Friday, April 17, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 4/18/2015





Star Wars Battlefront trailer will leave your jaw on the desk
DICE has posted a reveal trailer for the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront game, and, well, check it out for yourself.
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Deal of the week: A terabyte-class SSD for $300, plus more
SSDs take center stage in this week's deals post—but not the ones you might expect.
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This is my favorite fanless NUC chassis so far
Intel's NUC is built around a standard motherboard form factor that allows others to create their own mini PC enclosures. Traditional case makers haven't gotten in on the action, but smaller boutique builders are making some really cool stuff, including passively-cooled chassis that do away with the NUC's laptop-style blower. My favorite so far has to be the Cirrus7 Nimbini:

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AMD posts $180 million loss, shutters SeaMicro business
AMD has posted its first-quarter financial results for 2015, and they're full of red ink. The company is also dispensing with the high-density server business it acquired from SeaMicro back in 2012, effective immediately.
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Razer's BlackWidow Chroma spawns a tenkeyless variant
Razer's BlackWidow Chroma gaming keyboard is getting a little brother. Today, the company announced the BlackWidow Tournament Edition Chroma, an RGB-backlit mechanical keyboard with a tenkeyless design and Razer-exclusive key switches.
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You should probably watch the new Star Wars trailer
We interrupt TR's regular stream of tech news to present the following trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Google brings Handwriting Input to Android
Google has released a new keyboard for Android devices that's not really a keyboard at all. The Handwriting Input app instead translates the scrawl from a finger or stylus into text—or emoji.
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Leak details Skylake-S processors, chipset with PCIe Gen3
Intel's next-gen Skylake processor is rumored to be just a few months away. We still don't have official confirmation of the new platform's release date or specs, but leaked slides posted at Expreview paint a plausible picture of what to expect.
According to the slides, the Skylake-S processors destined for socketed desktops will come in 35W, 65W, and 95W flavors. The highest thermal envelope is reserved for enthusiast-oriented quads that should have unlocked ...
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Farewell, beloved Rat
Farewell, beloved Rat. You've been a faithful companion, constantly perched next to my right hand and always eager for the next opportunity to dart across my desktop. I will miss you terribly.
More than any other mouse, you really get me . Your pliable body is molded just for my grip, a perfectly shaped and weighted handful to accommodate my odd-sized mitts. You indulge other eccentricities, like my need ...
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Asus console brings Broadwell, GTX 960M to the living room
Asus' ROG GR8 mini-PC is an intriguing option for those who want a console-like computer for living-room gaming. Today, the company announced the ROG GR6, a minor refresh of the GR8. The new model features a Broadwell-based Core i5-5200U, and its GPU has been swapped for Nvidia's latest GeForce GTX 960M mobile chip. The i5-5200U is an ultrabook-class duallie with Hyper-Threading, while the GTX 960M is a derivative of the Maxwell GPU found in the GeForce GTX 750 Ti.
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Asus' Trooper mobo TUF-ens up the B85 chipset
Motherboards based on Intel's B85 chipset might not be the first things that come to mind when you think "enthusiast-grade" hardware, but Asus is blazing such a trail with its new TUF Trooper B85.
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EU files antitrust charges against Google
The European Union is concerned that Google is abusing its dominant position in the European search market by engaging in anticompetitive practices. As a result, Margrethe Vestager, the EU's antitrust regulator,  has filed formal charges against the search giant, according to this European Commission press release.
The European Commission's allegations focus on the Google Shopping price-comparison tool, which Google is said to be prioritizing in its search results to the possible detriment of its competitors. The EC believes Google may not ...
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Tax Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough
  1. C|Net: For PC shipments, the slump is back
  2. WCCFtech: 16nm FinFET wafer production approach-

    ing mature yields - goes volume in Q3 2015
  3. WCCFtech: Intel's 6th generation Skylake desktop processors and

    platform further detailed - 95W enthusiast quad-cores confirmed
  4. PCPer's Samsung Magician 4.6 and 840 EVO

    XT0DB6Q firmware review - finally fixed
  5. Neowin: Sharp announces 5.5-inch 4K

    display with jaw-dropping 806ppi density
  6. Neowin: Panasonic's 20-inch Toughpad 4K Windows

    8.1 tablet gets better specs, much lower price
  7. Linux 4.0 released
  8. Ars Technica: Chrome starts pushing Java off the web by disabling plugins
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Samsung's four-lane PCIe SSD goes NVMe
Samsung first revealed its SM951 PCIe SSD in Korea last year. The M.2 gumstick was billed as an NVM Express implementation at the time, but the drives that started rolling off the production line in January were instead tied to the aging AHCI protocol. Now, Samsung tells us that the NVMe version of the SM951 has entered mass production.

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Here's our discussion of FreeSync, G-Sync, and the BenQ XL2730Z
We talked about my review of the BenQ XL2370Z FreeSync monitor on the podcast recently. Here's what I had to say about it there.
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