Asus teams with Secretlab to create slick ROG gaming chairs

From CNET: Asus' Republic of Gamers PC series is all about big flashy lights, insane specs and crazy designs.

Now, for its tenth anniversary, Asus wants to bring the ROG brand from your computer to your...chair.

The company is tying up with Singapore-based gaming chair maker Secretlab to release a...

AMD has its eyes on Las Vegas with Polaris GPUs

From InfoWorld: AMD wants its new Polaris GPUs to dazzle gamblers in Las Vegas using electronic devices.

Qualcomm, meanwhile, wants its embedded Snapdragon chips to be installed in robots, drones, and smart devices used in homes and for commercial applications.

For both chipmakers, the internet of...

Samsung: Safe batteries inside over 1 million Note 7 phones

From CNET: Samsung's global recall and replacement is in full swing for its Galaxy Note 7 phones with flawed batteries.

The South Korean electronics giant said more than 1 million people globally are using new Note 7 phones with safer batteries, according to Reuters.

The company voluntarily...

HP says sorry (sort of) for crippling third-party ink cartridges

From CNET: If HP really clogged your nozzles with its printer security update that killed your third-party ink, good news -- in the form of another update -- is on the way.

Earlier in the month, HP updated a cartridge authentication procedure for select models of its office inkjet printers. That...

Oracle denied new trial in copyright dispute with Google over Java

From InfoWorld: A federal court in California has denied Oracle another trial in its long-standing copyright infringement dispute with Google over the use of Java code in the Android operating system.

A jury had cleared Google of copyright infringement in May this year, upholding the company's...

Apple 'iPhone 8' already in the works, report says

From CNET: Many Apple fans are still trying to get their hands on a new iPhone 7, but we're already hearing rumors about the iPhone 8.

Apple is developing hardware for the iPhone 8, which will be released next year, at an office in Israel, Business Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed...

Nvidia teases Volta GPU in next-gen Xavier self-driving car computer

From PC World: Nvidia's current Pascal GPUs are generating a lot of enthusiasm, but their successor, the Volta GPU architecture, is on its way next year, and there's a lot to be excited about.

Nvidia unveiled Volta in a new Xavier supercomputer chip designed for self-driving cars, with the small...

No Man's Sky investigated over misleading advertising claims

From CNET: The UK's Advertising Standards Authority is investigating No Man's Sky after it received "several complaints" about the game's potentially misleading advertising.

A representative for the organization confirmed to Eurogamer that the investigation has begun and is focused on the No Man's...

Microsoft Azure networking is speeding up, thanks to custom hardware

From InfoWorld: Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers.

The company announced Monday that it has deployed hundreds of thousands of FPGAs (Field-Programmable...

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