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Release roundup: Patriot and Gelid by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:51 PM on July 12, 2012 Our overflow bucket wasn't too full this week. Only a couple of hardware announcements in our inbox hadn't already made it into our daily news... Type: News story Tags: Cooling Memory	11
Report: Intel prepping SSD price cuts for August by Geoff Gasior — 11:56 AM on July 12, 2012 The steady decline of SSD prices continues. According to "reliable sources" quoted by VR-Zone, Intel is set to discount its 320, 330, and... Type: News story Tags: Storage	36
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 12, 2012 7 Up C\|Net: Obama signs order outlining emergency Internet control Reuters: OCZ Technology shares fall on weak results OCZ: Higher-capacity SSDs start... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:19 AM on July 11, 2012 Eight is Enough Bloomberg: AMD falls after reporting unexpected quarterly sales drop DigiTimes: Motherboard makers see June revenue down on month and supply... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	20
WD Red drives target network-attached storage by Geoff Gasior — 1:05 PM on July 10, 2012 Add another color to Western Digital's rainbow of mechanical hard drives. To complement its 3.5" Black, Blue, and Green families, WD has rolled... Type: News story Tags: Storage	56
Penny Arcade sells out... on Kickstarter by Geoff Gasior — 10:59 AM on July 10, 2012 Kickstarter has been used to fund everything from DIY 3D printers to a new Carmageddon game. Now, the guys at webcomic Penny Arcade are... Type: News story Tags: Internet	38
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 10, 2012 The Starting Five WSJ: AMD lowers 2nd quarter revenue outlook on China, Europe weakness C\|Net: Microsoft buys Perpective Pixel, maker of large... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	18
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 9, 2012 Eight is Enough VR-Zone: TSMC remains confident in their 28nm manufacturing Ars Technica's op-ed: MPAA / RIAA lose big as U.S. backs... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	14
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 8, 2012 The Starting Five TorrentFreak: Cyberlocker offered to help prosecute users to settle $34.8m copyright suit and one-man army on a mission to... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 7, 2012 Eight is Enough Ars Technica: hp says Itanium, HP-UX not dead yet Execution, innovation, location: 3 reasons to choose GlobalFoundries at 28nm CPU... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	44
Deal of the week: Cheap storage and CPUs, plus an ultraportable by Geoff Gasior — 11:14 AM on July 6, 2012 SSD prices have plummeted over the past year. No wonder solid-state drives have been regular fixtures in our weekly deals posts. There are plenty... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Storage Mobile computing	12
Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:34 AM on July 6, 2012 Eight is Enough Get out your wallet: It is the best time of year to buy a laptop - GeekWire Benzinga: Sterne Agee... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Release roundup: Force GS SSDs, a case window, and LED lighting by Geoff Gasior — 10:16 AM on July 5, 2012 Things will probably be a little slow for the rest of the week due to the Independence Day holiday. However, a few new product announcements... Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage	12
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 5, 2012 Eight is Enough Bill Gates says that Surface tablet won't hurt OEMs on Charlie Rose Fudzilla: Richland 28nm APU uses FM2 socket and... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	34
Fourth of July Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on July 4, 2012 Eight is Enough Fudzilla: Tablet shipments to surpass notebooks in 2016 Focus Taiwan: New Apple design patent to threaten ultrabooks: officials DigiTimes: Supply... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	114
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:16 AM on July 3, 2012 The Pick 6 VR-Zone reports ultrabook sales picking up: 11% of the market already? X-bit labs: Samsung samples industry's first DDR4 memory... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	21
Sony buys Gaikai cloud gaming service by Geoff Gasior — 11:00 AM on July 2, 2012 Sony is getting into cloud-based gaming in a big way. The PlayStation maker just announced that it's buying Gaikai for $380 million. According to the... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet	35
Micron to snatch up Elpida Memory by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:45 AM on July 2, 2012 Nothing like some consolidation in the memory market to start the week. Earlier this morning, Micron announced that it's entered a "sponsor agreement" to... Type: News story Tags: Memory	14

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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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Mirror's Edge 2008: Widely-considered a great game by consumers and reviewers al... +24

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