Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 adds Firefox support, isn’t just for creating pretty demons

Yes, Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 can be used to create large, dramatic demon gods, but that doesn’t mean it’s only used to create large, dramatic demon gods. It’s also used to create sneaky thief demos! Oh, and as Mozilla demonstrates this morning…

MSI supercharges its high-end gaming laptops with NVIDIA Maxwell graphics

It happens every time. NVIDIA unveils its latest GPU architecture, and all your favorite gaming laptops are suddenly getting refreshed internals. And why not? The new silicon promises screaming performance, improved battery life and support for…

Razer's Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet

Razer's Righteous New Blade Might Be the Best Windows Laptop Yet

The 2013 Razer Blade was fantastic . A finally great execution on a concept that’s been appealing as hell from the very start, a Windows gaming laptop with the premium feel of a MacBook. Now it’s back again, and yes, it is even better.

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Nvidia's New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers

Nvidia's New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers

Integrated graphics are getting better and better , but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well.

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24 Hours of UberFacts: So Many Lies, So Little Time

24 Hours of UberFacts: So Many Lies, So Little Time

With about 6.3 million Twitter followers, UberFacts reaches millions of people with little nuggets of trivia every day. Unfortunately, many of those "fun facts" are completely wrong or misleading.

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Apple drops iPhone return policy back to 14 days, matches carriers

At some point several years ago Apple decided to offer a much more generous return policy for the iPhone than it did for other products, bumping it from 14 days to 30 days. Over the last couple of years, however, the carriers have begun shifting to a…

Happy Birthday World Wide Web: The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Until It Doesn’t?

Happy Birthday World Wide Web: The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Until It Doesn't?We have Tim Berners-Lee to thank for the World Wide Web – an accessible
bank of knowledge that’s hyperlinked content across the globe bestowing
upon "us mere mortals a real chance to learn as much as our brains can store." And guess what? He did it all before digital monetization. . .

How the Granddaddy of US Recon Planes Is Helping Search for Flight 370

How the Granddaddy of US Recon Planes Is Helping Search for Flight 370

The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 off the coast of Vietnam has prompted a massive multinational maritime search for hints of the plane’s fate. Among the growing armada of surface and aerial search vessels is the US Navy’s venerable P-3C Orion, a long-range surveillance platform still just as effective today as it was in the early Cold War.

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Apple iPhone return period cut in half

Apple has more than halved the return period for iPhone shoppers in the US, trimming its refund policy for handsets purchased from the Cupertino company itself. Previously, buyers of the … Continue reading

MakerBot’s mammoth Replicator Z18 3D printer goes up for pre-order

If you want some truly heavy-duty 3D printing, you’ll be glad to hear that MakerBot’s Replicator Z18 is now available for pre-order. Pay $6,499 and you’ll get to craft objects up to a lofty 18 inches tall once the printer ships this spring. Should…