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Couch-friendly Big Picture UI comes to Steam by Geoff Gasior — 11:54 AM on September 10, 2012 We first heard about Steam's Big Picture mode last February. At the time, Valve promised a couch-friendly user interface for its popular game... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software	66
NYT: Valve working on augmented-reality glasses by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on September 10, 2012 It's no secret that Valve is quietly working on some kind of hardware project—the company's latest job posting was quite direct about it. But... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Personal tech	43
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 10, 2012 7 Up The NY Times: Valve a video game maker with few rules Neowin shares rumor: Microsoft has split Windows group into... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	46
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 9, 2012 7 Up Fudzilla: Nvidia GTX 660 reviews delayed to September 13th iSuppli: As Wintel dominance wanes, the Microsoft / Intel alliance frays Tech2:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	48
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 9:24 AM on September 8, 2012 The Pick 6 Barron's: Merrill cuts estimates, pounds table on 'Haswell,' process lead StreetInsider: Cantor Fitzgerald downgrades Nvidia Reuters: Apple cuts memory... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	41
Deal of the week: A 128GB SSD for $55, and other bargains by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:17 PM on September 7, 2012 The cost per gigabyte of solid-state storage has been shrinking for a while now, but we're still amazed at some of the deals that pop... Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Displays Mobile computing Gaming	40
Diaspora offers Battlestar Galactica space combat for free by Geoff Gasior — 12:38 PM on September 7, 2012 Like many old-school PC gamers, I spent a fair amount of my youth playing space combat sims like Wing Commander. Years later, a good... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	37
Jobs Report Friday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:26 AM on September 7, 2012 The Fierce Five Reuters: Intel cuts sales outlook on weak PC demand and Intel to showcase new chips as investors eye stagnant... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	57
Thursday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 5:44 PM on September 6, 2012 Eight is Enough The Raw Story: Hackers allegedly holding Romney tax returns for ransom DigiTimes: Intel to promote Haswell platform at IDF... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	126
Revamped Steam Community opens its doors by Geoff Gasior — 11:23 AM on September 5, 2012 Valve's Steam distribution system continues to evolve into more of a social gaming platform. After an apparently short beta period entailing some 440,000 testers,... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	25
Ubisoft cans activation limits, always-on DRM by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:24 AM on September 5, 2012 Talk about an unexpected turnaround. On the heels of its CEO's weirdly implausible allegations about PC game piracy, Ubisoft has announced that it's officially... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	53
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 5, 2012 The Pick 6 TNW: AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach BBC News: BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Net Applications: Win7 usage share now exceeds XP's by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:38 PM on September 4, 2012 For the first time in many years, Windows XP may no longer be the most widely used version of Windows. At least, that's what the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	40
Valve job posting teases hardware plans by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on September 4, 2012 Is it me, or is Valve growing more and more eager to break... Type: News story Tags: Systems Gaming Game consoles	76
Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 4, 2012 7 Up CVG: Valve 'frustrated by lack of innovation' in PC hardware, 'jumping in' CPU World: Intel launches mid-class and budget desktop... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	51
Labor Day Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 12:00 AM on September 3, 2012 Eight is Enough ZDNet: AMD 'Trinity' APU pricing leaks Oracle security alert for CVE-2012-4681 iTWire: Torvalds pours scorn on De Icaza's desktop... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	43
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 11:43 AM on September 2, 2012 7 Up Ars Technica: Critical bug in newest Java gives attackers complete control of PCs PCWorld: The new 'pure GNOME' Ubuntu Linux... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	17
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 1:16 PM on September 1, 2012 Eight is Enough B2C: When taglines go bad—the Best Buy saga WSJ: Production of iPhone screens delayed at Sharp Electronista: Photo could hint... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	28

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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... +30

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