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May 31
- EVGA's Monstrous DG-87 Chassis May Actually Deserve 'VR-Ready' Status
- Thermaltake Introduces Riing 12 RGB Fan, Shows Prototype For "The Tower" Case
- ASRock Rack Launches Mini-ITX Server Board With Embedded Xeon E3-1500 V5
- Antec Cooling Gets Big, Small, And Fluid For Computex 2016
- Tor Browser 6.0 Released With DuckDuckGo Search Engine Support Enabled By Default
- With XK700 Keyboard, Gigabyte Quietly Pushes Gaming Line
- Tom's Hardware Steam Giveaway, 'Valkyria Chronicles!'
- Patriot Reveals SO-DIMM DDR4 Kits Clocked At 2400, 2800 MHz
- EVGA Tucks Away PCIe Power Cables, Bridges GPUs, Shows Off Custom GTX 1070
- Be quiet! Debuts New Entry-Level Compact CPU Cooler, The Pure Rock Slim
- Corsair Lapdog’s Mystery Port Was Going To Be A Wireless Module
- Patch 1.2 For 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Allows Enemy Upscaling, Improved Inventory And Map UI
- Continuing Trend Of Vented Mice, Thermaltake Intros Ventus Z
- Micron Announces SATA And NVMe SSDs With 3D For Client Market
- Heterogenous Systems Architecture Foundation Unveils HSA 1.1
- Simple, Austere 'Suora' Mechanical Keyboard Shows Roccat Is Paying Attention
- Digital Storm Puts Intel Core i7-6950X And GTX 1080 Into Aura AIO
- Corsair Lights Up Vengeance DDR4 RAM With LEDs
- Phanteks Crafts Its First Water Block For Nvidia's Founder's Edition GTX 1080
- Intel Launches Xeon E3-1500 v5 Family, Boosts Integrated Graphics, Memory
- Asus' Project Avalon: A Functional Modular Motherboard And Chassis
May 30
- Riotoro Emerges With Ghostwriter Keyboards, New PSUs And Bifröst Cooler
- Asus Loads Kaby Lake Onto New Transformer 3? Updates Zenbook, Too
- PowerColor Adds Devil Box To Emerging External Graphics Enclosure Race
- Epic Gear Brings Modular Switch Concept To 'Morph' Gaming Mouse
- Computex 2016: Storage Predictions
- Super Flower Unveils the Leadex II Family Of PSUs
- LEPA's Computex Lineup Includes New PSUs, Cases And An RGB Cooler
- Enermax Debuts Four PSU Lines, New Cases And Coolers At Computex
- New Cases, 'ModTime Platform' From BitFenix At Computex 2016
- Asus Unveils Two 'Disegno' Monitors With USB Type-C And Qi Charging
- MSI Unchains You With A VR PC Backpack
May 27
- The Week In Storage: SSDs In Space, SSDs Back On Earth, 3D NAND String Stacking
- AMD To Chase Market Share Over High End With First Polaris Offerings
- HP Omen’s Dark (And Red) Secret: The Omen X VR PC Pack
- MSI Drops Five Graphics Cards Into The GTX 1080 Arena (Updated)
- Gigabyte Previews GTX 1080 G1 Gaming Card, Hints At Xtreme Gaming SKU
- Nvidia Releases Updated Driver Exclusively For GTX 1080
- EVGA Reveals New ACX Cooler, Precision X Software For The GTX 1080
- Geil Introduces Evo Froza DDR4 RAM Designed To Overclock
- Gigabyte Goes Thin And Light With Aero 14 Laptop
- Codemasters' 'F1 2016' Arrives This Summer
- 'The Engineers' Of 'Elite Dangerous Horizons' Arrive On May 26, 'Horizons' Coming To Xbox One June 3 (Updated)
