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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...

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For years, I've been meaning to do a blog post about the Benchmarking Sweatshop. Thing is, every time there's an opening in my schedule, my...

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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...

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If you follow our intrepid Editor in Chief on Twitter, you might have read his tweets about a little misattribution mishap a couple of months...

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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...

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As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around....

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read...

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As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?...

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USB thumb drives are everywhere. Heck, they've been everywhere for years. Never before have I see a new class of product become...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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It all started a few weeks ago when I sent a picture over to Jordan, our resident podcast guru, showing off the light box I...

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There are few things that I dread more than moving. Transporting a household from one location to another is miserable enough, but throw the...

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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...

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