Trace Hagan
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Trace Hagan has written 2992 pieces of content
- October 2013
- GIGABYTE P25W Gaming Laptop Review September 2013
- RumorTT: Intel working on overclockable SSD August 2013
- We check out the Omni Virtuix at PAX Prime 2013
- We go hands-on with Logitech's new wireless mouse, the G602
- MSI GT70 Dragon Edition Gaming Laptop Review
- ASUS Republic of Gamers ROG G750 Gaming Notebook Review July 2013
- iBUYPOWER Paladin Desktop Gaming PC Review
- EA: Next-gen tablets will have same graphical prowess as PS3 and Xbox 360
- Microsoft Xbox One introduces new reputation system, will make mean players play with mean players
- Google Maps adds new and updated 3D imagery for 50 US cities
- Ubisoft hacked, recommends you change your password June 2013
- BlackBerry misses its sales mark, shares decline more than 27%
- Yahoo does summer cleaning, will sunset AltaVista, other products
- Google removes all clouds from Earth imagery
- Instagram CEO: Windows Phone and BlackBerry app not coming 'anytime soon', Google Glass app sometime after that
- Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, & Skype hit with Prism data protection complaint in EU
- Facebook denies allegations that it handed over user data to Turkish government
- Snapchat finally gets a plan for revenue, looking at in-app purchases and native ads
- iOS 7 contains API calls to detect blinking, smiles in pictures
- Western Digital acquires SSD heavyweight sTec for $340 million
- Snapchat raises $60M in funding, valued at a massive $800M
- Facebook reports bug that allowed access to 6 million e-mails and phone numbers
- Microsoft will pay you up to $100,000 for finding bugs in Windows 8.1
- Facebook enables photo comments, allows you to reply to a status with a picture
- Microsoft does 180 on Xbox One DRM, drops 24 hour requirement, other changes
- Apple updates Java 6 with security enhancements
- PS Plus will not be required for PlayStation 4 social features, entertainment apps, or auto-updates
- Google seeks to disclose FISA requests separately, invokes first amendment rights as part of argument
- TweakTown checks out Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare at E3 2013
- TweakTown goes hands-on with Battlefield 4 at E3 2013
- Ironside Cyclone Desktop Gaming PC (with custom TweakTown airbrushing) Review
- TweakTown previews World of Warships at E3 2013
- Kaspersky discovers 'most sophisticated' Android trojan yet
- Intel shows off 128GB Thunderbolt thumb drive at Computex Taipei 2013
- SteelSeries introduces new line of headsets, say hello to H-Series
- ReportTT: Amazon expanding grocery business to Los Angeles, San Fransisco
- Corsair launches new Vengeance Pro Series of DDR3 RAM at Computex Taipei 2013
- Corsair debuts two new cases at Computex Taipei 2013, say hello to the Carbide Air 540 and Carbide 330R
- GIGABYTE adds new LGA1150 motherboard to Sniper line of gaming motherboards
- LAPD get into standoff with Call of Duty 'Ghost' statue
- Digital Storm ODE Haswell-powered Desktop Gaming PC Review May 2013
- LinkedIn the latest web company to add two-step verification
- Razer introduces new 17-inch gaming beast known as the Blade Pro
- Crysis 3: The Lost Island multiplayer DLC coming June 4
- Motorola CEO confirms the X Phone is real, says it will be made in the US
- ReportTT: Apple looking to Pegatron to produce low-cost iPhone
- All PlayStation 4 games will be required to support Remote Play with PS Vita
- Acer updates C7 Chromebook line with SSD's, prices start at just $199
- Microsoft says Xbox One's Kinect sensor can be completely turned off
- Sony employee responds 'we hear you' to users complaining about rumored PS4 DRM
- Microsoft is 'confident' that Xbox One won't suffer from RRoD disaster
- ReportTT: Google considering Waze buyout
