While most high-end Android phones currently sport Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600, there's another chip announced earlier this year waiting to hit the scene: the Snapdragon 800. Now, the first benchmarks of that new chip are in — and its GPU promises to smoke the competition. Read More >>
Featured comment by cave_dweller:
"Well said. I've been meaning to write a similar comment for a while but never found the right article to link to the subject.
Ditto re work PC. At ..." More »
It's that time of the year again, where Apple's next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. Read More >>
Featured comment by dontpannic:
"Well an industrial pinch of salt I will take.
That connector on the LCD display will not fit onto those connectors highlighted in red. They don't l..." More »
Featured comment by jtanz0:
"Came here expecting to read that AMD would be cranking up the clock speed and putting in more cores - was not dissapointed" More »
If you've got a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you're out of luck. They're just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise cancelling. Read More >>
Featured comment by Fourthletter:
"Fair enough mine tends to hum away and I cannot always wear headphones for work or games so keeping it silent is a must." More »
The new old, curiously botoxed Xbox 360 was announced at E3 to a crowd of shrugs. Why add makeup and eyeliner to a walking zombie? Whatever. The ace surgical team at iFixit got their hands on the new old Xbox 360 to see if anything changed inside. Here are the guts. Read More >>
While Google's Glass has been on the block for a while, we were yet to see a thorough teardown of the hardware tucked away inside its slender frame. Wait no longer, though, because the folks over at Catwig have now taken the thing apart. Read More >>
12 hours of battery life on the 2013 MacBook Air is simply ridiculous (though it's also sort of ridiculous that it's ridiculous). iFixit's task force took apart this year's MBA, which is pretty identical to last year's MBA, to see what's new and how it can squeeze so much juice. Read More >>
Featured comment by warrmr:
"Give me back my pint the bartender looked confused when I ask for 568ml of Cider!!
I love how we have the freedom to use appropriate units for your..." More »
AMD just one-upped its own series of eight-core FX processors, and the golden child of this newest lineup is unquestionably the FX-9590, which it claims is the world's "first-ever 5 GHz processor." While technically that record was already beat—and by AMD themselves, no less—it is, in fact, the first commercially available 5GHz CPU processor. Read More >>
Featured comment by FRISH:
"No where near (although I'm not sure the price has been mentioned yet). Even intel extremes are only set at a grand. You'd probably be better off with..." More »
Ever since Apple stole every geek's eyeballs with the Retina display, PPI's been the name of the game in computing. But I've got a secret; perhaps the grubbiest, dirtiest secret a tech writer could have right now: I hate hi-res screens. Read More >>
Remember when you were younger and going through the car wash was one of the most exciting things you could do? It probably only cost about 50p as well. Read More >>
Featured comment by Cap'n Jax:
"The bloody car wash took my aerial off!
(I followed the instructions and lowered it as far as it would go, as it's not a removable one)
The cash..." More »
Intel has officially announced that the next generation of Thunderbolt, previously codenamed Falcon Ridge, will be called... wait for it... Thunderbolt 2. Lame name, sadly — but it still promises to be amazing. Read More >>
Faster hardware shouldn't be this somber. Yet we can't help but furrow our brow in concern over Intel's fourth-generation Core i7 CPU, Haswell. Yes, in typical Intel fashion, it's a tour de force of technical achievement and features that's the envy of the free world. It's also, by the way, quite fast. Read More >>
Featured comment by NickMackz:
"Sandy Bridge boards and CPUs never got much cheaper after Ivy released so I wouldn't keep your hopes up for it dropping much (or at all) in price." More »
Every camera you've ever used in your life has a lens that focuses incoming photons on to a light-sensitive surface. But in the future, cameras might not need lenses at all, and this Bell Labs prototype illustrates how this could be done for cheap. Read More >>
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