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Duke Nukem Forever to be Released on May 31, 2011?
Duke Nukem Forever… the butt of a billion jokes, and the biggest cause of grief for Duke fans. This game is unlike most others, because its development cycle has been at points, bizarre. It began in 1997, and has crossed the paths of multiple developers, with the most recent one being Gearbox Software. Since its original unveiling, it…
Intel Announces ‘SSD 310’ mSATA Solid State Drive
Intel last week made an SSD announcement that few were expecting, and even if we had to guess as to what the product would be, I think most of us would be wrong. The “Intel SSD 310” is not like most other SSDs we’ve become used to, as it’s of a much smaller form-factor. Standard SSDs are sized at around 100.5mm x 69.9mm…
BitTorrent DHT used for DDoS Attacks?
BitTorrent is slowly gaining a ubiquitous status as the go to protocol for downloads. A thorn in its side has been its reliance on a central tracker, which if taken down would result in peers being unable to connect to each other. Moving along a few years and the Distributed Hash Table or DHT system was implemented into the BitTorrent…
What’s UEFI, and Should You Care?
As Intel prepares to launch its Sandy Bridge microarchitecture next month, we’re all preparing to see what it’s going to bring to the table in terms of features and performance. On the platform side of things though, there’s going to be something else to look out for… UEFI, also known as the BIOS replacement.
PlayStation 3’s Code Signing Cracked
It seems that things just got worse on the PlayStation 3 front for Sony, if reports are to be believed. At the Chaos Communication Congress held in Berlin, a group that goes by the name of “fail0verflow” gave proof of an exploit that gives full access to the PS3’s hardware, enabling custom firmware to be used, and of course home…
Is Microsoft Bringing Windows 8 to ARM?
Microsoft might have the most popular desktop OS on the planet, but things are a bit different on the mobile side. There, Microsoft’s competitors have been holding down the fort quite well, and it’s been Redmond doing all of the catching up. The launch of Windows Phone 7 did do well to reinvigorate some of the excitement around…
What Are You Looking Forward to Seeing from CES 2011?
Right on schedule, the latest iteration of the Consumer Electronic Show is set to begin next week, and as usual, we’ll be there to check out the sites and report on all that’s important and interesting. One of the best parts of CES is that it gives us all a clear idea of what to expect from the upcoming year, so one must ask oneself…
Microsoft Kinect Hacked to Play World of Warcraft
When Microsoft released its Kinect a couple of months ago, it rounded out the available selection of “motion” peripherals from all three of the major players. I admit, I wasn’t too impressed with Kinect, and I wrote an article to explain why. One thing about Kinect does impress me however… all of the hacking done to it since its launch.
Sears Holdings Opens Digital Movie Store
Love movies in a downloadable format? If so, a new service dubbed “Alphaline Entertainment” might be worth a perusal. It comes from an unexpected company, Sears Holdings, and will be run on behalf of both Sears and Kmart. Powering the back-end is Sonic Solutions’ “RoxioNow” software, and as you’d expect, this service…
Softmod an AMD Radeon HD 6950 to an HD 6970
Hardware enthusiasts are always on the look out for ways of getting something for nothing or expanding the use from a given piece of equipment. Overclocking, soft-modding, anything goes for squeezing those precious few flops or frames out of their hardware, or making it perform like a much more expensive model. AMD CPUs…
How Much Did AOL Spend on CDs in the 90s?
As we head even further into our digital age, it seems that optical media is soon to become a thing of the past. If and when it does go the way of the dodo, how are we bound to remember it 10, 20 or 30 years down the road? For many Americans, the first thought to come to mind might contain three simple letters, “A”, “O” and “L”, and for…
Futuremark Releases 3DMark 11 Update
Since Futuremark released the latest version of its 3DMark benchmark, “11”, over 200,000 submissions have been entered into the central database, and I’m sure that number will hit 1,000,000 before we know it. Earlier this month, we took a hard look at the latest version, and overall were pleased. But, there were a couple minor things…
Bit-Tech Rounds Up the Year’s Best Modded PCs
Who doesn’t love looking at PCs that have been modded to the nines? I sure do, but I admit that I’m not one to go out and search for them, nor do I get that excited at reading through a billion page build log. Rather, I love seeing modded PC roundups, and like clockwork, UK tech site Bit-Tech has delivered, with a total of 18 amazing…
EFF Discusses ‘Traitorware’ and its Risks
In this digital age, keeping care of your personal security is more important than ever. Today, there are dozens or even hundreds of ways that your privacy can be compromised, and while a good portion of the sources have to do with the Internet, not all of them do. Take for example the methods used by companies that the EFF has…
Where Are All the Good Co-op PC Games?
