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Now that Kepler has had a few months to marinate, NVIDIA’s board partners are ready with newer, custom GeForce GTX 680 and GTX 670 cards that push things a bit further than the initial batch of products based on NVIDIA’s...
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Genius added a new gaming headset to the GX Gaming Series. The new Lychas HS-G550 Foldable Gaming Headset features individual volume controls for each ear cup which makes it ideal for LAN parties and competitions because you'll be able to hear sounds from the game in one ear and teammates...
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A little over three months has passed since NVIDIA unleashed its first Kepler-based GPU on PC gamers, known as the GeForce GTX 680. At the time of its arrival, the GeForce GTX 680 was the clear leader in high-end graphics cards. The card offered better overall performance than AMD’s...
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Wouldn't it be great if game consoles didn't cost several hundred dollars, and if the games were free to play, at least to try them out? Well, that's the central idea behind Ouya, a new game console for the TV and powered by Android...
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Plextor's a pretty familiar name in the storage industry, and it's hoping to get even more familiar with the launch of the M5S Series of SSDs. Not surprisingly, the company's playing up "enhanced reliability and performance," suggesting that this new range can hit sustained read/write speed up...
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Can enterprise and 2.5" HDDs live in the same sentence? Sure they can, and Toshiba's newest unit is proof. The company has just introduced a new laptop-friendly, enterprise-grade storage solution offering some pretty wild stats. For starters, it'll ship in sizes up to 900MB, supporting the...
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Toshiba may want to have a chat with its PR department on the subject of burying the lead. Tucked away in an otherwise low-key press release mentioning that Toshiba is shuffling its digital products facilities in Japan, there’s a...
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T-Mobile will expand its myTouch family with the new myTouch and myTouch Q on August 8. Both of these smartphones are manufactured by Huawei. The phones feature a new version of the Genius Button which provides access to voice controls powered by Dragon from Nuance as well as an easy setup...
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It's been quite awhile since anyone had much good to say to say about RIM's chances of surviving the next 12 months as an independent company, but a new interview with CEO Thorsten Heins has me hopeful. Unlike Heins' widely-publicized op/ed in the Globe and Mail a week ago, in which he sounded...
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If you've ever wanted to own your own supercomputer, now's your chance. Boutique system builder AVADirect announced what it claims is the first personal supercomputer workstation loaded to the gills with dual 8-core Intel Xeon processors...
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Just a short time after Apple pulled 39 products from the aging EPEAT green technology certification program, people have stopped scratching their heads and are starting to flip out. Among the most noteworthy naysayers is the San Francisco...
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It may have taken what feels like an eternity, but iPad users can now hop on Apple's App Store and download the official Google+ app rather than using a stretched out version of the iPhone app or navigating Google's social network via...
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For the average consumer, saying the word "bootloader" will get you a blank stare. But for hardcore Android hackers, it's a touchy subject. You see, an unlocked bootloader gives users the ability to easily root their phone and install a...
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Apple is pitching Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) as the cat's meow with over 200 new features "that add up to an amazing Mac experience," but that only applies if you're rocking a compatible system. Some older Mac models, including ones...
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For better or worse, cloud gaming seems to be the next major "thing" in gaming as a whole. A few years ago, motion gaming was it. Now that we've embraced that (and to some extent, 3D), companies like Sony are investing heavily in the...
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There's no denying that solid state drives (SSDs) are the sexy storage option, offering the luxury of blazing fast read and write transfers along with the reliability that comes from having no moving parts. But they're also comparatively...
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Amidst lots of other exciting announcements at its I/O conference last month, Google unveiled Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the latest version of Google’s mobile OS. Now, the update is rolling out, and the first hardware to taste it will...
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If you woke up this morning to find that your Dropbox Pro account doubled in size while you slept, here’s why: Dropbox really wants to keep you as a customer. In an effort to stay competitive in the cloud storage space, Dropbox just...
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Fresh off of fixing a problem that caused MacBooks to crash, Google's Chrome team announced Chrome 21 beta. Chrome updates are pretty common and often receive little fanfare, but today's beta has a couple treats worth mentioning: Native...
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Usually, when industry titans do battle, it’s a good thing for consumers (patent wars notwithstanding). Companies scramble to outdo each other, one-upping the competition’s latest product and forcing down prices, and begging...
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Although mobile and social gaming is all the rage, gaming on a living room console connected to your TV has always been a thoroughly enjoyable way to while away the hours alone or with friends. In recent years, the Xbox (alone and with the...
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China is a big place. Not only that, but a huge market. Apple products have become all the rage over there, and based on Apple's latest quarterly earnings, it's seeing a huge amount of profits come from that nation. Clearly, it's a priority for Apple to sell as many wares as possible there...
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