Poll: How do you get most of your video content?
Video content is available from a wide variety of sources these days. A lot of it is still broadcast over the airwaves or via cable providers, but online services are becoming increasingly popular, as are full-season DVD and Blu-ray releases. Then there's BitTorrent and other illegitimate means of obtaining...
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$5 game rentals come to Direct2Drive
Game rentals have come to online distribution service Direct2Drive. As Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports, a $5 rental will get you access to five hours of gameplay. The game selection is quite limited at the moment, including only Silent Hill: Homecoming, GRID, FEAR, and Divinity 2, but the...
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BitTorrent lawsuit targets 1337 file sharers
Content creators continue to target BitTorrent pirates who distribute their work. Some do so with more of a sense of humor than others. The producers of Fractale, a new anime series, have filed a lawsuit targeting exactly 1337 alleged downloaders of the program. TorrentFreak points out...
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Mozart Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough Computerworld: Intel developing security 'game-changer' Nvidia and Kingpin SLI video Betanews: Is iPad a PC? Canalys says yes, and that makes Apple no. 3 in global market share Mac Rumors: MacBook Pro supplies tightening ahead of potential refresh Fudzilla reports AMD Turks GPU detailed WSJ:...
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ASRock becomes third-largest branded motherboard maker
When we talk about the big three motherboard makers, we're usually referring to Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI. However, this article over at DigiTimes reveals that ASRock became the third-largest motherboard brand in 2010. Asus dominated with shipments of nearly 22 million branded motherboards (as opposed to OEM...
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Zotac's H67-ITX motherboard
Zotac's H67-ITX is the first Mini-ITX motherboard capable of hosting Intel's new Sandy Bridge CPUs. We pit it against a stack of desktop boards to see whether the latest Mini-ITX midget can keep up.
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AMD releases Catalyst 11.1 and 11.1a hotfix
Apparently, releasing new Catalyst drivers and hotfixes simultaneously is a new thing at AMD. We've gotten a repeat of the 10.10 release, this time with a Catalyst 11.1 driver and an 11.1a hotfix both showing up on AMD's website at the same time. You can grab the 11.1 release...
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New Rage screenshots released
While surfing this morning, I stumbled across this post over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun revealing that id Software has released a trio of new Rage screenshots on the Bethdesa Blog. The screenshots come along with a redesign of the game's official website and profiles of developers...
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NEC USB 3.0 host controller still lacks certified competition
For the past year, USB 3.0 has been kind of a big deal. That's what happens when a new interface standard arrives and even budget hardware, such as cheap external hard drives, can realize substantial performance gains by making the switch. Chipset makers have yet to integrated SuperSpeed...
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Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 pictured
Seeing blurry pictures of an unreleased Radeon that were taken with AMD's blessing is an uncommon occurrence. Yet earlier today, Japanese website 4Gamer.net posted several images of the upcoming Radeon HD 6990, which it says AMD GPU chief Matt Skynner displayed publicly as part of AMD's "Asia Pacific Fusion...
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HP Topaz slate specs leak out
The rumor mill is running at full tilt ahead of HP's February 9 webOS announcement. After sneaking a peek at the upcoming webOS-based Topaz slate last week, we've now been treated to some leaked specifications, courtesy of the folks at PreCentral.net. Based on the spec sheet posted by the...
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Australia Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough DSLReports: CRTC finalizes ISP usage-based billing Fudzilla: AMD cuts some prices on GTX 560 launch day and Intel's new 34nm SSD have 450/300MB/s R/W Expreview via Donanim Haber: More specs of AMD Bulldozer processors surfaced TC Magazine: Sapphire intros two more FleX series cards
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Win one of two MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics cards
By now, you've surely read our coverage of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics processor. Pretty sweet, isn't it? The 560 easily has enough grunt to run the latest and greatest games at 1080p resolutions with all their eye candy turned up—antialiasing and anisotropic filtering included. ...
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Famous film editor makes case against 3D
Some consider stereoscopic 3D to be the next frontier in movies and games, much like talking pictures and color movies were in the first part of the last century. Others see hard-to-overcome technical shortcomings that make the technology less of a clear step forward. On his blog at the Chicago...
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Mozilla contemplates faster release pace
Are we headed for a world where major new browser versions pop up every couple of months? Will we find ourselves talking about Firefox 23 and Chrome 36 in a few years? Possibly. As Softpedia reports, Mozilla is considering speeding up the rate of major Firefox releases, so much...
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