The best Chromebooks, as well as many others, are available for discounted prices.

Sometimes, certain gadgets speak to you on an intuitive level. They bypass that bit of your brain that demands functionality or value, and make their pitch on pure aesthetics. This custom Raspberry Pi cyberdeck is just such a device for me. With its rugged waterproof case, retro components switches, and compact ortholinear keyboard, it looks like a computer built for the end of the world — and I love it.

An electrical engineer who worked on the forerunner to the Internet recalls a visitor from the government to the laboratory where he worked -- a place that developed many personal computing and networking technologies.

PS4 isn't out yet, but its specs are already outdated by more than a year in the eyes of Nvidia Vice President Tony Tamasi.

Microsoft is investing in TV in a big way with its next Xbox console as part of a fight for the living room.

Now that he Xbox One and PS4 have been reviewed, it's time to break down the scorecard and see why CNET gave the higher mark to the PS4.

Just like that, the Xbox One was released to the public, and the next generation of gaming became the current generation of gaming. In the last two weeks, we've gotten two new consoles in the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. Add last year's Nintendo Wii U, and you've officially got a lot of new video game stuff to take in.

Valve's official Steam Machine prototype isn't cheap, but it won't be the only Steam-powered video-game console available come 2014. This morning, iBuyPower revealed a prototype of its own upcoming...

Below you'll find a new Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag video comparing the opening of the game on Xbox One and Xbox 360.

After years of seemingly neglecting Apple’s most hardcore, highest-paying users, a 2012 email from Tim Cook finally gave people hope. Hope for the first truly rethought version of the Mac Pro since it was introduced in 2006. Hope that even as it had overhauled Final Cut to the dismay of so many of its most dedicated users, Apple still cared.

A decade ago, AMD brought us the first dual-core x86 processor. Then, starting in 2008, the company came out with tri-core and quad-core designs in quick...

AMD announced plans to build ARM server CPUs back in 2012. Today the company took a big step towards making those chips a reality, announcing that an 8-core ARM System-on-Chip would begin sampling in March.

It's a search company, an advertising company, a browser, OS and computer maker, and the leader in wearable computing. Now Google has casually muscled its way into another business: high-end videoconferencing for companies. As of Thursday, Google will sell you a $999 package unimaginatively called "Chromebox for meetings".

After less than a week as the new CEO of Microsoft, The Washington Post reports Satya Nadella is reportedly under significant pressure to “abandon… non-essential product lines” and refocus on Microsoft’s bread and butter—Office, Server, and other things their business customers buy in droves. That means Bing, Surface, and even Xbox are potentially on the chopping block.

The South Korean government has decided to route sensitive data away from networks operated by Huawei, amid longstanding fears from the US that the Chinese company's infrastructure could be used to spy on communications. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the US had been urging its South Korean allies to route government communications away from Huawei networks, claiming that the infrastructure could be used to spy on communications with American military bases there.

The Surface 2 and the Nokia tablets are great hardware with a dim future - but Microsoft could fix that.

The Ouya was supposed to be a revolutionary piece of hardware. Now it's being transformed into an "ecosystem."

The new cables are based on Intel's Silicon Photonics technology that pushes 25Gbps across each fiber. Last year, Intel demonstrated speeds of 100Gbps in each direction, using eight fibers. A new connector that goes by the name "MXC" holds up to 64 fibers (32 for transmitting and 32 for receiving), enabling a jump to 800Gbps in one direction and 800Gbps in the other, or an aggregate of "1.6Tbps" as Intel prefers to call it. (In case you're wondering, MXC is not an acronym for anything.)

Tech firms are racing to come up with new “gesture-swipe” keyboards that let you wave your hands and around in the air to control your keyboard, type messages and manipulate data without sitting down and typing in one letter at a time. Based in part on sensor technology built for the Microsoft Kinect games, researchers say these ideas will help doctors use a computer while doing surgery, for example, or just drive a video game race car with an imaginary steering wheel.

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony just unveiled tape that holds a whopping 148 GB per square inch, meaning a cassette could hold 185 TB of data. Prepare for the mixtape to end all mixtapes.