Friday night topic: the prospects for more Star Wars?
So... Disney bought LucasFilm and the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas, announced plans for three more movies, and has already selected J.J. Abrams to direct the next film, which is apparently coming to big screens in the next few years.
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Deal of the week: Cases, PSUs, and a $68 tablet We're going to mix things up a little this week and kick off our deal post with two discounted power supplies—both from Corsair. Newegg currently offers Corsair's Professional Series HX650, a 650W unit with 80 Plus Gold certification and modular cabling, for only $79.99 after a $30-off promo code (AFNJ128) and a $10 mail-in rebate. That's a pretty ... Read more...
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New Catalyst beta further boosts Crysis 3 performance Calling all Radeon users! Well, at least those who signed up for the Crysis 3 multiplayer beta. There's a new beta of AMD's Catalyst 13.2 graphics driver up for grabs, and this one is supposed to include additional—and quite substantial—improvements to Crysis 3 performance. You can download the driver here from AMD's website. In AMD's words, this Catalyst 13.2 beta 4 update "provides up to 50% performance improvement in certain cases in single GPU configurations with 4x and 8xMSAA enabled in [the] Crysis 3 beta." ... Read more...
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Asus, Samsung experience triple-digit tablet growth in Q4 Tablets are the new hotness, and amazingly, shipments beat expectations for the fourth quarter of 2012. So says the latest report from market research firm IDC, which claims a whopping 52.5 million tablets shipped in the holiday quarter. That figure represents a 74.3% increase from Q3 and caps a strong year overall. 2012 tablet shipments were up 75.3% over the previous year. As expected, Apple continues to dominate the landscape. The iPad's share of the growing market is shrinking, though; it sat at 43.6% in ... Read more...
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Final Battlefield 3 DLC adds dirt bikes, capture the flag More than a year has passed since Battlefield 3 was released, and new content is still rolling out. The game's fifth and final End Game DLC is due in March. This last chapter is revealed in an action-packed trailer that has me itching to play. Check it out: ... Read more...
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Rumor: Dell to go private—with Microsoft's help
I don't know if you've kept up with the Wall Street chatter lately, but word out there is that Dell is going to go private—and Microsoft may be involved in the move. The latest story on the subject was published by Bloomberg, and it says Michael Dell will break his own piggy bank to get majority control of the company:
The Wall Street Journal has some additional details on Microsoft's role. It quotes "people familiar with the matter" as saying the software giant "is expected to have a say in Dell's operations rather than being just a ...
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Valve's Newell: Biggest threat in the living room is Apple
Given its efforts to bring Steam into the living room, you'd think Valve would be worried about the next generation of consoles coming later this year. Yet according to Valve CEO and bearded messiah Gabe Newell, the "biggest challenge" in that space isn't so much new console hardware—rather, it's Apple making a play for the living room "before the PC industry . . . gets its act together."
Newell dropped that bombshell during a lecture at the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. ...
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Get a cheap Win8 upgrade while you still can Contemplating an upgrade to Windows 8? Then you may want to pull the trigger now, even if you don't proceed with the installation straight away. As we noted earlier this month, today is the last day of Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade promotion. Starting tomorrow, prices are going to go up—and quite substantially so. In the company's words...
Right now, Microsoft's promotion lets you to snag a Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $39.99 in downloadable form or $69.99 in a retail package—and you can get Windows ...
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Nvidia explains how it built Project Shield Nvidia's Project Shield handheld was one of the biggest surprises at CES this year. As it turns out, the device went from idea to live demo in less than a year. The development process has been chronicled in an Nvidia blog post that reveals a few interesting details about the product's origins and how it came to be. One revelation is that some developers have been pushing Nvidia to develop its own gaming console "for years." Making the graphics chips inside the original Xbox and the PlayStation 3 doesn't count, I guess. Project Shield very much seems like a response to traditonal game consoles, and Nvidia isn't ... Read more...
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Rumor: Nvidia to produce reference tablets, smartphones for rebranding Nvidia's efforts in the mobile world have largely been confined to producing Tegra processors for smartphone and tablet makers. However, according to Russian site Mobile Review, the company will soon branch out and start producing complete tablets and smartphones based on those chips. These systems will reportedly resemble white-label designs, and they'll apparently be offered to other firms to sell as their own, either with or without Nvidia branding. Word is that the devices will target the low end of the spectrum, so they probably won't compete with the iPad or iPhone. It looks like the focus may be on markets outside North America, at least to start.
Left to right: Samsung's Galaxy S III, Google's Nexus 7, and Asus' Transformer Pad Infinity. Source: TR.
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Deal of the week: Cases, PSUs, and a $68 tablet We're going to mix things up a little this week and kick off our deal post with two discounted power supplies—both from Corsair. Newegg currently offers Corsair's Professional Series HX650, a 650W unit with 80 Plus Gold certification and modular cabling, for only $79.99 after a $30-off promo code (AFNJ128) and a $10 mail-in rebate. That's a pretty ... Read more...
