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Radeon HD 7790 Review: Aiming straight for the $150 segment

Radeon HD 7790 Review: Aiming straight for the $150 segment
  • Posted March 22, 2013, 2:41 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware Breaking News
  • The latest member of the Southern Islands family, the new Radeon HD 7790 is designed to fill the gap between the Radeon HD 7770 and 7850. Set to precisely target the $150 price tag, the HD 7790 should be an affordable solution that provides good value to gamers on a budget.

    The HD 7790 is set to go head to head against the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which represented the best value in this bracket. To sweeten the deal, AMD is also offering a free game bundle of Bioshock Infinite for a limited time.

Intel's Core i7-4770K 'Haswell' CPU gets benchmarked

Intel
  • Posted March 19, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware Breaking News
  • If you’re considering upgrading to a Haswell CPU or building an entirely new system built around the chip but have been holding out to see what performance is like compared to existing processors, today is your lucky day. That’s because…

Lenovo redesigns ThinkPad with the all-new T431s Ultrabook

Lenovo redesigns ThinkPad with the all-new T431s Ultrabook
  • Posted March 18, 2013, 12:36 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • Lenovo’s venerable ThinkPad line has undergone an update following 18 months of planning. The first system to showcase the redesign is the just-announced ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook. It’s still very much a ThinkPad at heart but it’s been put on a…

Galaxy S4 touts 5" 1080p display, tons of new features, coming April

Galaxy S4 touts 5" 1080p display, tons of new features, coming April
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 7:40 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing Breaking News With Video
  • Following months of rumors, teasers and leaks, Samsung took the stage in New York City this evening to unveil the Galaxy S4. As you'd expect, the device brings many improvements to the Galaxy S3 and could become the market's leading handset according to analyst chatter...

Andy Rubin steps down as Android chief

Andy Rubin steps down as Android chief
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • Andy Rubin has decided to step down as the head of Google’s Android division. He will be handing the reins over to Sundar Pichai who will take over Android in addition to his work with Chrome and Apps, according to…

Download: Minecraft 1.5 Redstone Update is out now

Download: Minecraft 1.5 Redstone Update is out now
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 12:30 PM by Erik Orejuela | Filed in Gaming, Software Breaking News With Video
  • If you are one of the millions of people playing Minecraft, you'll be glad to know the Redstone Update has been officially released today. The brick universe created by Notch Persson is ever evolving and now includes various new items…

Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year

Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News Breaking News
  • The dominance of iOS will be challenged later this year as Android hurdles toward becoming the most-used mobile operating system on tablets, according to IDC. The researcher has updated its forecast to reflect the surging interest in slates such as…

Controversial 'six-strikes' copyright alert system launches in US

Controversial
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 3:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web Breaking News With Video
  • The "six-strike" warning system that aims to curb illegal downloads in the U.S. is set to go live today after missing its scheduled launch in November. AT&T, Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast are all on board with the…

Sony unveils the PlayStation 4, coming this holiday season

Sony unveils the PlayStation 4, coming this holiday season
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 8:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming Breaking News
  • Sony introduced the PlayStation 4 at a media event on Wednesday evening nearly seven years after launching the company’s current console back in 2006. Some 1,200 members of the press were on hand to witness the unveiling of a new…

Nvidia GeForce Titan: supercomputer GPU power for the 1%

Nvidia GeForce Titan: supercomputer GPU power for the 1%
  • Posted February 19, 2013, 8:00 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Hardware, Gaming Breaking News With Video
  • Cray's XK7 Titan supercomputer is powered by no less than 18,000 Nvidia Tesla K20x GPUs, which Nvidia is proud to say highly contributes to make the Titan the world's fastest supercomputer. Today, the company is presenting a revised version of the graphics…

Bungie unveils post-Halo franchise known as Destiny

Bungie unveils post-Halo franchise known as Destiny
  • Posted February 17, 2013, 6:18 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming Breaking News With Video
  • Several members of the press were recently invited to Bungie’s 80,000-square foot studios in Bellevue, Washington for a look at what the company has been up to since wrapping things up with Halo a few years back. It was here…

CISPA cybersecurity bill returns, still ignores privacy rights

CISPA cybersecurity bill returns, still ignores privacy rights
  • Posted February 14, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web Breaking News
  • It's back. The U.S. House Intelligence Committee has reintroduced its controversial "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act" in a second attempt to pass the bill. Originally unleashed last year, CISPA slipped passed Congress but was aborted by the Senate following a…

