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Type: Feature article Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

Earlier this month, AMD added a bunch of new FirePro products to its lineup of workstation graphics cards. All of them employ 28-nm...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Servers

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

AMD founder Jerry Sanders is famous for saying that "only real men have...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Operating systems

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Type: News story Tags: Networking Servers Workstations

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Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Windows Personal tech

We all remember the long dry spell between the releases of Windows XP and Vista—and Steve Ballmer's subsequent promise that it would never happen...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech

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Type: News story Tags: Graphics Mobile computing Personal tech

Microsoft may be retiring Metro as a brand name, but the Metro interface will still be front and center in Windows 8—more so than you...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows