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With the demise of Betamax years ago, VHS became the one simple choice for videos, and remained that way up until the late 90's. VHS has since met it's end, and DVD has taken over as the format choice for most, but that's all changing now. With the release of Sony's Blu-Ray format, and Microsoft's competing HD-DVD format,...
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In response to the numerous reports of defective laptop batteries that could pose a fire hazard risk, Virgin Atlantic has banned the use of certain laptops from their flights. The ban covers certain Dell and Apple laptops, ones which contain the faulty batteries manufactured by Sony. The laptops are still permitted to be brought...
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NVIDIA sent word today of their wins on the iMac platform, if that kind of machine is your sort of flava... "On Sept 6th Apple announced their flagship 24" iMac (http://www.apple.com/imac/), powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics processing unit (GPU) as the standard configuration and the GeForce 7600 GT GPU as a configure-to-order...
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HTPCNews has put together a nice little PVR guide for those interested in adding Tivo style functionality to their PC. Having been an ATI All-In-Wonder user since the original Radeon series (VIVO before that), these features are absolute must haves for me. In fact, the first component I bought when I purchased my most recent...
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Intel, UC Santa Barbara Develop World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser Chip that Emits and Guides Light Could Drive Silicon Photonics Into Wide Use in Future Computers and Data Centers SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2006 - Researchers from...
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Intel Ramps Up New 'Multiply' Campaign For Intel Core 2 Duo SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2006 - Intel Corporation today announced a new integrated branding campaign named "Multiply," which is focused on Intel Core 2 Duo, the world's best processor. The campaign represents Intel's most significant marketing campaign...
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[H]ard|OCP had a chat with AMD's CTO Phil Hester about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor. Phil gave Kyle and crew some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel's Core 2 Duo. "Phil Hester knows that competition is good for AMD. With the release of Intel's Core 2...
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Moore's Law, for all of you folks that think overclocking is sleeping late and driving to work faster, is the rule of thumb that computing power will double every eighteen months or so. It's seems to have been stuck a bit lately, and everyone was wondering where the next goose your chip needs -- to show you glistening beads of...
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What is YouTube, exactly? It serves different purposes for different users, but its main reason for existence recently seems to be for music industry lawyers to fight over any money that might be in it. But Warner Brothers music seems to have come to the realization that YouTube is a massive...
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We have heard the stories and medical reports of how stress can lead to everything from stomach ulcers to death. WYTV ABC 33 out of Youngstown, OH pulled together a report that details the top 10 stressful careers to be in. IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress...
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Fudo over at The Inquirer reports that their sources are indicating ATI's next generation R600 GPU will consume an obscene 250W of power! By comparison, the current flagship GPU's consume less than 150W under the most taxing conditions. Should this figure prove true, it is no wonder we're hearing rumors of factory-watercooled graphics...
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If your NVIDIA GeForce 6 or 7 series overclocking adventures haven't yielded the kind of results you had hoped, this guide on the AOA Forums may be of interest. They outline the steps necessary to soft-mod the BIOS on many GeForce cards to increase the GPU's voltage using NiBiTor and nvFlash. I've done this mod on a...
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Gainward weighs in this evening with their own offering of GeForce 7950GT cards. There are two flavors, a standard 512MB version with RAM at 1.4GHz and a 256MB version with RAM clocked in at 1.2GHz. Both look to have pretty swank cooling solutions... Gainward BLISS 7950GT 512MB TV-out Dual DVI BLISS 7950GT 256MB...
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Just when you thought they couldn't get any bigger, cheaper or faster, Seagate steps out and says, think again... Imagine a RAID 0 array with a pair of 2.5TB drives. That ought to be enough room for your 80s-Music-Flock-of-Seagulls collection... "Seagate Technology, citing...
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The world's a dangerous place. Lots of bad people want to steal your stuff. They especially want to steal the money you've got to buy that stuff. Some of the more sophisticated hoodlums know more than the security experts at the bank do about how your sensitive information is handled and stored. All of them know more than...
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Western Digital has finally released their first hard drives based on perpendicular drive technology. The 160GB 2.5-inch Scorpio drive has a SATA 150 interface with 8MB cache size and 5400RPM spindle speed. This brings Western Digital in line with similar PMR (perpendicular magnetic...
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Mozilla has updated its immensely popular and award winning Firefox web browser to version 1.5.0.7. The latest package weighs in at a reasonable 5MB and can be grabbed here if your browser has not already updated through the auto update service. For a list of changes please check here. ...
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Hello everyone. Just in case you're the type who likes to jump right down to the news, we wanted to let you all know that we've just posted a new article where we evaluate the features and performance of Corsair's brand-new Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF memory kit. Here's a snip from the article......
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Over the years, Corsair has earned a solid reputation in the PC enthusiast community for consistently offering some of the best system memory kits in their respective classes. Corsair has a myriad of memory kits available in many different capacities and speeds, and virtually all of them rate well versus their competition. Some of Corsair's...
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Ship in a bottle? No Collect coins? No Paint by numbers? No Golf? Uh uh Needlepoint? Huh? Stamp Collection? No K'NEX Semi-automatic machine gun? HELL YES This gun is an 8 shot semi-auto rubber band gun with a twist, its made entirely from K'NEX!!! When you think about it its a very simple...
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BBC News is reporting on the details Microsoft has released on its upcoming "Zune" music player. Microsoft hopes the promising new device will be a direct rival to Apple's iPod, and will feature wireless connectivity, a radio, video playback, a three-inch screen...
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Blizzard Entertainment Licenses Havok Physics Technology Blizzard to use Havok 4.0 for both PC and Mac platforms San Francisco, September 14, 2006 - Havok, the premier provider of interactive software and services to digital creators in the game and film industries, announces today that...
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