Michael Santo
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 Review @ AMDZoneATI RADEON HD 4770 (RV740) 512MB @ iXBTInno3D GeForce 9800 GT review at Ultimate HardwareMotherboards and Chipsets:GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 790FX Motherboard Review @ FuturelooksZotac's IONITX-A Mini-ITX board @ TR-NewsASUS Rampage II Gene LGA1366 mATX Motherboard Review @ Hardware CanucksZotac...
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It only took a month after the fiasco that prevented the HADOPI legislation from passing for the French Assembly and Senate to regroup, and on Wednesday HADOPI, the "three strikes" anti-piracy legislation passed the French Senate. It had passed the French National Assembly on Tuesday.The fiasco we reference above occurred when overconfidence...
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Slingplayer Mobile for the iPhone has reached the App Store, or rather, finally been approved for the App Store but --- and here's the rub --- in a somewhat different (and some would say crippled) form than beta. Beta versions of the app allowed operation under wi-fi, EDGE and 3G (not that anyone would want to use EDGE). The released version...
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Five different lawsuits, from owners of Apple, Dell and HP laptops have combined their lawsuits against NVIDIA over defective GPUs that were shipped in possibly millions of computers. In some cases, OEMs have modified the BIOS in an attempt to keep the GPUs from overheating, but the change reduces battery life and performance. NVIDIA admitted...
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About a month after rejecting the same law, the French National Assembly on Tuesday approved a three-strikes downloading law, 296 votes in favor to 233 against. The bill now moves to the Senate where approval is expected in a Wednesday vote. HADOPI, named after the agency that will be formed if the law passes, "Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion...
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Video:Palit GeForce GTX 260 Sonic 216 SP Video Card @ PCShopTalk AMD Radeon HD 4770 On Linux @ PhoronixATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 @ TechspotMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock X58 SuperComputer Motherboard @ CPU3DECS A790GXM-AD3 Review @ OCCASUS M3A78-T 790GX AM2+ Motherboard Review @ PC PerspectiveECS A790GXM-AD3 motherboard...
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Last week, Acer told us that Windows 7 would be available on its new all-in-one Z5600 PC starting on October 23, 2009. Nice, but it would have been nice if Microsoft would have confirmed the date, right? Well, on Monday, Microsoft didn't give us a date, but at least it gave us a quarter. In a press release, as well as a statement at Microsoft...
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NASA's getting Twitter-ific. Not only is astronaut Mike Massimino tweeting updates in preparation for the Hubble mission scheduled to launch Monday, in NASA's next shuttle mission to the International Space Station in June, shuttle commander Mark Polansky is inviting followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from...
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Last week, the New York-based Equality Now launched a campaign this week "against rape simulator games and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan." One developer of such rape simulator games wasn't impressed.In fact, the developer in question, Illusion Studio, was the focus of an earlier post of ours, written about the game "RapeLay,"...
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Video:MSI Radeon HD 4890 1GB OC Graphic Card Review @ NinjalaneSapphire Radeon HD 4770 CrossFireX Performance @ BmRSapphire Radeon HD 4830 @ TWLATI RADEON HD 4890 Crossfire Video Card Setup @ PCShopTalkGeForce GTS 250 Roundup (ASUS, Gigabyte, Sparkle, EVGA) @ Hardware CanucksMotherboards and Chipsets:MSI Eclipse SLI X58 LGA 1366 Motherboard...
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When Windows Vista was nearing launch, Microsoft offered an Upgrade Advisor program. Wanting to be sure to repeat the past (except, of course, for Windows Vista's poor adoption rate), Microsoft has released a beta version of a Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor. It doesn't go into the same amount of detail that the Windows Vista Advisor does, which...
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As you may know if you've been reading this site for a while, the U.S. Copyright Office is holding its triennial hearings on exemptions to the DMCA. One of the exemptions being sought would broaden one granted film and media professors in 2006 to rip DVDs (so they could use the clips in teaching) to other teachers as well. Naturally, there's...
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While The Pirate Bay is perhaps the best known of all the BitTorrent tracking sites, Mininova, based in The Netherlands, is the biggest. And like The Pirate Bay, it's facing litigation. Now just a few days before their court appearance (May 20th), Mininova has started to filter content. The site is using a third party content recognition system...
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Video:Diamond HD 4770 Review @ OCCASUS Radeon EAH4870X2 Tri-Fan Graphics Card @ TweaktownSparkle Calibre P980 @ NeoseekerDell S2409W 24-inch LCD @ PhoronixSamsung SyncMaster P2370 23-Inch LCD Monitor Review @ FuturelooksASUS ENGTX260 Matrix GeForce GTX 260 896MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers.orgSapphire Radeon HD 4770 512MB and CrossFire...
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Duke Nukem Forever, the epitome of vaporware, seems to now be gone forever. On the other hand, it's not as though any of us were holding our breath for it. In multiple reports, 3D Realms, the Texas-based developer of past Duke Nukem games, is said to have shut down. Take-Two (planned publisher of the game) VP, of communications Alan Lewis...
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Video:Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X 2GB @ TechgageSapphire HD 4890 Atomic Edition Review @ OCCNanovision Mimo UM-710 USB Secondary Monitor Review @ FuturelooksMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 Motherboard @ TweaktownMemory and Storage:Spire SP331CB CombiPod USB Hub/Card Reader Review @ TweaknewsSeagate FreeAgent Theater...
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As Microsoft promised, on Tuesday, the Windows 7 Release Candidate was made available to the public. It had previously been available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Here are the details from Microsoft: So do you want to put the Windows 7 RC through its paces? Just like with the Windows 7 Beta, you can register to download the Windows 7 RC...
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What we have here is a data breach of major proportions that's been turned into data-napping, as well. According to a post on WikiLeaks, which you may recall is an online database of leaked documents, the hackers are asking for $10,000,000 to release 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions. The hackers replaced the...
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Many consider the Firefox extensions Adblock Plus and NoScript in positive ways. We've also indicated that the extension system on Firefox is one reason we're not looking to change to Chrome; we have too many extensions to do so. But one problem is that there's no current way, except for ads or donations, for developers to monetize their...
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ASUS Motherboards World’s First to Support Windows 7 RC -- New Beta Drivers Available on ASUS Website Enable ASUS Motherboard Users to Run Windows 7 RC -- FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (May 4th, 2009) - ASUS today proved once again that it is at the forefront of motherboard innovation and technology with its announcement that ASUS motherboards are...
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Video:PowerColor HD 4890 PCS 1 GB @ techPowerUpGigabyte Radeon HD 4770 review at Ultimate HardwareLeadtek Winfast GTX 260 (216) Extreme+ @ NeoseekerATI Radeon HD 4770 Video Card Overclocking Guide @ Legit ReviewsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASRock M3A790GXH-128M (AM3) Motherboard @ CPU3DAMD Platform Showdown - Spider vs. Dragon vs. Dragon Reloaded...
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We've said before that releasing the Pre after WWDC, which takes place starting June 9th, would be a big mistake. Reinforcing a prior rumor that the Palm Pre would launch on June 7th is a new one, which states that Best Buy will have stock on June 8th.However, accoding to BGR, what Best Buy, Palm, and Sprint may call "stock" may be as few...
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