The TR Podcast 33: Facebooking, SSDs on steroids, and the bacon explosion
Don't miss this week's TR Podcast! We cover everything from our new Facebook page to super-fast (and expensive) storage setups, divine bacon, and more!
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Saturday science subject: Quantum teleportation
Slowly but surely, researchers seem to be inching toward workable quantum computers. According to IEEE Spectrum, Christopher Monroe and his team at the University of Maryland may have gotten one step closer: they've teleported the quantum state of an ion to another ion a meter (3.3 ft) away. Quantum teleportation...
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Crysis Warhead patch adds 64-bit executables
When Crysis Warhead came out last year, some Crysis fans expressed surprise at the lack of a 64-bit executable for the game. Well, developer Crytek has now rectified the situation. As Shacknews reports, the first patch for Crysis Warhead introduces 64-bit executables for both Windows Vista and Windows XP....
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Deal of the week: A Radeon HD 4870 for $180 shipped
The big holiday season shopping rush is over, and the latest batch of PC blockbuster games has already come out, but that doesn't mean this is a bad time to pick up a new graphics card. Quite the opposite, in fact, since graphics card prices still seem to be on...
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What's next for Bigfoot? New CEO Michael Howse speaks out
We haven't heard much from Bigfoot Networks since we reviewed the firm's Killer NIC in the summer of 2007. Back then, our verdict was that this high-end gaming network card did indeed improve ping times as advertised. Yet...
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Samsung touts highest density DDR3 chip
After announcing 2Gb (256MB) DDR3 memory chips last September, Samsung now says it has used the same 50nm process technology to build the "world's first" 4Gb chip. This 4Gb chip is designed to operate at up to 1.6Gbps with just 1.35V of juice, nicely below the 1.5V standard for...
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Socket AM3 Phenom II X3, X4 listings appear in Europe
Online retailers seem to list processors ahead of time like clockwork lately. In the latest case, British e-tailer CLL Computers has put up three listings for upcoming AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II processors. None of the chips are in stock, but the listings do reveal almost all you need...
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Higher-capacity, 34nm Intel SSDs may arrive in Q4
Intel seems to be taking a measured approach to its debut in the solid-state drive market, offering neither record-breaking capacities nor rock-bottom prices. However, a roadmap nabbed by VR-Zone suggests Intel does have plans to broaden its SSD line with higher-capacity (and perhaps more affordable) models. The roadmap says eight...
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iTunes DRM-free upgrades are now available track-by-track
Apple has quietly updated its DRM upgrade policy on iTunes. According to iLounge, folks wishing to strip digital rights management protection from their songs no longer have to convert their entire music libraryآ—they can now do it track by track. Upgrades still cost 30 cents a track, and as far...
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Catalyst 9.1 drivers bring bug fixes, full OpenGL 3
Just over a month behind Nvidia, AMD has released its first graphics drivers with "full" OpenGL 3.0 support. In this case, OpenGL 3.0 finds its way in the latest major Catalyst releaseآ—version 9.1, which is available right now for Windows Vista x86, Windows Vista x64, Windows...
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GPU shipments fell last quarter, says JPR
No great surprise there: graphics processors didn't transcend the economic slowdown last quarter. In fact, Jon Peddie Research reports that shipments slipped to just 72.35 million in the fourth quarter of 2008آ—that's down from 111.26 million the previous quarter and 100.5 million a year before. As the research firm points...
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Mozilla donates $100K to free web video
Could an open-source video format unseat Flash as the vehicle of choice for video on the web? That's what Mozilla seems to hope. The organization behind Firefox has given a $100,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation so it can improve the Ogg Theora video codec. The Wikimedia folks already make...
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