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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

We've been following the development of Starbreeze Studios and EA's Syndicate reboot for some time now, so I was understandably happy to learn that a...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

After a mild start, it looks like this winter is gearing up a bit, dropping snow and ice around various parts of the U.S. this...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

Soon, Apple's grasp on Thunderbolt will loosen—next quarter, specifically. That's when DigiTimes says we can expect the interface to feature in ultrabooks from Acer,...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing

Still playing Skyrim? Okay, good, because Bethesda is putting the finishing touches on not just a new patch for the game, but also the...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Last week's Consumer Electronics Show made the point of a release roundup somewhat moot. This week, though, we've received a handful of press releases unrelated...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling Storage

DRM is a sad fact of life these days. Some protection schemes are more restrictive than others, and strategy game Anno 2070 may have...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

You know what I love? When a game distribution service makes me download and run an installer every time it needs to update. I love...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Class-action lawsuits hit the tech industry on a regular basis, and the latest one is related to Apple's MagSafe power adapters. According to this...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Mac

Another MMO has adopted the freemium model. Some two years after Star Trek Online went live for paying subscribers, the game has become free...

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Bad news: you'll have to wait a few more weeks to reprise the role of Max Payne. As Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports, the third installment...

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AMD showed us a 17W Trinity APU variant at CES last week, and it's pretty clear where that chip is headed: ultrathin notebooks just...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

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About a year and a half ago, EVGA showed us its first dual-socket motherboard at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan. The Classified...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards

Thunderbolt is about to get some competition. At CES last week, AMD showed us a little something it's been working on: a competing high-speed interface...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Displays Mobile computing

Big motherboard makers weren't the only ones with 7-series motherboards on display at CES. While visiting Zotac's suite at the show, we came across three...

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