- Apple lowers prices on refurbished iPads
- US Department of Homeland Security warns that 3-D-printed guns are "impossible" to contain
- Windows 8 causes Microsoft's customer satisfaction rating to drop to Vista levels
- Need for Speed Rivals is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4
- Kids prefer Tumblr to Facebook, Twitter according to new study says
- Microsoft uses Vine video to tease Internet Explorer 11 WebGL support
- Xbox One's new Kinect raises privacy concerns over always-on listening
- EA announces Battlefield 4 for newly unveiled Xbox One, PlayStation 4
- HP Envy TouchSmart 4 Touchscreen Ultrabook Laptop Review
- Nintendo to let consumers play unreleased Wii U games at 100 Best Buys during E3
- ReportTT: iPhone 5S to feature fingerprint scanner, says chief information security officer for PayPal
- Check out the latest Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer
- Rovio partners with Sony Pictures for distribution of Angry Birds movie coming in 2016
- Survey says that only 1 out of 10 Americans would wear Google Glass
- Rovio brings Angry Birds Rio to Windows Phone, mark down another classic iOS game for Windows Phone
- Google updates Wallet, now allows you to send money via Gmail
- Google sends cease and desist letter to Microsoft over new Windows Phone YouTube app
- Microsoft pushes out update for both lines of Surface tablets
- ReportTT: Google to announce music-streaming service at this year's I/O event
- Apple sued over iPhone 4 power button, lawsuit claims power button was defective
- Say hello to Nokia's new Lumia 925, a thinned down, aluminum clad Windows Phone 8 device
- Kaspersky security software to be preloaded on Android devices powered by Snapdragon processors
- ASRock's Z87 Extreme9/ac is first Intel 8 Series motherboard to receive Thunderbolt certification
- Man flies drone over neighbor's property, appears to have been spying in 3rd-story window
- Google hides Easter egg in image search, play Atari's Breakout with pictures of Breakout
- Raspberry Pi camera module coming to UK on May 14
- Charity auction for coffee with Tim Cook currently at $605,000
- RumorTT: More possible specifications leak out for the Galaxy S4 Mini
- Activision CEO warns PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 sales might start slow like Wii U
- Chrome and Chrome OS get Google Cloud Messaging
- Corsair talks Haswell power supply compatibility
- YouTube debuts subscription channels with select partners, start at $0.99/mo
- NVIDIA's Q1 earnings better than expected, stock climbs in after-hours trading
- Sony doesn't expect to lose money on the PlayStation 4 at launch, unlike what happened with PS3
- DICE announces that DDoS attack continues on BF3 infrastructure despite security measures
- Always-on DRM was never an option for the PlayStation 4 according to Sony
- More pictures of the Huawei P6-U06 show up online
- Battlefield 3 and Battlelog servers hit by attack aiming to overload back-end infrastructure
- Google Glass Explorer Edition getting updated XE5 software, brings with it new features and enhancements
- LOLTT: Woman accused of stalking self and blaming ex's new girlfriend
- Acer Aspire S7-391 Touchscreen Ultrabook Laptop Review
- Google adds new, 'highly-requested' features to Hangouts On Air
- Windows Blue public preview coming at BUILD conference at the end of June
- LeakedTT: Could these be the GTX 780 and GTX 770? Signs point to yes
- Aereo attempts to stop second CBS lawsuit by filing complaint
- BitTorrent announces Sync Alpha has already synced 1 petabyte of data
- EA gets exclusive rights to develop 'Star Wars' games
- GameStop ends PlayStation 2 trade-ins as of June 1, used stock to be sold 'for several months'
- Intel debuts Silvermont microarchitecture, features higher performance, lower power draw
