Instead of shelling out the best part of 500 notes for a Fatman, the Logic3 Valve80 comes in at a more modest £299, but still claims to offer a warmth and depth of sound you’ll only find in a valve-based system. If looks are important to you, what could be more eye-catching than a shiny [...]

The tank is a custom design which you submerge the motherboard, CPU, GPUs, RAM, redundant power supplies and SSD drives into. Hardcore doesn’t say what exactly the material is except that it’s an “aerospace” material and “bullet proof” (we prefer the term bullet resistant.) The oil is also somewhat of a secret but it is [...]

Competition in the video-game console market remains intense as the Big Three console makers head into the critical holiday shopping season. Well, at least the competition is intense for the No. 2 spot. Nintendo’s Wii console remains the market-share leader, by a sizable margin, but Microsoft’s Xbox 360 price cuts have recently vaulted it back [...]

Is there anything more awesome than miniaturization? The Walkman put a stereo system in your pocket and changed the game forever. A modern digital watch has the computing power of a whole roomful of 1950s computer gear. And people are watching TV shows these days on iPods about the size of a business card. Enormous [...]

Canonical has announced that it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM’s Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices such as mobile phones, but it emerged in October that ARM’s technology would soon be used in Netbooks, the new breed [...]

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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday unveiled new plans to turn its Windows Live online services into a social networking hub. The new social network will merge other existing Microsoft applications which include Hotmail, Live Messenger, Spaces and photos. The new migrated social networking platform is Microsoft’s latest strategy to compete with other online community [...]