New Catalyst beta further boosts Crysis 3 performance Calling all Radeon users! Well, at least those who signed up for the Crysis 3 multiplayer beta. There's a new beta of AMD's Catalyst 13.2 graphics driver up for grabs, and this one is supposed to include additional—and quite substantial—improvements to Crysis 3 performance. You can download the driver here from AMD's website. In AMD's words, this Catalyst 13.2 beta 4 update "provides up to 50% performance improvement in certain cases in single GPU configurations with 4x and 8xMSAA enabled in [the] Crysis 3 beta." ... Read more...
Asus, Samsung experience triple-digit tablet growth in Q4 Tablets are the new hotness, and amazingly, shipments beat expectations for the fourth quarter of 2012. So says the latest report from market research firm IDC, which claims a whopping 52.5 million tablets shipped in the holiday quarter. That figure represents a 74.3% increase from Q3 and caps a strong year overall. 2012 tablet shipments were up 75.3% over the previous year. As expected, Apple continues to dominate the landscape. The iPad's share of the growing market is shrinking, though; it sat at 43.6% in ... Read more...
Final Battlefield 3 DLC adds dirt bikes, capture the flag More than a year has passed since Battlefield 3 was released, and new content is still rolling out. The game's fifth and final End Game DLC is due in March. This last chapter is revealed in an action-packed trailer that has me itching to play. Check it out: ... Read more...
Rumor: Dell to go private—with Microsoft's help
I don't know if you've kept up with the Wall Street chatter lately, but word out there is that Dell is going to go private—and Microsoft may be involved in the move. The latest story on the subject was published by Bloomberg, and it says Michael Dell will break his own piggy bank to get majority control of the company:
The Wall Street Journal has some additional details on Microsoft's role. It quotes "people familiar with the matter" as saying the software giant "is expected to have a say in Dell's operations rather than being just a ...
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Friday Shortbread Eight is Enough
- BBC News: EA boss denies video games encourage violent attacks
- X-bit labs: First alleged performance result of Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 "Titan" leaks to web
- Fudzilla: Intel to demo dual-core mobile platform at MWC
- DigiTimes: Toshiba first to adopt Tegra 4, say Taiwan makers
- Fudzilla: New 3DMark coming on February 4th
- ABC News: Is Sony announcing the PlayStation 4 on February 20?
- CVG: Microsoft 'to axe XNA'
- Techgage's in-depth look at Steam for Linux
Valve's Newell: Biggest threat in the living room is Apple
Given its efforts to bring Steam into the living room, you'd think Valve would be worried about the next generation of consoles coming later this year. Yet according to Valve CEO and bearded messiah Gabe Newell, the "biggest challenge" in that space isn't so much new console hardware—rather, it's Apple making a play for the living room "before the PC industry . . . gets its act together."
Newell dropped that bombshell during a lecture at the University of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. ...
Read more...
Get a cheap Win8 upgrade while you still can Contemplating an upgrade to Windows 8? Then you may want to pull the trigger now, even if you don't proceed with the installation straight away. As we noted earlier this month, today is the last day of Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade promotion. Starting tomorrow, prices are going to go up—and quite substantially so. In the company's words...
Right now, Microsoft's promotion lets you to snag a Windows 8 Pro upgrade for $39.99 in downloadable form or $69.99 in a retail package—and you can get Windows ...
Read more...
Nvidia explains how it built Project Shield Nvidia's Project Shield handheld was one of the biggest surprises at CES this year. As it turns out, the device went from idea to live demo in less than a year. The development process has been chronicled in an Nvidia blog post that reveals a few interesting details about the product's origins and how it came to be. One revelation is that some developers have been pushing Nvidia to develop its own gaming console "for years." Making the graphics chips inside the original Xbox and the PlayStation 3 doesn't count, I guess. Project Shield very much seems like a response to traditonal game consoles, and Nvidia isn't ... Read more...
Rumor: Nvidia to produce reference tablets, smartphones for rebranding Nvidia's efforts in the mobile world have largely been confined to producing Tegra processors for smartphone and tablet makers. However, according to Russian site Mobile Review, the company will soon branch out and start producing complete tablets and smartphones based on those chips. These systems will reportedly resemble white-label designs, and they'll apparently be offered to other firms to sell as their own, either with or without Nvidia branding. Word is that the devices will target the low end of the spectrum, so they probably won't compete with the iPad or iPhone. It looks like the focus may be on markets outside North America, at least to start.
Left to right: Samsung's Galaxy S III, Google's Nexus 7, and Asus' Transformer Pad Infinity. Source: TR.
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Thursday Shortbread 7 Up
- Reuters: Qualcomm profit beats street, raises guidance; shares rise and Electronic Arts slashes 201 outlook as industry struggles and RIM rebrands as BlackBerry; launches nifty devices
- Facebook's Q4 earnings: Can anyone say "mobile"? - AllThingsD
- X-bit labs: First alleged benchmark results of Intel Core i "Haswell" processor hits the web
- AllThingsD: Fusion-io's flash madness slows down as Apple and Facebook trims orders
- Ars Technica: FCC filing uncovers smaller, more powerful Apple TV
- PCWorld: Ruby on Rails receives the third security patch in less than a month
- Nvidia: How Project Shield got built
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