From X-bit Labs: John Gustafson, chief product architect at graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices and a renowned industry veteran, praises the heterogeneous system architecture of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 as well as its ultra-fast unified memory sub-system. In addition...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading maker of solid-state drives for PCs and enterprises, is reportedly working on Vertex 5 solid-state drives that will be powered by Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller as well as inexpensive NAND flash memory. The new drives are projected to...

From CNET News.com: Intel discussed the next-generation "Bay Trail" tablet processor today at its annual conference in Beijing. Expect to see a new crop of faster yet still power-efficient Windows 8 -- and likely Windows 8.1 -- tablets later this year.

An "entirely new Atom...

From DailyTech: With Google Inc.'s (GOOG) new "Pixel" Chromebooks beating Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) premium laptops in the pixels-per-inch (ppi) arms race, Apple is reportedly pondering releasing 4K Thunderbolt 2 displays for sometime in 2014. 4K (typically referring to 3840x2160 pixel...

From DailyTech: Just as Google was on the verge of escaping one investigation with European regulators, it may be caught in yet another -- but this time, regarding its Android operating system.

Fairsearch Europe -- a group of Google competitors including Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle...

From X-bit Labs: A year from now will mark the final milestone for Windows XP, the end of support for the operating system by Microsoft Corp. The longest-living OS from Microsoft will finally become obsolete exactly a year from now. Meanwhile, over one third of desktops and notebooks...

From X-bit Labs: HGST, a Western Digital company, has announced the industry’s first family of advanced enterprise-class solid-state drives with SAS-12Gb/s interface. The drives are based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory and are designed for the most demanding applications...

From CNET News.com: WhatsApp, the maker of the popular mobile chat program, denied this evening that it is in talks to be acquired by Google for nearly $1 billion.

The two companies have been talking for "four or five weeks," according to a Digital Trends report last week that...

From DailyTech: Panasonic has pulled the wraps it latest Micro 4/3 camera: the DMC-GF6. The camera boasts 16-megapixel resolution Live MOS Sensor paired with the Venus Engine for image processing.

The ISO settings can be extended all the way up to 25,600, and the camera features a...

From DailyTech: When Google first started to experiment with fiber-optic internet service it put out proposals to have cities around the country vie for the opportunity to have service first. Ultimately, Kansas City was chosen as the location to get the first Google Fiber...