Tuesday, March 11, 2014

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 12/03/2014





Bitcoin Miner Earning $8 Million a Month
You guys have to see this insane bitcoin operation. Let's just hope this guy is converting his bitcoins to cash....daily. Thanks to MrAgmoore for the heads up.

An elaborate bitcoin mining operation near Seattle is earning its owner an estimated $8 million (£4.81m) a month. While most amateur or part-time bitcoin miners are attempting to mine fractions of a single coin using supped-up desktop PCs, Dave Carlson is running his bitcoin mining operation out of two whole warehouses in an undisclosed location in Washington state.

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Triple 4K Monitor Set-Up of the Day
If one 4K monitor is "good," what would a triple 4K display set-up be? I don't know, personally I think 100fps at 6480 x 3840 would be pretty damn amazing.

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IBM CEO's Pay Cut From $16M To $14M
How will she ever get by on just $14 million? Won't somebody please think of the children of this poor CEO struggling to get by in this economy.

International Business Machine Corp Chief Executive Virginia Rometty was paid $13.97 million in 2013, down from $16.2 million she took home in 2012, according to documents filed with the SEC on Monday. Rometty's base pay was unchanged at $1.5 million, but cash bonus under IBM's annual performance-based incentive program was cut to zero from $3.9 million last year, due to a decline in revenue and related cash flow in 2013.

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GeForce 335.23 Titanfall WHQL Drivers
The folks at NVIDIA send word that the new GeForce 335.23 Titanfall WHQL drivers are now ready for download. From the release notes:

The new GeForce 335.23 WHQL, Game Ready Titanfall drivers are now available to download from GeForce.com and automatically through GeForce Experience. Designed to provide optimum performance and stability in the highly anticipated Titanfall, the GeForce 335.23 WHQL drivers are an essential upgrade for pilots entering the fray. GeForce 335.23 WHQL also includes new and improved profiles, in addition to enhanced GPU offset options for the GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GeForce GTX 750.

Performance
Enhanced GPU clock offset options for GeForce GTX 750Ti / GTX 750
SLI Technology

Diablo III – updated DX9 profile
Bound by Flame – updated profile
DOTA 2 – updated profile
Need for Speed Rivals – updated DX11 profile
Watch Dogs – updated profile
Gaming Technology

Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ technology
Supports GeForce ShadowPlay™ Twitch Streaming
SHIELD
Supports NVIDIA GameStream™ technology
3D Vision

Titanfall – rated "Good"
Thief – rating now "Good"
Call of Duty: Ghosts – in-depth laser sight added


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In Win 904 Case
The crew at techPowerUP! have the In Win 904 case on the review bench today. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.

The In Win 904 is aiming to accomplish one thing: to make computers beautiful. And it does, strutting its mixture of thick aluminum and tempered glass around perfectly. Consider it the McLaren of cases: too tight for that family of four, senselessly expensive to most, but put it into a row with all the cases out there and people will look at it in awe.

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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
Raise your hand if you think we should embrace surveillance instead of fighting it. Anyone?

We're expanding the data sphere to sci-fi levels and there's no stopping it. Too many of the benefits we covet derive from it. So our central choice now is whether this surveillance is a secret, one-way panopticon — or a mutual, transparent kind of "coveillance" that involves watching the watchers. The first option is hell, the second redeemable.

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Pole Dancing Robots
Of course there will be pole dancing robots in the future. Was there ever a question?



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Drone + Lights = Awesome Photographs
These awesome photographs were made using just a couple lights from Home Depot and a drone. Pretty spiffy stuff.



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Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate Video Card
If you need a passively cooled budget GPU, the folks at ThinkComputers recommend the Sapphire R7 250 Ultimate video card.

Sapphire's R7 250 Ultimate graphics card is unlike most other R7 250's out there. The thing that most people will notice is that it is 100% passively cooled. This means that there are no fans at all so it will be 100% silent during operation.

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What Lack Of Broadband Competition Looks Like
Take a look at some of these maps. Damn, talk about lack of competition.



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AMD Radeon R9 270X and R9 270 Video Card Review
Our in-house graphics card gurus have posts a AMD Radeon R9 270X and R9 270 video card review today that is certainly worth checking out. If you are in shopping for a mid-range GPU, make sure you read this before you go shopping.

We take a look at AMD's mid-range R9 270X and R9 270 with an MSI R9 270X GAMING and SAPPHIRE R9 270 Dual-X. We will make comparisons to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760 using a retail card which is within this range of AMD's GPUs. We will overclock all three video cards and put these head-to-head for the ultimate mid-range performance comparison.

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Kickstarter CEO: We Will Never Sell To A Bigger Company
How many times have we heard companies say something like this....right before they sell out for some outrageous amount of money?

Kickstarter cofounder and CEO Yancey Strickler pledged that he would never sell his popular crowdfunding site. "From a business perspective, we decided from the very beginning that we would never IPO and we would never sell to a bigger company," Strickler explained.

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SSD Deal of the Day
For those of you interested, you can pick up a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO for $139.99 with free shipping.



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