Valve joins the Linux Foundation
Well, folks, looks like Valve's love affair with Linux has become official. Earlier today, the company became a member of the Linux foundation, joining the ranks of firms like HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, and Samsung.
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USB group designing slim, orientation-independent connector
If I had a nickel for every time I plugged in USB connector the wrong way, well, I'd have a lot of nickels. I seem to get the orientation wrong well over half the time. That shouldn't be a problem with the next-gen USB connector, though. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group is working on a new physical interface that will, ahem, go both ways.
According to the USB group's press release , the upcoming Type-C connector will be similar in size to the existing Micro-B jack. However, it will trade Micro-B's hexagonal shape for something with orientation-independent ...
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Are retail Radeon R9 290X cards slower than press samples?
With the release of the Radeon R9 290 and 290X, AMD upended the high-end graphics market by offering performance competitive with Nvidia's existing products at substantially lower prices. The new Radeons didn't just improve the value proposition, either. The R9 290X captured the overall GPU performance crown, wresting it away from the GeForce GTX 780 and Titan by the slimmest of margins. Such little differences are magnified in the world of high-end graphics, where the spoils—and sales—often go to the victor. After all, if you're forking over something north of 500 bucks for a graphics card, bragging rights are probably involved to some extent.
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Cherry intros MX RGB key switch; first keyboard due from Corsair
Like your keyboards backlit? Then you may like this piece of news. Cherry has announced a new family of MX mechanical key switches designed specifically for multicolor illumination. Known as the Cherry MX RGB series, this switch family is due to premiere in a Corsair mechanical keyboard next year.
Now, of course, we've seen backlit keyboards based on Cherry's previous MX switches before—but those simply had 3-mm LEDs slapped on the side of each key switch. The MX RGB switches work a little differently. They're translucent (or, in Cherry's words, have an "optimized, transparent case with a scattering ...
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MSI's latest Z87 motherboard, GeForce GTX 760 graphics card have Mini-ITX dimensions
MSI has introduced a pair of pint-sized products primed for small-form-factor gaming rigs. One is a Mini-ITX motherboard based on Intel's top-of-the-line Haswell platform, while the other is a stubby graphics card built around Nvidia's GeForce GTX 760 GPU. I've gotta admit, they look pretty good together.
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