RunCore Pro IV MLC solid state drives
The RunCore Pro IV MLC solid state drives use the new Indilinx controller but have limited availability. Add comment
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Expo Icrontic 2009: less than 4 weeks left
Two-thirds of the tickets for Expo Icrontic 2009 are sold, and registration closes at the end of the month. The Expo is 3+ full days, with most participants arriving on Wednesday, June 24 and departing on Sunday, June 28. Gaming tournaments are every night promptly at 9pm (with earlier roll call) Thursday thru Saturday: Left4Dead, […] Add comment
TheButterflyman: A recent TF2 Blog entry explains, from
A recent TF2 Blog entry explains, from a game theory standpoint, why everyone hates snipers. http://is.gd/x2YS Add comment
Swede charged in hacking
Swede charged in Cisco and NASA hacks. Story would have more traction if it were the scary Chinese. Add comment
Kindle DX
Amazon releases Kindle DX, a larger-format version for textbooks and (what’s left of) newspapers. Add comment
Phenom II X4 955 hits 7.1GHz!
A Phenom II X4 955 overclocked by a group called LimitTeam handily took the fastest AMD processor CPU-Z record with a speed of 7.1GHz, handily beating the previous 6.7GHz score. The team used an ASUS M4A79T Deluxe deluxe motherboard, seriously underclocking their RAM and ATI HD 4800-series video card to get there, never mind the […] Add comment
Panda Cloud AV
Security outfit Panda is offering free copies of its beta anti-virus program that they’ve dubbed Cloud Antivirus. Rather than caching definitions from a single remote server (like most AV programs), Cloud AV uses infection telemetry gathered from every other PC running the application. The end result is that virus identification and removal should happen much […] Add comment
New Auto-Tune the News: 100 day review
Michael Gregory and Sarah Fullen continue to be completely awesome with a “100 days of Obama” review, auto-tuned for your pleasure. Add comment
The 50 most importent hardware components
This list brings back memories of hardware past. Add comment
Developing a mortgage meltdown
The tale of a programmer behind the Wall Street mortgage meltdown. Add comment
Comic Sans-the search continues
In our ever-expanding coverage of Comic Sans, we find that the creator of the ubiquitous and terrible font often finds scorn over his creation. Add comment
Rumor: Apple eyes Twitter
The new rumor is that Twitter will be bought by Facebook Google Apple. Add comment
Microsoft launches the Windows 7 release candidate
Update @ 12:34 AM, 5/5/2009: Users struggling to reach the “official” page may want to try our super-secret handshake. You’ll probably have better luck with this route. Update @ 12:26 AM, 5/5/2009: The servers are getting predictably hammered. Be patient. After slogging through four months of betas to help polish the final version of Windows […] Add comment
The Newspaper Revolution
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution” [via] Add comment
How many AMD CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?
Ed Bott recently touched upon a growing concern that many modern Intel CPUs will not support the highly-touted Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 as a seemingly random assortment of Intel’s current offerings do not carry hardware virtualization, a requirement of XPM. AMD processors also contain hardware virtualization in a form known as AMD-V. We’ve […] Add comment
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Using technology to make sure the watchman makes his rounds. In 1927. [via] Add comment
XBox exec defects to Apple
Microsoft XBox exec jumps ship to Apple, whose stable of gaming and processor experts is growing. Add comment
Ask the pilot
A really neat little column from Salon where a real pilot answers any question put to him. Add comment
Disney joins Hulu
Disney (and therefore ABC) have signed onto co-ownership of Hulu with NBC and Fox. Someone invite CBS in before it starts crying. Add comment
Welcome back, Mr President
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NVIDIA GPU driver v185.81 beta released
NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 80MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista/7 driver delivers the following changes: This driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD. […] Add comment
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