- Asus Gives The GTX 1080 A Strix Overhaul
- Zotac Has A Pair Of GTX 1080 AMP Cards; Tight-Lipped On Clock Speeds And Price
- i-Rocks Golem M20E: A Gaming Mouse, A Lightning Bug
May 26
- Zalman Goes RGB With ZM-K900M Mechanical Keyboard
- Sloclap's Debut Game Is 'Absolver,' A Melee-Based Online Title
- ACLU Joins Microsoft’s Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Over Data Request Gag Orders
- DDR4 Overclock Pushed To 5 GHz With 4266 MHz G.Skill Kit
- Nvidia VRWorks SDK Gets Pascal SMP
- More Social VR With vTime's 360 Gallery
- AMD FirePro S7100X Is An MuGPU For Blade Servers
- Judge Throws Out Evidence After FBI Refuses To Reveal Tor Vulnerability
- Wooting One Analog Keyboard Coming With Optical Flaretech Switches (Update: Fully Funded)
- 'Deus Ex: Mankind Divided' Trailer Shows Conflict Between 'Augs' And 'Naturals'
- Thermaltake Adds Hard Tubing Options To 'Pacific' Water Cooling Kits
- Unity, Unreal Engine Plugins Coming To WorldViz 'Warehouse-Scale' Tracking System
- Be Quiet! Pushes Further Into Case Market With Dark Base 900 Chassis
- The HP Omen Is Back, And It Brought Friends: Gaming Notebook, Desktop And Monitor
- Slew Of Zotac Zbox Mini PCs Includes One VR-Ready GTX 980 Option
May 25
- More Details On Asus' Liquid-Cooled ROG Laptops, Plus A Thin And Light Strix
- Corsair Bulldog Barebones Chassis Unleashed, Available For Preorder
- 'Hitman' Takes To The Streets Of Marrakesh On May 31
- Living Room Gaming With Corsair’s Lapdog, Hands On
- A New Strategy: 'Civilization VI,' Hands On
- AltspaceVR FrontRow Offers Limitless Capacity For Live Virtual Events
- Valve Releases OpenVR SDK 1.0, Grants Devs Access To Vive Camera
May 24
- Mozilla, Reddit, Vimeo, And Others Call On FCC To Publicize Its Zero-Rating Plans
- ECS Z170: Who Needs An LED Motherboard When You Can Have A Lightsaber?
- 'Rocket League' Now Cross-Platform For Xbox One And PC
- Toshiba Wakes Up, Announces 8 TB X300 Desktop HDDs
- SteelSeries Imbues Rival 700 Gaming Mouse With Haptic Feedback, OLED Display
- Corsair’s New Dominator Platinum DDR4 Is For Asus ROG Motherboards
- 'Total War: Warhammer:' Embarking On The Grand Campaign
- ECS Adds Mini-STX PC To Its Liva Mini-PC Line
- Valve Releases Beta Vulkan Support DLC For 'Dota 2'
- Cryorig Teases PC Cases; Ola And Taku Are For Your Living Room
- FSP Announces New Product Lines Ahead Of Computex 2016
- LG G5 And 'Friends' Available From U.S. Carriers Early April (Update: Now Available)
- Everything But The Switches: Thermaltake’s Challenger Edge Membrane Gaming Keyboard
- OnSight And Protospace: NASA's HoloLens Apps For Exploring Mars
- Use Your Vive Controller Like A Mouse In BigScreen
May 23
- Swing And A Miss: Oculus’s Attempt To Block Revive App Backfires Badly
- Nvidia Has Your Game-Ready Driver For 'Overwatch'
- Thermaltake Tricks Out Level 10 M Advanced Mouse With Palm Ventilation, 5-Axis Button, RGB
- Aqua Computer Introduces kyroM.2 SSD Watercooler
- Asus Teases 24-Inch Monster Laptop; Making Room For A PSU?
- EKWB Outs Water Blocks For Nvidia GTX 1080 "Founder's Edition" (Update: Pricing Confirmed)
- Throwing (And Troubleshooting) A VR-Sharing Party
May 22
- The Week In Storage: SSDs Sales Surging, But Shortage May Be Upon Us
May 21
- Clever VR Tricks: A 60fps VR Experience On An Old Phone With Tessellation And Vertex Displacement
- All The New Security Improvements In Android N
May 20
- Project Tango: Where We Are And What's To Come (Update: Video)
- Geil Puts RGB LEDs On DDR4 Memory
- 'Gran Turismo Sport' Arrives November 15
- Project Ara Coming, Again
- 'The Congressman' Is The Next Elusive Target For 'Hitman' Players
- Nintendo's NX Console Is Not A Successor To Wii U
- Mobile GPUs Are Getting Ready For 'Daydream' VR
- Google Play Store Coming To Chromebooks
May 19
- Daydream Home Lets You Preview VR Content In 360-Degrees
- G.Skill's New DDR4 SO-DIMM Memory Kits Blaze At 3200 MHz
- The Further Democratization Of Mobile VR With Epic Games And Unreal Engine
- Google's Big Chip Unveil For Machine Learning: Tensor Processing Unit With 10x Better Efficiency (Updated)
- Nokia Back In The Smartphone Game, Lack Of VR Plans Problematic
- More VR Input Mapping: Rewired Unity Input Plugin Adds Support For 3DRudder
- 'Time Machine VR' Getting April Launch On Rift And Vive (Update: Available Now)
- Google Shows Off Project Tango Area Learning, Lenovo Phone (Still) Coming This Year
- Bethesda Shows Off 'Far Harbor' DLC For 'Fallout 4' (Updated: Now Available)
- Canonical Has Work To Do: The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet, Hands On
- Google Tinkers With End-To-End Encrypton In Allo Messenger, Duo Video Chat
- CCP Games Readying 'Gunjack' Sequel For Google Daydream VR Platform
May 18
- Leap Motion Releases Updated VR Mount For Retail VR HMDs
- CableMod Launches PET-Based ModMesh Sleeving
- Google Doubles Down On Mobile VR With 'Daydream' Ecosystem
- Researchers Discover Breakthrough Method To Generate True Random Numbers From Weak Randomness Sources
- Cherry's JW-T0210 Wireless Mouse Designed For Office Environments
- 'Batman: Return To Arkham' Arrives July 26, But Not For PC
- Google’s Play For Your Heart And Mind: Google Assistant And Google Home
- Nvidia GTX 1070: The Full Specifications
- ARM Gains New Image Processing Technology From Apical Acquisition
- Lian Li Builds Its First Steel Cases: Meet The Ebonsteel Series
- Nvidia's Tesla M10 GPU Designed For Cost-Effective Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
May 17
- Is EVGA's X99 FTW K Motherboard Designed For Overclockers?
- VicoVR Looking To Fund Its Full-Body Mobile Tracking With Crowdfunding Campaign
- Cooler Master Reveals The Long-Awaited MasterWatt Maker 1200 PSU
- G.Skill's Trident Z DDR4 RAM Kits Push CAS Latency Below Competition
- A Camouflaged Monoblock For A Camouflaged Motherboard: EKWB Asus Z170S
- IBM Challenges 3D XPoint With TLC Phase-Change Memory (PCM)
- Using Steam VR's 'Knock Knock' Feature To Get Someone's Attention In VR
- QNAP Displays New TS-x82T Systems with Thunderbolt, Tiering and 10GbE
- Tom's Hardware Steam Giveaway, 'Elite Dangerous: Deluxe Edition!'
May 16
- Inside The IBM FlashSystem 900 All-Flash Array
- Think Setting Up A Vive Is Too Much Hassle? Let HTC Do It For You
- Oculus Hopes To Inspire A Generation With 'VR For Good' Initiative
- Chrome To Block Most Flash Content By Default By End Of 2016
- Acer In Talks To Design, Manufacture StarVR HMD (Updated)
- Getting Physical With Razer: First U.S. RazerStore Opens In SF On May 21
May 15
- OCZ Transitions Deeper Into Toshiba With New Website, Products
- HTC Now Taking Orders For Spare Vive Parts, Shipping June
- Tripp-Lite SMART1000LCD Tear-Down
May 14
- Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates
- The Week In Storage: WD Buys SD, Drops Anyway; NAND Boom Or Bust
- Roto Tackles Locomotion In VR With Motorized Chair, Pre-Orders Open Today
- Zalman ZM-K700M Mechanical Keyboard Review
May 13
- Colorful's GTX 1080 Has A Founder's Edition Cooler?
- Vicarious Preps VR Content Publishing Platform For Alpha Testing
- Learn To Use Magic In 'Total War: Warhammer'
- More College eSports Scholarships, This Time At Midland University
- Weak Internet Privacy Chills Economic Activity, Says NTIA Study
- Play 'Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim' DLC For Free This Weekend
- Get Excited For 'Doom' With A New Launch Trailer (Updated: It's Release Day)
- MSI X99A Pro Carbon Motherboard Sports Front Panel USB 3.1 Type-C Support
- More Details About 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' 'Blood And Wine' DLC From CD Projekt RED
- Update Your Nvidia Drivers Before Taking On 'DOOM'
- Gyoza Games Is Recreating Classic Arcade Fun For the VR Age
- 'Project Cars' Gets Vive Support At Last
May 12
- Mozilla Wants FBI To Disclose Possible Firefox Vulnerability
- The Rise Of Client-Side Deep Learning
- Zotac Enters The PC-On-A-Stick Market
- Catch The 'Hitman' Elusive Targets Tomorrow, On Friday The 13th
- Windows Virtualization Comes To Chromebooks
- Phosphor Games Inks Deal With Shunwang To Bring ‘The Brookhaven Experiment’ To Chinese Gamers
- Jide Hoping Remix OS AIO Test Pans Out In Chinese IT Market
- Lian Li's PC-09 Combines Two Chassis In One
- It’s The Software, Stupid: Vuze Consumer-Grade 360 3D Camera Up For Preorder
- Major Patch Incoming: Big Changes For 'EVE: Valkyrie' Next Week
May 11
- 'Doom' Showcased With Impressive Framerates On GTX 1080 And Vulkan (Updated)
- Gear VR Hits 1 Millions Users, Oculus Makes Content Easier To Find, Adds More Of What People Want
- EA: 'Titanfall 2' Slated For Fall 2016, New 'Star Wars' Game Every Year For 3-4 Years
- Latest Windows 10 Build Adds Edge Extensions To Windows Store
- 2K Games' 'Civilization VI' Arrives October 21
- Samsung Exploits 3D NAND To Tackle SanDisk With 256 GB EVO Plus MicroSD Card
- Prescription Lenses In VR: VR Lens Lab Smashes Kickstarter Goal, Production Starts Next Month
May 10
- 'Mass Effect: Andromeda' Delayed To Early 2017, More Details Coming At EA Play
- Phanteks Enthoo Pro M Case Adds 'Acrylic Edition' Colors
- 'Blood and Wine' Expansion For 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt' Arrives May 31
- Cooler Master’s MasterCase Maker 5 Available Today
- WD-SanDisk Merger Approved, Finalizes May 12
- 'Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster' For PC Launches May 12 On Steam
- Microsoft Transforms Retail Xbox One Into A Dev Kit, Adding Mods And Overlay To Windows 10 Gaming (Updated)
- Asus Unveils Four Enthusiast X99 Boards With RGB Lighting
- FCC, FTC Push Mobile Carriers, Device Makers On Security Risks From Lack Of Updates
May 9
- Nvidia GTX 1080, 1070 'Founders Editions' Just Reference Cards
- Starbreeze Studios Made Its Own Cinematic VR Experience For StarVR HMD
- See The New Trailer For 'Rainbow Six: Siege' Operation Dust Line DLC
- Who You Gonna Call? The Void, So You Can Be The Ghostbuster
- Nvidia VRWorks To Bring Virtual Worlds To Life With Physics Based Objects, Audio
- Blizzard's 'Overwatch' Lands May 24, Open Beta Scheduled May 5-9 (Updated)
- Exploring 'Fallout 4' In VR With Vireio Perception
May 7
- Summer 2016 PC Game Release Preview
- Nvidia's Ansel: Capture Images From Within Your Games Like Never Before
- Nvidia Reveals Pascal: GTX 1080 And 1070 To Beat Titan X, GDDR5X Debuts
May 6
- 'Battlefield 1' Will Take Place In WWI, Arrives October 21
- Manus VR Demonstrates Arm Tracking With HTC Vive
- VR Devs, Keep Your AMD Radeon Pro Duo Chilled With EK’s Water Block
- How To Get 'Fallout 4' Working On Oculus Rift, OSVR HDK With Vireio Perception 4 Alpha
- Five-Year-Old Qualcomm Vulnerability Affects Devices Running Android 4.0.3 And Later
- Datalogic's MX-E Series Vision Processors Offer Myriad Configurations
- Android N Media Stack Sandboxing Could Protect Against Future 'Stagefright' Vulnerabilities
May 5
- Access Web Apps From Inside Your VR HMD With 'V'
- Now Might Be A Good Time To Change Your Gmail, Hotmail Or Yahoo Password
- Valve's Steam Broadcasting Feature Added To SteamVR
- Mod Support Coming For 'Total War: Warhammer' After All
- Intel Quietly Releases Skylake-R Core i7, i5 CPUs With Iris Pro Graphics And 128 MB eDRAM
- One Last Time: 'Uncharted 4: A Thief's End,' Hands On
- Oculus Appoints New Chief Operating Officer, Founding COO Taking On New Role
May 4
- Positional Tracking For GearVR Will Require More Than Just A Software Update
- Third-Person, Action/Adventure 'Star Wars' Game Coming From Respawn Entertainment
- 'HoloGrid: Monster Battle' Brings Phil Tippett's Creatures To The Fighting Arena (Updated)
- IBM Shows Path Forward To A Post-Moore's Law Future With Five-Qubit Quantum Computer
- 3DRudder VR Peripheral Begins Shipping To Early Adopters
- Shuttle Reveals SZ170R8 Barebones PC With High-Capacity Storage Options
- HP Pavilion Lineup Gets 32-Inch QHD Display
May 3
- Philips Goes Big With 43-Inch UltraClear 4K IPS Display
- Win 'ARK: Survival Evolved' In Our Steam Giveaway!
- Turtle Beach Elite Pro Headset Designed To Keep Ears Cool, Accommodates Glasses
- Michigan Bill Would Give Life Sentence To Car Hackers, As Car Hacking Threat Grows
- 'Dishonored 2' Arrives On November 11
- Adata Seeks To Dazzle With LED Lights On Its XPG DDR4 RAM Lineup
- All Of HP's New Pavilion PCs
May 2
- Oculus Rift Demos Hit Best Buy Stores On Saturday
- Loud, Low-Profile SilverStone Nitrogon NT08-115X Designed To Replace Stock Intel CPU Cooler
- Nvidia's Latest Game Ready Driver Covers 'Battleborn', Three Open Betas
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Deep Learning SDK Nudges Local Neural Nets Closer To Mainstream
- COD In Space: 'Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare' Arrives Nov 4
- Play 'Fallout 4' On Your Rift This Week Thanks To Vireio Perception, HTC Vive Room-Scale Support Coming Soon
- Silverstone's Primera PM01 Case Has Supercar Inspired Looks (Update: Pricing)