Google Faces Another Probe For Wi-Fi Data Collection
Feel free to insert your best "Google has been probed more times than a..." jokes here. To be honest, I think the company must like being probed.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection agency, may reinvestigate Google in light of a U.S. regulator's report. Despite closing its case against Google a year ago, the search giant may face further scrutiny in the UK after a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report showed Google employees were aware that the Street View program was collecting Wi-Fi payload data from unencrypted wireless networks.
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Antec Three Hundred Two Mid-Tower Case
Looking for a new mid-tower case to slap all your hardware in? Those crazy crustaceans over at Mad Shrimps have just posted a review of the Antec Three Hundred Two that should be of interest.
Antec, one of the biggest case manufacturers on our humble blue planet, has recently upgraded their cheap entry level gamers case, the Antec Three Hundred. The new version is simply baptised as the Three Hundred Two. The predecessor was one of Antec's best selling chassis, but Antec had to bring their little 300 up to 2012 standards.
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Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB
Overclockers Club has the Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB strapped to the test bench today for a few rounds of benchmarks. Here's a quote from the full review:
When the HD 7870 was released AMD stated that it was the perfect card to upgrade to if you are currently using a 5XXX series GPU. I have to say that I agree with that statement. If you are currently using a 5XXX generation card, and are actually looking to upgrade your current setup, the Sapphire HD 7870 would make a great choice.
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Asus Maximus V Gene
The Asus Maximus V Gene Z77 motherboard earned an editor's choice award from the crew at eTeknix today. If you are shopping around for a new Intel based board, this review should be of interest.
In sort I will say again that we are huge fans of ROG boards at eTeknix and the Maximus V Gene has already added itself to the club, whilst it doesn't seem that Ivy Bridge is all that its hyped up to be for now, come future driver releases, I really do expect to see the results jump up a notch and show that its worth the upgrade.
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Intel's 4" x 4" Core i5 Powered Mini-PC
Imagine all the cool little mods / projects you could do with a 4" by 4" Core i5 mini-PC. Be warned, you'll need a translator if you want to do more than just look at pictures. I snagged these two images for those of you too lazy to click the link:
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RIM Guarantees $10k To BlackBerry 10 App Devs In First Year
I'm not saying this guarantee to BlackBerry 10 app developers is bad...but the homeless guy down by Home Depot makes more than $28 a day.
RIM has announced at its BlackBerry Jam keynote address in Orlando today that it'll be guaranteeing that developers will make at least $10,000 in sales of their BlackBerry 10 apps in the first year — if they don't, RIM will cut a check for the difference.
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Doctors Say They Can Prevent PTSD With Tetris
Video games can cure post traumatic stress syndrome? So much for that video-games-make-you-kill-people stuff.
At least according to one research team out of Oxford University, who claim that Tetris — yes, the ubiquitous, tile-stacking videogame of your youth — can actually prevent PTSD-related flashbacks. Those harrowing moments of recall are among the most devastating symptoms of the condition, which is estimated to affect at least 25 percent of soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Judge Scolds Apple For Frivolous Filings
Stupid judge, doesn't he know that everything Apple does is designed to be magical, frivolous and untimely? Sheesh, what a n00b.
I deny the second half of Apple's motion (seeking prohibition of the deposition) as frivolous and the first half (seeking substitution) as untimely. I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple. The next such motion, and I shall forbid it to file any motions without first moving for leave to file.
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Nintendo Considering Android For The Wii U?
Hah! Wouldn't it be a kick if Nintendo really did end up using Android on the Wii?
There have been a lot of rumors flying around lately about the Wii U running a version of Android OS. Nintendo and Google have yet to confirm anything regarding the marrying of their console and operating system. It does leave Android owners, and prospective Wii U buyers, to wonder about the different possibilities this pairing could offer.
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Moore's Law Will End In 10 Years
Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at CUNY, says Moore's Law will end in ten years. This is not a repeat from 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995 or 2005. Wait...I guess it is a repeat.
The two basic problems are heat and leakage. That's the reason why the age of silicon will eventually come to a close. No one knows when, but as I mentioned we already now can see the slowing down of Moore's Law, and in ten years it could flatten out completely. So what is the problem? The problem is that a Pentium chip today has a layer almost down to 20 atoms across, 20 atoms across. When that layer gets down to about 5 atoms across, it's all over.
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Anonymous Planning To Stop CISPA
I'm not saying this can't be done, but these guys have a hard enough time hacking one website at a time and that usually ends in someone being arrested.
The group states that "we will not stand while our rights are being taken away," and is planning a traditional protest of the companies who support CISPA. The protest will begin on Tuesday, May 1st, and continue through June 30th. Anonymous and its supporters will target, AT&T, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Verizon Wireless, Bank of America, Chase Bank, McGraw-Hill, Coke and Pepsi, Target, WalMart, CVS and Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
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Most Popular Video Games Are Dumb
There is an opinion piece posted at Kotaku today that claims most popular video games are dumb. Is the guy onto something or just on something?
My issue, then, is with what we might call the intellectual maturity level of mainstream games. It's not the design mechanics under the hood that I find almost excruciatingly sophomoric at this point; it's the elements of these games that bear on human emotion and intellectual sophistication, from narrative and dialogue right on down to their core thematic concepts.
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Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Sound Card
If you prefer an all-in-one sound card versus the integrated audio on your motherboard, make sure you read our evaluation of the Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty sound card. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.
Creative's latest Sound Blaster flagship sound card features its new SoundCore3D chipset along with a powerful headphone amplifier, a beam forming microphone, and the return of the company's popular front panel audio I/O bay. Is this card a worthy successor to its Audigy and X-Fi brethren?
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Sound Blaster Recon3D Fatal1ty Sound Card Review
Creative's latest Sound Blaster flagship sound card features its new SoundCore3D chipset along with a powerful headphone amplifier, a beam forming microphone, and the return of the company's popular front panel audio I/O bay. Is this card a worthy successor to its Audigy and X-Fi brethren?
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