- Acer Aspire S7-191 Touchscreen Ultrabook Laptop Review
- Acer's 8-inch Windows 8 tablet pops up on Amazon, gets removed
- RumorTT: Nokia working on 6-inch phablet with 1080p display, quad-core CPU
- Google Glass has potential security issues, could lead to industrial espionage
- Netflix's Ted Sarandos says piracy drops in territories shortly after Netflix launches
- Samsung Galaxy S 4 is fourth most popular smartphone in UK after just 4 days
- iBUYPOWER Revolt SFF Desktop Gaming PC Review
- Nintendo pushes out message to Internet-connected Wii consoles explaining Wii U is an 'entirely new system'
- Nintendo responds to claims that Wii U has been hacked
- Curiosity back in contact with NASA handlers, NASA discuss what the next steps are April 2013
- Digg's replacement for Google Reader to enter beta in June, survey finds 40% of respondents willing to pay
- AT&T opens $100 phone trade-in program
- Waze needs beta testers before releasing an app for Windows Phone
- Twitter sends out memo to news organizations warning 'we believe that these attacks will continue'
- Facebook said to be losing users in most lucrative markets
- Opera sues Trond Werner Hansen, claims he gave trade secrets to Mozilla
- Ubisoft's Watch Dogs said to be releasing in mid-November
- Virgin Galactic successfully completes first test flight of its commercial space plane
- Corsair in talks with Francisco Partners over buyout
- Is this Haswell's box art? It's definitely not out of the question
- Nintendo releases Wii U update, brings with it faster load times and better performance
- Google Glass specs detailed, runs similar hardware to Galaxy Nexus
- Haswell-powered MacBook said to go into production in May, launch in late summer
- PS4 lead architect says PS4 launch will have best launch games in PlayStation history
- Google Drive gets auto sync, will sync all files for offline access
- Google Glass battery life is only 30 minutes when taking video
- AMD releases WHQL-certified Catalyst 13.4 drivers
- US Cellular selling Samsung Galaxy S4 on April 30
- Study suggests that voice-to-text apps aren't any safer than manually texting
- Apple's Q2 results released, Apple pulled in $9.5bn in profit, $43.6bn in revenue
- First Firefox OS smartphones sell out same day as launch
- Amazon Kindle Fire tablets get access to Xbox SmartGlass app
- HTC One could face more delays, Nokia gains preliminary injunction in Netherlands over microphones
- Estimates place Nexus 10 sales lower than Microsoft Surface
- ASUS VivoBook S500C Touchscreen Ultrabook Laptop Review
- OpenSignal finally releases app for iPhone
- Google Glass Explorer Edition owners prevented from loaning or selling device
- Google to acquire iProvo, a fiber-based ISP in Provo, UT
- Name Your Own Price Mac Bundle 2.0 up for sale, 10% of sales go to charity
- HTC One gets overclocked with LN2, gets boost in 3DMark score
- 3DMark ran on the Ouya console, bested by existing smartphones
- Google study says mobile web is getting faster
- Trader who made unauthorized $1bn purchase of Apple stock pleads guilty to fraud charges
- ReportTT: iPad 5 could slim down by shrinking LED backlighting
- Nokia releases updated firmware for Lumia 920, 820, 620
- NVIDIA shows off Kepler Mobile by displaying incredible graphics rendered using the new chip
- Google introduces tool to plan digital afterlife, will allow you to delete data after your death
- Intel details Haswell overclocking at IDF Beijing, not too much different from Ivy Bridge
- OCZ Vertex 5 SSD coming next month, features updated Barefoot 3, 20nm NAND flash
- ConfirmedTT: Austin, TX getting Google Fiber, roll out date unknown at this time
- Could Austin, TX be getting Google Fiber? We'll find out April 9
- LOLTT: Copyright holders asking Google to take down their takedown notices
- RumorTT: Are these pictures of the upcoming iPhone 5S?
