Another "let's all go without Google" article? That's odd, Google must've pissed everyone off this week because didn't we just had one of these stories yesterday? From search and Google Maps to Gmail and YouTube, it can be difficult to steer clear of the Google experience during a daily trip around the Internet. But it's not impossible, and it's not even remotely comparable to giving up one of the most addictive drugs on the planet. During a week in which I pledged to avoid using anything made, owned, or otherwise produced by Google, it was surprisingly easy to cut ties. Comments
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Dalai Lama Joins Twitter
I am not into the whole signs of the apocalypse thing but I am pretty damn sure this is one of them. At least now you can pretend to be spiritually enlightened and tell people at parties you "follow" the Dalai Lama. Next week, the Pope gets a MySpace page. The @DalaiLama account is up and running. And, unlike a previous hoax account, this appears to be the real deal. Twitter's new vice president of communications, Sean Garrett, just welcomed the Tibetan spiritual leader to the site. Comments
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FCC Says Cost is Major Barrier to Broadband Adoption
The Federal Communications Commission recently conducted a survey of 5,000 people and found that broadband is too damn expensive. Aside from the people that said broadband was too expensive, there is also a large number of people that just don't see a need for the internet at all. Really? Yikes! The survey identified three main barriers to adoption: affordability, digital literacy, and relevance. About 36 percent of the 28 million adults who said they don't subscribe to broadband at home said that the monthly fee for broadband was is too expensive, they can't afford a computer, or the installation fee is too high. Comments
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Where Batteries Go to Be Tortured
Sandia National Laboratories has labs specifically for blowing up stuff under the guise of "testing" it! Pfft, whatever, like that is something new. We've been doing that here for yearsآ…around here we call that a r-e-v-i-e-w. Behind a 2,000-pound blast door, federal researcher Peter Roth spends his days torturing electric-car batteries. He overcharges them, drives nails into them, presses them between scalding brass plates. He dunks them in salt water, sets them on fire, crushes them, drops them, dissects them. Again and again, he watches them explode. Comments
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Widespread Data Breaches Uncovered by FTC Probe
The Federal Trade Commission has sent out notices to over one hundred companies informing them that data from their networks has been found all over file sharing networks. Peer-to-peer technology can be used in many ways, such as to play games, make online telephone calls, and, through P2P file-sharing software, share music, video, and documents. But when P2P file-sharing software is not configured properly, files not intended for sharing may be accessible to anyone on the P2P network. Comments
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AMD Changing the Game Initiative Expands Beyond U.S.
AMD today announced it is expanding its signature education initiative, AMD Changing the Game, beyond North America, by co-sponsoring a digital game development and design workshop at the Malaysian Cybergames Festival. The festival aims to expose primary school children across Malaysia to computing technology and potential careers in the IT industry. AMD Changing the Game, the flagship initiative of the AMD Foundation, is designed to help foster science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills for students through the development of games on important social issues such as the environment, energy consumption, public health and many others. Comments
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Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com Inc. The agreement provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon's popular e-reading device, Kindleآ™, which employs both open source and Amazon's proprietary software components, and Amazon's use of Linux-based servers. Although specific terms of the agreement are confidential, Microsoft indicated that Amazon.com will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money under the agreement. Comments
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"Magny-Cours" is On Schedule, Now Shipping to Customers
John Fruehe, Director of Product Marketing for Server/Workstation products at AMD, made a blog post today saying that production of eight and twelve core "Magny-Cours" Opteron processors is now underway. So, there it is, we're building them now, and we expect that you'll be seeing a launch before the end of the quarter. With 8 or 12 cores, 4 memory channels and lots of other great technology coming, it's worth the wait. WELL worth the wait. Comments
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Twitter Claims 50M 'Tweets' a Day
According to this posting on the company's official blog, Twitter users are creating 50 million 'tweets' a day. This article has been re-tweeted 49,999,900 times. Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per dayآ—that's an average of 600 tweets per second. (Yes, we have TPS reports.) Comments
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[H]ardware Round-Up II
Cases & Modding Coolermaster USP 100 Mid Tower @ Pro-Clockers Thermaltake Element T Case @ Tweaknews ETC. Sony VAIO Y Series Notebook @ HotHardware Motherboards Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 LGA 1156 Micro ATX @ PCPer Video HIS Radeon HD 5750 iCooler IV (German) @ HT4U
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Stereotypes for Users of 40 Websites
This list of stereotypes for users of 40 websites is rather entertaining in a "point-your-finger-and-laugh-because-you-aren't-on-the-list" kinda way. 4chan: Kids pretending to be hackers, hackers pretending to be kids, reporters pretending to be kids pretending to be hackers, child predators, child-predator predators, Han Solo. Comments
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Worker Dies From Poisoning At Apple Touchscreen Plant
Wow, has this been a bad press week for Apple or what? First all the horrible stories about hazardous work conditions where they make iPhones and iPods and now there are reports of workers being treated for (and dying from) N-hexane poisoning. If I were Apple, I would look into having my products made somewhere else. China's state television network CCTV this weekend reported that at least one worker has died, with others injured, from N-hexane poisoning at a factory which supplies components for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Comments
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Twitter, Facebook Use Up 82 Percent
According to a new report from Nielsen, social network use jumped 82% compared to last year. Worldwide, the average person spent five and a half hours on their favorite social networking sites. The biggest movers on the list were Facebook and Twitter while the biggest losers on the list were MySpace and Classmates. Comments
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Seagate Ships Industry's First 2TB 6Gb/s SAS Enterprise Drive
Seagate is now shipping its 3.5-inch Constellationآ™ ES drive, the industry's first 2TB enterprise-class drives featuring 6Gb SAS, to customers worldwide. Designed specifically for multi-drive nearline storage environments, the Constellation ES drive has been qualified by leading enterprise OEMs and system builders who demand storage solutions of the highest capacities with increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security that their customers demand. The Constellation ES drive leverages Seagate's 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support. Comments
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Gaming [H]eadlines
Bioshock 2 Multiplayer DLC Announced @ Joystiq John Carmack Wins GDC Lifetime Achievement Award @ Shacknews Two Sides To Every Xbox Live Banning @ Kotaku Ubisoft DRM Interview @ Blue's News
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BioShock 2 Gameplay Performance and Image Quality
BioShock 2 is here for your damp dark pleasure. BioShock, its predecessor, was a feast for the eyes when it was launched back in 2007, but does the aging engine stand up well to today's video cards and today's expectations? We'll check it out with six of today's best video cards. Now, who's your Big Daddy?
