Sunday, May 17, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 5/18/2015





Handicapping AMD's Fiji with David Kanter
AMD's upcoming Fiji GPU, rumored to be called the Radeon R9 390X, will aim to take the crown for fastest graphics card, aided by a brand-new memory technology known as HBM. David Kanter and I considered Fiji's prospects in some depth on our recent live stream. Here's the portion of our discussion related to Fiji.
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Report: Lenovo eyes acquisition of MSI's gaming laptop division
Lenovo could have its eye on MSI's gaming laptop division. If a new report by Digitimes is correct, the PC giant is in talks to acquire the dragon army's mobile gaming business in an effort to bolster its own position in a burgeoning market. Digitimes says MSI denied that talks were underway, but unnamed sources within the company's supply chain told the publication negotiations were ongoing.
Though the PC market as a whole may be on the rocks , gaming-specific hardware is an appealing segment, which might explain Lenovo's motives. We've seen reports that suggest ...
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Friday Evening Shortbread
Eight is Enough
  1. Ars Technica: Court won't force U.S. to divulge

    secret strategy to cut mobile phone service
  2. KitGuru: Launch date of Intel Core i7/i7 'Broadwell Unlocked' revealed
  3. WCCFtech: Intel Broadwell Core i7-5775C, Core i5-5675C and Skylake

    Core i7-6700, Core i5-6500 listed by online retailers - Core i7-5775C

    priced at $479.99
  4. techPowerUp!: Gigabyte intros Z97X-Game Plus motherboard
  5. AnandTech: Corsair now retailing 128GB UDIMM DDR4 kits, starting at $1755
  6. Hexus.net: AOC 25-inch Q2577PWQ QHD IPS display is aimed at professionals
  7. VR-Zone: Asus ZenWatch 2 not delayed after

    all, 4-day battery the best you can hope for
  8. TechRadar: Is the iPhone 6s camera getting a megapixel boost?
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You'll need a powerful GPU to drive the Oculus Rift
The Oculus Rift is coming in the first quarter of 2016, and we now know what class of system it'll take to deliver a smooth VR experience with the headset. Oculus posted the recommended system specs on its blog today. To drive the headset, you'll need a PC with a Core i5-4590-class CPU, at least 8GB of RAM, and a GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon R9 290-class graphics card or better.
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Deal of the week: the 850 EVO 1TB for $336, the Pentium AE for $60, and more
Welcome to another edition of TR's weekly deals post. This one includes more than just cheap SSDs, but imma make you wade through a couple of those before getting to the other goodies:
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Only hours remain in our Asus GTX 980 giveaway
We're giving away a swanky 20th Anniversary Gold Edition of the GeForce GTX 980 from Asus that looks like so:
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Razer opens its first retail store in Taipei
Seems like Razer might have been getting a little green with envy looking at the success of another major tech company's retail operations. The company is launching a flagship retail store today in Taipei, Taiwan, and CEO Min-Liang Tan posted a video tour of the place on his Facebook page this morning. Check it out:
The magic happens at our first Flagship RazerStore in Taiwan. For those that can’t be there, let me take you on a personal tour. #RazerStoreTW
Posted by Min-Liang Tan on Friday, May 15, 2015
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Classic games returning to Windows 10 with Candy Crush Saga in tow
Think Microsoft isn't serious about PC gaming? Think again. After being taken out of the starting lineup for Windows 8, Solitaire made a triumphant return to the Win10 preview last month. Hearts and Minesweeper are also coming back in the next version of Windows, and they're bringing Candy Crush Saga along for the ride.
Microsoft revealed the news yesterday, noting that the wildly popular mobile game "will be automatically installed for customers that upgrade to or download Windows 10 during the launch." It's unclear whether this is a limited-time offer that will expire after the initial fanfare surrounding Win10's release, but the freebie ...
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IBM achieves silicon photonics milestone
Today, a lot of the communication that takes place on chips and between computers is accomplished by way of electrical signals carried by metal wires. If silicon photonics technology takes off, future chips might talk to each other with light carried over optical fibers. IBM recently announced that it's successfully designed and tested a "fully integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip" for the first time.
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Rainbow Six Siege gets October 13 release date
It's been a while since we've seen a new Rainbow Six game, but the latest chapter in the franchise, Rainbow Six Siege, is set to arrive on October 13.  Here's the release date announcement trailer:
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Tonight's TR podcast canceled due to reasons
Update: Severe spring allergies and/or a cold has sapped my will to live tonight and messed up my throat. I'm gonna have to call off the podcast recording session this evening as a result.
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Microsoft details Windows 10 editions
When Windows 10 arrives sometime this summer, a new post on the Windows blog confirms that it'll be segmented into at least seven different editions, spanning PCs, handsets, and Internet of Things devices.
The most important Windows 10 editions for consumers will likely be Home, Pro, and Mobile. Home offers most of the marquee features we've seen for Win10, including Cortana , the Microsoft Edge browser , Continuum , Windows Hello biometric authentication, and integration with Xbox One and Xbox Live. With this feature, Xbox One owners will be ...
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Socketed Broadwell CPU spotted at 5GHz on air
The unlocked Broadwell desktop processors due mid-year could turn out to be potent overclockers. According to a report at EXPreview, at least one chip circulating in Asia is capable of 5GHz on air. That frequency is higher than what we've managed with our Haswell CPUs, including the most recent Devil's Canyon chips. Only 1.42V was apparently required to hit the mark.
All the actual overclocking was done by Hong Kong site HKEPC, which posted a series of images to its Facebook page showing a purported Core i7-5775C processor running in Gigabyte and ASRock motherboards. That photo stream includes a handful of benchmark and CPU-Z shots, but ...
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