- Skype malware turns victim's machine into Bitcoin miner
- Indiegogo suffers DDOS over YourAnonymousNews campaign
- AMD says NVIDIA bitter over Sony using AMD in PlayStation 4
- RumorTT: Windows Blue to be known as Windows 8.1
- Nokia Lumia 810 users on T-Mobile won't be getting LTE support
- Firefox 20 comes with per-window private browsing
- Disney Pixar's Finding Dory coming in 2015, is sequel to widely popular Finding Nemo
- Dan Porter, former OMGPOP CEO, leaves Zynga
- Yahoo teams up with Dropbox to allow larger file attachments in e-mail
- Google's privacy director stepping down, replaced by Lawrence You
- Ivy Bridge GPU driver update brings up to 10% performance boost, OpenCL 1.2 support
- Windows 8 usage still below that of Windows Vista, XP and 7 continue to be leaders March 2013
- Judge rules mathematical algorithms can't be patented, dismisses lawsuit against Rackspace
- Petr Mitrichev first repeat winner of Facebook Hacker Cup
- Google adds support for Gifs as Google+ profile pictures
- Apple disables iForgot password recovery page after exploit discovered
- Upgrading your laptop to a new high-performance SSD and RAM
- JD Power ranks Apple #1 for smartphone satisfaction, tough fight for second
- RumorTT: Ouya might be getting streaming video content
- Apple brags data centers now powered by 100% renewable energy, emissions still up 34%
- Samsung working on fixing security flaw present on some Android devices
- RapidShare no longer offering unlimited storage after March 20
- RumorTT: NVIDIA working on second GK110-based consumer GPU
- Google adds Kilimanjaro, Everest to Google Maps Street View
- Change.org petition for Google Reader exceeds 100,000 signatures
- Nintendo Wii U sales are underwhelming, fails to outperform monthly Xbox 360 or PS3 sales from last 7 years
- Microsoft Surface tablets sold worse than expected
- RumorTT: Motorola X Phone will feature multiple models, small price tags
- Samsung Galaxy S IV Smart Scroll and Dual Camera features in detail
- Samsung Galaxy S IV has built-in temperature and humidity sensors
- Jury finds Nintendo infringed upon 3D patent with 3DS handheld console
- Western Digital invests in Skyera start-up
- Google's Sundar Pichai takes over Android development
- ReportTT: Twitter planning to release music discovery app
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 gets microtransactions in the form of cosmetic changes
- Acer debuts upgraded C7 Chromebook, comes with more RAM, longer battery life, larger price tag
- Sony Xperia TL gets update to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
- Digital Storm Bolt Desktop Gaming PC Review
- Haswell's USB3.0 bug will require a chipset revision to fix
- Angry Birds Toons will be available through Rovio games, select video-on-demand providers, Smart TVs, and TV networks worldwide
- Tomb Raider updated to fix issues with NVIDIA GPUs
- Dishonored's level designer loves the PS4's RAM, calls 8GB a 'joy'
- AT&T perfectly happy to unlock your smartphone provided you're out of contract
- Facebook's Poke barely affected Snapchat according to usage data
- EA changes its mind about offering refunds for SimCity customers
- Motorola Droid RAZR & RAZR MAXX get OTA Jelly Bean 4.1 update
- Researchers exploit Chrome at Pwn2Own, receive $100,000 prize
- EA disabling "non-critical" SimCity features
- Facebook's new News Feed design
- Study suggests Android apps engage in less risky behavior than iOS
- EA shut down several SimCity servers for maintenance
- Steam Box prototypes to be finished in 3-4 months, says Newell
- FAA investigating pilot's report of seeing a 'drone' flying over Brooklyn
- Google releases updated Google Maps for iPhone app, promises faster local search, other improvements
- ReportTT: YouTube working on music streaming service
- ReportTT: Samsung Galaxy S4 will use eye tracking to scroll pages
- White House backs cell phone unlocking after We The People petition
- The Pirate Bay gets virtual asylum in North Korea
- Mac gets League of Legends open beta February 2013
- Ouya consoles will ship to Kickstarter backers starting March 28
- avast! antivirus releases version 8
- Futuremark updates 3DMark 11 to v1.0.4, makes it completely compatible with Windows 8
- Auction for Google Glass on Ebay pulled after price shoots past $15k
- ExclusiveTT: Haswell coming at Computex on Z87 chipset, next-gen performance platform to be X99
- 'Six-strikes' copyright alert system takes effect in the United States
- Sony aiming to show PlayStation 4 console at E3...or sooner
- Origin EON17-S Gaming Notebook Review
- Facebook bug prevents users from entering birth year before 1910
- RIAA says Google's updated ranking isn't working at reducing piracy
- Actual PlayStation 4 hardware didn't make an appearance last night because it's 'still in development'
- Police use Facebook to alert mother of son's death, say they tried more conventional methods first
- Sony says PlayStation 4 will not block used games
- NVIDIA working on new headquarters in Santa Clara, located right across the street from old one
- Which PlayStation 4 rumors ended up being true? Let's take a look...