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SATA 6Gb/s on Your New Motherboard?
There has been a lot of talk about the new "Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specification." New motherboards are now on the market with "SATA 6Gb/s" controllers, but what does all this mean to the enthusiast? Heck, what does "SATA 3" mean? We take a quick look at what "SATA Revision 3.0" is supposed to do for the world and what it will actually do for us on the desktop currently with RAID 0 and single disk configurations.
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AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3 Preview
AMD's ATI Catalyst 10.2 and Catalyst 10.3 are receiving many improvements that directly benefit the gameplay experience. CrossFireX profiling system has been completely re-worked, Bezel Compensation is in play, and several other features have been added. If you are an ATI Eyefinity gamer, Bezel Compensation will take the experience one step further.
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Nexus NX-5000 R3 & RX-5300 PSU Reviews
Nexus is back with us today and we have a look at two of its computer power supplies; the NX-5000 R3 and the N-5300, both 530 watt units. One of these new units is "Real" and very small in terms of form factor and both are nearly silent. Are these units supplying quality power along with silence? We find in our testing.
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Don't Buy Global Agenda - Editorial
Never heard of Global Agenda? Me either till today. We are however giving the game development company a free pass here to tell you to NOT buy this new game. Confused yet? You won't be after you read this editorial, but you still will be punished for being a "Hi-Rez" user.
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AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5570 Video Card Review
Today, AMD is launching the Radeon HD 5570. At $75-85 MSRP, the Radeon HD 5570 sits in-between the Radeon HD 5450 and Radeon HD 5670. The question on the table is, what is its value when the Radeon HD 5670 sits close in price? We'll bring this question to bare, and show you our gameplay experiences, and provide our opinions on the value of this video card.
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Tuniq Propeller vs. Thermalright Venemous X
Thermalright has been a company name that is synonymous with high end CPU air cooling for years now. Tuniq is one of the newer guys on the block when it comes to the elite heatsink and fan unit. Today we have a showdown of epic proportions, at least to the computer hardware cooling enthusiast. Propeller vs. Venemous X.
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AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5450 Video Card Review
AMD's lowest-end discrete GPU to support DX11 is being launched today at $49-$59 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 5450. We will give you all the official information on this new video card, plus some power and temperature testing and a simple apples-to-apples DX11 game test using DiRT 2.
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Dark Void PhysX Gameplay Performance and IQ
Dark Void was recently released with some neat PhysX effects. We'll explore gameplay performance and show you what PhysX support will do for you in this game with plenty of screenshots and performance comparisons.
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ASUS Maximus III Gene Motherboard Review
The ASUS Maximus III Gene expands not only the Republic of Gamers product line, but the lineage of "Maximus" motherboards ASUS has created under the name. Thus far every Maximus board has been nothing short of excellent and even bordering on legendary, the Maximus III Gene continues this tradition.
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ASUS EAH5750 Formula Video Card Review
Today we have the ASUS EAH5750 Formula video card on our test bench and we put it through its paces. The ASUS EAH5750 Formula offers a big custom heatsink and fan unit, but the big question is does it offer any advantages to gamers or is it just a lot of hot air?
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ABS Majesty MJ1100-M 1100W Power Supply Review
ABS has a long history in the do-it-yourself computer components market. ABS was the company that spawned the creation of Newegg. ABS has had its own computer power supply line for some time, but overall the products have been weak. Is the latest ABS Majesty true royalty at 1100 watts, or another PSU court jester?
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Geeking Out with AMD and OpenCL
If running a canned benchmark is something you consider a challenge, this is not for you! In fact, it is not for most of us. But if you feel the need to get under the covers when it comes to OpenCL, this is your chance. AMD has put together a short series of videos about OpenCL from a programming viewpoint.
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NVIDIA's Fermi GF100 Facts & Opinions
NVIDIA's "Fermi" next generation GF100 GPU is not here yet. Nope, we do not have hardware. But NVIDIA has given us an in-depth look at the specifics behind the architecture as it relates to gaming. NVIDIA certainly remembered us gamers and the fact that we like lots and lots of polygons.
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