Tuesday Night Shortbread
The Pick 6
- TmoNews: T-Mobile's slow data speed
problem confirmed as "minor software issue"
- Reuters: Google takes on Amazon by cutting cloud service prices
- Reuters: Apple buys startup Topsy; gets rich Twitter data
- Microsoft codename 'Threshold': The next
major Windows wave - All About Microsoft
- OMG Ubuntu on what to expect in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- GamingOnLinux: Rage under Wine, how it performs
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HP unveils two Tegra 4-powered tablets
Compared to the widely successful Tegra 3, Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor is downright rare. The chip is still getting design wins, though, and as Ars Technica reports, it's just appeared inside a couple of Android tablets from HP.
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Unofficial AMD roadmap details desktop plans through 2015
Last month, AMD released an updated desktop roadmap that laid out its plans for 2014. We learned that an FX refresh isn't in the cards, at least next year. Now, another desktop roadmap posted on the HardOCP forums suggests that existing Vishera-based FX processors could stick around through 2015. The roadmap isn't official, but it certainly seems plausible given AMD's current trajectory.
Since AMD's desktop and server chips typically share the same silicon, the lack of new FX processors suggests the Opteron family is moving toward APUs that combine CPU and GPU elements. The only Steamroller-based Opteron scheduled for next year is Berlin, a 28-nm chip with GCN-derived ...
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It's official: Toshiba will snatch up OCZ's SSD business
Last week, we learned that OCZ had filed for bankruptcy—and that Toshiba had offered to acquire "substantially all" of its assets. Now, it looks like the Toshiba deal is all but done.In a press release posted on its website, OCZ says it has reached an agreement with Toshiba whereby the Japanese firm will "acquire substantially all of OCZ's assets in a chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding for $35M." The ...
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Dell intros 4K monitors; sub-$1,000 model coming soon
Remember that Dell 4K monitor we told you about in July? Well, it's finally here. And it brought a couple of friends. Dell has announced a whole lineup of 4K displays.
The star of the show is the UltraSharp 32 pictured below. Otherwise known as the UP3214Q, this appears to be the same monitor ...
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Nvidia releases GeForce Experience, Shield software updates
Looks like Nvidia was busy over the holiday weekend. On Monday, the company rolled out two software updates: one for its GeForce Experience utility and another for its Shield handheld gaming device.
The GeForce Experience 1.8 update includes a new feature called Adjustable Optimal Playable Settings. Previous versions of the GeForce Experience software let you click a button to ...
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Kabini APUs anchor MSI's 11.6'' S12T ultraportable
We haven't seen a whole lot of systems sporting AMD's Kabini APU, but MSI has just uncorked an 11.6" notebook with a choice of dual- and quad-core Kabini chips. The S12T is available with either the A4-5000, which sports four cores clocked at 1.5GHz, or with the E1-2100, which has dual cores clocked at 1GHz. The E1 has half the L2 cache of its quad-core sibling, and its integrated Radeon runs quite a bit slower, as well.
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Cyber Monday deals: Hardware edition
Geoff has already covered some of the game discounts available for Cyber Monday this year. Now, let's have a look at some of the hardware bounty—starting with some graphics cards and monitors:
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Cyber Monday is teeming with game discounts
Steam's Autumn Sale 2013 continues with some nice deals on a handful of games. Fez is worth grabbing for $2.49, and Grid 2 is down to $12.49. You might also be interested in early access to Godus, the spiritual successor to Populus, which is selling for $9.99.
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Morning, all. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and holiday weekend. Mine was restful and low-key, which is what I was craving after an exceptionally busy past few months, with lots of travel interspersed with major GPU reviews. This year, as often happens after a busy season of new releases, I've been in some pain in my back, neck, and shoulder from too much working at a desk. I was able to use the break to recover some.
With that said, things have been busy in Damage Labs lately, even though I haven't published much. I've run into some technical snags of various sorts. One of the first things I sought to do after the GTX 780 Ti review was to measure the performance of AMD's new CrossFire mechanism in the Radeon R9 290 and 290X. My plan was to test multi-GPU ...
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Steam served over 7 million concurrent users yesterday
No doubt about it, plenty of folks spent the long weekend glued to freshly acquired Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s. But as it turns out, quite a few people were playing PC titles, as well—enough to set a new record for most concurrent Steam users, according to VG247.
The site says utilization of Valve's service peaked at just over 7.19 million concurrent users on the morning of Sunday, December 1. That's a nice increase over ...
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Amazon wants to airlift packages to your doorstep
I was pretty sure this was an early April Fools joke, but no, apparently it's not. Amazon actually wants to use a fleet of unmanned drones to airlift packages directly to your door. Behold:
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