Friday, March 30, 2012

PlayStation 4 to Sport Big Graphics Muscle

PlayStation 4 to Sport Big Graphics Muscle

PlayStation 4 to Sport Big Graphics Muscle

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:33 AM PDT

Sony is working on the PlayStation 4, which it calls "Orbis," and plans to release the device in time for the holiday season in 2013, according to a recent report. The console can reportedly play 3D games at 1080p resolution, as compared to the PS3's 720p. It apparently won't be backward-compatible with games for the PS3 and will reportedly seek to bar owners from playing used games. Some developers say they've already received development kits for the Orbis.

Google Gives Users a Gander at the Trails They Leave

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:10 AM PDT

Google has launched a new tool called "Account Activity," designed to give users a detailed glimpse into their Web usage across all Google sites and services. Account Activity is a personalized, detailed monthly report on Web activity with Google search, Gmail accounts, YouTube and social network Google+. It also indicates location and device information, so a user could see he or she searched from an iPad in a hotel in Italy, for example. Users can also monitor how many Gmail messages they send and receive on a month-to-month basis.

How to Overclock a CPU: Getting Started

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Overclocking a CPU sounds seductive, right? Adjust a few settings on your phone or tablet, and the device goes faster. Games play without laborious, stuttering, forced slow-motion effects, and everything loads quicker. Well, like everything in life, these adjustments involve a tradeoff. Just as there are risks in taking your car out for a rural run and heavy-footing it, there are implications for a CPU speedup. In the case of the car, risks can include a blown gasket, or crashing and possibly getting killed. In the case of a CPU, there are also some harsh possible outcomes.

Why Tech Tangles Are More Painful for Apple Users

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Is Apple pain worse than PC pain? I don't know the answer, but it seems to me that a weird mix of personality, expectation and Apple's business model all conspire to create dreadful pain in Apple enthusiasts whenever something with an Apple product goes wrong. I'm not talking so much about a hardware failure like a hard drive that dies, but something more insidious, like an application that won't launch, applications that crash, mysterious MacBook heat, spinning beach balls of destiny, or oddly consumed hard drive space.

The Privacy Pickle

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

"Is privacy only for those with something to hide?" is the title of an open ballot on TuxRadar that has kicked off quite a debate. TuxRadar points to the full-disk encryption option now offered by several Linux distributions -- along with potential law-enforcement implications -- but the topic is also particularly timely in light of Canonical's recent moves to step up Ubuntu's privacy protections and privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo's recent adoption by both Linux Mint and PC-BSD. Views have been nothing if not divided.
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