The Industry is about to Retire Another Career
The Industry is on the Throes of Retiring Another Career With the end of the Mad Men series I wanted to get another jolt of those good old days, so I read a couple of books on David Ogilvy, often …
Soft Facts
Keep The Good Hackers to Protect Us from Bad Hackers When hackers took control of a Jeep and put it in a ditch, the media made it sound like a dangerous thing, Congress screamed and Chrysler recalled thousands of vehicles …
HyperX Releases Additions to FURY DRAM
HyperX, a division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., today announced the addition of HyperX FURY DDR3L high-performance, low-voltage DIMMs, as well as brand-new HyperX Impact DDR4 SO-DIMMs. HyperX FURY DDR3L runs at a cool-running low 1.35V. It is available in …
Windows 10 vs. Windows 8.1 CrossFire & SLI Showdown
BabelTechReviews has made the move to Windows 10 after just five months on Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 is a hybrid operating system that most gamers evidently dislike, and the move to Windows 10 is welcomed. We purchased a retail Windows …
Changing the Way Businesses and Consumers Connect
Maybe Too Big Today, people have a few needs – just-in-time-information, constant feedback, things that do things for us and privacy. That’s tough to achieve in our always-on world. O.K., it’s impossible. We have our IoT (Internet of Things) and …
The GTX 950 arrives as the ASUS STRIX DirectCU II OC – the full review
The GTX 950 arrived this morning at $159 to take direct aim at AMD’s $149 R9 370. Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture arrived in mid-September, 2014 and the GTX 970/980 brought some amazing performance and energy-saving improvements at 28nm without moving to …
ASUS STRIX GTX 950 DirectCU II OC Performance results with 29 games
We received an ASUS STRIX GTX 950 DirectCU II OC Edition a week ago under NDA and are still writing this review. It will be published in its entirety within the next few hours. This is an important launch for …
Innovation
No Status Quo – Innovation Comes in Large, Small Increments Lots of really smart people have made predictions about the future and were wrong: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, …
Catalyst 15.7.1 Performance Analysis Featuring 290X & 290X CrossFire
As part of a regular feature for BabelTechReviews, this driver analysis will look at the performance of 32 PC games using the latest Catalyst 15.7.1 drivers which were released the day before Windows 10 was launched on July 29. We …
Hacking – The Job that Just Keeps on Giving
Lovin Code The hacking “industry” has come a long way since 1972 when Woz and Jobs would make blue boxes similar to Draper’s “Cap’n Crunch” boxes and would sell them to folks who wanted to make free phone calls anywhere …
TV Anywhere
OTT, 4K Content Driving Infrastructure, Viewing Changes Netflix’ Reed Hastings has warped reality … TV isn’t dead. It’s in the middle of a gut-wrenching change to keep pace with consumer expectations and the dizzying array of options that are emerging …