Tuesday, February 4, 2014

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 05/02/2014





Guns + Super Slow Motion = Awesomeness
This is for all you firearm fanatics out there that love seeing stuff shot in super slow motion. Check out how that RIP ammunition works.



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Blizzard is Hiring
Time to dust of the old résumé, Blizzard is hiring again!

If you're a professional who wants to work with a passionate, creative team on some of the most critically acclaimed game universes in entertainment -- Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo -- and help us take our games even further, we want to hear from you. We think you'll like it here.
Associate User Interface Artist
Lead Software Engineer, Server
Senior Software Engineer, Server
User Interface Artist


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Google Ordered To Move 'Mystery' Barge
Apparently California state officials aren't too happy about Google's mystery barge. According to the article, the search giant failed to get the required permits to build the barge so the state has given them the boot. Google doing whatever it wants? Say it isn't so.

The notice came after the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission investigated numerous complaints about the construction of the floating, four-story building, commission executive director Larry Goldzband said.

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Steam Music Beta Nears
More information on the upcoming Steam Music Beta has hit the net today. Head on over to Blue's for all the news.

Here's an outline of what the beta will involve: "With this beta, we're getting started with what we believe to be the most fundamental set of features to offer a great music listening experience within Steam. As always, our next steps for the feature will be influenced by your beta feedback, so please share your feature requests, thoughts, and experiences in the music discussions. Happy listening!"

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GTA V Has Sold Over 32.5M Copies
According to Take-Two's 3Q earnings report, over 32.5 million copies of GTA V have been sold to date. Wouldn't it be nice if Rockstar was actually using some of that money to get us a PC version soon?

"Take-Two's business continued to outperform expectations significantly during the fiscal third quarter," said Strauss Zelnick, Chairman and CEO of Take-Two. "Our results were driven by robust holiday demand for Grand Theft Auto V, the franchise record-breaking launch of NBA 2K14, the successful release of WWE 2K14, and strong growth in digitally-delivered revenues led by Grand Theft Auto Online. Take-Two was the top video game publisher of 2013, according to the NPD Group, underscoring our positive momentum over the past year.

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Cell Phone Sized AMD APU Powered PC
This cell phone sized PC thing looks kinda neat even if the video is oozing with more marketing buzzwords than an Amway convention. According to the site, this thing has a quad core AMD A6-5200 with integrated HD8400, up to 8GB of DDR3 1600 (SODIMM), mSATA HDD up to 512GB and can run everything from Linux and SteamOS all the way up to Windows 8 Pro.



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The Feds Want Our Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other
Raise your hand if you think this is a good idea. Anyone? Hello? I didn't think so.

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is throwing its weight behind vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems. After years of experimentation and a real-world trial in Ann Arbor, MI the government is (almost) ready to make peer-to-peer networking a required safety feature on all new cars.

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MSI Gaming R9 280X OC Edition
There is a review of the MSI Gaming R9 280X OC Edition video card posted today at ocaholic. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.

Today we're having a closer look at MSI's R9 280X Gaming OC Edition graphics card and what it has to offer in details. A quick look reveals, there is a Twin Frozr IV cooler mounted on a reference PCB, which sounds like a combination that offers a very solid price/performance ratio.

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Kentucky Senate: Computer Programming Satisfies Foreign-Language Requirement
Every other state in the union needs to step up and follow Kentucky's lead on this.

The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would count computer programming classes toward fulfilling foreign-language requirements in public schools. The goal is to enhance programming skills, enabling more Kentucky students to land high-paying jobs in the growing computer industry, said Sen. David Givens, the bill's sponsor.

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Texting And Driving Experiment of the Day
All of you know that texting and driving is bad, but did you know texting while driving has the same impact on Mario Kart drivers?

All 9 subjects completed the experiment. The average time without texting was 2 minutes 3 seconds (range 1 min 47 sec to 2 min 36 sec) and the average time with texting was 3 minutes 31 seconds (range 1 min 54 sec to 4 min 26 sec). During the texting laps the slower time was the result of the car going off track (with reduced speed on grass), collisions with cows, crashing into the fence, and inadvertently driving backwards.

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[H]ot Deal of the Day
Amazon has the Corsair Graphite Series 230T on sale for $64.99 with free shipping. Not familiar with the 230T? I suggest reading our complete evaluation of this chassis here.



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AMD Mantle Performance Preview in Battlefield 4
The wait is finally over and our AMD Mantle Performance Preview in Battlefield 4 article is here. Is Mantle everything you hoped it would be? Hit the link to find out!

AMD's Mantle is here for Battlefield 4. We take an XFX Radeon R9 290X video card for a spin under the AMD Mantle API and compare it to Direct3D 11.1. We look at performance advantages, compare resolutions, and even take a look at frame time. Is AMD Mantle everything it was cracked up to be? Let's find out in this performance preview.

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States: Apple Should Pay $840 Million Over E-Books
Look out Apple, all those e-book customers you screwed over are out for blood. Thanks to Ocean for the heads up.

The plaintiffs say they're entitled to triple damages under antitrust law because the U.S. had already "conclusively proven" at a trial last year that Apple orchestrated a conspiracy to fix prices. The amount sought is 0.5 percent of the $158.8 billion in cash that the Cupertino, California-based company reported that it had as of the end of 2013.

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