“Don’t be afraid to die!” Eve Online player “Grey Gal.” Eve Onlineis an immense game with nearly two decades of player-driven history and lore behind it. To the uninitiated, beginning your life in New Eden is daunting to say the least. For those unfamiliar,Eve Onlineis a free-to-play, massively-multiplayer, online game where thousands of players vie for resources, power, and combat victories in a shared universe set in space. The gist of the game, as far as I’ve managed to experience it, is that you’ve suddenly awakened in a spaceship and you’ve got work to do....

Love is unpredictable. You never know how it’s going to strike, so when it does, it’s often in the moments you least expect — and that’s precisely what happened when I fell in love with a 2TB LaCieportable SSD. It was a day, really, like many other days in my part of the world. The sky was grey. Drizzle coated the outdoors. And the postperson was tired with having to deliver me more shit....

A love letter to my Netgear router, the gorgeous Nighthawk RAX120 The words from a sweaty man on home networking you were waiting for New house? New router One of the pleasant things about moving into a new space is you can really mould it into a space that suits you. In my case, that meant jam packing the place with technology. A quick check of my Netgear router confirms there are currently 28 different devices connected to it....

Everyone has a contrarian side. At some point you must’ve seen something loads of people loved and had the immediate reaction of “well, notme.” And, like most human experiences, some people suffer from contrarianism more than others. I, for example, am fucking awful. Let’s take the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones as an example. Overpast iterations, the range has been routinely toutedas some of the best mid-range headphoneson the market. And that meant one thing to Mr....

At this current point in technological time, a slim MacBook air with built-in 3G cellular data sounds like the perfect device. It would mean the end of having to hook up to lousy airport hotspots or shoddy WiFi in coffee shops. You’d be connected all the time and where you need it most– your laptop. With Google’s connected Chromebook and the increasing popularity of tablets, a 3G connected MacBook air makes a lot of sense....