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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

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

The Starting Five Ars Technica goes under the hood of Windows 8 and music and video in Windows 8 The making of the...

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The Pick 6 Neowin: Google Now used to alert Android users of Hurricane Sandy and tsunami threats LWN.net: An update on the ext4...

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7 Up AllThingsD: Steven Sinofsky on how Windows 8 PCs deliver better value than Apple Benchmark Reviews on OCZ Technology: From SSDs to...

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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

Eight is Enough Ballmer: Windows 8 PCs are "the best PCs ever." The experience is "truly magical" Business Wire: Windows 8 has...

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Strategy Analytics has crunched the global tablet shipment numbers for Q3, and they show a couple of interesting trends. First, the rate of growth...

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When AMD unveiled its tablet-optimized Z-60 APU earlier this month, it didn't get specific about design wins but did claim the chip would show...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing

Reading the news headlines out there, you'd think Apple's latest quarterly results were dismal. "Apple Inc delivered a second straight quarter of disappointing results...

Type: News story Tags: Mac Personal tech

This week in the roundup, we bring tidings from the folks at Corsair and Rosewill: Corsair announces updated Hydro Series H60...

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Eight is Enough PCWorld: Microsoft launches Windows 8 with great fanfare, few surprises VR-Zone: Windows 8 is tricky, according to sample of...

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PC enthusiasts have long pointed to the religious fanaticism that seems to permeate Apple's faithful horde. Now, that sentiment has been backed up by an...

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Remember the GeForce4 MX? The low-end GPU was pretty forgettable, to be honest, but Nvidia is bringing back the MX moniker for handful of...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Systems Mobile computing

Windows 8 won't actually be in stores until tomorrow morning, but Microsoft is staging a launch event for the new operating system in New York...

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John Carmack's Twitter feed is mostly made up of geeky observations about programming and rocket science. Once in a while, though, the id Software Technical...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

You can fault AMD for a lot of things lately, but being boring and predictable definitely isn't one of them. Mere days after announcing...

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