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Of CES 2012 and missed expectations by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:10 AM on January 20, 2012 Ah, Las Vegas. I had hoped never to return. Yet there I was last week, in the ticket line at the Vancouver airport, cursing myself... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	18
CES 2012: the shape of things to come? by Scott Wasson — 11:08 AM on January 17, 2012 One of the funny things about going to CES is that you're expected to be plugged into the overall vibe of the show, so you... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays Personal tech	15
The misadventures of Blu-ray in HTPC land by David Morgan — 2:56 PM on January 13, 2012 If you'll humor me, I'd like to take a brief break from all the CES coverage to complain about the sad state of Blu-ray on... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia	72
Holiday gifts for the discerning geek by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 AM on December 16, 2011 I lost count of how many times my girlfriend asked me what I wanted for Christmas this year. After replying with "oh, you know... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	37
Where's my 21st-century television? by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:10 AM on December 9, 2011 Gabe Newell said something that caught my eye the other day. As part of a broader interview with The Cambridge Student, Newell shared some... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia	73
A quick look at Gunnar's glasses for computer junkies by David Morgan — 11:46 AM on November 18, 2011 Quick poll: everyone who regularly squints at a computer monitor or television at least eight hours a day, raise your hand. Do I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	52
Getting acquainted with Arduino by David Morgan — 10:54 AM on October 21, 2011 I tend to think of myself as a well-rounded geek. Excluding the keyboard-cowboy day job, my attention is divided between hardware tinkering and... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	28
Goodbye, Mr. Jobs by Jason Fox — 9:44 PM on October 5, 2011 About an hour ago, as of this writing, Apple posted this simple statement on their website: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Mac Personal tech	36
With friends like these... by Fred Silver — 1:42 PM on October 3, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	27
Are sound cards still relevant? by David Morgan — 10:58 PM on September 29, 2011 Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia	157
Cloudy with a chance of backups by Bruno Ferreira — 10:44 AM on September 13, 2011 You've probably been there before. You just realized that you've overwritten an important file and have no way of getting it back. Last month's backup... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	30
Life after Moore's Law by David Morgan — 9:20 AM on September 9, 2011 Recently, I've been turning the pages of Michio Kaku's new book, Physics of the Future. While much of its content echoes what was said... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	100
72-point mystery by Fred Silver — 10:33 AM on September 6, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	31
The next computing revolution will be televised by Geoff Gasior — 12:50 AM on September 2, 2011 Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia	39
Un-bustin' (monitor) caps with a soldering gat by David Morgan — 11:19 PM on July 28, 2011 There comes a point in every computer guy's day when the phone rings, and a distraught acquaintance begins reciting error messages or describing some symptom... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	58
The science of fanboyism by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:35 PM on July 14, 2011 We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	75
Asus' Xonar U3 USB audio device by Geoff Gasior — 11:14 PM on July 13, 2011 For just $40, the Xonar U3 squeezes headphone and microphone jacks, an S/PDIF output, EAX emulation, speaker virtualization, and Dolby Digital Live support into... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia	20
Our slow migration into the cloud by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:44 PM on May 27, 2011 There's been a lot of talk about the cloud lately. I'm not sure exactly when clouds came to represent noisy server farms thousands of miles... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet	26

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NeelyCam

Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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Well, the 200W barrier has been broken. Now onto 500W! +35

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Mirror's Edge 2008: Widely-considered a great game by consumers and reviewers al... +24

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