It’s amazing to think that 80GB was huge only 5 years ago. I wonder what the next five years will bring us.
Guy Wins an Xbox 360 with 85,000 Redemption Tickets
June 29, 2006A guy “snagged an Xbox 360 console from the Dave & Buster’s ticket redemption center after racking up an amazing 85,000 tickets by regularly defeating skill games like Slide Master and Throttle Up over the course of several months.”
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Creative’s New Zen V, Zen V Plus: Flash-Based Fun
June 21, 2006Creative paid a visit to Gearlog HQ yesterday morning to show off the company’s newest Flash-based portable media players, the Zen V and Zen V Plus.
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Secret hidden song on Tool’s 10,000 Days album
June 19, 2006Combining three different songs on 10,000 days creates a new song. This is fucking awesome!
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They all look like Macs, but don’t let that fool you
June 19, 2006What these four PCs have in common is an Intel processor and Mac-like looks. But all that glitters isn't a Mac. We compare two PC impostors to the Macs they're trying to impersonate.
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Over 9 years of events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
June 17, 2006Mario has appeared in 58 different video games, the the price of gas has doubled, and the International Space Station was constructed. The list contains tons of other fun facts and events that have taken place during Duke Nukem Forever’s development. How much longer will it go on? Only George Broussard knows for sure.
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Workstation RAID Card Shootout
June 15, 2006RAID isn’t just for servers anymore. Luckily, as our storage demands continue to grow, the cost per gigabyte of magnetic storage is heading southward. Workstations, gaming rigs—wherever you’re hoarding your digital video, music, and crucial data—they can all benefit from higher capacity, increased redundancy and greater flexibility
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Early web-spinner found in amber
June 15, 2006True orb weaving spiders found trapped in amber from 121-115 million years ago are the oldest of their type yet found.
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World’s 1st Blue-Ray Player Unveiled
June 15, 2006Samsung Electronics Thursday launched the world’s first Blue-ray disc video player, which has about five times the performance of DVD players in terms of storage and picture quality.
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First Blu-ray titles to arrive on 20 June, player delayed until August
June 14, 2006Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today confirmed its 20 June availability date for the first wave of Blu-ray titles. The company remained quiet on the launch date of its first living room Blu-ray player – with the firm’s website indicating that the device will arrive around 15 August.
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Vista Beta 2 to be public today!
June 8, 2006Vista beta 2 will be available to download today.
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Tyan unleashes 16-core ‘personal’ supercomputer
June 7, 2006Taiwan’s Tyan today pledged to ship a deskside “personal supercomputer” powered by eight Intel low-voltage ‘Woodcrest’ Xeon processors and packing up to 48GB of memory in the fourth quarter
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DirectX 10 GPUs to Consume up to 300W
June 6, 2006ATI and NVIDIA have been briefing power supply manufacturers in Taiwan recently about what to expect for next year’s R600 and G80 GPUs. while we don’t know the specifications of the new cores we do know that they will be extremely power hungry. The new GPUs will range in power consumption from 130W up to 300W per card
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AMD’s Dual-Socket, Dual-Core “4×4″ Platform To Be Announced
June 1, 2006AMD plans to announce its 4×4 platform (a two-socket board, each containing a dual-core X2 processor) at its AMD Technology Day later this afternoon. AMD executives also talk about a possible partnership with ATI!
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Microsoft takes OneCare security suite live
May 31, 2006Slightly ahead of schedule, Microsoft today released the final version of its first contender in the commercial security software segment: Windows Live OneCare includes a software bundle that promises to defend computers against common malware threats as well as free support for users that need advice in protecting their system or removing a virus.
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