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New Acer ultrabooks sport 1080p IPS panels, high prices by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:44 AM on October 2, 2012 On the heels of IHS's doom-and-gloom report on the ultrabook market, Acer has unveiled a new series of ultrabooks geared toward Windows 8.... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	29
IHS slashes ultrabook forecast for 2012, 2013 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 2, 2012 Ultrabooks are supposed to help breathe new life into the PC market, but... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	57
Transformer Pad Jelly Bean update out, captured at 240 FPS by Geoff Gasior — 3:11 PM on October 1, 2012 Owners of select Asus Transformer tablets are getting over-the-air updates to Android 4.1, better known as Jelly Bean. The Transformer Prime, Transformer... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems	34
Unreal Tournament bots judged more human than human by Geoff Gasior — 2:03 PM on September 28, 2012 The latest development in the world of artificial intelligence comes from an unusual source: Unreal Tournament 2004. Five years ago, 2K Games sponsored a... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	45
AMD expands lineup of low-voltage Trinity notebook APUs by Geoff Gasior — 11:45 AM on September 28, 2012 AMD has added two new models to its lineup of low-voltage notebook APUs. The most intriguing of these Trinity-based processors may be the A8-4555M.... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	19
Rumor: $99 Nexus 7 successor due by year's end by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on September 28, 2012 The price war between bite-sized tablets may be about to heat up. Amazon has already brought its vanilla Kindle Fire tablet from $199 down to... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	68
Intel unwraps Clover Trail-based Atom Z2760 by Geoff Gasior — 2:30 PM on September 27, 2012 In case you hadn't heard, a whole bunch of Windows 8 tablets and... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing	53
Animated series sets stage for Dishonored by Geoff Gasior — 11:04 AM on September 27, 2012 Dishonored is due out in a couple weeks. We've already seen plenty of trailers and snippets of gameplay. Now, Bethesda has released a... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	7
Gameplay video shows off 17 minutes of Dead Space 3 by Geoff Gasior — 12:45 PM on September 26, 2012 This year's holiday release schedule is so packed that I completely forgot there's a new Dead Space game waiting in the wings. The third... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	20
New Chrome release allows mouse-controlled FPSes by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:43 AM on September 26, 2012 Chrome 22 came out yesterday. Along with minor cosmetic changes and bug fixes, the latest Google browser update adds something that ought to please PC... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software	27
Gaming search trends revealed by Google study by Geoff Gasior — 12:14 PM on September 25, 2012 Google is sitting on a rather large repository of search data. From time to time, it slices and dices that data to give us... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	29
Nvidia sees bright future for cloud gaming by Geoff Gasior — 12:23 PM on September 24, 2012 OnLive's recent troubles might make one dubious about the future of cloud-based... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet	36
Deal of the week: SSDs at 55 cents a gigabyte by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:09 PM on September 21, 2012 If you haven't already blown all your money on a new iPhone 5 (then immediately regretted it because of the broken Maps app), then good... Type: News story Tags: Storage Gaming	25
Could Half-Life 3 be an open-world game? by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on September 21, 2012 Take this one with a grain of salt, but word has it the next title in the Half-Life series might not follow the same template... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	58
Second-gen PadFone raises prospect of smartphone-powered systems by Geoff Gasior — 2:33 PM on September 20, 2012 Asus' PadFone is a curious beast. It's basically a smartphone that can be plugged into a tablet when you're craving a larger screen.... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	13
NAND prices may rise as Samsung starts making 128GB chips by Geoff Gasior — 10:54 AM on September 20, 2012 The popularity of flash memory has risen dramatically in recent years. First, there were MP3 players and thumb drives. Then along came smartphones... Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Mobile computing	24
Miracast certification begins, with Intel on board by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:42 PM on September 19, 2012 There hasn't been a ton of buzz out there about Miracast, the Wi-Fi Alliance's new wireless display standard. That's too bad, because the standard... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	14
Latitude tablet has replaceable battery and optional stylus by Geoff Gasior — 1:55 PM on September 19, 2012 Windows 8 will spawn a wave of new tablets, most of which are meant for consumers. Dell's upcoming Latitude 10 targets the business crowd,... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	13

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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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