Technology 
Windows 10 will come with a command line package manager, much to the lament of Linux users
Sorry, penguin lovers — if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken. Windows 10 will actually come with a package manager. Yes, in Windows … Continue reading
The first Core M laptop paints a depressing, mediocre picture for Intel’s Broadwell
The first reviews of the Lenovo Core M-powered Yoga 3 Pro have hit the market, but they’re anything but encouraging. It’s not clear that the problem is actually with Intel’s chip, but the end result is disappointing.
Motorola Droid Turbo’s latest leaked pics reveal rapid battery charger
While we’ve seen plenty of Droid Turbo leaks over the past weeks, some new images to hit Twitter Monday reveal a nice bonus coming your way. Motorola’s Turbo Charger, which provides an extra eight hours of battery life after only 15 minutes of … Continue reading
Lenovo Smartband fitness tracker with PC unlock feature appears on company website
Lenovo may be joining the wearable fray with a fitness band that can also unlock your PC. A product simply dubbed Smartband has appeared on Lenovo’s website, perhaps prematurely. There’s no price or release date, and the product description seems … Continue reading
Investigating AMD Mantle’s superb multi-GPU scaling in Civilization: Beyond Earth
AMD is claiming that Mantle can offer a unique and potent improvement to Civilization: Beyond Earth. We take that concept for a test drive.
CVS, Rite Aid stop accepting Apple Pay
Apple Pay launched in the US last week, and its apparent success is already breeding contempt: With no public explanation, both CVS and Rite Aid — huge US drugstore/pharmacy chains — have stopped accepting Apple Pay. A leaked memo from … Continue reading
Amazon fires a shot at Chromecast with $39 Fire TV Stick
If you couldn’t be swayed to buy Amazon’s $99 Fire TV set-top box, perhaps you’d be interested in the company’s new $39 Fire TV Stick instead. Like other dongles such as Google’s Chromecast and Roku’s Streaming Stick, the Fire TV Stick … Continue reading
Fitbit gets fancier with Charge activity trackers, fitness-focused Surge ‘super watch’
At a time when fitness bands keep getting cheaper, Fitbit is moving in the opposite direction with its new Fitbit Charge, Charge HR, and Surge fitness trackers. The new Charge trackers have larger OLED displays than the existing Fitbit Flex, … Continue reading
255Tbps: World’s fastest network could carry all of the internet’s traffic on a single fiber
A joint group of researchers from the Netherlands and the US have smashed the world speed record for a fiber network, pushing 255 terabits per second down a single strand of glass fiber. This is equivalent to around 32 terabytes … Continue reading
Twitter saves Twitpic’s domain and photo archive at last minute
Twitter will keep alive the domain and photo archive of Twitpic, which was set to shut down on Saturday, the failed image-sharing website said. The deal gives users continued access to their photos and other data on Twitpic, but it … Continue reading
