Windows 10 Preview Build 14328 puts clocks on every taskbar
Windows 10 Insiders on both PC and mobile platforms should be receiving
Preview Build 14328
today. Microsoft calls this a "major" build that brings quite a few new
things to the OS. Some of the new features discussed at Build 2016 are
now included, like the Windows Ink Workspace. Using an active pen, users
can draw on a whiteboard, create sticky notes, and mark up digital maps
and websites.
There are also refinements coming to tablet mode. The full-screen All Apps menu (
à la Windows 8) is back as an option. The lock screen now hides your e-mail address, and it can ...
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Rumor: Nvidia Pascal GP104 die shots leak
The smoke around Nvidia's next-generation graphics chips keeps getting thicker, and if Tuesday’s purported
GeForce GTX 1080 cooler shots
didn’t warm things up enough for you maybe this will. A leaker from
ChipHell.com has posted a fairly legit-looking shot of GP104-200’s die,
and
the folks at Videocardz have picked it up:
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Time is running out in our Macrium Data Disasters contest
If you hadn't already heard,
our friends at Macrium are now offering deeper discounts
for TR subscribers. Silver subscribers are now eligible for a 20% discount on purchases made
from the Macrium online store, and Gold subscribers get a whopping 40% off. To celebrate, the company has handed us five
Reflect v6 Workstation license keys to give away for home use, and there's less than a week left in our contest.
For
a chance at one of those licenses, we want to hear your best data-loss
or disaster recovery story. Tell us all about your experience with that
dead hard drive, corrupted SD card, bankrupt cloud storage provider,
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Deals of the week: a GTX 980 for $465 and more
Ladies
and gentlemen! Welcome to the greatest show in the Sol system! Stand in
awe as I conjure arcane interstellar magic and twist your notions of
reality into a spiral galaxy. Watch as I reduce these price stickers to a
fraction of their original size. Observe: the conjuring of the deals!
There's
a chance you're looking for something we haven't covered. If that's the
case, you can help The Tech Report by using the following referral
links when you're out shopping: not only do we have a partnership with
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MSI Aegis barebones shields gamers from low frame rates
MSI unleashed
its Aegis barebones system
today. This Mini-ITX gaming PC has striking looks and surprisingly
petite dimensions, thanks to the use of a PCI Express riser. The Aegis'
600W 80 Plus Silver power supply is integrated into the machine's base,
making the body of the PC even smaller.
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AMD boxes its Wraith cooler with more FX CPUs
AMD is justifiably proud of its
Wraith cooler. At launch, though, that cooler was only available with a
relatively expensive FX-8370 CPU. We expressed hope that AMD would include the Wraith with more of its chips
in the conclusion of our review, and today, the company is answering that call. The
eight-core FX-8350 will get a Wraith in the box for a suggested price of $179.99, while a Wraithed
six-core FX-6350 will sell for $139.99.
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Thursday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Reuters: Google's parent Alphabet misses Wall Street view
- WCCFtech: Intel Broadwell-E Core i7-6950X, Core i7-6900K,
Core i7-6850K and Core i7-6800K listed for pre-order - more
AIBs add BIOS support
- WCCFtech: AMD's Radeon Pro Duo pictured
in all its glory - $1500 US behemoth
- VideoCardz: AMD's official GPU roadmap for 2016-2018
and Nvidia releases Pascal architecture whitepaper
- ZUK Z2 Pro is official: Snapdragon 820
and 6GB of RAM for $420 - GSMArena
- Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04
- WCCFtech: Microsoft fixes bugs in Windows 10
PC build, "but won't be out today"
- VG24/7: Black Ops 3 1.09 update out today on Xbox One, all the details
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Microsoft revenue holds steady for its fiscal Q3
Microsoft released its fiscal 2016 third-quarter results today.
