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    The Verge Ridiculed for "How We Built a $2000 Custom Gaming PC" Video

    I spent most of the video wondering why they didn't tell us which CPU they used (other than "hex core" that "supports overclocking"). It turns out, you can actually see it in the video: "Intel Confidential" The S-Spec code corresponds to an 8700K, which would make sense, but for some reason...
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    82% of American Teenagers Own an iPhone?

    Not that 48% Apple isn't impressive, but I would point out two things: The 48% Apple may also include Mac laptops, which don't run iOS Some of the other categories don't seem to be included in your "Android" figure. For example, I would bet that the bulk of the SamsungE and MurataMa (Samsung)...
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    Accident Would Shut Down Google's Driverless Car Experiment

    Per mile/km, US drivers are safer than drivers in much of Europe and reasonably similar to Germany, which is the country that I often hear cited as having "much better drivers" than the US. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
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    Hackers Could Cripple Electric Car Charging Grid

    The 2013 Leaf has a lock that prevents the plug from being disconnected. You can have it locked, unlocked, or leave it on "Auto" (which unlocks when charging is complete). The Leaf will also email or text you if you are disconnected, as will many charging stations (anything on the ChargePoint...
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    Patriot Memory PBO Alpine Media Player Review @ [H]

    The obvious competition for the PBO Alpine would be the Logitech Revue with Google TV, which is easy to get for under $100 now and also runs Android (Honeycomb now). The Revue has a bunch of advantages: - Official Netflix support - Android market - Faster CPU / better browser with Flash...
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    Cable Boxes and DVRs Use More Power Than Refrigerators

    The numbers in this article are wrong. They put an HD-DVR at 50W when in reality my Motorola box is around 28W. So in reality my HD-DVR only uses about 60% of the power of my (Energy Star) refrigerator. It's still stupid that these boxes require so much power. My DVR never spins down the HDD...
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    Leaked AMD Fusion Strategy Guide

    The 160SP model should have no problem at least matching the HD 3000 and it should crush the HD 2000. Even the 80SP Zacate is about as fast as the HD 2000, and it only has single-channel memory.
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    AMD Fusion APU Llano Bulldozes Sandy Bridge in Multi-Tasking Demonstration

    The problems are power and memory bandwidths. Remember that the CPU base clock on the Sandy Bridge quad-core systems is only around 2GHz, and the GPU base clock is only around 650MHz. Push them both at the same time and you end up with a 2GHz CPU and a 650MHz GPU because there's no TDP budget...
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    Apple to Begin Production of Thunderbolt MacBook Airs

    I generally detest proprietary interconnects (Thunderbolt is Intel proprietary, and as far as I know they haven't licensed the protocol to anyone so the only controllers are made by Intel). I also don't see the immediate need for Thunderbolt for most users, who would be reasonably served with...
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    Dish Network Wins Blockbuster Auction for $320M

    One word: Redbox Redbox has more or less replaced Blockbuster for me. It's more convenient because there are more machines and because they work 24/7. Redbox has a good selection of DVDs, a decent selection of Blu-ray movies (mostly new titles), and the cost is much cheaper than...
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    MSI Introduces AMD E350IA-E45 Mini-ITX Motherboard

    Keep in mind that Zacate is going to be way lower power than a K8/HD3200 based system and that the graphics performance is going to be way better. Zacate has fewer transistors too, so it should be cheaper to manufacture. MSI has thrown higher-end features on their board like USB3, but I would...
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    MSE 2.0 Released

    No AV is perfect. You can't catch 100% of malware 100% of the time with 0% false positives. The best you can hope for is to catch what's known and update quickly. MSE has the same scanning as Microsoft's other AV products like Forefront Endpoint Protection. In the studies I have seen it...
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    The Making of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt

    Well, I have spent a lot of time in Michigan and I certainly respect the desire to support US automakers. I'm not one of those people who believes that GM or Ford makes poor products (my first and second cars were both Ford Tauruses, and my family always drove Fords when I was growing up)...
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    Diablo 3 PvP Arena Preview

    PvP and PvE already vary quite a bit in WoW, thanks to resilience, DR, mana regen, and a number of other factors. The era of people doing well in PvP with PvE gear is over, and there never really was an era of people doing well in PvE with PvP gear. Arenas will put balance under a microscope...
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    Diablo 3 PvP Arena Preview

    This sounds a LOT like WoW arenas. PvP trinket anyone? Blink/shadow step/warlock teleport/etc.... I played WoW arenas, I liked WoW arenas, but Blizzard has to know that arenas put balance issues under a microscope. Unfortunately the lead designer on WoW (Greg Street, AKA...
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