Technology

It’s late in the year, which means, inevitably, it’s time to play a game of “How much are cable companies jacking up prices?” This year the early award goes to Comcast, who is raising its Broadcast TV fee from $5 to $7 per month, while its Regional Sports Network fee …

Last week, AMD took the wraps off its annual major driver refresh, dubbed Radeon ReLive this time around. While the company releases periodic driver updates with support for new games and various bug fixes, it launches a significant platform update for new features and capabilities roughly once a year. The …

Google has been an early leader in the self-driving car business, with millions of miles logged in its vehicles and an ambitious plan to create vehicles without steering wheels or pedal controls. Now, the company has announced a new direction: Google is moving its self-driving car unit out of Google …

NASA has a new giphy channel, and it’s like drinking from a fire hose of win. The whole page is crammed full of things that immediately made me open a new browser tab and start googling — which, as a scientist, curious person, space enthusiast, and all-around nerd, I consider …

SpaceX is still finalizing its report on September’s launchpad explosion, and has already lost one large contract due to the delay in its launch schedule. Now, the private space firm founded by Elon Musk says it has decided to push back the first crewed launch of its Dragon v2 capsule …

Last week in Sonoma, AMD unveiled new details on its upcoming CPU architecture, codenamed Zen. For the past 16 years, AMD has relied on a combination of Greek (Athlon, Phenom) and Latin-derived (Duron, Opteron). More recently, it’s used the old “FX” moniker from its high-end Athlon 64 consumer hardware to …

Last year’s Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate was the series reborn, and the result was a game that was undoubtedly the best title in the franchise, enhancing and emphasizing all of its strengths, downplaying all of its weaknesses, and coming with a unique feeling of freshness that the games had lacked for …

It hasn’t been a good quarter for Nintendo from April 1st to June 30th 2016. The company reported in its recent finacial results that net sales were down to $587 million, a 31 percent decline over the same period in 2015 which saw $855 million in sales. Wii U sales, …

The newest Famitsu Weekly Most Wanted Chart sees Final Fantasy 15 continues its reign at the top of the charts, with a staggering 1,261 points – over 500 more than the next game on the chart – and Pokemon continuing its relentless climb up it as well, coming in at second place now, …

The new Nintendo Switch is an interesting platform. Though it can be played at home, the device is highly portable and appears to be seamless when accessing your games on the go. Obviously with such a big platform on the way, one has to wonder where the Wii U and …