TechSpot Community: Cooling guides + Phanteks heatsink giveaway
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As TechSpot grows, we're producing more content and adding new features, but we're also working on ways to improve the community. The recent forum upgrade will let us do some really cool stuff in the future. For now, we want to run a bi-weekly post on community happenings...
Comcast investigated over net neutrality, denies Xfinity favoritism
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Comcast network and operations VP, Tony Werner, has responded to Minnesota senator Al Franken's request to investigate the company for questionable net neutrality practices. According to Werner, Comcast is not prioritizing Xfinity traffic -- the company's IP television service...
Sony VAIO S, VAIO Z get Ivy Bridge, intros two new VAIO E models
- Sony has given their VAIO S and VAIO Z business-minded notebooks the Ivy Bridge treatment in addition to introducing two new VAIO E models. The VAIO E series 15 and 17 join the 14P as part of their entertainment line…
Netgear adds cheaper router, USB adapter to 802.11ac lineup
- Earlier this week Buffalo beat Netgear to market with the first commercially available 802.11ac router, but it didn’t take long for the latter to respond by launching its own R6300 Wi-Fi router and adding a couple more products into the…
DDoS attack sidelines The Pirate Bay, Anonymous to blame?
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In what can only be described as a bit ironic, The Pirate Bay has been taken down not by court order of ISP blockades but by a DDoS attack of unknown origin. The popular torrent sharing site has been sidelined for the better part of...
Samsung tops mobile sales, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry plummet
- According to figures by research firm Gartner, Samsung once again holds the top spot when it comes to global sales of mobile phones. The Korean-based company managed to bump Nokia from its perch after sales from the former king of…
Microsoft improves multi-monitor support in Windows 8 Release Preview
- Microsoft plans to make several improvements on how Windows manages multi-monitor setups starting with the next major release of its popular operating system. In a post at the Building Windows 8 Blog — which oddly enough has been taken down…
Aaron Sorkin confirmed to write screenplay for Steve Jobs film
- Following months of rumors, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia Pictures have confirmed that Aaron Sorkin has been selected to write the screenplay for a movie based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Sony purchased the rights to create…
Japanese scientists develop 20x faster Wi-Fi using T-rays
- A team of Japanese scientists have succeeded in breaking the record for wireless data transmission in the terahertz range. The researchers were able to achieve speeds that are 20 times faster than typical Wi-Fi used today.
HTC One X, EVO 4G LTE held by US customs following Apple patent ban
- Consumers eager to get their hands on HTC's One X and EVO 4G LTE smartphones will have to wait a bit longer after shipments of the new handsets were held by US customs, pending a review to confirm changes have…
Google preparing up to five Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Nexus phones
- Less than a month removed from selling their Galaxy Nexus handset contract-free through the Google Play Store, the search giant is preparing to partner with multiple OEMs in an effort to have more than one pure Google device available at…
60 percent of Americans don't trust Facebook to keep their data private
- A recent poll conducted by the Associated Press-CNBC shows that Facebook has a long way to go in earning the trust of their users. Nearly 60 percent of people questioned had little or no trust in Facebook’s ability to keep…
Diablo III server debacle demonstrates the problem with ‘always-online’ games
- We were all excited last night. After a 12-year wait, Diablo III, Blizzard's much-anticipated action-fantasy loot-fest, had finally arrived. It was sitting there installed on our hard drives, waiting for midnight to come, for Blizzard to unlock the game so…
GeForce Grid will let you stream games on a Kepler-based GPU
- We've already seen Nvidia's latest graphics architecture in action on standard gaming rigs, but the company shared some of Kepler's cloud-centric benefits during the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California today. Nvidia says that first-generation Fermi-based game servers, such…
Psystar loses latest appeal, hackintoshes remain forbidden fruit
- It's been a long time coming, but the US Supreme Court drove the final nail into Psystar's coffin Monday. Launched in 2008 by two Miami brothers, Psystar sold the first commercial hackintosh systems, dubbed "Open Computers," that could be purchased…
Google Chrome 19 stable ships with tab syncing, bug fixes
- Keeping with its fast-paced development cycle, Google has released the latest stable build of Chrome — version 19 for those still counting. The release fixes as many as 21 vulnerabilities, including eight high-risk bugs and another eight considered medium risk.…
Kodak maintained an underground nuclear reactor for over 30 years
- It’s no secret that Eastman Kodak Co. has fallen on hard times in recent memory, but despite all of that, the ailing photography company has been able to keep one secret closely-guarded for more than 30 years. Kodak maintained a…
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