This week gaming company Valve made public a new operating system based on their game collection and environment: SteamOS. As Steam continues to be a central part of the gaming community here in 2013, dominating the world of digital distribution of games the world over, SlashGear took the opportunity to speak with one of the […]
Google quietly switched on a new search algorithm, Hummingbird, a month ago the company has revealed, impacting an estimated 90-percent of searches by improving how the engine handles complex queries. Revealed at an event earlier today, held at the house Sergey Brin and Larry Page first used while setting up Google almost fifteen years ago, […]
Bill Gates regrets it, Windows users generally hate it, and its become computing shorthand for hitting reset on a bad idea, but Ctrl+Alt+Del wasn’t always a bad idea. The much-maligned key combo came in for some criticism by the former Microsoft CEO at an interview this week, with Gates questioning “Who’s idea was that?” and […]
Earlier this week, a teardown by IHS revealed that Apple’s iPhone 5c costs the company $173 to produce, representing a 12 percent reduction compared to the iPhone 5. The entry-level iPhone 5s, meanwhile, sets customers back $199. The news was not at all surprising. Apple has for years been building products for a relatively cheap […]
The average work surface is covered in smart devices – laptop, smartphone, tablet, maybe a wearable or two like Fitbit or UP – but Stir’s Kinetic Desk asks could the desk itself be smarter? That’s the approach startup Stir is taking, founded by a former member of Apple’s iPod team, and promising great things from […]
This week the HTC One Max has been verified as existing once again in a series of photos presented by the MIIT, that being essentially the FCC of China – so to speak. What you’ll see here is the front, back, left, and right of the device as it’s headed to Chinese mobile carriers, showing […]
This week the teams behind several of Google’s key apps for Android have ushered in updates that tie the family together closer, ushering in an environment ripe for a new operating system iteration. That new version is, of course, Android 4.4 KitKat, and considering Google has been ushering in the press on the subject so […]
SteamOS is on the horizon – an operating system based in Linux made to run on a variety of devices called Steam Machines. The gaming company known as Valve suggests that their Steam Machines will become “a powerful new category of living-room hardware”, having been created by a wide variety of manufacturers and working with […]
While the Pebble smartwatch is not a machine that needs any kind of mobile data coverage as such, the folks at AT&T have decided to get onboard with carrying the device as an exclusive across the USA. This device was part of a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year and found itself the subject of a […]
You’ll find the same clues appearing for the iPad’s 5th generation release as we saw with the iPhone 5s this week, with parts from upstream coming on in several tones. What you’re seeing here is a collection of parts acquired from the secondhand repair and replacement market in China, coming through the likes of Sonny […]
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