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Microsoft’s Kinect comes to Windows next year

# 2013-05-23 15:00:02, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
With all the emphasis that Microsoft is giving to its redesigned Kinect sensor as a key feature of the Xbox One, it’s not surprising that the company wants to bring it to its Windows operating system as well. And sure enough, Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will “deliver a new generation...

This Is HP's Take on the Retina MacBook Pro

# 2013-05-22 22:55:33, Gizmodo
HP has just announced a big overhaul of its Envy and Pavilion ranges, and most of the updates are fairly uninspiring—apart from the company's take on Apple's Retina MacBook Pro.Read more...

Video: Leap Motion makes the leap to Windows

# 2013-05-21 12:00:21, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
BGR took an in-depth look at Leap Motion’s revolutionary motion-control PC accessory last year, and we loved the accuracy and shocking reliability of Leap’s technology. The controller was only compatible with Mac computers at the time, however. In a recent post on the company’s blog, Leap ...

Leak points to ’5G Wi-Fi’ in next-gen Macs

# 2013-05-21 06:30:35, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
It has been reported that Apple’s next-generation MacBooks will support gigabit Wi-Fi connectivity, evidence of which was discovered in a recent OS X developer build. The 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, also known as “5G Wi-Fi,” is capable of delivering theoretical speeds of up to 1.3Gbps and is con...

IBM's Watson Has a Boring New Job Answering Phones

# 2013-05-21 04:11:00, Gizmodo
After you've used your crazy robot intellect to crush puny meatbags definitively in a game of Jeopardy, it would seem like the world is your oyster. But Watson's not taking trying to take over the world or anything, no. After a trying out medicine and inventing a pastry, he's settling for a boring ...

Touch is taking over: Touchscreen laptop shipments climbed to 4.57 million in Q1

# 2013-05-20 10:50:18, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform hasn’t exactly been the catalyst PC makers were looking for as sales continue to slide, but the new operating system does seem to be making some progress. IHS-owned market research firm Displaybank says that of the 46 million notebook computers that shipped during...

Samsung takes on Google and Apple with highest-resolution notebook display in the world

# 2013-05-20 08:30:55, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Samsung on Monday announced a new super-high resolution display for laptop computers. The company revealed a 13.3-inch QHD display with a resolution of 3200 x 1800 and a pixel density of 276 ppi. The display’s pixels are packed even tighter on Samsung’s new panels than on Google’s Chromebook P...

Dell’s experimental ‘computer-on-a-stick’ shipping to developers in July

# 2013-05-20 06:30:28, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
One of the most intriguing concepts for the future of the PC industry we’ve heard lately has been Dell’s Project Ophelia, a USB thumb drive-sized “computer-on-a-stick” that can plug into any monitor’s USB port to transform it into a makeshift computer capable of running multiple operating ...

Video: Raspberry Pi camera accessory available now

# 2013-05-15 17:59:31, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
The Raspberry Pi foundation on Tuesday announced the availability of a $25 camera module for its popular Raspberry Pi computers. The module can be purchased from distributors RS Components or Premier Farnell/Element14, and is compatible with both the Model A and Model B versions of the Raspberry Pi....

When Will Computers Be as Powerful as the Human Brain?

# 2013-05-14 03:09:12, Gizmodo
We all know that computing power roughly doubles every 18 months—but at that rate, how long will it take for computers to be as powerful as the human brain?Read more...

The World's Most Powerful Computer Network Is Being Wasted on Bitcoin

# 2013-05-13 04:33:00, Gizmodo
Bitcoin mining machines are insane powerhouses, and they're only getting crazier. How much power is getting sunk into the digital cryptocurrency? More than the world's top 500 supercomputers combined. What a waste.Read more...

Samsung will reportedly launch an Android notebook in the coming months

# 2013-05-10 05:45:07, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Earlier reports have indicated that Google and its partners are preparing to launch Android-powered notebooks that could debut later this year. Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities notes that Samsung is just one of many companies that will launch such a product within the coming months, 9to5Google report...

Acer execs dial back the Windows 8 hate as Microsoft preps ‘Blue’

# 2013-05-09 10:25:20, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Acer president Jim Wong has been highly critical of Microsoft and the Windows 8 operating system over the past year. The executive previously bashed the company for its Surface tablet and failed marketing of Windows 8 devices. Microsoft recently confirmed that it is working on Windows 8.1, codenamed...

Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 preview to be available by the end of June

# 2013-05-07 09:41:53, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Windows chief Julie Larson-Green announced at the Wired Business Conference on Tuesday that Microsoft will release a preview of Windows 8.1 — also known as Windows Blue — at the end of June, ZDNet reported. The executive said that the company will release the preview at its Build developers...

Sony's New Cheap Laptops Are Actually Kind of Beautiful

# 2013-05-07 03:00:00, Gizmodo
We've sort of gotten used to having to spend a disproportionate amount of money on nice-looking computers. Cheap laptops are not the same as premium laptops. We understand that. For once, though, inexpensive doesn't mean "junky plastic mess".Read more...

Asus plans to beat PC malaise with mix of Chromebooks, Android tablets

# 2013-05-06 16:30:56, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
With the PC industry in decidedly bad shape lately, PC vendors have been looking for alternative ways to generate revenues in a computer market that’s increasingly tilted toward mobile devices. IDG News, via PCWorld, reports that Asus plans to release its first Chromebook in the second half of 201...

PC market continued to tumble in April

# 2013-05-06 14:00:29, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
A recent report suggested Windows 8 may have hurt the declining global PC market rather than helped it, and new inside data points to a continued negative trend in April. According to Digitimes’ research arm, the top-5 PC vendors in the world saw their notebook shipments plummet a combined 20% seq...

Acer Aspire R7 Hands On: We're Not Quite Ready for This Kind of Crazy

# 2013-05-03 05:19:00, Gizmodo
Can we start by saying that Acer's new R7 convertible is nuts, and that that's totally great? Because it is, it's great that Acer's doing this weird new thing that doesn't exactly make sense, just to see if it works. Read more...

Here's the Real Reason Why Virtual Reality Doesn't Work Yet

# 2013-05-02 08:18:00, Gizmodo
It's another blow for immersive virtual reality. University of California researchers have shown that even people with perfect eyesight navigate the world by relying on a lot more than what they see. Here's why VR won't really work until we go beyond visual cues and fancy treadmills. Read more...

2013 is shaping up to be the year of the Chromebook

# 2013-04-29 12:40:37, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
A handful of companies are said to be preparing new Chromebook models that will launch later this year. According to a report from Digitimes, both Acer and ASUS are optimistic about the long-term prospects of Google’s Chromebooks and are working on low-priced computers that will debut in the secon...

New devices said to debut at WWDC, but no iPhone 5S in sight

# 2013-04-29 03:20:21, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
While software is expected to take center stage at Apple’s WWDC keynote this year, a new report claims that we’ll still see some new hardware debut on June 10th in San Francisco. WWDC 2013 tickets sold out in under 3 minutes as excitement among developers boiled over, and all eyes are on iOS 7, ...

Intel confirms $200 Android notebooks are on the way

# 2013-04-26 08:10:15, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Google hasn’t had much luck so far with selling many Chromebooks but the company is hoping to have better luck selling super-cheap notebooks based on its popular Android operating system. Intel chief product officer Dadi Perlmutter tells

MacBook shipments seen growing 10% in Q2 despite declining PC market

# 2013-04-26 02:45:36, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Shipments of Apple’s various MacBook laptop computers are expected to grow 10% sequentially in the second quarter this year. Digitimes on Thursday reported that unnamed sources in Apple’s supply chain anticipate new orders from Apple beginning in mid-May as the company finishes “digesting its ...

Watch a Woman from the 1990s Explain What a Computer Is

# 2013-04-24 19:00:00, Gizmodo
One of the things that will never fail to make me happy: seeing people stuck in time explain what modern day technology is. Kim Komando hosted an educational series about computer and explains the basics of its hardware, DOS, Microsoft Windows, Writeand more. More

Study: The MacBook Pro with Boot Camp is the world’s most reliable Windows PC

# 2013-04-24 08:30:57, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Here’s something that should embarrass Microsoft’s OEM partners: The most reliable Windows PC in the world wasn’t even designed to run on Windows. ZDNet reports that a new study from PC efficiency software vendor Soluto has used “data from its massive online database of PC crashes, hangs, an...