Humble Daily #9: Aerial Maneuvers
Rolling
on to day number nine in the two weeks of daily bundles, today there
are three more games available for your donation, all with a focus on
aerial combat. If you’re looking for a great value on a bunch of games,
this is another bundle that’s going to disappoint, but purchased
separately right now off of Steam the total cost for all three games
would be around $26, so you’re still able to get three games at less
than half price. You can also give everything to charity, which is
always a nice draw. As with other recent offerings, there’s one core
game for the bundle, a second unlocks if you beat the average, while the
third requires at least a $10 donation. Here’s the short list of the
three games:
Race the Sun
(79%, 08/2013): pilot your solar powered craft through a maze-like
minimalist landscape and try not to crash or get caught in the shadows,
competing against others on the daily leader boards; donate $1 or more
Guns of Icarus Online
(64%, 11/2012): a Kickstarter project involving online PvP gameplay
with steampunk airships; pay more than the current average ($3.41) to
unlock
Strike Vector
(73%, 01/2014): a multiplayer third-person aerial shooter, sort of like
Unreal Tournament in the skies; $10 or higher donation required to
unlock
Graphically, the games aren’t state-of-the-art, but they’re all
3D and the two unlockable games will push your hardware at least a
little bit. That may or may not be a good thing – one of the aspects I
like most with a lot of indie games is that most run great even with
laptop iGPUs, so if you’re on the road and didn’t pack along a gaming
notebook, you can still do more than play Facebook games and the like.
If you're looking for lighter gaming options, Indie Royale has also
posted their latest
Mixer #4 Bundle that has eight games currently (with a ninth to be named later), for a current minimum price of $4.70.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 Performance Preview
Last year
Qualcomm announced a new tier in its high end SoC roadmap with the Snapdragon 805.
Priced somewhat above the current Snapdragon 800/801, the 805 would be
the last 32-bit high-end SoC from Qualcomm. It would be the grand finale
in Krait's lineage, which started back in 2012 with Krait 200 and
MSM8960 and saw iterative improvements over the years. The Snapdragon
805 was not only designed to drive CPU performance higher but also be
the launch vehicle for Qualcomm's brand new Adreno 4xx GPU architecture.
Read on for our preview of Snapdragon 805's performance!
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Averting Disaster - A Guide To Computer Backups (2014)
We
all store more and more of our lives in digital form; spreadsheets,
résumés, wedding speeches, novels, tax information, schedules, and of
course digital photographs and video. All of this data is easy to store,
transmit, copy, and share, but how easy is it to get back?
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GIGABYTE Server Launches New C2750 Mini-ITX and 2P ATX LGA2011
Despite
the C2750 coming to market officially in Q3 2013, we have not seen many
products that exploit the possibilities that the new 8-core Silvermont
SoC provides. We reviewed the
C2750D4I earlier this year, but now GIGABYTE wants to step up to the place with a version of its own, called the
GA-9SISL.
The focus of this motherboard, aside from the mini-ITX form factor,
will be the 32GB ECC UDIMM DDR3 support and four Intel I354 Gigabit NICs
alongside AST2400 management. The networking is the focus here rather
than storage, although GIGABYTE does use the six on-board SATA ports and
suggests that a RAID card is used in the full length PCIe 2.0 x16 slot.
The system also features active cooling with a small heatsink and a TPM
header, although no USB 3.0 controllers.
Next up is the
GA-7PXSL1,
dual processor motherboard for Ivy Bridge-E Xeons in a standard ATX
form factor. Because of the large size of the LGA2011 socket area, along
with the associated DRAM slots, the sockets are aligned one above the
other and at 90º compared to what the consumer range is typically used
to. This is so airflow can travel over the VRMs, then the CPU heatsink
and finally out of the rear of the case. It also makes for some
interesting PCIe placement, with a PCIe 3.0 x4 and two PCIe 2.0 x1 ports
near the bottom of the board and a PCIe 3.0 x16 (wired at x8) right at
the bottom. Despite the fact that each of these CPUs should be able to
handle 40 PCIe lanes, most of them are unused in this motherboard as the
focus is purely on density in an ATX chassis. Some of the PCIe lanes
from the chipset are diverted into four Intel 82574L Gigabit NICs, as
well as an AST2300 for server management. Due to size limitations there
is only one DRAM slot per channel, making eight total, but they will
support ECC and non-ECC UDIMM and RDIMM modules, with 1.5V modules
supported up to 1866 MHz on E5-2600 V2 processors.
GIGABYTE Server is also releasing the
GA-6PXSVL,
a 1P LGA2011 ATX motherboard with a total of fourteen SATA ports (8x
SATA 6Gbps from Marvell 88SE9230, others from chipset) and support for
x16/x16 or x16/x8/x8 PCIe 3.0 lane allocation.
I
have reached out to GIGABYTE for release dates and pricing. With
Computex around the corner, we should see a couple of these in action
then.
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Did NASA Book Say Rock Art Was the Work of Extraterrestrials? Nope.
Controversy ignited after quote was taken out of context
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Google Looking to Puts Ads on Your Thermostat, Refrigerator
Google wants ads everywhere
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eBay Hit With Massive Security Breach, Will Require Users to Change Passwords
eBay says that cyberattackers infiltrated its corporate network
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Lenovo Slides Past Apple to Claim #3 PC Sales Spot in U.S., Posts Record Earnings
Lenovo continues to defy the downward trending market with big gains year-over-year.
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"Serial Killer?" DHS Reports Penetration of Utility, Manufacturing Networks
Intruders appeared to simply watch and observe, made no attempt at sabotage
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