Tuesday, June 30, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 7/1/2015





F1 2015 revs up with new teaser trailer
The Formula One season is in full swing, and Codemasters is right there with it. The studio has released a new teaser trailer for F1 2015, which you can check out below:
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Fractal Design's Define S case reviewed
Fractal Design's Define R5 is my favorite case in TR's labs right now. It's quiet, it cools well, and it's a breeze to work in. It's also one of the rare cases we've deemed worthy of our Editor's Choice award. At $110 and up, however, it's positioned toward the high end of the mid-tower case market, and some buyers might not need all of the bells and whistles, or storage space, that the R5 offers.
Fractal Design appears to agree with this view. The Define S , the latest addition to the Define series, is a somewhat stripped-down—and more affordable—version of the R5. Fractal has taken a scalpel to ...
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Microsoft adds $1,299 Core i7 version to Surface Pro 3 lineup
Microsoft has quietly added a new member to its Surface Pro 3 family, packing an Intel Core i7 CPU, a 128GB SSD, and 8GB of RAM for $1,299. Previously, the cheapest Core i7 Surface Pro 3 was a much dearer $1,549, although it comes with a 256GB SSD, as well.
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Nvidia's 353.38 hotfix driver fixes Chrome crashes, G-Sync lag
If you're a Google Chrome user with an Nvidia graphics card who's experiencing browser crashes or other stability issues, the green team may have a solution. A new hotfix driver, version 353.38, quietly made its way online last week, and it's supposed to fix Chrome crashes, freezes, or timeout detection and recovery (TDR) errors related to GPU-accelerated features in the browser.
According to this Reddit thread , the hotfix does appear to alleviate Chrome crashes for the subset of users that are reporting in on the issue. The other fix in ...
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Samsung and LG show off battery technology improvements
Nary a day goes by without news about new battery technologies, it seems, and today is no exception. Samsung and LG have both announced new advancements in this field, each of them targeting different problems from distinct angles.
Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology has a new lithium-ion battery manufacturing process that relies on graphene layered over silicon, which it claims makes for a new-state ...
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Arkham Knight gets first patch, improvement plans
After sales of Batman: Arkham Knight were unceremoniously halted last week, it would appear that the game's development team is hard at work ironing out some of the game's wrinkles. In a post shared on the Steam Community forums Saturday, WB Interactive vice president Gary Lake-Schaal announced the first patch for Arkham Knight, which contains the following fixes:
 Lake-Schaal also shared a roadmap for other planned Arkham Knight ...
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