Michael Santo
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Video: Battle of the Radeon HD 6950s @ The Tech Report NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti @ Phoronix VisionTek Radeon 6970 2GB @ PureOverclock [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 12.1 Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD5 Motherboard Review @ OCIA.net Mini-ITX Face-Off: Asrock Z68M-ITX-HT vs. Asrock A75M-ITX @ TechSpot Processors: Intel...
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Processors: AMD's FX-8150 "Zambezi" CPU (LostCircuits) AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer 8 Core CPU Review @ TechwareLabs AMD's FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor reviewed at TR AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer CPU Review @ Neoseeker Legion Hardware - (AMD FX-8150, FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4170) AMD Bulldozer - FX 8150 Performance Review @ Rage3D.com AMD FX-8150 CPU Review:...
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Video: Silent Games: Three Unique Graphics Accelerators on Radeon HD 67xx with Passive Coolers @ XBitLabs Asus GeForce Matrix GTX 580 Platinum 1536MB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Review @ Vortez Memory and Storage: OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB PCI-E SSD Review @ Hardware Canucks Corsair Force...
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The case of the missing iPhone 4 is finally over. Brian Hogan (below), 22, of Redwood City, and Robert Sage Wallower (pictured), 28, have changed their pleas from "not guilty" to "no contest" in the "lost iPhone" case, stemming from 2010. The pair, who had been accused of selling the device to Gizmodo last year, received sentences...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Edition 2GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock A75 Extreme 6 and A55 Pro 3 @ PureOverclock TechREACTION.net Review: Gigabyte GA 990FXA-UD5 Gigabyte Z68XP-UD5 LGA 1155 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks Futurelooks News Flash - GIGABYTE GA-A75M-UD2H Socket FM1 mATX Motherboard...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon 6850 Vapor-X with Dirt 3 @ TechwareLabs.com EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews NVIDIA 3D Vision w/ ASUS VG236HE 3D Display Review @ Legit Reviews Hero: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 Super Overclock Graphics Card Review @ XBitLabs Motherboards and Chipsets: Asus F1A75-I Deluxe FM1 Motherboard Review...
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A well-known German hacker group has accused the German government of releasing a Trojan horse program into the wild. According to the Chaos Computer Club, the program is the stuff of political fiction: it was designed to allow the government to spy on its citizens. The CCC released its findings on its website, in the...
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Apparently, another one of the somewhat all-too-common malware-related problems in the U.S. military has resulted in the systems used by pilots who control U.S. Air Force drones being infected by a "keylogger." Although detected by the military's security systems, they've been unable to wipe it off their systems, at least permanently. A source...
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Video: [Tech ARP] Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 23.4 Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Memory and Storage: Corsair Force GT 240GB Solid State Drive Review @ Tweaktown Kingston HyperX SSD 240GB Upgrade Bundle Kit @ TestFreaks Power: Funky Kit Review: HEC Cougar SX 550w...
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It's unclear to us why the death of Steve Jobs has hit us hard. We never knew him personally. We love Android and hate the iOS closed model. Despite that, while watching the videos when writing this, we would tear up, occasionally. Is it because his age isn't that far off of ours? Whatever the reason, farewell, Steve....
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While Apple hasn't released exact sales figures yet, AT&T said that in its first 12 hours of sales it sold 200,000 iPhone 4S units. In addition, there is indication that demand is high, and across the board: Apple's online store is now sold out of iPhone 4S pre-orders, on all carriers, with shipping now taking 1-2 weeks. That would mean...
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Video: Sapphire HD 6850 1GB Vapor-X Edition @ OCC ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II Graphics Card Review @ OCIA.net VisionTek Ulimate 8GB DDR3-1600 @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte X58A-OC Intel X58 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org ASUS F1A75-M PRO @ PureOverclock Processors: Intel Core i3 2120 Review @ OCC TR reviews AMD's...
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In the wake of the death of tech luminary Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, several celebrities in and outside of the tech industry have issued condolences, statements, and messages. Steve Jobs, of course, was until recently the CEO of Apple, and was Chairman of the Board until his death. Among the mourners, first...
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Exactly one week after the "big" iPhone 4S event, Samsung and Google will introduce Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0?) and the Nexus Prime. At least, that's what their invitation leads us to believe. This will be the next "big" event, and the alternative one for Android lovers, as opposed to iOS lovers. In the teaser video that Samsung has...
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How did Sprint finally score the iPhone? It did so by guaranteeing to Apple that it would purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next 4 years, amount to $20 billion worth of the handsets, at current pricing. That's just part of the story emerging on Monday, the day before the next-generation iPhone launch. Not only did Sprint buy its way into...
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AT&T said it was going to start a throttling or "network optimization" program on Oct. 1, and it wasn't kidding. The nation's second largest wireless carrier has begun sending out warning messages via SMS to the top 5 percent of data users on its network. The text message alerts those affected that they are among...
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Video: [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.9 PowerColor Radeon HD 6770 PCS+ Vortex II Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com Motherboards and Chipsets: A55F-A Review @ t-break Processors: Intel Core I3 2120 vs AMD Phenom II X2 560 Review by Ultimate Hardware Memory and Storage: Kingston Wi-Drive Portable Wireless Storage 16GB Review...
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You might expect that since Apple has announced the date of its iPhone introduction, that all the rumors would die down. We, on the other hand, expected the opposite, and that's what seems to be happening. Cases for both the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 have appeared in AT&T stores. In addition, screenshots of AT&T's inventory system showed...
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Video: Sapphire 6850 Vapor-X @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire A75 Pure Platinum Mainboard Review @ Rage3D.com ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe (A75) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Memory and Storage: Patriot Pyro 120GB Solid State Drive Review @ APH Networks Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Review @ eTeknix.com Power: In Win Glacier...
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RIM's BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps, the player that will enable the underperforming PlayBook to run Android applications, is still missing in action. However, details are starting to emerge about the limitations of the player, and they are probably going to disappoint many. The details came from a RIM presentation at Droidcon, which...
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One week after Apple's "big event," which is the introduction of the next-generation iPhone, or iPhones, Google and Samsung have scheduled their own "big event." October 11, 2011, will be the Samsung Mobile Unpacked Google Episode, where folks will be able to "get a look at what's new from Android." We already know the answer to part of that:...
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Sprint is the only of the U.S. Big 4 wireless carriers to still have and unlimited, unthrottled smartphone data plan, and despite the fact it's widely expected to get access to the iPhone for the first time this year, it's going to continue that. But where have we heard that before (Verizon, before the CDMA iPhone 4) and how long did that...
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