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$200 USB stick offers ARM CPU, HDMI output by Geoff Gasior — 11:58 AM on February 28, 2012 People always seem to be surprised that an operating system can run entirely from a USB thumb drive. Imagine what they'll think of FXI Technologies'... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	51
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:29 AM on February 28, 2012 Three's Company X-bit labs: Roll-out of Intel "Ivy Bridge" micro- processors will take months to complete - source Bloomberg: Micron biggest winner as Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Etc. by Scott Wasson — 10:06 AM on February 28, 2012 Morning, all. For what it's worth, this week is one of those strange ones where all of our editors are occupied with big projects.... Type: News story Tags: The Tech Report	7
Dell's 13-inch ultrabook goes up for sale by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 28, 2012 The first Dell consumer ultrabook is here, and it can be yours—if you're willing to part with $999, that is. Dell has started taking... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing	36
Asus shows new tablets, PadFone by Geoff Gasior — 11:28 AM on February 27, 2012 The Mobile World Congress is on in Barcelona, Spain right now, and Asus is using the event to show off some new additions to its... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	32
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 27, 2012 The Starting Five Bruce Schneier: Government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals - Ars Technica AnandTech reports Orange to sell co-branded... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	19
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:08 PM on February 26, 2012 The Starting Five Bloomberg: Apple to elect board by majority after investor pressure Mac Rumors: Apple seriously considered switching to AMD in 2011... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	7
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:33 PM on February 25, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: Intel's Extreme series Z77 motherboard specs revealed AnandTech's MSI Big Bang-Xpower II X79 review - a world of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:29 PM on February 24, 2012 Eight is Enough DigiTimes: Global HDD capactiy expected to be restored to 80% in 1Q12 Jon Peddie Research: Q4 graphics shipments increased... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
A look at TR's new GPU test rigs by Scott Wasson — 12:22 PM on February 24, 2012 As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around.... Type: Blog post Tags: Graphics Systems The Tech Report	42
Release roundup: High-end gear and a neat SATA dock by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:04 PM on February 23, 2012 This week in the roundup, we bring tidings of fresh product launches from ASRock, PowerColor, Thermaltake, and Spire: ASRock and Fatal1ty... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Cooling Storage	40
Ice Cream Sandwich update trickling out to original Transformer tablets by Geoff Gasior — 12:04 PM on February 23, 2012 I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream... sandwich, that is. In a post on its Facebook page, Asus has announced... Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech	24
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on February 23, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: Intel ventures further into the foundry business with 22nm customers Adobe and Google partnering for Flash Player... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	23
Gabe Newell talks DRM, open to developing gaming hardware by Geoff Gasior — 3:31 PM on February 22, 2012 Comic off-shoot The Penny Arcade Report has posted a lengthy interview with Valve's Gabe Newell. While he doesn't reveal the release date for the... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles	59
Hitachi's 7-mm Travelstar Z7K500 eyes Ivy Bridge ultrabooks by Geoff Gasior — 2:01 AM on February 22, 2012 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	15
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:13 AM on February 22, 2012 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	17
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:29 AM on February 21, 2012 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	18
Presidents Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:45 AM on February 20, 2012 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	58

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

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I dont get the tone of this article, was Nvidia never guilty of this? I thought... +28

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