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Fractal Design Define R6 Blackout TG Review (Page 1 of 4)

What is the biggest sin you can commit against your friends in 2018? Go ask any teenage kid and they will tell you it goes something along the lines of breaking a Snapchat streak. The genesis of any friendship starts with that little flame icon with the number "3" on the side. This is the beginning of your commitment to sending each other at least one snap every day. If you break a single digit streak, no matter; you were not serious about the...

Antec P6 Review (Page 1 of 4)

If you read my last review on the 1MORE Quad Driver, you would know I ended by saying we were able to track down the phone. To continue the story, we called the cleaning company to ask if they knew anything and they mentioned the lady in charge brought some extra people to the office. They suspected a boyfriend of the cleaner's niece. Immediately, people started guessing this guy was a bratty adolescent who did not know any better. The next day...

Mozilla Firefox tries closing another privacy hole with new network tech

From CNET: Browser makers are trying to thwart network snoopers by encrypting your connections to the web servers that host websites, but Mozilla on Friday began a project to go one step farther.

Firefox Nightly, a rough-around-the-edges test version of Mozilla's browser, now includes technology...

Microsoft’s Android launcher now lets you track your kid’s location and app usage

From The Verge: Microsoft is bringing a new location tracking feature to its Android launcher app. Available in preview, the new family tracking feature lets Microsoft Launcher users track the last known location of their family members. The launcher also includes an activity report of what apps are...

US Teens Leave Facebook for Instagram, Snapchat

From PC Mag: Facebook's popularity is dropping among US teenagers aged from 13 to 17. According to a new poll, a large majority are instead using YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat, and doing so more frequently.

Only about half, at 51 percent, say they use Facebook, according to the survey from the...

Corsair Gaming HS70 Wireless Review (Page 1 of 4)

Our offices have been having several pizza lunches to get us to mingle with everyone in the office and not just the people in our department. Of course, our group of guys was really excited to be eating pizza, especially since it was not a norm. On the most recent pizza day, we were all really hungry and excited for the pizza delivery guy to arrive. I thought I heard the pizza guy and I ran out, while all my co-workers waited expectantly. However...

Alcatel’s 1X is the only Android Go phone you can buy in the US

From The Verge: Alcatel’s first phone running Android Go, the 1X, will go on sale in the US next week for $100. Not only is this Alcatel’s first device running Google’s optimized OS for cheaper phones, it’s also the one and only phone running it that’s currently for sale in the United States...

Intel Wants to Replace DDR4 With Optane DIMMs

From PC Mag: Intel is slowly rolling out different products using its 3D XPoint non-volatile Optane memory co-developed with Micron. Performance sits somewhere in between an SSD and RAM, which is why Intel initially focused on offering the very expensive Optane Memory for use as a hybrid drive...

Nokia sells Withings health division in restructuring effort

From CNET: Withings has returned to the ownership of co-founder Eric Carreel following Nokia's decision to sell off the company.

The French health technology company, which Carreel co-founded with Cedric Hutchings in 2008, was purchased by Nokia for 170 million euros, about $204 million, in 2016...

Nintendo Launches First Switch Pokemon Game

From PC Mag: The Switch already enjoys a healthy collection of Nintendo first-party games, but last night the first Pokemon game was announced for the system. What's more, it's already available to download and play!

The game is called Pokemon Quest, but it's very different from the core Pokemon...