Friday night topic: what are you giving for Christmas?
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here's the question: what are you getting your "significant other"
(wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever) for Christmas this year?
Anything good? Any, you know, last-minute ideas that others of us could
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Notes from TR's next-gen storage testing
In between work on other projects, I've been running exploratory tests on PCIe SSDs to see how their performance characteristics differ from the SATA drives we've been reviewing for the past few years. This research is part of a larger effort to come up with a new collection of tests for our next-gen storage suite.
Our old suite dates back to 2011, and though it's been tweaked here and there, it's long overdue for a major overhaul. The tests we conceived three years ago aren't ideal for ...
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Today's Steam deals include AC Unity, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
The Steam Holiday Sale is on its second day, and some of the latest bargains are even sweeter than yesterday's. The 48-hour Featured Deals section now includes Assassin's Creed Unity and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, among others:
The latest 12-hour deals aren't bad, either. Deus Ex: Human Revolution ...
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Deal of the week: A Radeon R9 290X for $280, a 960GB SSD for $339, and more
Precious few shopping days remain before Christmas. Good thing there are plenty of sweet deals on PC hardware.
Those are the deals that jump out at me this morning. I probably missed ...
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RRAM breakthrough could lead to 1Tb chips built on 28-nm tech
Remember Crossbar, the firm developing resistive random access memory (RRAM) with higher performance and endurance than NAND? The company announced a breakthrough at the International Electron Devices Meeting earlier this week. We caught up with VP of marketing and business development Sylvain Dubois for an explanation—and to find out how close Crossbar is to actually delivering RRAM products.
Crossbar is pursuing two RRAM applications. The embedded variant is designed to provide on-chip storage for ...
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The TR Podcast 167.5 bonus edition: You guys ask us stuff!
In this special, video-only edition of The TR Podcast, we're freestyling without Jordan—and without much of a plan! Instead, we take questions from the chat channel about whatever, including new GPUs coming in 2015, likely CES highlights, our iPhone 6 and 6 Plus review, and our take on the AnandTech buyout. Also, Geoff talks about his efforts to create a new SSD test suite, and Cyril makes a troubling analogy.
Thanks to everybody who joined in live last night and asked questions. We had a blast recording ...
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AC Unity season pass holders can now redeem their free game
Ubisoft recently announced that, to make amends for the botched Assassin's Creed Unity launch, it would give away a free game to folks who purchased the Unity season pass. As GameInformer reports, the company has now put up a page where season pass holders can redeem their freebie.
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Friday Shortbread
The Pick 6
- The Verge: Global Internet authority ICANN has been hacked
- FOSS Force: MPAA wants to use DMCA to effectively bring back SOPA
- SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft explains lack
of new Windows Technical Preview builds
- Microsoft: Lumia Denim takes imaging to a whole new level
- AndroidPit's exclusive: Android 5.1 release date and improvements revealed
- Reuters' exclusive: Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android - sources
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Our bonus TR live stream is up right now!
Update: The stream has ended. Thanks to all who joined in!
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This year's Steam Holiday Sale is on
It's that time of year again. Valve has kicked off its latest Steam Holiday Sale, which is going to serve up a rolling selection of bargains until January 2 at 10:00 AM, Pacific Time.
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Minecraft: Story Mode coming next year
Not much more than a month after completing its $2.5-billion acquisition of Minecraft developer Mojang, Microsoft seems to have started milking the franchise.
Mojang has teamed up with Telltale Games, the folks behind the popular The Walking Dead games, ...
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Join us this evening for a bonus TR live stream
Since Jordan's not available, our plan has been to put The TR Podcast on hiatus until 2015. That seems like an awfully long time to wait, though, and I might have a few things to say about Scotty's First Phone Review. I also expect that some of you might enjoy popping into a live stream and having the chance to ask TR's editors about pretty much anything.
So let's do this. Tonight at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT, we'll fire up a live stream on our Twitch channel . We'll ...
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Hang your PC on a wall with Lian Li's new O Series cases
Live in a shoebox apartment with little floor space for a conventional PC tower? Good news: Lian Li has introduced a full line of cases designed to be hung from a wall.
The PC-05. ...
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100Mbps Internet available to most Americans, but not from multiple ISPs
According to a U.S. Department of Commerce report published earlier this week, 94% of Americans can get Internet access with download speeds up to 10Mbps. 70% can choose from at least two providers, but that figure shrinks rapidly as the connection speed rises. While 59% of the population has access to 100Mbps connectivity, only 9% can get it from more than one ISP.
The following chart from the full report ...
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Thursday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Farewell, Dr. Dobb's
- Ars Technica was briefly hacked yesterday; here's what we know
- WCCFtech: Power consumption figures for AMD Fiji XT flagship
GPU and Nvidia GTX 980 Ti leak out—Bermuda XT analyzed
- AMD: Professional drivers have been 'Rock Solid' for the past two years
- Engadget: Sony can make any eyewear more like Google Glass
- Patently Apple: Apple wins an advanced 3D UI patent
covering the iOS parallax effect and much, much more
- Blogging Windows: December Update on the Windows Insider program
- Asked & answered at Rockstar Games: GTAV first-person
experience, online heists and much more
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