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LG says mass production of flexible displays will begin this year by Geoff Gasior — 11:25 AM on June 19, 2013 LG says it will start churning out flexible OLED displays this year. ... Type: News story Tags: Displays Mobile computing Personal tech	26
We have a winner in our Adata storage giveaway by Geoff Gasior — 12:25 PM on June 18, 2013 We have a winner in our Adata storage giveaway. Congratulations, Timothy Laughrey, you've won a DashDrive Durable HD710 1TB and DashDrive Elite UE700... Type: News story Tags: Storage	19
Oculus VR secures $16 million to bring virtual reality to consumers by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on June 18, 2013 The Oculus Rift VR headset enjoyed a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, earning nearly $2.5 million through the crowdfunding site. Less than a year later,... Type: News story Tags: Displays Gaming	26
Ouya console plays Borderlands 2 via Nvidia GRID by Geoff Gasior — 1:06 PM on June 17, 2013 The folks behind the indie-friendly Ouya gaming console thought it was too expensive to pay for a booth at last week's E3 expo, so they... Type: News story Tags: Game consoles	30
Samsung adds ultrabook PCIe SSD with 1400MB/s read speed by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:13 AM on June 17, 2013 The next wave of ultrabooks won't just get a performance and battery life boost from Intel's Haswell processors. They may also have substantially quicker storage,... Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing	40
Don't forget to enter our Adata USB 3.0 storage giveaway by Geoff Gasior — 12:35 PM on June 14, 2013 Next week, we're giving away a couple of USB 3.0 storage products from... Type: News story Tags: Storage	25
Apple's new controller framework hints at gaming aspirations by Geoff Gasior — 11:32 AM on June 14, 2013 In just a few short years, the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch have become incredibly popular gaming platforms. The latest iterations have the hardware... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles	48
HP sees Windows XP as PC market's potential savior by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:08 AM on June 12, 2013 Everyone had high hopes for Windows 8. The new operating system was supposed to boost demand for new PCs and to breathe some life back... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	86
Enter here to win a waterproof USB 3.0 hard drive and a speedy USB 3.0 thumb drive by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:54 PM on June 11, 2013 We've already parted with a fair amount of loot this month: first a 1kW XFX power supply and an AMD FX-8350 CPU, and then... Type: News story Tags: Storage	26
Seagate releases NAS-specific 4TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:12 AM on June 11, 2013 Seagate has introduced a family of 3.5" hard drives designed for network-attached storage.... Type: News story Tags: Storage	35
Intel targets servers with affordable DC S3500 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:03 AM on June 11, 2013 Last November, Intel introduced a new enterprise-oriented SSD based on proprietary controller technology. The DC S3700 uses 25-nm MLC NAND and is aimed at... Type: News story Tags: Storage	10
PlayStation 4 costs $399, supports offline play, doesn't restrict used games by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:11 AM on June 11, 2013 On the heels of Microsoft's Xbox One event, Sony revealed yesterday that the PlayStation 4 will be priced $100 lower than its rival.... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Game consoles	140
We have a winner in our Corsair Vengeance giveaway by Geoff Gasior — 5:34 PM on June 10, 2013 We have a winner in our Corsair Vengeance giveaway. Congratulations, Colin Stuart, you've won a Vengeance K90 keyboard and M95 mouse. Colin, please... Type: News story Tags: Input devices	12
Xbox One will be available in November for $500 by Geoff Gasior — 1:49 PM on June 10, 2013 Microsoft's E3 press event just wrapped up, and it was pretty much what... Type: News story Tags: Game consoles	91
Report: Windows 8.1 to ship on August 1 by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on June 10, 2013 Now that we've been shown a glimpse of the Start button's long-awaited return, only one mystery about Windows 8.1 remains: its release date. If... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	53
Release roundup: Computex edition by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:54 PM on June 7, 2013 We've already spent all week covering product releases from Computex, but... well, it's Computex. That means we still have plenty of fodder left for our... Type: News story Tags: Cooling Storage Systems Memory	13
Here's what Windows 8.1's Start button looks like by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on June 7, 2013 We've all heard about the return of the Start button. We've all weathered the disappointment of learning that, while the button is coming back, the... Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows	158
You can still enter to win a Corsair Vengeance K90 keyboard and M90 mouse by Geoff Gasior — 5:39 PM on June 6, 2013 Time is running out on our latest giveaway, as part of which you... Type: News story Tags: Input devices	12

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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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