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Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Shopping for a 10" netbook? If so, the choice between Intel's Atom processor and AMD's Brazos platform has gotten a little easier. A pre-order listing...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

If you've seen the various Duke Nukem Forever trailers and video clips, you've probably figured out that this is hardly a kid's game. The

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Apple's iPad is finally set to get some real competition—and not just from the iPad 2. Engadget has the scoop on new 8.9"...

Type: News story Tags: Personal tech

Over two short months, we've witnessed two momentous GPU launches: that of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti and the Radeon HD 6990. We're...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

The original Deus Ex will probably go down as one of the greatest PC games of all time. Unfortunately, its Invisible War sequel wasn't...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

After 12 betas and two release candidates slowly let loose over the course of eight months, Firefox 4 has gone gold at last. You may...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Eight is Enough AnandTech reports Nvidia teases next flagship video card AppleInsider: Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.7 with display fixes for...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Breaking news in the benchmarking world. Futuremark has announced the incoming release of PCMark 7, the next major version of its popular PC benchmarking suite,...

Type: News story Tags: Software

Last week, we found out that Prey 2 is in development at Human Head Studios. Details are now starting to trickle about exactly what...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

One week after graphics programmer extraordinaire John Carmack noted that DirectX is much improved and even preferable to OpenGL, AMD developer relations manager Richard...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Asus' first real iPad rival is just days from release—in Asus' home country of Taiwan, at least. Netbooknews quotes an Asus press release in Chinese...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

In recent years, case makers have increasingly dabbled in compartmentalized cooling. Many new enclosures feature interior partitioning to separate hardware into multiple zones. ...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Shelling out extra cash for Apple gear often gets you better-built products, but it's no safeguard from ugly kinks. If you've checked Apple's support forums...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Mac

Eight is Enough Phone Scoop reports Sprint issues statement regarding AT&T / T-Mobile deal AT&T's Randall Stephenson and Deutsche Telekom's Rene Obermann talk...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

This is another one of those "AMD buys ATI" moments. Except this time, the buyer is AT&T and the buy-ee is none other than Deutsche...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech

The Starting Five Ars Technica reports AT&T swallows T-Mobile to create the largest carrier in the U.S. PCWorld reports Dutch court rules Wi-Fi...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread