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The Oculus Rift is $600: Here’s what you need before pre-ordering

Oculus Rift is now available for pre-order at $600. Here's what you need to know in order to prepare for your new (virtual) reality.
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Digital Storm is coming out with a HydroLux successor this month

Two years ago, Digital Storm gave us the expensive but well-regarded HydroLux liquid cooling system. Now it's returned with an improved follow-up.
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HP focuses on virtual reality and 2-in-1s at CES 2016

HP's CES showing is strong this year, from VR to an OLED laptop to a more budget-friendly 2-in-1.
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Seagate is coming out with a 9.6mm hard drive with 2TB of storage

Seagate revealed today its Backup Plus Ultra Slim, the thinnest hard drive in the world to feature 2TB of local storage.
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Asus is partnering with Google for the education-focused Chromebook C202

Asus' new Chromebook offering aims to improve the quality of education in the classroom thanks to its rugged design and low cost of entry.
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ViewSonic introduces a wide range of ‘high performance’ gaming monitors at CES

ViewSonic has revealed a wide range of high-end gaming monitors, from a number of Full HD 1080p displays to a single Ultra HD 4K offering.
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Maingear’s liquid cooled 34-inch all-in-one will break benchmarks, and the bank

Maingear's all-in-one undertaking could lead to maxed out credit cards and marital conflict thanks to its extensive range of pricing options.
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Zotac is coming out with its own stick PC, complete with Cherry Trail processors

The PC-on-a-stick, which appears to be challenging Intel's less-than-stellar Compute Stick of yesteryear, is Zotac's most compact desktop computer yet.
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After years of stumbling, 2-in-1 laptops will finally find their stride in 2016

2-in-1s have long been criticized for compromise, either on power or portability, but manufacturers have worked hard to refine them.
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Chinese legislation directs telecom firms and ISPs to provide decryption

Controversial new Chinese legislation calls for telecoms and Internet service to provide private information to public authorities.
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iBuyPower's Revolt 2 improves upon the first with better GPU support and a full-sized power supply

iBuyPower has revealed a follow-up to its small form factor Revolt gaming PC, appropriately dubbed the Revolt 2.
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Plextor strikes back with new NVMe-equipped M8Pe solid state drive

Plextor has decided to bring with it to CES the M8Pe, an SSD complete with all the bells and whistles we've come to expect from the electronics vanguard.
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Samsung launches Skylake-equipped Ativ Book 9 in South Korea, coming soon to the U.S.

It looks like Samsung has heard the cries of its naysayers and decided to act with a new lightweight notebook it's calling the Ativ Book 9 Lite.
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Intel welcomes a host of new Broadwell, Skylake processors

Intel is amending its processor lineup with numerous additions to the catalog, in both mobile and desktop flavors.
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Fujitsu is creating two new companies for PC and mobile

Beginning February 1, Fujitsu's PC and mobile divisions will be spun off as Fujitsu Client Computing Limited and Fujitsu Connected Technologies.
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Virtual Reality is ready to launch, but could it crash and burn?

A few hands-on demos with Eve: Valkryie show that first-gen VR headsets like Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR are still in desperate need of refinements.
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This futuristic chip transmits data in an entirely new way

Three schools have come together to devise a "groundbreaking" microprocessor chip that uses light instead of electricity for power.
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Samsung gets the best of Nvidia in patent battle, but the war isn't over

After contending earlier this month that Samsung hadn't infringed on the Nvidia's IP, the ITC has determined that the opposite is true.
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The PlayStation VR could come with one unexpected surprise

Reports suggest a variety of new info on PlayStation VR's required processing box, including a clunky design and a complete list of inputs and outputs.
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Microsoft has issued the last batch of Windows 10 Insider builds for the year

Microsoft has just released the last batch of Windows 10 Insider builds for 2015.
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NEC’s newest monitors are for media professionals only

Expanding on its MultiSync lineup, NEC is bringing two new creations to the table, this time focused on color.
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Acer's about to drop a 35-inch curved gaming monitor

Acer is trying to draw in the gamers with the Z35 monitor sporting a 35-inch UltraWide, curved panel.
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Netflix goes universal with all-new Windows 10 app

Until now, Windows 10 users have resorted to web browsers and archaic, non-universal apps to watch Netflix.
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Want to log in to Windows with your eyes? Give Tobii a try

Microsoft's next step in pushing Windows Hello is a joint collaboration with Tobii, a world leader in eye-tracking technology.
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Want to hack a Linux computer? Just hit backspace 28 times

Security researchers have discovered a bug in several Linux distros that makes taking over an entire system as easy as striking the backspace key 28 times.
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Oculus Rift creator proves the headset does work on a ‘room-scale’

After trying it out for himself this weekend, it's clear that Palmer Luckey wasn't kidding around when he said Oculus Rift wasn't incapable of room-scale VR. Over the weekend, he decided to try it out for himself just "for the hell of it."
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John Romero posts first-ever video of id Software's Super Mario Bros. 3 PC demo

In 1990, video game legends John Romero and John Carmack worked under the name IFD on a passion project, and here is their Super Mario Brothers 3 demo.
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Microsoft is letting you keep your free 15GB OneDrive plan, if you opt-in

Because of a vocal response from the community, Microsoft is letting devoted fans keep their 15GB of free storage, while paying customers continue to lose theirs.
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With this mod, Star Wars Battlefront looks 'better than the movies'

YouTube user 'jackfrags' has pulled off an amazing feat, simply by enabling SweetFX on Star Wars Battlefront. The result is both beautiful and lifelike.
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Zotac launches its first Skylake-powered mini PC

Zotac has announced its Skylake-wielding ZBOX MI551, a mini-PC that encloses a quad-core Intel Core i5-6400T CPU.
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Every Oculus Rift pre-order comes with a free copy of Eve: Valkyrie

Few titles have appeared in Oculus Rift demos as frequently as Eve: Valkyrie, and now we have word that Rift pre-orders will ship with a free copy of the game.
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Valve’s HTC Vive isn’t coming out until April 2016

Unfortunately, even the most devoted Valve followers will miss out on Valve's wand-wielding HTC Vive this year. 
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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard compromises style for coding comfort

This keyboard may look strange, but Ultimate Hacking Keyboard's creator feels that it's a necessary concession to a long-running artifact of PC hardware.
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Why Valve’s Steam Machines are in big trouble right now

Between the restrictive OS and the confusing assortment of compatibility questions, Valve's Steam Machine experiment is struggling to find an audience, despite piggybacking off the company's insanely successful Steam software.