May 2015

Mozilla states that a study of the performance of its tracking protection technology in Firefox shows that popular websites load an average of 44 percent faster, while the amount of bandwidth consumed decreases by an average of 39…

Intel will soon release 'Rock Canyon' NUC mini PCs with Braswell SOCs. The small PC, to which the buyer still has to add memory, storage and an OS, now has a Toslink connection. Despite the processor's 6W TDP, the device is not passively…

Audi has shown a self-driving concept version of the R8 e-tron. Thanks to the presence of the zfas on-board computer and numerous sensors, the electric car should be able to drive autonomously. The self-driving mode is manually switched…

Google has released an update to version 43 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. There are also versions for Android and iOS, but they follow a slightly different release schedule. In…

Capcom comes with an HD remaster of the thirteen-year-old title Resident Evil Zero. The game was previously released for the Gamecube and has already been re-released for the Wii. The remaster is set to release on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360,…

Twitter has been in talks with Flipboard, developer of the app of the same name, since the beginning of this year. To get its hands on Flipboard, Twitter would have offered about 1 billion dollars, or about 918 million euros.The reports…

Russian company Baikal Electronics has revealed its first commercial soc. It is a mips-soc for embedded systems. The development has been stimulated by the Russian government and in time government systems will have to run on Baikal…

Publisher 2K Games announced earlier this month in the presentation of the quarterly results that it will announce a new game. It has now opened a website for an organization christened Advent. Whether it will be the title of the new…

A developer from Slightly Mad Studios has let go that the Wii U version of the racing game Project Cars may not be coming. The achieved frame rate on the Wii U would be too low in practice.Developer Ian Bell reports on the Project Cars…

Scooter Software has released a beta version of Beyond Compare 4.1. With this very comprehensive program, which is available for Windows, Linux and now also for OS X, files can be compared with each other. In addition, it is possible…