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As with all rumors please take the following with a grain of salt until we receive official confirmation or denial from NVIDIA.If the 9600 launch impressed you, but you were holding out for a card with a little more horsepower, then you might be in luck. Rumor has it that NVIDIA will be launching high-end cards in the near future:“At...
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The EU's antitrust regulators launched a fresh offensive against Intel while still awaiting an official response from the company. The newest round of raids encompasses Intel's offices in Munich as well as retailers in Germany, France and the U.K. The raids were supposedly carried out in order to discover if Intel was using noncompetitive...
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SAPPHIRE HD 3870 goes TOXIC!Exclusive Vapor-X cooler gives performance boost SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced global availability of its exciting new HD 3870 TOXIC edition high performance graphics accelerator. The SAPPHIRE HD 3870 TOXIC version features the award winning - and SAPPHIRE exclusive -Vapor-X single slot cooler, SAPPHIRE’s...
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The Commodore 64 is legendary, and just last year celebrated its 25th anniversary. And now owners of the Nintendo Wii will be able to play classic games of that era via the Wii Virtual Console.Bala Keilman, CEO of Commodore Gaming, commented, “The massive impact the Commodore 64 had on video...
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Sandia is a US Department of Energy research and development laboratory run by Lockheed Martin. They're presently gearing up to add some zeros to amount of calculations a supercomputer can perform. Sandia developed the first teraflop (one trillion calculations a second) computer a decade ago...
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Seventeen people ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-six have been rounded up by police in raids carried out in a dozen towns across Quebec. They're charged with participating in an international computer hacking ring. The hosers.Police raiding parties also sealed and carted away dozens of hard drives and other computer components from...
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We recently reported that Google offered Yahoo unspecified aid to fight off a potential hostile takeover from Microsoft. What we didn't know was the reasoning behind that, but we were able to speculate. Now we're getting answers straight from Google co-founder Sergey Brin:"The Internet has evolved from open standards, having a...
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Microsoft's troubles don't all revolve around Vista. In fact the Redmond firm's Windows Home Server has been corrupting user's data for few months now with no end in sight. Microsoft claimed to burning the midnight oil during the holiday season in order to resolve this issue. So what are the results of all that burnt...
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As with all rumors, please take the following news item with a grain of salt until we can receive official confirmation or denial from either Intel or NVIDIA.Rumor has it that Intel doesn't want to share all of its secrets in regards to Common System Interface (CSI) technology with NVIDIA.“And the same sources claimed that while Intel hasn’t...
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OCZ Technology Announces New DDR3-1333 Kits in the Award-Winning Reaper HPC SeriesSunnyvale, CA—February 21, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced two new Reaper HPC solutions for enthusiasts upgrading...
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This has to be the most screwed-up Service Pack release we've ever seen, and we've seen plenty of them. While Microsoft said SP1 has been released to manufacturing, it also said SP1 wouldn't be sent to end users for six weeks. And it even pulled one of the prerequisite updates yesterday after...
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Utilizing a little known fact about RAM, researchers have devised a way to crack disk encryption. The attack takes only a few minutes to conduct and uses the disk encryption key that's stored in the computer's RAM. The attack works because content as well as encryption keys stored in RAM linger in the system, even after the machine is powered...
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Microsoft, we users had enough problems when you first released Windows Vista. Now on top of that you're telling us you're going to break some apps when Windows Vista SP1 releases? That's not going to win you any fans, we can tell you. After all, compatibility has been a big issue with Vista already.Microsoft has published a list of programs...
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Keith Fife and his colleagues at Stanford University have come up with they call a "multi-aperture image sensor," which allows digital pictures to collect and store depth-of-field information. Unlike other 3D camera setups, the data is gathered at the chip level, so no expensive and complicated multiple lens setups are required. Instead of...
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The New York Times looked at the Pew Internet and American Life Project's profile of young Internet users, and to their surprise, they discovered that teenage girls outnumber teenage boys in writing blogs and webpages, and building or working on social networking sites. The only category of Internet activity where boys lead is posting...
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NVIDIA launched the first release of their next generation GeForce 9 GPU architecture today and this time the company decided to come out with a mainstream, more reasonably priced offering first, versus the traditional high-end, pricey flagship boards that are typically showcased for the...
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If the blockbuster successes of games like World of Warcraft and Counterstrike, compared to the lack-luster reception of ultra-high-end titles like Crysis, have taught us anything, it is that the vast majority of PC gamers are not running games which are incredibly graphics intensive. As...
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With rumors swirling about NVIDIA releasing the 9000 series of video cards, starting with the 9600, it appears that AMD isn't too worried. If anything, it seems that they're planning on undermining the launch via price cuts of their existing HD 3800 series cards. Do bear in mind that the suggested prices of the 9600 series cards...
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Since it seems many government agencies can't keep their hands on their laptops, a U.K. company has come up with a potential solution.Sold as a hosted service, Virtuity's BackStopp server monitors a protected laptop using any medium available, including the Internet, or locally using Wi-Fi or GSM.If a laptop is reported stolen -- or even just...
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We reported earlier that there is a show-stopping bug with one of the prerequisite patches for Vista SP1 which is causing computers around the world to get stuck in an endless loop of reboots. <insert your own joke about improved stability and reliability here>Microsoft didn't take long to evaluate the problem and respond:“So far,...
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We just got our hands on some hot news regarding Asus and a brand new smartphone they’ve just introduced. What you see pictured here is the new Asus M930 Windows Mobile 6-based smartphone. As the pictures show, the M930 has a clamshell design, and features dual screens, a QWERTY keyboard, and a built in camera / webcam. According...
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