Over the past year, we’ve seen USB 3.0 go from a specification to a real world product, with numerous manufacturers releasing everything from USB 3.0 cards to USB 3.0 compliant external hard drives. Still, uptake has been slow on the new standard, with most notebook manufacturers still refusing to ship machines with even a single USB 3 slot. What’s the hold up? Intel. The chipmaking giant still doesn’t officially support the...

Just how skinny are the new MacBook Airs? Thanks to this photographic evidence from Best Made Co., we can definitively say they’re thinner than an axe blade. Even the sharp end; see for yourself: The MacBook Airs are both .68 inches at their fattest and .11 inches at the front, which is decidedly less than the axe pictured here (though, admittedly, probably not all axes). Let’s just all hope it’s not as...

Windows: Skype is out with an official version 5, making the group video chat seen in previous sign-up betas an official option, and linking up with your Facebook account for status updating and quick calls to friends’ Skype or landline numbers. So this release, beyond the usual bug and performance fixes, mainly makes official the group video chat we found a bit wonky in a real-world test—although Skype still labels the group...