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The TR Podcast 131: News from GDC and FCAT attacks by Jordan Drake — 11:20 PM on March 31, 2013 In this episode of the TR Podcast, we answer listener mail, bring you the latest from GDC, and delve into the crazy rabbit hole... Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast	19
BitTorrent Live P2P video streaming protocol to be free for all by Geoff Gasior — 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	24
Chrome gains Google-powered contextual spell check by Cyril Kowaliski — 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	30
Google Keep puts your notes in the cloud by Geoff Gasior — 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	40
The TR Podcast 130: A series of grunts about convertible tablets by Jordan Drake — 10:37 PM on March 17, 2013 In this episode of the podcast, we answer listener mail, share our thoughts on Sim City and Crysis 3, and discuss both Windows 8... Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast	9
Google Reader to be retired July 1 by Cyril Kowaliski — 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	32
Havok hypes cross-platform physics engine by Geoff Gasior — 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	36
Chromium code suggests Google Now coming to the PC by Geoff Gasior — 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	6
Office 2013 retail licenses can now be transferred by Cyril Kowaliski — 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	25
GeForce 314.14 beta drivers primed for upcoming games by Geoff Gasior — 11:36 AM on March 4, 2013 Graphics driver updates have come fast and furious these past few weeks, and Nvidia has a new one for GeForce owners. The 314.14 beta drivers... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Software	18
Google Chrome to get tab noise indicator by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:08 AM on February 26, 2013 Don't you hate it when you have a gazillion tabs open, and then one of them—you have no idea which—decides to start blaring some annoying... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	26
LG buys WebOS, will use it to power smart TVs by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:38 PM on February 25, 2013 It seems oddly fitting, doesn't it? The day HP announces its first Android tablet, we learn that the company has sold WebOS to another... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Mobile computing Software	46
Macrium Reflect saves my bacon, rubs it in with 20% discount by Scott Wasson — 11:07 AM on February 25, 2013 Late last Tuesday evening, I shut down my main PC in order to conduct sound level testing for my GeForce Titan review. When... Type: News story Tags: Software	76
The TR Podcast 129: PlayStation 4, Titan, and more by Jordan Drake — 8:53 PM on February 24, 2013 Between Sony's AMD-centered bid for next-gen gaming, Nvidia's monster GeForce GTX Titan GPU, Mini-ITX motherboards, and listener mail... our latest episode has a lot... Type: Feature article Tags: Podcast	11
Chrome 25 supports voice recognition API by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 22, 2013 Voice recognition is showing up everywhere lately—phones, tablets, Macs, and even the desktop PC of one of our editors (but only because he broke... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	11
Firefox 19 introduces home-brewed PDF viewer by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 20, 2013 One thing I love about Chrome is the integrated PDF viewer. I don't have to watch Adobe Reader stall my browser anymore—and once PDF files... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	40
Which Blu-ray player software for Windows? by Scott Wasson — 10:09 AM on February 18, 2013 Hey, all. News will be slow around here today, since it's President's Day. I do have a question for you, though. What do you... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Software	134
Microsoft to begin retiring Messenger on April 8 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:16 PM on February 15, 2013 I don't know many people who still use Microsoft's Messenger service. Starting April 8, though, that number is going to shrink rapidly to zero. Microsoft... Type: News story Tags: Internet Software	36

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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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