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The Piledriver CPU cores in AMD's upcoming Trinity APU will feature some special sauce courtesy of Cyclos Semiconductor, a company spun out of the University...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Today's shooters are nice, but they lack a certain je ne sais quoi—like, say, thousands of procedurally generated weapons, which the player is compulsively driven...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

The PC gets a bad rap as a gaming platform. Developers neglect it, console aficionados deride it, and publishers characterize it as an unprofitable pirate's...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming

Although most 2.5" hard drives measure 9.5 mm thick, ultraportables are increasingly using slimmer 7-mm models. Hitachi says it's shipped 25 million of the slender...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

7 Up What's keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates VR-Zone: Intel's upcoming 7-series Media motherboards detailed VR-Zone: Qualcomm's

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Unlike some of its competitors, Intel is proficient not only at designing microprocessors, but also at manufacturing them. This fabrication prowess has allowed the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

VLC media player is arguably the best video playback software around. If you're a fan, good news: version 2.0.0 has been released in...

Type: News story Tags: Software

Amid the endless (and sometimes confusing) flood of AMD Catalyst updates, it's easy to forget that Nvidia, too, releases updated graphics drivers on occasion. Nvidia...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics

Microsoft is extending an olive branch to stragglers. According to ComputerWorld, the company has quietly prolonged the support period for consumer editions of both...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Ronald already caught this in the 'bread yesterday, but it bears repeating: the rumored Ivy Bridge delay might only affect dual-core, mobile offerings, not the...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs

Eight is Enough Microsoft: Google bypassed privacy settings in IE, too Bloomberg reports single-atom transistor may beat Moore's Law Laptop Reviews: Lenovo IdeaPad...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Eight is Enough Expreview: Ivy Bridge Core i5-3570K engineering sample test VR-Zone's exclusive: Intel's 7-series Executive motherboard specs and Intel's next Medfield chip...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

As Jordan braces for a visit from unwelcome reality stars, we discuss gaming news, the latest from AMD, and some SSDs fresh out of...

Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast

7 Up AppleInsider: Apple sold more devices in 2011 than total Macs in 28 years Exclusive: ABC's 'Nightline' goes inside Apple factories...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Eight is Enough Fudzilla: Ivy Bridge Core i7 up to 16% faster than Sandy Bridge and Chief River ultrabook 2012 gets touch,...

Type: News story Tags: Shortbread

Let's start our weekly deal post with a game sale—because there's no better way to kick off a long weekend than to get caught up...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Gaming

In this week's look at miscellaneous press releases and product announcements, we have news from Antec, Biostar, NZXT, and Samsung: Antec...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Power Storage

AMD graphics CTO Eric Demers left the company earlier this week to pursue opportunites elsewhere. According an "industry source close to the matter,"...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech