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October 31
- Google Reveals Actively Exploited Windows Kernel Vulnerability
- Get Your Room-Scale VR On, Pre-orders For Third Oculus Sensor Available Now
- 'Obduction' Gets Oculus Rift Support On Halloween (Update: Now Available)
- CCP Games 'EVE: Valkyrie' Coming To HTC Vive In November
- Season Finale Of 'Hitman' Released, Includes Exclusive Fullscreen, Multi-GPU Update
- On PSVR, Expect To Die In ‘I Expect You To Die’
October 29
- Week In CPUs And Storage: Is Apple Gearing Up To Challenge Intel's Desktop CPUs?
October 28
- Zcash, The 'HTTPS For Money,' Brings True Privacy To Money Transactions
- Intel Releases Sluggish M.2 NVMe DC P3100 SSD Series (Update: Controller And Pricing)
- EU Privacy Chiefs Investigate WhatsApp And Yahoo
- Nvidia's Latest Driver Is Game Ready For 'Titanfall 2' And 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition'
- AT&T Plans To Trial 400GbE Data Speeds In 2017
- Geil Evo X RGB DDR4 RAM Now Available
- An Extended 'Watch Dogs 2' Hands-On: Choose Your Hacking Path
- AMD's Latest Driver Fixes Issue With 'Titanfall 2'
- 2K Hits The VR Games Market With 'Carnival Games VR' (Update: Now Available)
October 27
- Firefox To See A 'Quantum Leap' Improvement In Performance, Security By The End Of 2017
- Watch Our Livestream Of The 'Titanfall 2' Campaign Today At 1pm PDT
- With Touchbar, Apple Is Grasping At Straws (Opinion)
- Apple Unveils New MacBook Pros With Touch Bar Technology
- FCC Adopts Stricter Privacy Framework For ISPs
- 'Arizona Sunshine' Game Trailer Available In VR
- Twitter Plans Big Changes To Its Company And Service To Stave Off Acquisition (Update: Vine Shuttered)
- G.Skill Fleshes Out Keyboard Lineup With KM770, KM570 (Update 2: KM770 On Hold)
October 26
- U.S. Senator Calls On Federal Agencies To Improve IoT Device Security, Stop DDoS Attacks
- Microsoft’s Future Is All About 3D
- Microsoft's Surface Studio Is Designed To Redesign
- New Microsoft Surface Book Rocks Intel Core i7 Skylake, Nvidia GTX 965M
- Microsoft Reveals Native Broadcasting, Custom Tournaments With 'Creators' Update
- Alphabet Eyes Wireless Networks As Google Fiber's Rollout Halts
- ImmerVision Showcased Its Magical Panomorph Camera Technology At Immersed 2016
October 25
- Network Security Firm Corero Warns Of Impending 'Tens Of Terabits Per Second' DDoS Attacks
- SSDs Kill The 15K HDD, Seagate Rolls Out Last Generation
- Encrypted Messaging Apps Wire And Signal Turn To Ephemeral Messages
- Tom's Hardware Steam Giveaway: 'Civilization VI'
- Google To Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory As Mozilla Bans New WoSign And StartCom Certificates
- 'Elite Dangerous: Horizons' Update 2.2, 'The Guardians,' Will Be Huge (Update: Now Available)
- Starbreeze Acquires Nozon VFX Studio For Its PresenZ Technology
- Zotac Throws Itself A Birthday Party, Reveals New SSD, Mini PC, Graphics Card, VR Backpack
October 24
- TReality’s TBow Peripheral Turns Archery Games Into A Real Workout
- Recalls May Become The Norm For IoT Devices If Security Doesn’t Improve Significantly
- If You Love Tanks, Biostar Has The Graphics Card For You
- Nvidia Licenses Rambus DPA Countermeasures To Secure Critical GPUs
- AT&T's $85B Plan To Acquire Time Warner Could Threaten Free Media And Privacy
- Hikvision Partners With Movidius To Make Highly Intelligent Cameras
- Kingston Wants A Piece Of The Mechanical Keyboard Market (Update: HyperX Alloy FPS Now Available)
October 23
- Mocap For Less: Noitom Perception Neuron Suit, Hands On
October 22
- History Of Mechanical Keyboards
October 21
- The Week In CPUs And Storage: AMD Rising
- (Update: Second Outage) Dyn DDoS Takes Down Major Websites For Hours; Yet Another Sign Of Powerful Attacks To Come
- AMD and Nvidia's Latest Drivers Add Support for 'Battlefield 1,' 'Civ VI,' 'Titanfall 2,' and VR Games
- Watch Us Play 'Battlefield 1' Today At 1pm PDT
- 'Civilization VI,' Hands On: Making Each Turn Count (Update: Now Available)
- Choose Your Own VR: Onix VR Is Building A Modular HMD With A Curved 120Hz 4K Display
- Vrvana Totem Mixed Reality HMD Prototype: Beyond Expectations
October 20
- Intel Experiences PC Growth, 3D XPoint Samples Shipping By The Thousands
- Razer Blade Pro Gets GTX 1080, Mechanical Keyboard, Weird Touchpad Placement
- 'Skype & Type' Attack Shows Feasability Of Acoustic Eavesdropping In VoIP Calls
- Acer's 24-Inch Predator XB1 Overclocks to 165Hz With G-Sync
- Nintendo's NX Console Becomes Nintendo Switch
- Suddenly, PowerColor's 'Devil Box' External GPU With AMD XConnect Is Available
- Nixeus Delivers 1440p IPS Monitor With 100% sRGB For $399
- Tempered Tantrum: Phanteks Enthoo Luxe, Enthoo Pro M Chassis Get Tempered Glass (Updated)
- Gamdias P1, M1, E1 Keyboards Ape Corsair With Floating-Key Design (Updated)
- Websites Can Store IP Addresses Without User Consent--To Improve Security, Says CJEU
October 19
- Intel To Infuse Second-Gen Xeon Purley Platform With 3D XPoint, Tightens Data Center Stranglehold
- LeEco Takes Aim At Samsung Gear VR With Its Own Mobile 'ExploreVR' HMD
- A Colorful GTX 1050 Ti: Taste The Rainbow
- 'Halo Wars 2' Early Preview: Something For Everyone
- Hands-On With Nvidia's Titan X (Pascal) In SLI
- Microsoft’s Speech Recognition Tech Achieves Human Parity--Sort Of
October 18
- 'Dressed Qubits' With 10X Better Stability Bring Us Closer To Practical Quantum Computers
- NZXT Releases The Kraken X52, Mutates X42 And X62
- MSI Also Boasts 10 GTX 1050, 1050Ti Graphics Cards
- Origin PC's EVO15-S Is Thinner, Lighter, And VR Ready With Nvidia Pascal
- Zotac’s GTX 1050 Ti, 1050 Cards Are Mini
- Security Audit Finds Critical Vulnerabilities In VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt’s Main Successor
- Inno3D Reveals Dual- And Single-Fan GTX 1050 Ti, 1050 Cards
- Asus's Dual GTX 1050 Ti: A Non-Overclocker Before Strix
- EVGA Outs Ten Total GTX 1050 Ti, 1050 Graphics Cards
- Nvidia Announces GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1050 Graphics Cards, But No Founder's Edition
- UK Spy Agencies Violated Privacy Laws For 17 Years, Court Rules
October 17
- Oculus Connect 3 Recap: What You May Have Missed
- Acer's Chromebook 15 Is Larger And More Affordable Than Ever
- 'Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3' Delayed To April 2017
- Sony Doing Right By The VR Market, PSVR Impressing Fans
- Mad Catz's Updated RAT Mice Lineup Slated For Holiday 2016 (Update: Now Available)
- Samsung Scales 10nm FinFET Mountain, Products To Ship In 2017
- Could SyncThink Patent For Adding Eye Tracking In VR HMDs Stifle Innovation?
October 15
- Eurocom Offers GTX 1070 In Sky MX5 R2 Laptop, Starting At $1,500
- Fallen Enthusiast GPU Manufacturers
October 14
- End-To-End Encryption Could’ve Protected Yahoo Mail Users From 2014 Data Breach And NSA Spying
- The Week In Storage And CPUs: Transistors Hit 1nm, PCs Continue To Plummet, IBM Takes Cap Off CAPI
- Nintendo Looks Into Its Closet Of Game Systems Past
- Roto VR Chair Nearing Production, Shipments Start In January
- Acer Updates Swift And Spin Notebook Lines, Reveals Convertible Chromebook With Google Play Support (Updated)
- SilverStone Uses Another OEM To Upgrade The ST45SF To V3.0
- HTC Is Looking For More VR Companies To Take Its Money
- Mobile, Inside-Out Roomscale 6DoF Tracking With Any Decent Smartphone?
October 13
- MSI Debuts Cubi 2 Mini-PC With Kaby Lake CPUs (Updated)
- Seagate Expands Barracuda Series With 5TB 2.5" HDDs, Embiggens FireCuda SSHDs
- Maingear Offers A Positive Vybe, Updates Laptops With Nvidia Pascal
- 'Serious Sam VR' Isn’t A First Person Shooter, It’s A First Person Shoot-Em-Up
- VR Gameplay Mechanics In 'Killing Floor: Incursion'
October 12
- New HTC Vive VR Controller Prototype Showcased At Valve Steam Dev Days
- Imagination Launches Fully Heterogeneous 'I6500' MIPS CPU; Mobileye Is First Major Customer
- Intel Slurps Up Altera Stratix 10 FPGA, HBM, ARM, SoC Alphabet Soup
- Join Us For A 'Mafia III' Livestream At 1pm PDT
- Asrock Updates 100-Series Motherboards For Kaby Lake
- 'Hitman' Season Finale Brings Players To Hokkaido
- Tom's Hardware Steam Giveaway: 'Hover Junkers'
- End-To-End Encrypted Signal App Now Includes Snapchat-Like 'Disappearing Messages'
- I'd Play 'Landfall,' An Oculus Rift Third-Person RTS With Xbox Controllers, For Hours
- HP Reveals New Spectre x360, Envy-Branded Premium Devices
October 11
- Opposing Comcast's Internet Bandwidth Cap (Opinion)
- New 'Gen-Z Consortium' Announces Interconnect Technology Optimized For Next-Generation 'Storage Class Memory'
- 'Squadron 42' Nearly Finished, But Not Ready For Release In 2016
- FCC Fines Comcast For Unwanted Service Charges
- Oculus Disables Galaxy Note 7 Gear VR Compatibility So It Can’t Blow Up In Your Face
- SilverStone Upgrades ST30SF To V2.0, May Be Using A Different OEM
- Re-Boxing My Exploding Galaxy Note 7 In Samsung's Fireproof Box (Updated)
October 10
- ASRock Intros Five Apollo Lake Motherboards With Passive Cooling
- StrongPity 'Advanced Persistent Threat' Goes After WinRAR, TrueCrypt Users, Says Kaspersky
- Apollo Lake Lands On An Asus Motherboard
- Oculus Touch Pre-Orders Are Open, But You Don't Have To Rush If You Pre-Ordered A Rift
- 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition' Goes Gold, Here Are The System Requirements
- Chrome 55 To Intelligently Reduce Memory Usage By As Much Half, When Needed
- Abrash Predicts The Future Of VR
October 7
- Oculus Rift, Untethered: Project Santa Cruz, Hands On
- Microsoft Windows 10 Build 14942 Increases RAM Usage
- 'Lone Echo': Brutal VR Space Ultimate Frisbee (Hands On)
- Comcast Introduces 1TB Xfinity Data Plans
- 'Mafia III' Runs At 30 FPS At Launch, Developers Working On Framerate Patch (Updated)
- EU-U.S. ‘Privacy Shield’ Agreement: Useful Or Useless? Yahoo Surveillance Scandal Should Decide That
- Oculus Touch Controllers: The Good And The Bad
October 6
- Oculus Reveals Asynchronous Spacewarp, Lowers VR Minimum Spec
- Web VR: Oculus, Facebook Pushing VR For All With React VR, 'Carmel' Browser
- Facebook Shows New Social Presence Demo, Oculus Reveals Avatars, Parties, Rooms
- Facebook, Oculus Show VR Industry The Money
- Latest 'Dishonored 2' Footage Shows You How To Escape
- Oculus Confirms Touch Shipping In December, Supports Room-Scale VR With A Catch
- Funomena's 'Luna' Puzzle VR Game Soothes And Enchants
- Insomniac Games' 'The Unspoken' Casts You In VR Wizard Duel
- Epic Games' 'Robo Recall' VR Game Picks Up Where 'Bullet Train' Began
- Yahoo Claims Reuters NSA Scanning Report Was 'Misleading,' Not False
- Watch Out 'Audioshield,' 'Soundboxing' Is Looking For A Fight
- Eurocom’s Sky X4E2 Features GTX 10-Series, 4G LTE Support
- A Worthy Successor In 'Gears Of War 4,' Hands-On
- Asus Adds Kaby Lake Support to 87 Of Its 100-Series Motherboards
October 5
- Don’t Bother With Arizona This Winter, Stay At Home And Play Golf On Your Vive
- MindMaze, Dacuda Partner To Bring 6DoF Room-Scale Tracking To Mobile VR Market
- Crowdfunding Campaign For 'Wasteland 3' Starts Today
- Oculus Connect Is Happening Now, Here’s What You Can Expect
- 'VR Funhouse' Getting Touch Support, Two More Levels
- Enermax Reveals The Revolution DUO Power Supplies
- Google Fixes Dozens Of Security Vulnerabilities In Android October Update, But Many Users Remain Left Out
- Intel Quietly Increases The 600p SSD Series Endurance Ratings
October 4
- Immersed 2016 Features A Robust Public Experience Lineup
- Google Daydream Made Of Fabric, Costs Under $100, Available In November
- Increasingly Common Gag Orders Show Necessity Of Minimal Data Collection
- Owlchemy Labs Innovates New Mixed Reality VR Techniques: Depth Sensing Camera, In-Game Compositing
October 3
- Following Printer DRM Fiasco, HP Needs To Do More To Fix Reputation, Says EFF
- Buy A GTX 10-Series Card From EVGA, Get A Powerlink For Free (Updated)
- Dust Off Your Big Gun Collection, ‘Serious Sam VR’ Hits Steam October 17
- U.S. Relinquishes Control Of ICANN To International Multistakeholders
- Arduino Unity: A Sign Of Things To Come
- nDreams' 'The Asssembly' Heads To PSVR Next Week
- AMD Launches 7th Generation Bristol Ridge PRO APUs
October 2
- APC BR1000G Tear-Down
October 1
- NeosVR Lets You Build Virtual Worlds With Others, Remotely And In Real Time
- Got An Accessory Idea For The HTC Vive? It Could Win You One