iPhone 6 Battery Life Tests Show Controversial Results

The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have been available on the market for about three days and the first reviews or preliminary reviews have already been published online. However, some test results look very different depending on the online publication reviewing the iPhone 6. Although when it comes to synthetic benchmarks, each reviewer uses his/her preferred software, there’s got to be a common ground at some point. Unfortunately, the battery life tests that have just emerged online don’t appear to have anything in common when it comes to results. They are pretty much different in all aspects. When Apple announced that iPhone 6 would carry a non-removable 1810 mAh battery with 3.82V nominal voltage, everyone feared, and some even laughed,...

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MediaTek Labs, the Place Where the Next Best Thing in Wearables Might Come From

MediaTek is a low-cost chip manufacturer producing processors that usually power cheaper devices. However, the company is looking to expand and this week they have announced the advent of MediaTek Labs. The Labs constitute a platform where developers can find support, documentation and guidance for all skill levels that will help those interested build wearable gadgets. The platform is using the MT2502 Aster chipset and is based on the LinkIt Development platform. MediaTek Labs hopes to open up a world of new possibilities for everyone, not only developers per se, but also hobbyists and students. On the other hand, the chip maker has also revealed a similar solution for the Internet of Things. But of course there's a caveat, for the...

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Windows 9 to Replace “This PC” with New “Home” Root Location

Leaked Windows 9 screenshots that have recently reached the web have revealed quite a lot of changes that Microsoft plans to introduce in the next version of its operating system, among which new icons for some of the built-in apps, including Windows Explorer. It appears, however, that the new icon won’t be the only one that Windows’ integrated file manager will get, as new information coming from sources close to the matter indicates that Microsoft is also renaming the root location in File Explorer. “This PC” will be renamed to “Home” in Windows 9, and there are some voices that claim that Microsoft could go even further and rename File Explorer entirely, although it’s not yet clear whether “Home” could also serve as the program...

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Sony A7s Shoots Using Only Moonlight and the Results Are Amazing

The Sony A7s is one of those cameras that can easily inspire creativity. After the A7 and A7R, Sony added the A7s to its family of compact full frame cameras. For those of you who are not familiar with the device, the “s” is there to highlight a very important aspect  – the fact that the Sony camera will perform exceptionally well in low-lighting conditions. The Sony A7s has already been put through a bunch of tests to determine whether the product is afraid of the dark or not. One of them, dubbed “Into the darkness,” tested the A7s using ISO values between 8,000 and 40,000. The results can be viewed in one of our earlier articles, and as you can see, they are quite capable. A video shot entirely in moonlight Anyway, the...

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Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6 Motherboard Color-Coded for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980/970 Video Boards

You would think that a graphics card colored in such a way as to go well, aesthetically, with specific high-end graphics cards would have support for everything those cards could throw at it. Alas, that is not, in fact, the case for the Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6 motherboard. Despite being part of the G1.Gaming series and, thus, presumably loaded with high-end graphics features, the newcomer doesn't support SLI technology. Which is to say, it won't allow you to install two video cards of the same sort and have them combine their resources into one whole. The reason for this is the fact that the two long PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots aren't handled the same way. One of them is connected to the CPU socket and the other to the PCH (chipset). What...

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iBuyPower Gaming PCs Brings The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA may have basically killed a fair bit of the hype that the Maxwell micro-architecture could have accrued this year, up to the actual product release, but that didn't stop it from launching two truly good video cards. One of which has now been adopted by iBuyPower. This happened all of last week really. That a maker of boutique pre-configure gaming PCs would take one or both of NVIDIA's new video boards and install them inside one or more of their systems. We saw it with Syber, CyberPowerPC, Maingear, Velocity Micro, and Origin PC. Now, iBuyPower is adding its name to the list. The company has installed the GeForce GTX 980 inside its 2014 Paladin E, the Gamer Paladin D980, and the Weekly Gamer Special. These computers have starting...

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