Last month, I posted about a game I stumbled on not long before: Borderlands. This is a game that puts a major focus on cooperative play, and until I played it, I had no idea just how much fun co-op gaming could be. In fact, I regretted waiting so long to give Borderlands an honest go, because it’s in-depth, unbelievably fun, and at times…
Opera 11 Released; Features Tab Stacking & Extensions
Fans of the Opera Web browser had reason to celebrate this past Friday, as version 11.0 launched as a stable release. There is quite a bit new to the latest version, although whether long-time Opera fans will appreciate all of it is yet to be seen. One thing that has made Opera unique is that it hadn’t adopted the extensions route that most…
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released
Microsoft might be the developer behind some of the world’s most popular software, but that doesn’t mean that all of it’s software is void of problems, and that’s evidenced by anyone who’s ever used Windows. So it’s odd, then, when Microsoft does release a piece of software that makes it difficult to complain about, or one that’s often…
What Should the Default Action of Hitting a Power Button Be?
While working on a couple of projects on my PC last week, one of my cats decided it’d be as good a time as any to hop up onto the chassis and rest his foot on the power button. The chassis I use, Cooler Master’s CM Storm Sniper, is quite good in many ways, but if I could change one thing, it’d be the top-mounted power button. Not long…
First Intel Sandy Bridge Notebooks to be Quad-Core
If an insider reporting to CNET is to be believed, it looks like the initial notebook offerings to employ Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor architecture will be of the quad-core variety. That’s right… no dual-cores at launch. This is quite the shift from previous launches, where dual-cores have come first and then quad-cores. Does this tell us about…
Jeopardy! to Feature IBM Supercomputer as Contestant
What works at IBM, but isn’t an employee? Stumped? A supercomputer, of course! Quiz questions like these are what we’ll see in February, when one of America’s most-loved game shows, Jeopardy!, features one of its most unique contestants ever, “Watson”. No, it’s not a human being, but rather the result of IBM’s accomplishments in…
AMD Launches Radeon HD 6900 Series GPUs
AMD two months ago released its Radeon HD 6800 graphics cards, and in doing so gave gamers some interesting choices. Preempting that launch, NVIDIA dropped the prices on a couple of its own models, so all in all, it was a great time to purchase a card. Last month, NVIDIA followed-up with its GTX 580, which succeeded the…
Author Hates eBook Piracy but Pirates Music
When the topic of piracy is raised, it’s often music and movies that come to mind, along with applications and games. But, while those things do seem to be hit the worst, there are other materials just as often traded online, including eBooks and even real products (luxury goods, namely). You could imagine that those who are involved…
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Set to be Released on November 11, 2011
For fans of the Elder Scrolls series, November 2011 is going to be a month to plan for, as the fifth game in the series, “Skyrim“, is set to be released. The game acts as a direct sequel to Oblivion, taking place in the fictional land of Tamriel. The game will focus heavily on dragons, who in particular fear one known as Dovahkiin, or “the…
Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Albums
When we publish a news post discussing music, the topic often covers music services, like iTunes, or piracy, and the results of. This post doesn’t cover either of those, and it’s much more likely to make your brain explode. Interested? Of course you are. An article published by Cracked takes a look at 10 albums that have…
AC Ryan Prepping UI Update for Playon!HD Models
Over the course of the past couple of months, we’ve taken a look at a fair number of set-top media players, including two similar models from AC Ryan, called the Playon!HD. I took a look at the “mini” variant in September, while Brett took the non-mini for a spin just a couple of weeks ago. Overall, our sentiments weren’t too far apart…