The company made $5.3 billion in operating income on $20.5 billion in
revenue. That's a 20% decrease in operating income and a 6% decrease in
revenue compared to a year ago. Here's a quick summary of the results:
The
company's More Personal Computing division, which handles familiar
products like Windows, Surfaces, and the Xbox, took in $9.5 billion in
revenue, up 1% year-over-year. Windows OEM revenue fell just 2%, while
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AMD reveals $293M joint venture alongside Q1 2016 financials
AMD has released
its financial results for the first quarter of 2016.
The company posted an operating loss of $68 million on $832 million in
revenue, and it posted a net loss of $109 million. Revenue was down 19%
from the year-ago quarter, but the company narrowed its operating and
net losses compared to a year ago. Here's a tabular summary of the
results:
AMD reports that it's forming a joint venture with
Tianjin Haiguang Advanced Technology Investment Company, Limited
(THATIC) to develop system-on-chip products for the Chinese server
market. The underlying IP licensing agreement for "high-performance
processor and SoC technology" is worth $293 million. AMD says ...
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Acer Predator 17 X notebook and G1 desktop join the hunt
Acer has been betting heavily on its Predator lineup of gaming-oriented hardware lately. Today
marks a new offensive for the black-and-red monsters. Let's first inspect the mobile attack unit. The
Predator 17 X is a beefy gaming notebook with a
Core i7-6820HK
CPU. That chip offers four cores and eight threads clocked at 2.7GHz
base and 3.6 GHz Turbo speeds. A fully-fledged mobile GeForce GTX 980
graphics card pushes this machine's 17.3" G-Sync display. Acer offers
the 17 X with 1080p and 4K IPS panel options.
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Acer Switch Alpha 12 passively cools Skylake Core i CPUs
At its
next@Acer event
today, Acer revealed a number of interesting new products, including
its Switch Alpha 12. The Switch branding for Aspire convertibles isn't
new, but the Alpha is a bit different from the usual fare. Instead of
the Core M processor featured in
the previous Switch 12, the
Switch Alpha uses Skylake Core i-series processors. Acer says that kind
of power is possible thanks to its new "LiquidLoop" cooling system. The
company describes this system as a "liquid cooler," but we're guessing
it's some sort of passive vapor-chamber design.
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Tiny Zotac GeForce GT 710 slips into PCIe x1 slots
We
spend a lot of time talking about the biggest and best graphics cards
that hardware vendors have to offer, but sometimes it's good to take a
step back and talk about simple utility products. In this vein, we have
Zotac’s adorable GeForce GT 710, an entry-level discrete graphics card. What makes this card unusual
among GeForce GT 710s is its PCIe x1 interface for data and power, letting it fit into a wide range of systems.
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Opera preview build integrates a free VPN service with the browser
Opera wants to become the browser of choice for users concerned about privacy. In March, the company introduced a
native ad-blocking service. Now it's taking another step in that direction. The company has
announced that it has integrated a free and unlimited VPN service into the latest developer build of its browser.
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The Tech Report System Guide: April 2016 edition
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Welcome
to a new edition of The Tech Report's System Guide. Since our last
update, the basic shape of the hardware that goes inside today's PCs
hasn't changed much, but there's plenty going on outside the case.
HTC's Vive and
Oculus' Rift VR headsets are here ...
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Corsair K70 RGB Rapidfire registers keys with blinding speed
Corsair
is updating its popular K70 keyboard this morning with a model that's
built for speed. The K70 RGB Rapidfire features a new type of Cherry key
switch—the MX Speed RGB—that only has to move 1.2 mm before it
registers a key press. Corsair claims that short stroke makes the MX
Speed RGB switch among the most responsive on the market, and there may
be something to that claim. Gaming peripherals competitor Razer says
its in-house mechanical switches
have a 1.9-mm actuation distance, for example, and regular Cherry
switches need two millimeters of travel to trigger. Otherwise, the MX
Speed RGB's 45-gram weight and linear operation sound similar to Cherry
MX Reds.
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