- Apple hacked by same people who hacked Facebook, issues Mac software update
- Survey says 10% of Netflix subscribers have watched House of Cards, average 6 episodes watched
- Apple's iPad mini supply catches up to demand, device now 'In Stock' in most countries
- ORIGIN offers the first liquid cooled NVIDIA GTX Titan based system
- NVIDIA announces Tegra 4i with integrated LTE processor, features 60 GPU cores, quad-core CPU
- Google reportedly planning to open retail stores by year's end
- Posterous officially shutting down as of April 30, lets users download data until then
- You can now download a free and legal copy of the source code for Photoshop version 1.0
- Facebook victim of Java zero-day exploit, admits they were hacked, no evidence user data compromised
- ReportTT: iOS 6.1.2 update will be pushed out 'early next week'
- LinkedIn CEO in good mood, gives iPad mini to every employee
- Origin EON11-S Gaming Notebook Review
- PlayStation 3 users finally get Skyrim DLC, Dragonborn now available
- Amazon is most reputable US company, forges ahead of Apple
- Nokia is the top Windows Phone manufacturer, usage data says they have 75% of the market
- ReportTT: iOS 6.1.1 being rushed out by Apple to fix 3G issues, other bugs
- Jelly Bean beginning to roll out to Xperia devices
- Kent Smith of LSI explains SSD over-provisioning
- ReportTT: NVIDIA GeForce Titan outperforms GTX 690
- Vine videos are actually 6.5 seconds long, who actually cares?
- Blackberry to stop selling handsets in Japan
- Google Hangouts gets updated, now features adjustments for bandwidth use
- Microsoft hints that Surface Pro could be charged via future accessories
- Disney confirms at least two Star Wars spinoffs coming
- RumorTT: New Apple Mac Pro coming this spring, possibly at Worldwide Developers Conference
- ORIGIN launches in-game support client, chat with tech support while gaming
- Mozilla, Google show off cross-browser video chat using WebRTC
- ReportTT: Facebook to develop location tracking app for friend discovery
- LeakedTT: Xbox 720 GPU specifications reportedly leaked online
- RumorTT: iPad mini 2 to feature Retina display with 324 PPI January 2013
- Microsoft 'unlocking' Netflix app for this weekend only, will allow non-Gold users to use Netflix
- Apple discontinuing Mac Pro sales in Europe after March 1 due to regulatory standards
- Google Maps, TiVo won't be coming to Wii U in January, have been delayed to early 2013
- Apple is looking for a Plastics Design Engineer, could signal plans for plastic iPhone
- Facebook reports Q4 financial earnings, revenue up, profit down
- Microsoft offering Windows 8 Pro discount for students
- Windows Phone 7.8 now available for Lumia devices
- CBS forced to respond to injunction that prevents CNET from talking torrents
- Music Unlimited upgraded to 320Kbps streaming for Android, PS3, web
- Epic Citadel tech demo available on Android, comes with benchmarking feature
- LeakedTT: AMD's upcoming Richland APU specifications
- Twitter complied with 69% of US data requests
- Complain to Facebook's CPO Erin Egan through 'Ask Erin' app
- NVIDIA beta driver 313.95 said to boost Crysis 3 performance by up to 65%
- Hoping to catch a peek inside the Google Glass Developer Conference? Not possible as all attendees had to sign NDAs
- Woman suing Match.com after date stabbed her 10 times
- Nokia to pay Microsoft $1 billion for Windows Phone license
- RumorTT: Apple to use low-end Snapdragon processor in budget iPhone
- White House being petitioned to keep cellphone unlocking legal
- Crytek announces acquisition of Homefront IP from THQ
- Twitter announces Vine, a service to capture short, looping videos
- Microsoft trying to bring users back to Internet Explorer by using nostalgia
- Google releases latest Transparency Report, shows US government leader in requesting data
- Apple, Google, and others agreed not to poach during mid-2000s
- THQ being broken apart and games sold to different studios
- RumorTT: Samsung Galaxy S4 coming in April, might not be called S4
- Apple's financial results for Q1 2013 are in, just how well did they do?