Australia subpoenas Microsoft, Apple to explain why products cost Aussies more

Australia subpoenas Microsoft, Apple to explain why products cost Aussies more
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Apple Breaking News
  • Australian parliamentary officials have launched a formal inquiry which aims to examine why many tech products cost Aussies up to 50 percent more than they do for American consumers. Reportedly, Microsoft, Apple and Adobe are among some of the companies…

Adobe issues emergency Flash update, warns of active exploits on Windows and OS X

Adobe issues emergency Flash update, warns of active exploits on Windows and OS X
  • Posted February 8, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in IT Security, Software Breaking News
  • Adobe has released a patch for two Flash player vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited against Windows and OS X users to install malware on their systems. The first of them, CVE-2013-0633, works by tricking Windows users into opening a…

It's official: Dell going private in $24 billion deal

It
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 10:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News Breaking News
  • Dell has officially confirmed what’s been rumored for the last few weeks by announcing plans to go off the publicly-traded stock market and into private hands. According to a press release issued moments ago, the transaction will be financed through…

FCC chairman wants to build a free nationwide Wi-Fi network

FCC chairman wants to build a free nationwide Wi-Fi network
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Free Wi-Fi everywhere? Not so fast... It appears the original story and statements mislead us (and many others) to believe the government was interested in pursuing everywhere connectivity, but that's not the case. It's since been clarified that...

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

RIM renames itself BlackBerry, launches BB10 and all-touch Z10 smartphone

Facebook goes into search, Graph Search debuts in beta

Facebook goes into search, Graph Search debuts in beta
  • Posted January 15, 2013, 3:30 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in The Web Breaking News With Video
  • Facebook being Facebook, it's no surprise we hear a variety of rumors regarding the company's future plans, especially more so since it became a public company last year. Two in particular: Facebook competing directly against Google in search and the…

Kaspersky uncovers five-year cyber espionage campaign, Red October

Kaspersky uncovers five-year cyber espionage campaign, Red October
  • Posted January 14, 2013, 4:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, IT Security Breaking News
  • Kaspersky has uncovered an advanced cyber espionage network that rivals the sophistication of last year's infamous Flame malware but is perhaps more devious, as each attack is handcrafted for its victim to help ensure its success. Referred to as Operation…

Intel unveils new chips for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks

Intel unveils new chips for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks
  • Posted January 7, 2013, 5:39 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing Breaking News
  • Intel made a smattering of announcements during its press event at CES today, with topics spanning from cellphones and ultrabooks to natural human interfaces and shared all-in-one computing. We have a summary of the different subjects below, though you may…

Hack to run traditional desktop apps on Windows RT detailed

Hack to run traditional desktop apps on Windows RT detailed
  • Posted January 7, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Microsoft Breaking News
  • Microsoft's ARM-based version of Windows is only intended to run Metro-style apps downloaded directly from the Windows Store as well as a pre-loaded, touch-oriented version of Office and IE10. But an enterprising hacker claims to have come up with a…

Details on Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor leak online, packing 72-core GPU

Details on Nvidia
  • Posted December 18, 2012, 1:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware Breaking News
  • Chinese tech site Chip Hell has leaked what they claim are details about Nvidia’s next generation mobile processor. Codenamed “Wayne”, the Tegra 4 is said to be built using a 28-nanometer manufacturing process, a 4-Plus-1 Quad Core Eagle CPU and…

Mobile Radeon HD 8000M GPUs announced, shipping now

Mobile Radeon HD 8000M GPUs announced, shipping now
  • Posted December 18, 2012, 12:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, Mobile Computing Breaking News
  • AMD has extended its line-up of mobile GPUs with a few brand-new models filed under its latest class of Radeon: the HD 8000M-series. The new chips deliver better performance, but are expected to do so with reduced power consumption, lower…

Facebook: Outage caused by internal DNS tinkering, not Anonymous

Facebook: Outage caused by internal DNS tinkering, not Anonymous
  • Posted December 10, 2012, 6:12 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web Breaking News
  • As the second major tech site to experience widespread downtime today, Facebook appears to be recovering from an outage that has lasted for more than an hour. Early into the interruption, users believed the problem pertained to a DNS issue.…

Qualcomm becomes world's third largest semiconductor supplier

Qualcomm becomes world
  • Posted December 7, 2012, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News Breaking News
  • It's been a rough year for the semiconductor industry according to iSuppli, with 59 of the 157 leading suppliers expected to see revenue declines. Overall, chip revenue is projected to fall by 2.3% (over $7 billion) in 2012 as double-digit drops plague seven of the top 20 outfits...

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