Mad Catz, maker of gaming peripherals, is back from the dead

From CNET: It looked like an early April Fools' joke. Who would believe that Mad Catz, the bankrupt gaming peripheral company, would rise from the dead on "4.1.18"?

But the teaser trailer, which swept across rakish, angular renders of what was unmistakably a Mad Catz modular mouse, wasn't...

Intel Chips Have a Major Design Flaw and the Fix Means Slower PCs

From PC Mag: Over the next few weeks there's a very good chance your PC or laptop is going to take a significant performance hit. The worst case scenario being it will get 30 percent slower. Worse than that is the fact you can do nothing about it as the slow down is a side effect of fixing a major...

LG gets a jump on CES by announcing its 2018 smart TV lineup early

From PC World: LG left the chute early today with pre-CES news about its 2018 smart TVs. A number of improvements are touted involving just about every buzz technology in the industry: HDR (High Dynamic Range), HFR (High Frame Rate, 240Hz, which refers to 240 frames-per-second refresh rate), Dolby...

Spotify hit with $1.6 billion copyright lawsuit

From CNET: Spotify has been sued for allegedly playing thousands of songs from the likes of Tom Petty, Neil Young and The Doors without permission.

Wixen Music Publishing, a song licensee, sued Spotify last week in California federal court, alleging the music-streaming startup is using its songs...

Google Gets Fuchsia OS Running on Pixelbooks

From PC Mag: Google currently supports two operating systems: Android and Chrome OS for smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks, But it has a new OS in development called Fuchsia, and documentation recently appeared showing developers how to run it on a Pixelbook.

Very little is known about what...

WeChat accused of storing users' chat histories

From CNET: Tencent Holdings has denied that it stores chat histories from WeChat, China's most popular messaging app.

The accusation came from Li Shufu, chairman of car company Geely, which owns Volvo. Shufu was quoted in Chinese media on Monday saying that Tencent's chairman "must be watching all...

Cooler Master MasterSet MS120 Review (Page 1 of 4)

Most of the time, things can be done by in more than one way. In other words, no one can really claim his or her method is the only way unless he or she wants to show some kind of authority over others. Well, there is something in this world can only be done in one way, and that is more related with our spiritual needs. However, considering this article is a keyboard set review, let us not carried away by other subjects, haha. Speaking of using...

Nintendo Appeal Fails in $10M Wii Remote Patent Lawsuit

From PC Mag: When the Wii was first announced, gamers were left scratching their heads as to what Nintendo had done to its home console. Gone was the traditional gamepad, replaced instead by a motion controller called the Wii Remote (also commonly referred to as a Wiimote). The Wii went on to be...

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