- Take part in the Crysis 3 open multiplayer beta starting January 29
- Intel ES chip shows up on Ebay, seller claims Ivy Bridge E/EP or Haswell EP
- Intel looking to leave the desktop motherboard business within 3 years
- RumorTT: NVIDIA readying GK110-based GeForce Titan card, would retail for $899
- University student kicked out for finding security flaw offered scholarship by the company behind flawed software
- THQ's bankruptcy proves good for gamers, get 19 games for just $25
- Atari files for bankruptcy in US, selling off logo, assets
- Google-commissioned survey shows that US P2P users buy 30 % more music, another study showing P2P users not bad
- Google looks to patent laser keyboard, possibly for use in Google Glass
- Sony to start selling white version of PlayStation 3 on January 27
- Larry Page asks how well Steve Job's thermonuclear war is going for them
- New zero-day Java exploit shows up online, for sale in online forum for $5k
- iPhone 4S users on AT&T will finally be able to use FaceTime over cellular data
- Stream the US Presidential Inauguration live to your smartphone with new app
- Windows Phone satisfaction higher than that of Android, still behind iPhone
- Tesla opening 25 new stores in 2013, including first store in China
- RumorTT: iPhone 5S to be mass produced in March, launch in June/July
- Facebook's big thing is Graph Search, allows you to search through its social graph
- World not going to end in 2029 or 2036 due to Apophis astroid
- ReportTT: Instagram seeing roughly half the number of daily users after ToS mess
- Google unveils Chrome 25 beta, includes voice search
- RumorTT: Samsung Galaxy S IV to feature 5-inch, 440PPI full HD screen
- ReportTT: Prices for the Xbox 720, PlayStation 4 to be roughly $400 at launch, and use standard hardware
- Ubuntu phone OS walkthrough on a Galaxy Nexus, looks so good - I'm ready to buy it
- Say hello to the Digital Storm Aventum, the coolest computer I've ever seen
- Lenovo announces K900 smartphone at CES 2013, will be available in China in April
- Corsair shows off impressive 900D chassis at CES 2013
- Gigabyte making new low-profile mini-ITX boards at CES 2013, pictures of the 4K dual-Thunderbolt display
- Gigabyte shows off S1185 tablet at CES 2013, has unique features and full Core experience
- 4K vs 1080p: why you should be impressed but not care
- Kingston debuts world's largest flash drive, capacities up to 1TB
- M-DISC promises 1000 years of life, allows you to archive files on disc
- Free-to-play Age of Empires Online ends development, goes into support phase
- GIGABYTE U2442F Ultrabook Laptop Review
- Megaupload says US government lied so they could get a search warrant
- FTC ends anti-trust investigation, orders Google to stop excluding competitors from Motorola SEPs
- Raspberry Pi gets educational manual, free to use and distribute
- AMD picks Devinder Kumar as new CFO
- iBUYPOWER Chimera 4SE Desktop Gaming PC Review
- Microsoft says Google preventing the company from providing fully featured YouTube app for Windows Phone OS
- Nintendo 3DS gets cracked, homebrew code should be able to be ran in the future, pirated games as well
- Connecticut town collecting and destroying violent video games, handing out $25 gift certificate in exchange
- Apple losing the battle for its claim to "App Store," part of case against Amazon dismissed
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC details leak in the form of a poster
- Polaroid to open 'Fotobars' that will let you print Instagram pics on different materials
- Microsoft posts countdown to E3, rumor starts that next-gen Xbox will be announced
- RumorTT: Sony to announce PlayStation 4 in February at Destination PlayStation
- Sony finishes production of PlayStation 2 in Japan, fuels rumors resources are going towards PS4