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Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 2:05 PM on November 5, 2012 The Pick 6 X-bit labs: AMD's roadmap slide does not predict Steamroller in 2013 The Guardian: Google sources thinks maps app might... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	30
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on November 4, 2012 The Pick 6 Windows Phone Blog has the story behind the Windows Phone 8 Start screen AnandTech's Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 10... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	106
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:03 PM on November 3, 2012 7 Up TNW: Microsoft's security team is killing it: Not one product on Kaspersky's top 10 vulnerabilities list The Register: Windows 8 'penetrated"... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:58 PM on November 2, 2012 7 Up BBC News: Facebook flaw bypasses password protections Fudzilla: Nvidia GeForce forum is back from the dead X-bit labs: Financial analysts have... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	74
Descent being ported to Unreal Engine 3 by Geoff Gasior — 11:56 AM on November 2, 2012 Remember Descent? The first-person shooter spawned a couple of sequels, but the last one came out way back in 2000. We haven't really... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	45
Ace of Spades combines Minecraft, Team Fortress by Geoff Gasior — 12:21 PM on November 1, 2012 You know Minecraft has hit the big time when it's the most popular game on Xbox Live, ahead of even the Call of Duty... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	14
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on November 1, 2012 Eight is Enough TechHive: Comcast offers free Wi-Fi in the wake of Sandy AllThingsD: AT&T and T-Mobile team up for free roaming... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	86
Natural Selection 2 is out, costs $24.99 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:51 PM on October 31, 2012 I have fond memories of playing Natural Selection, arguably one of the finest mods for the original Half-Life. The mix of action and RTS elements,... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	40
Halloween Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on October 31, 2012 7 Up Reuters: Disney to buy "Star Wars" producer for $4.05 billion VR-Zone: ARM introduces its 64-bit processors: Meet the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 X-bit... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	48
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
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
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
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 3:05 PM on October 26, 2012 Eight is Enough Ballmer: Windows 8 PCs are "the best PCs ever." The experience is "truly magical" Business Wire: Windows 8 has... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	54
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:48 PM on October 25, 2012 Eight is Enough PCWorld: Microsoft launches Windows 8 with great fanfare, few surprises VR-Zone: Windows 8 is tricky, according to sample of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	53

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tipoo

It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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lilbuddhaman

Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

chuckula

Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

Alexko

"Quark, drunk on money, power, and an estimated 90% market share, started behavi... +24

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