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• AMD reveals base clock, power rating for 5GHz CPU [139]
• Upcoming Intel desktop CPU specs possibly detailed in leak [90]
• Next-gen games may not carry a premium [62]
• Leaked slides point to eight-core Haswell-E CPUs with quad-channel DDR4 memory [55]
• FX-9000 processors listed at U.S. e-tailer [52]

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Ballmer touts early Windows 8 adoption by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:10 PM on October 30, 2012 The pundits may be harping on the allegedly lukewarm response to Windows 8, but Microsoft doesn't sound unhappy. As PC World reports, Microsoft CEO Steve... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	65
Hawken trailers detail mech configuration, combat by Geoff Gasior — 12:51 PM on October 30, 2012 Hawken, the first-person mech game with shades of Mechwarrior and Shogo, is currently being tested in a closed beta. If you're not one of... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	22
Street prices higher than expected for Intel 335 Series SSD by Geoff Gasior — 11:06 AM on October 30, 2012 Intel's new 335 Series 240GB SSD has a suggested retail price of $184, which works out to just 77 cents per gigabyte. When... Type: News story Tags: Storage	24
AMD's ARM core will be licensed, not AMD's own creation by Scott Wasson — 10:31 AM on October 30, 2012 Yesterday's announcement from AMD about its plans to build ARM-compatible Opteron processors is very big news, but it shouldn't come as a shock, since... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	72
Chrome Remote Desktop gains audio, comes out of beta by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:38 AM on October 30, 2012 Just over a year ago, Google introduced, in beta form, an interesting Chrome extension dubbed Chrome Remote Desktop. The extension provided cross-platform Remote Desktop-like... Type: News story Tags: Software	16
Reports: Apple fires iOS, retail chiefs by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 30, 2012 Wow. Lots of big news this week already: the new Google hardware, the Windows Phone 8 launch, AMD partnering up with ARM, and now... Type: News story Tags: Mac Personal tech	75
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 30, 2012 7 Up The NY Times keeps an eye out for Hurricane Sandy Ars Technica: Why Sandy's storm surge will pack an unusually... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
AMD to build ARM-compatible 64-bit processors by Scott Wasson — 4:37 PM on October 29, 2012 Well, this changes some things. AMD has just announced its intention to build 64-bit CPUs compatible with the ARM instruction set, starting with a multi-core... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	109
Google unveils new Nexus devices by Geoff Gasior — 1:10 PM on October 29, 2012 Although Hurricane Sandy caused Google to cancel the media event it had planned for today, the company has updated its blog with official details on... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech	171
OLPC project drops tablets into remote villages by Geoff Gasior — 11:41 AM on October 29, 2012 There has been much debate about whether tablets belong in classrooms. Based on the results of an experiment by the One Laptop Per Child... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	30
Nvidia Kepler powers Oak Ridge's supercomputing Titan by Scott Wasson — 11:34 AM on October 29, 2012 We don't know for sure whether it will make its way into a graphics card or not, but the biggest variant of Nvidia's Kepler GPU... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers	52
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:01 AM on October 29, 2012 Howdy, all. Just finished editing a review, which should be posted shortly, and now I'm waiting for hurricane Sandy to utterly destroy the data... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	22
Microsoft releases Windows Phone app for Win8 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:27 AM on October 29, 2012 After unleashing Windows 8 last week, Microsoft is now setting its sights on Windows Phone 8—and preparing for the next-gen phone operating system's launch, which is... Type: News story Tags: Windows Personal tech	14
Valve seeks testers for Linux Steam beta by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on October 29, 2012 Unless you've been living under a rock these past few months, you've probably heard that Steam is headed to Linux—as is Left 4 Dead 2... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Linux-Unix	82
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:48 AM on October 29, 2012 The Starting Five Ars Technica goes under the hood of Windows 8 and music and video in Windows 8 The making of the... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:47 PM on October 28, 2012 The Pick 6 Neowin: Google Now used to alert Android users of Hurricane Sandy and tsunami threats LWN.net: An update on the ext4... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	40
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 10:22 PM on October 27, 2012 7 Up AllThingsD: Steven Sinofsky on how Windows 8 PCs deliver better value than Apple Benchmark Reviews on OCZ Technology: From SSDs to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	37
Friday night topic: What are you playing? by Scott Wasson — 5:45 PM on October 26, 2012 Time to pull out an old classic for tonight's topic. I've been spending quite a bit of free time playing Borderlands 2, and a... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	198

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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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mcnabney

I'm getting less and less thrilled by Haswell every day now. And AMD would likel... +38

willmore

You're right, dell paid the SEC $100 Million in fines (but admitted no wrong doi... +36

codedivine

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

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