Friday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- CeBit 2014: MSI's GS60 Ghost Pro gaming notebook
features next-gen Nvidia video card - VR-Zone
- VR-Zone: Razer Blade refresh brings Quad-HD+ screen, GTX 870M GPU
- Fast Company: Why Razer spent $380K redesigning the USB port
- The Verge: Mutant dual-boot Android and Windows Phone coming to U.S.
- iOS 8: Apple works to further push iCloud as the future of the file system - 9to5Mac
- Mozilla's Future Releases: Update on Metro
- Gamepur: Sony confirms PS4 CPU clock frequency
- Edge: Sony's VR tech will be revealed at GDC
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Friday night topic: Where is that plane?
The story of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 keeps getting weirder and weirder. The Boeing 777 seems like an awfully big plane to just vanish, but then the world is a very big place. I've been casually following the information coming out about the plane's possible fate, and it seems like terrorism and hijacking must have played a role in its diversion and disappearance. Hard to say for sure, though. What do you make of the news so far?
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WSJ: Microsoft, Google pressure Asus into shelving dual-OS tablet
I guess Asus' Transformer Book Duet really might be dead in the water. Last month, a Chinese site suggested that Google wasn't keen on the system's ability to dual-boot Android and Windows. Now, the Wall Street Journal has picked up the story, and it says both Google and Microsoft have pressured Asus into shelving the machine.
Officially, neither Google nor Microsoft have confirmed the move. The former declined to comment, while the latter said only that it "will continue to invest with OEMs . . . to promote best-in-class OEM and Microsoft experiences to our joint customers." The Journal ...
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Deal of the week: Discounted tablets, wireless keyboards, cheap SSDs, and more
It's been one of those weeks, and there's a pile of work ahead of me that will spill into the weekend, so I'll cut to the chase. Here are the best hardware deals I found on the web today:
Finally, we have a shout out to gerbils north of the border. NCIX's St. Patrick's Sale Event is brimming with deals, and here are ...
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Fractal's double-wide Node 804 case can swallow a dozen drives
Fractal Design has added a new microATX case to its stable. Say hello to the Node 804, whose cuboid design splits system components between adjacent cooling chambers. The PSU and hard drives go on the right, while the motherboard and everything else sits on the left. This side-by-side approach gives the Node 804 reasonably large 13.1" x 12.1" x 15.3" dimensions, but I like the overall look. Check it out:
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Xbox One tightens gap with PS4 in U.S. shipments
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now for an update on console sales! I mean, hey, they're practically
little gaming PCs from a hardware standpoint. We're allowed to care.Yesterday afternoon, Microsoft shared some numbers from the NPD Group that say 258,000 Xbox One consoles were sold in the United States last month. As Neowin reports ...
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Amazon Prime gets a price hike; Google Drive gets a price cut
What do Amazon Prime and Google Drive have to do with each other? Not a whole lot—except that pricing changes were announced for both services today.
As Reuters reports , Amazon Prime is set to undergo a price hike next week. Yearly memberships will go from $79 to $99. That's not as ...
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Somehow this translates into a dual-Hawaii card, right?
So I just got a mysterious package originating from Toronto, from the offices of AMD's public relations firm. Inside was an envelope containing only this incredibly unsettling sight:
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Report: Microsoft waives Windows Phone fees for Indian handset makers
Microsoft has a history of charging steep licensing fees for Windows, but its philosophy may be changing. Last month, Bloomberg's sources told them Microsoft plans to cut OS pricing for sub-$250 devices. Now, a report out of India suggests at least two handset makers in that country will be allowed to use Windows Phone free of charge. Removing the OS licensing fee was apparently key to getting the handset makers onboard with the mobile OS.
Nokia reportedly shelled out $20-30 for each Windows Phone device back when it was making them exclusively. That's a hefty premium to pay for ...
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Mozilla showcases Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox with no plugins
For nearly a year, we've known that Epic was porting Unreal Engine 4 to the web. Now, the folks at Mozilla have posted a video of the engine in action. The teaser shows a couple of demos, one of which has impressive graphics—relatively speaking, anyway.
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Latest Snowden leak suggests the NSA can deploy and manage malware on massive scale
The latest revelations in the ongoing NSA spying scandal are some of the most troublesome yet. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden and analyzed by The Intercept suggest that the agency has the ability to infect computers with malware on a massive scale. Even worse, perhaps, is that the snoop botnet is reportedly managed by automated intelligence that acts "like a brain." Has science fiction taught us nothing about putting computers in positions like that?
Dubbed Turbine, the system is said to be capable of managing "potentially millions" of so-called implants. These implants can reportedly perform all sorts of nefarious activities, including recording microphone audio, watching webcam feeds, ...
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Unreal Engine 4 game, freemium credits populate new GeForce bundles
Nvidia's GeForce GPUs now come with a fresh batch of bundled extras. Desktop cards from the GTX Titan down through the GTX 660 include a free copy of Daylight, while those in the GeForce GTX 650 and 750 families get $150 of in-game currency spread evenly between three freemium titles: Warface, Heroes of Newerth, and Path of Exile. Select notebooks based on GeForce GTX 700M and 800M GPUs will also come with the free-to-play credits.
Daylight is billed as the world's first PC game built with Unreal Engine 4. This "procedurally-generated psychological thriller" is set for ...
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GeForces 800M series combines Maxwell, Kepler
Spring is almost here, and yet again, Nvidia has marked the equinox (or just about) with a series of new mobile graphics processors. The GeForce 800M family spans six new models, introduces power-saving mojo called Battery Boost, and features both Nvidia's latest Maxwell architecture as well as the older Kepler architecture. Here are some specs for the GTX-branded members of the family:
The GeForce GTX 880M and 870M are both based on the older Kepler arch,
as are "some" of the GeForce GTX 860M parts, Nvidia tells us. Other GTX
860M models will be based on the same Maxwell-infused GM107 silicon as
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We're gonna break the site for a while
We have some updates to make to the site, and we're planning to make these changes fairly soon, at some point in the next hour or two. When it happens, we'll have to take the site offline briefly in order to break things. After they're busted, we'll put the site back up so it can crash in spectacular and public ways. Then we'll tweak!
Should be a fun day. If the site becomes unresponsive or runs as poorly as a corporate automaker's website, you'll know why.
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