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Two Seagate giveaways

Seagate is celebrating CES 2012 by giving away a bunch of drives. Add comment

Crucial M4 64gb SSDs experiencing strange 5200 hour bug

A bizarre error is causing Crucial M4 SSDs to have errors after exactly 5200 hours of use. Add comment

Broadcom announces 802.11ac, calls it 5G

Broadcom today announced a new Wi-fi standard called 802.11ac that they're naming, confusingly, 5G Wi-Fi. Add comment

One man’s ASUS G73JH nightmare

The story of one man's desire to have a working laptop and one company's never-ending quest to crush him mercilessly. Add comment

First Raspberry Pi boards go under the hammer

You can own a piece of history in the form of a credit card-sized system board, as they are auctioning off the first Raspberry Pi beta boards for charity. Add comment

NZXT Havik 120 heatsink review

NZXT is a new contestant in the aftermarket CPU heatsink arena. We take a look at their Havik 120 CPU cooler. Add comment

Year end deals from Newegg

A summary of some of the good stuff in the Newegg year-end clearance sale Add comment

Go Daddy falls off high horse, drops support of SOPA

GoDaddy was steadfast in its defense of their support of SOPA, until a boycott grew enough to make them take notice. Add comment

AMD Radeon HD 7970 announced. You know you want it.

The AMD Radeon 7970 is announced, and the feature set is pretty drool-worthy. Add comment

HP EliteBook 8760W review

The HP EliteBook 8760W is a serious workhorse for mobile professionals who do video editing or CUDA development. Here's our review of this nimble monster. Add comment

AT&T and T-Mobile call off the wedding

AT&T officially backs off the purchase of T-Mobile amidst heavy scrutiny from Federal regulators. Add comment

A screening of The Adventures of Tintin and the effects behind the magic

Autodesk hosted a special screening of The Adventures of Tintin, following the screening with a 30 minute Q&A with Weta Digital's senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri. The Q&A has been published on The Area for free viewing. Add comment

VIA adds x86 Android support

VIA announces x86 Android support on a micro-ITX platform, starting with the EITX-3002 motherboard. Add comment

OCZ’s Petrol SSD aims for lower price points

OCZ announces the Petrol line of SSDs, the latest Indilinx-based drive. Add comment

Futuremark announces Powermark benchmark for batteries

Futuremark releases a battery benchmark to help standardize battery life tests in professional benchmarking environments. Add comment

Twitter buys Tweetdeck, takes several steps backwards

Twitter releases Tweetdeck 1.0... and it sucks. Add comment

HP goes open source with WebOS

Today HP announced that they will be contributing WebOS to open source. Add comment

Android Market ten billion promotion

To celebrate ten billion Android app downloads, there are now ten cent deals on the Android marketplace Add comment

Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive review

What is a mechanical storage company to do in an increasingly SSD-centric world? Leverage their expertise to create a hybrid drive like no other, that's what. Add comment

The simple pleasures of the NZXT Source 220

A simple case for the minimalist builder Add comment

Finishing up the external GPU enclosure

Now that our external GPU enclosure has been designed, time to finish it up and put it all together Add comment