Tiny Asus Bay Trail-D board has bling-tastic heatsink
On the heels of Gigabyte and Biostar, Asus has unveiled another Mini-ITX motherboard based on Intel's Celeron J1800 "Bay Trail-D" processor. This one was spotted by the guys at FanlessTech, and it probably has the blingiest heatsink of the bunch. Check it out:
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Tablet sales grow 68% in 2013, Android outsells iOS
2013 was a big year for tablets. According to the latest numbers posted by Gartner, sales rose to 195 million units, an increase of 68% over 2012. Unlike in the previous year, when iOS-based devices had the lion's share of the market, Android moved to the top of the podium.
Sales of Android-based tablets more than doubled from 2012, giving the OS 62% of the market. Apple's share of the pie fell ...
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Biostar, Gigabyte tout support for new Haswell chips
Well, folks, I guess Haswell Refresh really may be just around the corner. To top off that e-tail leak we wrote about earlier this morning, both Gigabyte and Biostar have put out press releases pledging support for the new CPUs—albeit without delving too deeply into specifics.
Gigabyte says its "entire range" of 8-series motherboards will support "soon to launch 4th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors and select unlocked 4th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors." ...
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Steam library sharing out of beta, available to all
Valve has opened the doors to Steam's Family Sharing program. The game sharing feature was first introduced in September as a limited beta, but it should now be accessible to every Steam user. Sharing options can be managed through the Family section of Steam's Settings menu.
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Possible Haswell Refresh CPUs listed online
Ah, and just when I was starting to miss e-tail leaks.
As CPU World points out , e-tailer ShopBLT.com has begun listing a small collection of unannounced Intel processors—and those chips could well be part of the rumored ...
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Friday night topic: Couch computing
My brother just called me sounding a little desperate. He's an outdoorsy type, not a big computer user, but he left his iPad 2 on an airplane this afternoon. The airline told him that returning it to him will take months, if they are able to find it. He's out a tablet, basically, and he is in no way willing to go without one for that long.
I can relate. I'm glued to my Nexus 7 for way too many hours when I'm not working, whether it's reading books, playing Kingdom Rush ...
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TR's February 2014 System Guide
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The TR System Guide has been around for a little over eight years. Starting with the original edition in November 2005 and ending with the Christmas 2013 guide, which went up last December , we followed roughly the same ...Read more...
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Deal of the week: SSDs, power supplies, and 144Hz monitors
We've got another short and sweet deal post for you guys this week, with a small collection of hardware bargains:
That's it for our U.S. deals. North of the border, NCIX's Time-to-Upgrade Sale Event is in full swing. There are, as always, many items to choose from. A ...
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Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange loses almost $500 million, files for bankruptcy
Mt. Gox was once the busiest Bitcoin exchange in the business. But the site, which began as a trading service for Magic: The Gathering cards, has had a rough month. On February 7, it halted all Bitcoin withdrawls. A problem with "transaction malleability" was blamed, and things went downhill from there. In the following weeks, Mt. Gox moved offices, deleted Twitter posts, and took its entire website offline. (Thanks Wikipedia!) A leaked Crisis Strategy Draft suggested that the exchange had lost nearly 750,000 Bitcoins. The document named "massive robbery and poor Bitcoin accounting" as additional problems, and it suggested that Mt. Gox would shut down and rebrand itself.
Today, the other shoe dropped. Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan, its home country. According to the Wall Street Journal , the exchange confirmed that it ...
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Report: Microsoft considering a free version of Win8.1
Would you upgrade to Windows 8.1 if it were free? PC users may get the chance with a special, Bing-infused version of the operating system. According to stories at ZDNet and The Verge, Microsoft is experimenting with "Windows 8.1 with Bing," a slightly tweaked version of its latest operating system that would be a "free or low cost" upgrade for Windows 7 users. It's unclear precisely how this version of the OS differs from the standard one, but Microsoft will reportedly rely on Bing and its associated apps—News, Weather, Health & Fitness, and so on—to generate revenue.
Windows 8 already comes loaded with a bunch of Bing apps on the Start screen, so it's hard to imagine those being featured more prominently. I don't see any ...
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise to become available to everyone
Microsoft is gearing up for a slight tweak to its OS lineup. According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley,
the company plans to make Windows 8.1 Enterprise available to "anyone
willing to pay for it." That edition is currently offered only to volume
licensing customers, which pretty much rules out folks with home PCs.As Paul Thurrott points out , since there's no Ultimate edition of Windows 8.1, some of the Enterprise edition's features are currently unavailable to the general public. Among the ...
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AMD supports potential DirectX update, will outline Mantle's future at GDC
We
reported yesterday about some recently posted session abstracts for the
upcoming Game Developers Conference. The session descriptions hint
very strongly that an update to Microsoft's DirectX
is in the works—and that the focus of the update will be lowering CPU
overhead and offering "closer to the metal" control over graphics
hardware. Not only that, but Intel, Nvidia, and AMD will be presenting a
session on "zero driver overhead" programming techniques for OpenGL, as
well.Those goals sound an awful lot like the impetus behind AMD's Mantle API , which raises the question of Mantle's future, now that the rest of the industry is pursuing ...
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Thursday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Re/code has ten questions with Julie Larson-Green,
Microsoft's new Chief Experience Officer
- ZDNet: Hello, MS-Android. Good-bye, Windows Phone
- PCMag: Microsoft reveals Windows Phone 8.1 details
- Softpedia: First Ubuntu phones revealed at MWC 2014
- Qualcomm Technologies announces world's first commercial
64-bit octa-core chipset with integrated 5-mode global LTE
- Nvidia's Tegra Note 7 LTE and Tegra 4i devices: hands-on at AnandTech
- Laptoping: MSI ships Destroyer GX70, GX60 gaming
laptops with AMD Radeon R9 M290X GPUs
- The Linux Rain: Humble Indie Bundle 11
adds 3 more games; plus Portal beta arrives
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Intel's 730 Series solid-state drive reviewed
Intel's X25-M solid-state drive was a special piece of hardware back in the day. The SSD market was still in its infancy, and the X25-M represented the chip-maker's initial entry into an exciting new arena. It was a pretty good first offering, too. The drive had wicked-fast performance, and it was reasonably affordable for its day. Intel's chip-making prowess, combined with its expertise in designing storage and memory controllers, seemed perfectly suited to tackling solid-state storage.
The X25-M's flash controller anchored three generations of desktop SSDs before it was finally retired. Instead of using another in-house chip, Intel started ...
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Google's modular smartphone concept could be available next year
More details have been revealed about Project Ara, the modular smartphone initiative that Google first revealed in October . This Time article appears to have some of the most comprehensive coverage, and there are lots of juicy nuggets within. One of ...
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