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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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Report: No easing in sight for PC memory prices
— 9:11 AM on April 2, 2013

Memory prices have been steadily climbing over the past few months, and the trend looks set to continue. According to the folks at DigiTimes, DRAM...

Type: News story Tags: Memory

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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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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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Google Keep puts your notes in the cloud
— 6:00 AM on March 21, 2013

A couple of days ago, Google acidentally unveiled Keep, its cloud-based note-taking service. Keep was only online briefly before being pulled, but it...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Internet Software

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Report: DDR3 contract prices have risen 17-22% this month
— 9:13 AM on March 19, 2013

Memory prices have been on the rise since the beginning of the year, and they show no signs of stopping. Quoting figures from market research...

Type: News story Tags: Memory

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Deal of the week: A 3TB hard drive, a free game, some RAM, and tablets
— 5:04 PM on March 15, 2013

We're going to keep this week's deal post short and sweet, thanks to the magic of HTML lists—and because writing lists in prose is, like,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory Mobile computing Gaming Personal tech

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Sony: Developers wanted the PS4 to be PC-like
— 3:32 PM on March 15, 2013

The last major console to feature an x86 processor was the original Xbox, which came out all the way back in 2001. Since then, RISC...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Game consoles

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Release roundup: Cases, coolers, memory, and an overclocking event
— 5:28 PM on March 14, 2013

This week in our roundup of miscellaneous announcements, we have news of fresh products from Corsair and Thermaltake. We also have the skinny on an...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Cooling Miscellaneous Memory

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Nvidia ''didn't want'' the PlayStation 4
— 3:05 PM on March 14, 2013

AMD has scored a big design win with the PlayStation 4. When the console comes out later this year, it will pack an AMD-designed...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Game consoles

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Google Reader to be retired July 1
— 12:18 PM on March 14, 2013

If you're an avid consumer of RSS feeds, chances are you saw this news last night. Google has decided to retire its Reader aggregator as...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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Havok hypes cross-platform physics engine
— 6:00 AM on March 13, 2013

Can you feel it? There's physics in the air. AMD flexed...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software

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Chromium code suggests Google Now coming to the PC
— 10:34 AM on March 12, 2013

Google Now is one of the best features of recent versions of Android. This customizable information aggregator fills itself with useful information on everything...

Type: News story Tags: Software

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Office 2013 retail licenses can now be transferred
— 9:07 AM on March 12, 2013

Quite a few Office users were miffed last month, when Microsoft clarified its licensing terms for the new productivity suite. For some odd...

Type: News story Tags: Software

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