The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Gameplay Performance Review
If you haven't done so already, make sure you guys take a moment to read our The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Gameplay Performance Review. You might be surprised at the games' performance on both AMD and NVIDIA cards.
We take The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, using the 1.08.2 patch and latest drivers, find the highest playable settings and examine apples-to-apples performance with and without GameWorks across 10 video cards. We put a focus on NVIDIA HairWorks and how it impacts performance and find out which video cards provide the best gaming value.
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Making The Swords From The Witcher 3
While we are on the subject of The Witcher 3 today, imagine what it must have been like making a sword back before they had all the tools used in this video. Thanks to cageymaru for the link.
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Linus Torvalds Explains How Linux Was Born
How Linux was born, straight from the horses mouth.
Linux was my working name, so in that sense he didn't really name it, but I never wanted to release it as Linux. Linux was a perfectly good working name, but if I actually used it as the official one people would think that I am egomaniac, and wouldn't take it seriously. So I chose this very bad name "Freax," for "Free Unix." Luckily, Ari Lemmke used this working name instead. And after that he never changed it.
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Megaupload Wants U.S. Government To Buy And Store Its Servers
These guys want the U.S. government to buy the 1,100 servers that were confiscated from Megaupload? Ummm, say what?
Megaupload's legal team is asking the court to preserve essential evidence hosted on its seized servers. The data is at risk of being destroyed and Kim Dotcom's lawyers argue that the authorities should buy the servers and transfer them to a safe facility where they can be preserved at the Government's cost.
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Ashley Madison Plotted Hacking Rivals
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic.
"They did a poor job of auditing their site. Have access to all their user records including emails, encrypted password, if they purchased or not, who they talked to, what their search preferences are, last login, fraud risk profile, who they blocked or are blocked from, photo uploads, etc." In response, Biderman said, "Holy moly..I would take the emails.
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Technology Gives Man World's First 'Bionic' Penis
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. He'll be better than he was before. Bigger... stiffer... faster. Now word on whether the new unit will make this sound when activated.
"When you want a bit of action you press the 'on' button," Abad told The Sun. "When you are finished you press another button. It takes seconds. Doctors have told me to keep practicing." He'd already undergone two surgeries before the recent 11-hour marathon installation surgery. Doctors on the team report that the prosthesis should be sufficient for Abad to start a family, if he so chooses.
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Court Rejects Apple Touchscreen Patent Appeal
Germany's highest court of appeals earlier today ruled that Apple's patents covering the "slide to unlock" feature are invalid.
In a statement, the appeals court said it confirmed a ruling by the lower Federal Patent Court that canceled Apple's German patent, based on the technique's similarity to a phone released by Swedish company Neonode Inc a year before the iPhone's 2007 launch. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Amazon Adds Alcohol To Prime Now
Hell yeah! I need Amazon Prime Now where I live!
Amazon said on Tuesday it will begin delivering wine, beer and spirits to U.S. customers for the first time as part of its speedy delivery service, Prime Now. The online retailer is expanding Prime Now, its one- and two-hour service, to Seattle, where the company is headquartered, and offering alcohol deliveries there.
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Open Source Low-Cost 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand
Honestly, building a prosthetic hand is the easy part, people have been doing that for ages. Making something like this, at a fraction of the price of conventional prosthetic hands, is what makes this guy's work truly special.
Joel Gibbard, a robotics graduate from Plymouth University, has designed a prosthetic hand that can be produced in 40 hours; and with a price tag of less than £1,000, it is seen as an affordable alternative to more advanced robotic prosthetics, which can cost between £30,000 and £60,000.
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PNY GTX 980 XLR8 Review
There is a review of the PNY GTX 980 XLR8 ($542 per PC Hound) video card posted today at Overclockers Club that is certainly worth checking out. Here's a snippet from the overclocking portion of the review:
In this case, the Maxwell core in this card was able to run a GPU Boost clock speed of 1491MHz by setting the power limit to 125% and bumping the voltage up by +39mv. The memory speed boost was significant as well with a final result of 1969MHz. Your mileage may vary, of course. All in all, PNY left some meat on the bone for the enthusiast gamer."
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Mozilla To Fire Employee Suspected Of Posting Hate Speech
It looks like someone at Mozilla might be in hot water for making a series of statements on Reddit that the CEO of Mozilla has deemed hate speech.
It's been brought to our attention that there's been anonymous postings to Reddit under the handle aoiyama that crossed a line from criticism to hate speech. There's a lot to suggest that they're a Mozillian [an employee]. Specifically, when I'm talking about crossing the line from criticism to hate speech.
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'Spam King' Guilty Of Posting 27M Facebook Messages
Considering this guy's record, he should thank his lucky stars he's only facing three years in prison.
Sanford Wallace, aka "the Spam King," aka "Spamford Wallace," admitted that he unlawfully accessed over 500,000 accounts on the network between 2008-9 in violation of a court order. This is far from his first rodeo -- Sanford was annoying consumers well before the internet came along, when he sent junk faxes in violation of laws enacted in 1991. Since then, he's faced lawsuits for email spamming, multiple-window launching (remember that? ) spyware scams and MySpace phishing, to name a few.
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ASUS Z170-A LGA 1151 Skylake Motherboard Review
Previously we looked at ASUS' Z170-Deluxe which offered users a huge amount of features and a premium price to go with it. Not everyone wants to spend $300 or more on a motherboard which is why ASUS has just what you need. ASUS' Z170-A offers all the performance without all the extra features and fluff and a low price point.
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