared what it's doing about it. The most heartening news may be that the company's goal is to get wait times for support under control "by Christmas time."
Valve's Erik Johnson told Kotaku that the company is working with a third-party support agency to add capacity, but that those support agents need to be trained by Valve, which takes time. The company isn't just looking for a way to get customers off the phone quickly, Johnson said. ...
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Biostar's Gaming H170T mobo and GTX 980 Ti keep it simple
Biostar might not be the biggest dog in the motherboard world, but it still has a new trick or two to show off. The company's latest efforts include the Gaming H170T motherboard and a GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card of its own.
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Friday night topic: Where are they?
We haven't had an off-topic Friday night discussion for a while, but I've got one I've been meaning to post for a while. Might as well do it now.
This question has to do with Fermi's paradox , which contrasts a couple of basic realities. We know from observation that the universe is vast and filled with billions of stars. Probabilities tell us that if ...
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Gigabyte joins the Radeon R9 Fury party with its Windforce 3 OC
Gigabyte has joined Asus and Sapphire in the Radeon R9 Fury game with its Radeon R9 Fury Windforce 3 OC Edition graphics card. Take a good a look at this triple-fanned beast:
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Adobe plugs critical vulnerability in Flash with emergency update
Flash users, it's time to update the plugin ASAP. Adobe has today issued an emergency security update to patch a critical vulnerability, just three days after the last update. Adobe says the vulnerability could potentially give an attacker control of an affected system.
This update will bring the Flash NPAPI plugin up to version 19.0.0.226 on Windows and OS X clients. ...
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