Kiran Upadhyay

DeviantART member DirkLoechel recently updated his starship size comparison table, which includes ships from many popular science fiction favourites like Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape, Titan A.E., and Battlestar Galactica. If you and your mates are constantly arguing over the sizes of  starships , this handy cheatsheet will decisively end the debate. Head over to  DeviantART  for the full resolution image.

When it comes to PC gaming, just owning a beast of a machine is not enough – at least not for the majority of gamers. Instead, gamers demand the best peripherals to improve the experience even more. Mice, keyboards, speakers, and mouse pads are just some examples of the important things we all want to optimize our gaming time. Today, we are going to look at two of the higher-end gaming mice and keyboards: Corsair’s Vengeance series K95 Fully Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and M95 Performance MMO and RTS Laser Gaming Mouse . How do they perform in day-to-day usage, and are they worth the cost? Best of all, we are giving away this gaming keyboard and mouse set to one lucky winner. Keep reading to find out how you can enter and be in the running to enjoy these top-of-the-line gaming accessories for yourself. Introducing The Vengeance K95 Fully Mechanical Gaming Keyboard The K95 is one of the more expensive keyboards on the market, coming in with a price tag of $149.99. Obv

f you knew that someone could read your credit cards, passport, and even driver’s license without actually having to swipe them or look at them, would you take steps to guard against it? I know I would. Unfortunately, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology used to track sensitive data in many of today’s portable identifiers (e.g. cards) can be easily scanned without you ever knowing. It’s a scary thought to entertain and if it bothers you, keep reading to find out what you can do about it. Why Use An RFID-Blocking Wallet? As it stands right now, most credit cards and debit cards issued within the past decade have RFID technology embedded in them. All US passports issued in 2006 and later have RFID chips that track your data and photo. RFID chips are a convenient way to store and read data – instead of having to swipe your card through a reader, you can simply wave your card in front of an RFID scanner without even taking it out of your wallet. It’s convenienc

New PC cooling technologies use almost no energy and employ methods 50 times more efficient  than conventional designs. Some come in a form factor as thin as cardboard. Others look like a hockey-puck. Unfortunately, of the many technologies promised by the Internet, few actually come to fruition. We call it “vaporware” when gadgets fail to materialize. While hitting CPU speeds over 5 GHz on air may soon exist, right now these technologies don’t appear anywhere, outside a laboratory. For whatever reason, the following three technologies failed to make it to market. Although their manufacturers produced them in prototype form, they never entered mass production. Sandia’s Supercooler The most interesting, and radical, out of the bladeless coolers hails from the US government-backed Sandia Labs. The Sandia fan made quite an impression on PC enthusiasts by cramming 50-times greater cooling ability into a hockey-puck sized heat sink. It achieves its power based on an ex

Ars expressed surprise on Monday that a hacker was able to bypass fingerprint protection less than 48 hours after its debut in Apple's newest iPhone, but not everyone felt the same way. The hack, carried out by well-known German hacker Starbug, required too much expertise and pricey equipment to make it practical, according to critics. Marc Rogers, a security expert at smartphone security firm Lookout, was among the skeptics. After independently devising his own bypass of Apple's Touch ID , he concluded that it was anything but easy. "Hacking Touch ID relies upon a combination of skills, existing academic research, and the patience of a Crime Scene Technician," he wrote. Rogers went on to say that no one would know just how feasible Starbug's hack was until he released a step-by-step video and we learned more technical details. We now have both. Heise Online has posted the video here , and it was enough to satisfy Rob Graham, a security expert who

There’s lots of space in the cloud but it comes at a price. Microsoft SkyDrive says you can have 200 GB of space under a new plan that will cost you $100 a year. The plan is attractive for Windows 8.1 and Microsoft Surface 2 tablet users. SkyDrive comes integrated into Windows 8.1 and you can also use it as the default location to save your files from the desktop. Purchase a new Surface 2 or Surface 2 Pro and it comes bundled with 200GB of SkyDrive storage for free for two years. Functionally, using SkyDrive could give a few benefits for space watchers and mobile users. The desktop has placeholders on the local file system for your files in the cloud. You can move, copy, and rename these local copies, but they will only be downloaded when you want to open them. This allows you to access all your files from the cloud without having to store anything locally. Microsoft calls them “smart files”.   Compared to the competition the purchase plan for the additional 200 GB of

The prices of 3D printers have been slowly coming down, but even then the cheapest so far have been around the $500 mark. Canada-based inventor Rylan Grayston has hit upon a new formula that dramatically cuts the price, enabling him to make the world’s first $100 3D printer. And what’s more, the Peachy Printer doubles up as a 3D scanner when attached to any normal digital camera. Already, the Peachy Printer has blown past its Kickstarter goal of $50,000 and is at over $350,000 at the time of writing. The hand-sized cubic device needs to be connected to external apparatus in its kit, as well as a computer. The base kit for $100 (with $20 shipping outside Canada) requires assembly, although Grayston says that takes only an hour to do and doesn’t require any engineering knowledge. For $400 or more, you get a fully assembled Peachy Printer kit. Say what you want, but this is still far cheaper than the DIY 3D printers that cost around $1000. To make the price so low, Gr