3D Is Dead. Will 4k And 8k TV Make It?
Are we taking bets? Will 4k and 8K TVs make it or will they go the way of 3D TVs?
There's just one problem: the content. As it stands now, you can get HD programming via cable but the bulk of it isn't even true HD, it's 720p resolution. That's not really a factor in many cases, it's just a reality that cable wires simply cannot handle the bandwidth of a true 1080p image. For example, AT&T U-Verse's DVRs cannot handle more than 4 simultaneous streams.
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Crooks Stole DVDs By Mailing Them From The Store
I'm not sure if this is a stupid criminal of the day story or if these guys are brilliant. I'll let you decide.
Thieves at a Walmart-owned ASDA supermarket in Cheshire, England managed to evade security after they began packing movies and other stolen goods into envelopes. Instead of walking out with the goods, where they'd be instantly apprehended, they came up with the clever idea to send the packages to themselves using the in-store Post Office.
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Bungie Finally Addressing Heavy Ammo Glitch
After months of ignoring players complaints about this bug (and many others), it seems Bungie might be finally getting the message that fixing the actual game is more important than patching loot caves and cheese spots.
If you've spent any time reading about Destiny on a forum where Guardians congregate, you know this is far from hypothetical. It happens to us all. It makes Raids harder to clear. It deprives you of precious Glimmer, and patience. Frankly, it sucks. For some time now, we've been tracking this one. To date, the best we've been able to do is to admit that we were aware of the issue. This week, we can give you some additional information.
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Corsair Graphite 780T Case
There is a review of the Corsair Graphite 780T posted at Techgage today. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes.
All too often, design and style exist in conflict with each other. Form follows function, as the saying goes. But sometimes, we see products which are as beautifully-styled as they are well-designed. Corsair's Graphite 780T full-tower becomes a perfect example of this – it's great looking and functional.
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20 Of The Worst PC Setups
It's time once again for Think Computer's monthly Worst PC Setups feature. This one has to be my favorite:
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Reddit Gives User Data To The Feds 58% Of The Time
Reddit's first transparency report reveals that the company gives up user data to the authorities 58% of the time. Hey, at least it's not 100%.
In 2014, we decided not to provide user information in response to 42% of all government and civil requests for private information. We pushed back and did not remove content in 69% of requests to remove content.
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Amazon Surprises Investors With A Gift Of Profit
It looks like the holidays were good to Amazon this year. The company posted a $214 million profit on revenue of almost $30 billion.
The company on Thursday reported a profit of $214 million, or 45 cents a share, on revenue of $29.33 billion, exceeding some analysts' estimates of 17 cents a share on $29.68 billion in revenue. The results show that Amazon learned from the mistakes it made last year when its delivery partners FedEx and UPS ended up with a backlog of packages that caused some shipments to arrive at customers' doorsteps after Christmas.
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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces OC Showdown 2015
Starting on January 30th at 12pm GMT, ASUS ROG launches its OC Showdown 2015 overclocking competition! The aim of OC Showdown 2015 is to engage and support the entire OC community; whether you're the very top of the game or just enthusiastic about joining in for some benchmarking fun. A total of six online competitions are planned for 2015 on the HWBOT (oc-esports.io) website, with three rounds per series, through to the third quarter this year. Those who join throughout the three events will be able to accumulate points for the entire series!
The competition is separated in two series, supporting all levels of overclocking enthusiasts:
Extreme Series for extreme cooling overclockers (sub-zero ºC; suitable for HWBot Elite and Extreme leagues)
Formula Series for air and water cooling overclockers (above 20ºC; suitable for HWBot Rookie, Novice and Enthusiast leagues)
The first event of the Extreme series starts today through to March 2nd with the Formula series kicking off on March 6th.
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Intel Aims To Transform Today's Workplace
Responding to the needs of a more mobile and distributed workforce, the 14 nm 5th Generation Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors, featuring Intel® Pro Wireless Display and Intel® Wireless Docking technologies, along with security capabilities, will allow small, medium and large companies to enable a better way to work by encouraging more creativity and collaboration among workers, improving employee and organizational productivity in a secure way.
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Wikipedia Banning Editors Over Gamergate Controversy
Apparently Wikipedia is having a rough time keeping its editors from getting involved in all the Gamergate controversy so they had to dish out some bans.
A group of trusted, long-term volunteer English Wikipedia editors (known as the Arbitration Committee) is now reviewing the conduct of the editors who participated on the Gamergate controversy article discussions. Their mandate is to review editor conduct, and address disruptions so that Wikipedia can remain a civil, productive place for all editors. They may do so through issuing warnings, bans, or other means. The Committee does not consider the identity or beliefs of contributors, nor do they make editorial decisions on the content or quality of Wikipedia articles.
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Serious Vulnerability in Blackphone Exposed Messages, Location
I thought this phone was supposed to protect you from this kind of stuff.
According to Mark Dowd, director and founder of Australia-based Azimuth Security, the vulnerability existed in Silent Text, the Blackphone messaging application developed by Silent Circle. The app, which allows users to send text messages and files securely, is also available for other types of smartphones running Android and iOS.
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AMD Kaveri-Refresh Coming Summer 2015?
If I am reading this right (via translator), the folks at Sweclockers claim that AMD will be launching a new APU this summer.
Kaveri "Godavari" is generally identical today and uses the same infrastructure, ie socket FM2 + and support for DDR3 memory at 2133 MHz. This includes four cores Steamroller and up to eight GCN cores, ie 512 stream processors. Again becomes instead retained TDP values with higher frequencies, anything that is said to bring in 10-15 percent higher performance against the current 7000 series.
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MSI GeForce GTX 960 GAMING High Resolution Review
We take the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU based MSI GeForce GTX 960 GAMING 2G and push it to its limits at 1440p. We also include a GeForce GTX 770 and AMD Radeon R9 280X into this evaluation for some unexpected results. How does the GeForce GTX 960 really compare to a wide range of cards?
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