Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix
Linux gamers, perk up your ears: the elusive port of Valve Software's digital game distribution platform Steam is finally coming, according to a Phoronix scoop. After spending years trying to track it down and finding evidence in ...
Norton Identity Safe stores your logins in the cloud: the poor man’s 1Password
1Password is a fantastic cross-platform app that stores, locks and quickly retrieves your logins and personal information. With it, you can access password-protected websites with a single click, and store an encrypted copy of you...
Apple’s Tim Cook never met with Valve, according to co-founder Gabe Newell and 7DCD
Perhaps you've heard that Apple CEO Tim Cook was spotted at Valve Corporation last Friday, and joined your fellow man in speculating about the amazing products an Apple-Valve partnership could produce. There's one tiny problem: ac...
AMD loses $590 million in Q1 2012, blames the calendar for its troubles
AMD didn't have a great 2011, but it still managed to make $491 million in profit last year. Over the last three months, though, the company lost all that money and then some: AMD just reported a $590 million net loss for Q1...
Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 can be easily unlocked – if you’re lucky
We're hearing that some Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 handsets have a surprisingly beneficial flaw: apparently, some of the devices trickled out into the marketplace with stock Qualcomm bootloaders that allow full access to the on...
Acer Iconia Tab A510 now on sale, Android 4.0 rolls out to earlier Acer tablets on April 27
And then there were two: if we're counting correctly, Acer's Iconia Tab A510 just became the second quad-core Tegra 3 tablet to go on sale in the United States. While it doesn't have an optional keyboard dock like the Asus Transfo...
Intel reports $12.9 billion revenue for Q1 2012, tells us to expect more hybrid tablets
Intel is steadily making billions of dollars in the silicon business: today, the 101,000-employee-strong chipmaker announced $12.9 billion in revenue and $2.7 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2012. Sure, that's not quite...
Seagate CEO talks Thailand recovery, why flash won’t supplant magnetic hard drives
We like to dream about the day when solid state storage will completely replace the comparatively sluggish magnetic hard drives we've been using for years, but according to Seagate CEO Steve Luczo, that idea isn't grounded in real...
Chrome’s False Start lives up to its name: web security gets slower (but more compatible) in Chrome 20
In 2010, Google claimed it had a way to significantly reduce the time it took to load encrypted websites, and in 2011, it proclaimed success: "False Start" reportedly reduced the latency of SSL handshakes for users of the Google C...
Canon admits 5D Mark III backlight can confuse light sensor, is working on ‘countermeasures’
See the top LCD panel on that gorgeous new Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera above? Early adopters say that light can leak through that spot and confuse the camera's Automatic Exposure (AE) sensor... and Canon isn't disagreeing with th...
Valve reveals mystery hardware project: wearable computing
This morning, Valve Software set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers. Now, Valve developer (and well-known programmer) Michael Abrash has revealed what kind of hardware the company is prototypin...
How would Google’s Project Glass HUD work for those with prescription glasses?
Isabelle Olsson is a Senior Industrial Designer at Google, and apparently, she's a member of the Project Glass team responsible for designing Sergey Brin's futuristic heads-up display. Today, she took to Google+ to answer a burnin...
