Western Digital Announces WD Red HDDs for SOHO NAS Systems
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Western Digital's family of consumer hard drives has a new member after Blue (balanced), Green (low power), and Black (high performance); the WD Red. The new line of consumer SATA hard drives are designed to fill the vaccum between WD's cost-effective consumer hard drives, and expensive enterprise hard drives.
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Intel Buys 15% Stake in ASML to Speed up Fab Machines Development
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Intel just committed to spending $4.1 billion, to grab a 15% stake in ASML Holding NV, a company that specializes in equipment for semiconductor foundries. The company particularly values this purchase as it is in the process of re-equipping its fabs to let them dole out bigger semiconductor wafers, improving yields and cutting manufacturing costs.
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This 21.5" Android 4.0 "tablet", from Japanese OEM Kouziro, doubles as a 1080p ...
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Your typical 10" tablet too small for your tastes? Try the SmartDisplay FT103, a 21.5" Android 4.0 tablet from Japanese computer maker Kouziro that can also be used as a 1080p full-HD display (via micro-HDMI). It does, however, have some serious shortcomings - find out what after the jump.
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Thermaltake Outs BigTyp Revo Top-Flow CPU Cooler
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Thermaltake is looking to cash in on the PC enthusiast community's newfound love for high-end top-flow (down-draft) CPU coolers. The company rolled out the BigTyp Revo, a large C-type CPU cooler, along the lines of Noctua NH-C14.
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Astronomers Confirm First "Middleweight" Black Hole Discovered
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A multinational team working in Australia have discovered a middleweight black hole, the first of it's kind.
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AMD Does a Negative Preannounce of its Second Quarter Results
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When the news ain't good, the best thing you can do is to divide the bad news into multiple segments, and that's exactly what AMD did with its pre-announce of weaker-than-expected quarterly results.
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War of the Tablets - Microsoft Surface production troubles and iPad origins
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When Microsoft surprised the whole world by unveiling its Surface tablet in an event in Los Angeles, the company put an accent on its innovative aluminum-magnesium chassis. Now, it seems that the chassis Microsoft insisted on is bringing more trouble than the company anticipated.
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Corsair Accelerator 30GB Caching SSD Review
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One of this year’s most popular system upgrades is the installation of a caching SSD, mainly due to their low cost and trouble-free installation. There are many approaches which manufacturers take when designing a caching SSD; others opt for maximum performance, others strive for balance and others aim for the best possible value. Today we will have a look at a device which falls into the last of the three design categories, the Corsair Accelerator 30GB Caching SSD. The 30GB version of the Accelerator drive can be found selling for as low as 60 USD but can the small drive really provide a noteworthy performance boost? We will find out in this review.
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Coming soon: Larger storage densities thanks to Ferroelectric Nanomaterial breakthrough
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Electron holography has allowed Brookhaven scientists to observe nanomaterials at the atomic level. This discovery may pave the way for a new generation of storage devices.
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Huawei moves into supercomputing (too)
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Huawei network switch? Then, Huawei smartphone? Well, get used to Huawei supercomputers soon.
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2013 Haswell Mobile CPU Lineup - Power Sippers to Guzzlers
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One may think that the Ivy Bridge 17W Ultrabook bins power consumption is a great feat, but it may pale to next year 22nm Haswell's 15 watts TDP - including the PCH chipset in the same CPU package! What happens then if you want a bit more performance at a bit more TDP? The answer is...
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Michael Fassbender to take main role in Assassin's Creed film
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Actor Michael Fassbender is to take on the main role in the upcoming Assassin's Creed film, which he will also co-produce.
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3rd Gen. Ultrabooks Pack 3D HD Displays, New Sensors
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Even as the market for super compact notebooks, or Ultrabooks, is a work in progress; sources in the supply chain have a fair idea of what's in store with third-generation Ultrabooks, based around Intel's next CPU micro-architecture, codenamed "Haswell." The Ultrabook appears to be going the smartphone way on multiple fronts.
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Activision and Terminal Reality announce The Walking Dead game
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Activision Blizzard and developer Terminal Reality have announced a video game of the popular The Walking Dead zombie TV series.
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Nintendo to showcase 3DS XL and games at Comic-Con 2012
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Nintendo is to showcase the 3DS XL handheld console and a number of games for the 3DS and Wii at Comic-Con 2012 later this week.
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ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP 2GB Review
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Everyone already knew
back in early May that the Nvidia Kepler GK104 based GTX 670 is a serious contender for the price-performance crown. We re-visit that conclusion again with ASUS's factory overclocked GTX 670 fitted with their DirectCU II heatpipe cooler and run a few tests with the latest 304.79 drivers.
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Nokia, RIM, and HTC steadily losing grounds to Samsung and Apple
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Samsung and Apple are dominating the smartphone market, and that trend won’t stop in the second half of 2012. Various reports have concluded that Nokia, RIM, and HTC won’t be able to compete with Samsung and Apple in the later part of this year.
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NVIDIA and AMD will likely stick with TSMC's 28nm
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) may have lost its contract with Qualcomm to produce the Snapdragon S4, but it’s still holding onto NVIDIA and AMD. Sources familiar with TSMC’s business outlook are confident that NVIDIA and AMD will continue to rely on TSMC to manufacture their chips.
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The new iPad to launch July 27 in China
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Chinese consumers may
not be happy with Apple’s customer support, but apparently they’re still consuming Apple products like it is oxygen. Apple’s revenue in Greater China was $7.9 billion (20% of global total) according to a financial report released on March 31. With the Proview-Apple iPad dispute out the way, Apple may now unleash the new iPad unto the Chinese market. How much more money will Apple rake in beginning July 27 when the new iPad is set to release in China? Who knows, if the trend continues like all other Apple products, the new iPad will definitely be a hot commodity.
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ASUS Shrinks Radeon HD 7950 DirectCU II
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Without much fuss, ASUS slipped out a revision of its Radeon HD 7950 DirectCU II graphics card. The revision breaks away from the common board design between the HD 7950 and HD 7970 DirectCU II models, and uses newer, compact PCB and cooler. The revision could ready ASUS for future price cuts of the GPU.
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iPad Mini to be manufactured in Brazil and keeps 4:3 screen ratio
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Recent rumors are suggesting that the iPad Mini will be manufactured in Brazil, a twist on Apple's history of having their products manufactured in China.
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AMD Piledriver FX and Opteron refresh? After summertime..
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The eagerly awaited Vishera FX desktop and Abu Dhabi server refreshes of AMD processor lines seem scheduled for late summer or early fall (Q3 to Q4 2012) as of now. What's in store?
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BitTorrent aims to revolutionize the internet again with Torque
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BitTorrent has become an integral part of the internet since its inception ten years ago and the folks that helped deliver BitTorrent is aiming to revolutionize the internet even further—with something they call BitTorrent Torque.
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Samsung to launch Windows RT tablet this October
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) decided several days ago that it won’t back Microsoft’s Windows RT tablets at launch, and that announcement left many wondering which OEM giant will fill in the hole left by HP. Wonder no more, according to
Bloomberg, Samsung will launch a Windows RT tablet later this October.
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Get ready for CyanogenMod 10
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An official stable version of
CyanogenMod 9 was released last week, and according to developers at
XDA, the release of Jelly Bean may cause CM9 to have a very short shelf life.
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Take a ride with 4DX at the movie theater
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4DX is the next big thing in cinema, as if 3D movies aren’t good enough. This new method for delivering cinematic thrills at the movie is backed by CJ CGV—a large South Korean multiplex firm.
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