id Software reveals details about Rage gameplay
Rage is sounding increasingly like a radical departure from id Software's previous work. Not only is it a brand-new franchise designed for both consoles and PCs from the start, but according to the latest issue of Game Informer magazine, id has also trodden some new ground on the gameplay front. Shacknews...
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40nm DDR3 memory chips hit production at Samsung
Cheaper and faster DDR3 RAM may be just around the corner. Samsung says it has started mass-producing a new 2Gb DDR3 memory chip based on 40nm process technology—supposedly the first of its kind in the industry. This chip should find its way into desktop DIMMs and laptop SO-DIMMs with capacities as...
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Apple still too cool for recession, posts best non-holiday quarter
PC sales were down, major firms posted bleak results, and the recession was still in full swing last quarter. How did Apple do? Oh, not too bad: it only posted its best non-holiday fiscal quarter ever. Here's how numbers for Apple's third fiscal quarter, which ended on June 27, compare...
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Stylish Dell Adamo laptop falls to $1,499
Life ain't easy for super-premium ultraportables, especially when CULV laptops are selling for peanuts and even Apple is cutting prices. As Engadget reports, Dell has followed in the iPhone maker's footsteps and slashed the price of its Adamo notebook. The Adamo launched at $1,999 four months ago, and...
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Wednesday Shortbread
Wednesday Apple smashes profit forecasts, iPhone shines Apple's profit tops forecast, Mac sales strong TG Daily reports Seagate ships 40.6 million HDDs in Q2, loses $81 million DigiTimes reports PC players start recruiting, while AMD denies plans to cut staff by 3 - 5% in 2H09 Why is Obama's...
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AMD posts flat revenue, continued losses
Another quarter, another few hundred million dollars down the drain for AMD. The company has posted its financial results for the second quarter of this year, and not so surprisingly, it remained in the red: net losses totaled $330 million on revenue of $1.184 billion. (Without accounting for GlobalFoundries,...
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32nm Clarkdale sample overclocked to 4GHz
If the latest Internet rumors are correct, Intel plans to ship its 32nm Clarkdale processors next quarter, ahead of schedule. That would certainly explain why famed Taiwanese overclocker Coolaler has already gotten hold of and overclocked a Clarkdale sample—or so he claims. Apparently, Intel designed the sample in question...
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Valve's Newell: Gamers could be investors
Thanks to the online distribution boom, smaller developers have been able to profit from unorthodox games. But what about more ambitious projects? Valve co-founder and head honcho Gabe Newell thinks there's a way those can go forward, too. In an interview with ABC's Good Game (that's from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,...
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TR BBQ VI immortalized in photos, videos
For the sixth year, a gang of TR regulars from throughout the country has gathered to enjoy some barbecue and other, arguably geekier activities. As planned, TR BBQ VI took place last Saturday at a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan. How did it turn out? Pretty well, judging...
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Intel details new 34nm solid-state drives
Intel's next-gen solid-state drives have been rumored for some time, and now they're official. Rather awkwardly dubbed the X25-M on 34nm, the new SSDs predictably make use of flash memory chips built using 34nm process technology. Existing X25-M SSDs use 50nm flash. The move to a finer fabrication...
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TR Fantasy Football '09 sign-ups have begun
All are welcome to play in The Tech Report's fantasy football leagues, and believe it or not, it's time to sign up already. NFL training camps are about to start, and our league participants are beginning their crucial mouse-finger workouts, as well. So if you want to participate, don't...
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Final, WHQL-certified GeForce 190.38 drivers out
Last week, we saw a new set of beta drivers come out for GeForce graphics cards. Well, the same 190.38 driver pack has apparently passed through Microsoft's qualification labs, because it's up on Nvidia.com as the latest WHQL release. You can grab it right now for Windows Vista...
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Analyst: Pine Trail postponed until 2010
The Atom N270 and N280 may have a bit more life left in them still. According to a senior analyst for DigiTimes Research, Intel has decided to delay the launch of its next-generation Pine Trail platform for netbooks. Intel had working Pine Trail laptops on display at Computex last...
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Firefox 3.7 may take interface cues from IE, Chrome
Despite all of the improvements in Firefox 3.5, the browser's interface hasn't changed much, and the default Windows theme is looking more dated by the day. Good news, though: Mozilla may actually do something about it in the next release. Designer Stephen Horlander has already posted a few interface...
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Tuesday Shortbread
Tuesday iSuppli: Semiconductor inventory correction concludes -- Revenue growth begins Fudzilla reports analyst upgrades AMD TorrentFreak: DRM is ****, RIAA says RIAA spokesman denies saying 'DRM is dead' New FCC...
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