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Gadgets on the piste by Jordan Drake — 10:23 PM on March 17, 2013 Warning: The following is by no means an in-depth review or related to PC hardware. I used a recent ski trip as an opportunity to... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	59
Have Internet, will travel by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on May 25, 2012 To borrow the first line from The Streets' magnificent A Grand Don't Come for Free, it was supposed to be so easy. After a brutally... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Personal tech	34
Six screens, one desk by Geoff Gasior — 6:32 PM on March 8, 2012 When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays	47
Windows 8 and the marginalization of geeks by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:23 AM on September 16, 2011 On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return.... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows	108
Clash of the Sumo Titan bean bag chair by David Morgan — 10:55 PM on May 18, 2011 Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	31
Don't go to Vegas—tales of a journalist's first CES by Cyril Kowaliski — 7:58 PM on January 9, 2011 It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	109
An evening with OnLive's cloud gaming service by Geoff Gasior — 12:58 AM on October 15, 2010 You've heard about the cloud, right? No, not the one that's spitting a pitter-patter of raindrops onto the roof of my home office. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Gaming Internet	36
On the potential of HTML5 by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:01 PM on February 5, 2010 By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Software	31
The pool wants you! by Mike Uchima — 9:52 AM on November 25, 2009 As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Linux-Unix Networking	39
Trying out Windows 7's XP Mode by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:04 PM on May 11, 2009 Late last month, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a free Windows XP virtualization solution to users of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate. In a... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows	90
Clip surgery! by Mike Uchima — 4:28 PM on May 4, 2009 No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	26
Fun with raytracing by Mike Uchima — 11:10 PM on April 20, 2009 Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes.... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	61
Portable audio—then and now by Mike Uchima — 3:58 PM on April 15, 2009 I recently acquired a Sansa Clip 4GB MP3 player (which, I might add, I'm quite happy with). After using it for a few weeks, I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech	67
A trip down memory lane by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 AM on March 5, 2009 There are few things that I dread more than moving. Transporting a household from one location to another is miserable enough, but throw the... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	82
CES 2009: a pictorial by Matt Butrovich — 4:51 PM on January 15, 2009 Every year I get sick after CES. It's inevitable. Thankfully, I'm already starting to recover from whatever nasty bug I brought home this year, which... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	10
Swallowed by the SumoSac bean bag chair by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 AM on July 2, 2008 I spend most of my time reviewing chipsets, motherboards, hard drives, power supply units, and sound cards—the geeky bits inside a modern PC. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	50
Totally awesome world exclusive unboxing! by Geoff Gasior — 12:07 AM on June 5, 2008 Folks apparently like to see stuff unboxed, unwrapped, or otherwise removed from its packaging. Who knew? So in a desperate attempt to remain relevant,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	22
40-year-old toy meets modern scripting language by Mike Uchima — 12:13 PM on May 1, 2008 As a kid, one of my favorite toys was my Spirograph Set. I had the original 1960s version, as pictured in that link. I... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	34

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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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codedivine

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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I won't buy Intel unless they release a stock 220w CPU. +22

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