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Windows 8.1: Six Things Microsoft Got Right and Others That Are Still Missing
Not unlike previous releases of Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop OS, Windows 8 has faced a lot of scru...
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What Ever Happened to The Million Dollar Homepage?
What are pixels? The display on your screen is made of them, and raster image file formats have been...
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Quality Assured: What It's Really Like To Test Games For A Living
There's an old commercial for Westwood College that's become something of a running joke in the vide...
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DDR4 Memory at 4000 MT/s, Does It Make a Difference?
Normally I don't pay much attention to e-mails that hit my inbox from manufacturers claiming that a...
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A Decade Later: Does the Q6600 Still Have Game in 2017?
Launched over a decade ago, the 65nm Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was Intel's first quad-core desktop proce...
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What Ever Happened to GeoCities?
In the mid 1990s, the internet had no Facebook, Google or even Wikipedia. If you wanted to use the w...
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13 Good Games You Can Play on Laptops and Budget PCs
Sometimes you'll find yourself out of the house, with nothing but a laptop and a whole lot of time....
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Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and Playback
For years, H.264 has been the go-to video compression standard. Whenever you download a film or TV s...
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DDR4 Memory at 4000 MT/s, Does It Make a Difference?
Normally I don't pay much attention to e-mails that hit my inbox from manufacturers claiming that a...
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How Blizzard Saved Diablo III From Disaster
This is an excerpt from Jason Schreier's upcoming book, "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," which comes out...
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Rob's Alder Lake Windows 11 Rig Build Log
Here's a confession: I haven't built a PC from scratch in almost a decade. Sure, I've replaced RAM,...
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11 Tech Products That Were Supposed to Fail... But Didn't
You'll often find that when a new product or service fails, there's a line of people waiting to say,...