NEWS 
March 3, 2016 Grain Audio OEHP.01 Review
Based in small-town Pennsylvania, USA, Grain Audio is a personal audio manufacturer that makes liberal use of wood in its products. The company has just four offerings listed on its site, and ships directly to buyers. Of the two pairs of headphones listed, the OEHP.01 is the larger, over-the-ear model. Featuring solid wood casings, the […]
ALL DEALS March 3, 2016 Moto 360 (2nd Gen) Review
It’s been over a year since Google launched Android Wear. However, the platform has failed to take off in a big way, currently holding just 11.3 percent of the global smartwatch market, having shipped around 720,000 units in 2014. The original Moto 360 was the clear leader among the various Android Wear models. Motorola evidently […]
ELECTRONICS 
March 3, 2016 MSI Z170A Xpower Gaming Titanium Edition Review
There are some motherboards that will be installed inside desktop PCs and then pretty much never see the light of day again. These bare-basic boards will be touched only by factory workers and then sealed off inside their boxes; rarely seen even for cleaning. Then there’s the enthusiast breed of motherboards, which are designed to […]
NEWS 
March 3, 2016 Gionee Marathon M5 Review
Battery life was never a problem back in the pre-smartphone era, but ever since we became slaves to touchscreens, it has been a major concern. Until new technology is developed, we are stuck with Lithium Ion batteries and there’s only so much it can deliver. The most obvious way to get more battery life is […]
NEWS March 3, 2016 Sony MDR XB950BT Review
If you’re an audiophile who wants the purest and clearest reproduction of the source being played, then it’s likely that you’re not interested in Sony’s XB (extra bass) headphones. We tried out the Sony MDR XB950BT – the top of the XB line, which also supports Bluetooth playback. That’s a combination which has probably sent […]
NEWS March 3, 2016 Absentia Tesseract VR First Impressions: A Promising Start, but Lots of Room to Improve
The competition for virtual reality headsets is heating up, and there are some clear frontrunners emerging – the Oculus Rift, whose Kickstarter project sparked the fresh wave of interest in the category is going to launch next year, while HTC just clarified that the HTC Vive will be available from April. Sony’s PlayStation VR will […]
COMPUTERS March 3, 2016 Samsung SSD 950 Pro Review
When you look at a PC, even a brand new one which claims to have all the latest features and functions, you don’t really think much of the decades-long legacy of hardware and software that has led to its creation. Yet, as shiny and modern as the components inside it might be, there are still […]
ALL DEALS March 3, 2016 iPhone 5s Long-Term Review
Using brand new phones and writing reviews gives us a fairly accurate picture of what you get when you buy a phone. That experience can change dramatically a few months in, when your smartphone begins to show its first performance issues and as the first major software update arrives a year later, one starts to […]
COMPUTERS March 3, 2016 Gears of War: Ultimate Edition PC Requirements Revealed
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition – a remaster of the 2006 Xbox 360 classic released on the Xbox One last year to rave reviews. Prior to the third-person shooter hitting Microsoft’s latest black box, the company announced at E3 2015 that the game would be coming to Windows PCs. Since then though, we haven’t heard […]
NEWS March 3, 2016 WD’s SanDisk Deal Re-Priced After China Deal Collapses
The US hard-disk maker, Western Digital Corp, said on Tuesday that China’s Unisplendour Corp Ltd had scrapped its planned $3.78 billion investment in the company, a move that in turn alters the terms of Western’s deal for rival SanDisk Corp. Unisplendour, a unit of China’s state-backed Tsinghua Holdings Co Ltd, dropped its plan to buy […]
COMPUTERS March 3, 2016 HP Says to Accelerate Job Cuts by 2016
HP Inc said it was accelerating its restructuring programme and now expects about 3,000 people will exit by the end of fiscal 2016 instead of over three years as it announced in September. Then, Hewlett-Packard Co had said it expected to cut about 33,300 jobs over three years, of which up to 3,300 were to […]
COMPUTERS 
March 3, 2016 Apple to Bring Siri to Desktop, Laptop With OS X 10.12: Report
Siri could soon arrive on OS X. Apple is currently readying a new update for its desktop operating system that features the digital voice assistant, according to a media report. Siri is currently available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. For OS X 10.12, the next major update to Apple’s desktop […]
