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Microsoft beats earnings forecasts despite flat Windows growth
— 1:09 PM on April 19, 2013

How did Microsoft weather last quarter's slump in PC shipments? Not too badly, by the looks of it. The software giant has posted...

Type: News story Tags: Software Windows

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Spy shot suggests Broadwell platform supports SATA Express
— 6:00 AM on April 18, 2013

Intel's next-gen Haswell platforms are just around the corner, and early reports suggest the top Z87 model will have something new in the storage department....

Type: News story Tags: Chipsets Storage

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Windows 8.1 may boot to desktop, resurrect Start menu
— 9:10 AM on April 16, 2013

There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows 8, but the biggest one is no doubt the new Start screen. A lot of us...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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Next Xbox may have AMD Jaguar cores, $500 price tag
— 4:59 PM on April 8, 2013

Now that the PlayStation 4 is official, all eyes are on Microsoft—and the rumor mill is grinding on at full speed. Both Bloomberg and Paul...

Type: News story Tags: Game consoles

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Friday night topic: The professionalization of childhood
— 5:13 PM on April 5, 2013

I don't know how many of you have observed this, but I think there's a growing trend over the past, say, 20 years or so...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

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Report: Next-gen Xbox to require persistent online connection
— 9:13 AM on April 5, 2013

If the recent SimCity launch taught us anything, it's that gamers aren't all that keen on titles that require a persistent online connection. Making...

Type: News story Tags: Game consoles Internet

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Adobe, AMD bring OpenCL support to Premiere Pro
— 7:00 AM on April 5, 2013

Since last year, Adobe Premiere Pro has supported OpenCL acceleration on Mac...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Software

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Google to fork WebKit into its own browser engine
— 2:39 PM on April 4, 2013

While Apple and Google have severed many of their connections lately, the two companies have maintained an active collaboration on one project: WebKit, the open-source...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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Epic's Rein calls PS4 a 'really perfect gaming PC'
— 11:11 AM on April 4, 2013

I think game developers are happy with Sony's choice of hardware for the PlayStation 4. At least, Epic Games' Mark Rein seems to be. In...

Type: News story Tags: Systems Game consoles

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Firefox 20 has better private browsing, new download manager
— 6:00 AM on April 3, 2013

Attention Firefox users: version 20 of the browser is out. The Mozilla Blog has the goods on what's new in the latest release,...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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Windows Blue could be dubbed Windows 8.1
— 1:53 PM on April 2, 2013

We already know a fair bit about Windows Blue. Last month's leaked build gave us a good glimpse of the operating system, and word...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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AMD touts unified gaming strategy
— 2:49 PM on April 1, 2013

Last week at GDC, AMD held an event for the press highlighting its commitment to gaming and graphics while dropping a series of newsy bits...

Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Gaming Game consoles

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Epic: HTML5 Unreal Engine 4 'upgrades the web to a platform'
— 6:00 AM on April 1, 2013

Remember that browser-based Unreal Engine 3 demo we showed you on Thursday? Well, Epic is also porting Unreal Engine 4 to the web—and it's...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet Software

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Friday Night Topic, early edition: What's going to happen with North Korea?
— 6:11 PM on March 28, 2013

We're doing our Friday Night Topic early this week, since tomorrow is a TR holiday. Also, because Scott is on a plane flying back from...

Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous

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Dispatches from the Nexus
— 5:16 PM on March 28, 2013

This past summer, the power button my Palm Pre started misbehaving. At last, I had an excuse to replace the aging handset with something...

Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech

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Report: Windows Blue public preview due in June
— 11:33 AM on March 28, 2013

Well, it looks like Microsoft might actually release the next version of Windows just a year after Windows 8. Quoting "sources familiar with Microsoft's plans,"...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

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BitTorrent Live P2P video streaming protocol to be free for all
— 6:00 AM on March 27, 2013

We first heard of BitTorrent's peer-to-peer video streaming protocol two years ago, when creator Bram Cohen demoed it. The protocol was supposed to...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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Chrome gains Google-powered contextual spell check
— 4:54 PM on March 26, 2013

Google rolled out the latest update to its Chrome web browser today, and in the process, it introduced an intriguing new feature: an enhanced spell...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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