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Posted: November 17, 2017

China Bans Battlefield 4 because it Endangers National Security – Yeah Right

The Chinese Government (if you can call it that) is known for being repressive when it comes to giving its people free access to data. In the People Republic of China Internet browsers limit what people can search for, share and see on the net, making it is hard to find a bad word about the Government (again if you can call it that).

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Posted: November 17, 2017

Norway Plans to Digitally Archive Entire Library Collection

 

The National Library of Norway aims to digitally archive their entire collection including books, newspapers, magazines, multimedia items and even television broadcasts. So far, they have digitized an estimated 235,000 books, 740,000 hours of radio, 310,000 hours of television, 7,000 records, and 7,000 films. The entire project will take an approximate 20-30 years to complete.

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Posted: November 17, 2017

18 Core Intel Processor in 2015

 

Intel has been in the lead for longer than I can remember, I think it was back in 2006 that AMD could compete core-for-core with Intel. In this type of market there is no need for Intel to really push the boundaries and give us the same type of performance increase per-generation as we saw from the Pentium-D to Core 2 Duo. However, it does look like Intel is going to make good with the upcoming 14nm […] Continue Reading →

Posted: November 17, 2017

NVIDIA Made Crop Circle to Market Tegra K1

NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang gave his Tegra marketing team what he thought was an impossible challenge. This was to create a global ad campaign for the new Tegra K1 chip that was just announced at CES with no budget. The team also had to make sure the campaign was environmentally friendly and that no resources were wasted in the process.

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Posted: November 17, 2017

8 Year Old Finds Porn on New Nintendo DS

While most people go about the holiday season buying and returning merchandise with no issues, some people just don’t have the same luck. Just yesterday we reported on a couple that bought an iPhone at a Target store, but when they opened the box it was full of nothing more than erasers and index cards. This next story is along the same vein, as it happened over this Christmas and the item in question (a […] Continue Reading →

Posted: November 17, 2017

PCPerspective & Corsair Global Halloween Giveaway

PC Perspective has teamed with Corsair for a killer Halloween Giveaway. Open worldwide!

Enter here: http://www.pcper.com/news/Editorial/PC-Perspective-Halloween-Hardware-Giveaway-Brought-you-Corsair-and-Gigabyte

List of prizes below;

  • Corsair Graphite 230T orange case ($80)
  • Corsair Hydro H80i with the LED set to orange ($87)
  • Corsair Raptor K50 RGB keyboard with LED se […] Continue Reading →

Posted: November 17, 2017

Apple Selling used iPads as New

 

A Cambridge Massachusetts women thought she had scored a killer deal on Black Friday – a brand new Apple iPad that when purchased on Friday came with a $115 Target gift card. When the women got home and fired up the device though she quickly found out that it wasn’t new at all and that the previous owner had left pictures, contacts, and apps already uploaded to the tablet. Presumably the internet […] Continue Reading →

Posted: November 17, 2017

ASUS Radeon R9 290x DirectCU II Images Surface

 

The AMD Radeon R9 290x is a beast when it comes to both performance and hardware. The only drawback is the high power envelope creates a lot of heat and the vapor chamber heatsink used on the reference cards simply could not handle the load. In almost all of the benchmarks across the net the 290x was running at a peak load temperature of 95c, which is close enough to its thermal threshold that it cau […] Continue Reading →

Posted: November 17, 2017

Stolen Target Credit Cards Show Up on The Black Market

 

Last week Target had a major breach where millions of the retail chains shoppers credit card info was stolen and now it appears as if the credit cards are appearing online for sale. According to tripwire.com the credit cards can are sold to brokers on the black market, who in turn sell them to individuals that use them for to buy goods. The stolen credit cards can fetch as much as $100 depending on h […] Continue Reading →