THQ is a very well-known name in the arena of game developers. The company has been behind some very popular game titles and bundles. However, many Linux users have been complaining about the lack of support THQ’s games carry for Linux machines. The company may be planning on changing that now.
If you are planning on cutting down on your electricity costs, you first need to know the sources of electricity consumption in your household. A smart new plug, MeterPlug, is here to help you with it. It pairs nicely with a smartphone app so that you can see electricity usage stats relayed to your smartphone.
Apple has been fairly fickle when it comes to choosing the vendor for the graphics cards that go into its iMac machines. For a long time, it used Intel chips to do the job. It then switched to Nvidia’s graphical prowess and now, hints suggest that it may be planning to switch to AMD’s silicon.
In the past, it has frequently been suggested that ISPs could be persuaded to block internet porn at the behest of the government. UK strived to garner mass support to go forth with such an option but the respondents didn’t exactly support the suggestion leaving the campaigning MPs rather disappointed.
After having bagged the award of being the most viewed video on YouTube, Gangnam Style has apparently even stirred the folks over at NASA. The space agency has now dished out a Gangnam Style parody which essentially celebrates NASA’s historic Johnson Space Center.
A number of apps tend to keep tabs on your locational data. This data is then sold to other third parties who would normally use it for their own advertisement and marketing purposes. U.S. Senator, Al Franken, wants such apps to get explicit permission from users before sharing information about their location.
Ads displayed on a laptop or a tablet may not experience accidental clicks because users have ample space to navigate. But on a smartphone display, a user may end up clicking on one by mistake, simply because the display is a lot smaller. Google has now dished out two-step verification to avoid such accidental clicks.
Given the declining sales in the PC market, Dell had earlier tried to get its foot into the smartphone market. However, the handsets released by the company were an abysmal failure. Since the past few months, it had been rumored that Dell may give the smartphones another shot but the company has firmly denied having any such plans.