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We have a winner in our Adata storage giveaway
— 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

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Oculus VR secures $16 million to bring virtual reality to consumers
— 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

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Samsung adds ultrabook PCIe SSD with 1400MB/s read speed
— 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

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Don't forget to enter our Adata USB 3.0 storage giveaway
— 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

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Noise-canceling Noctua CPU cooler coming in 2014
— 12:00 PM on June 12, 2013

Noctua and RotoSub are working on a CPU cooler that employs active noise cancellation in its pursuit of silence. We saw an early prototype...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cooling

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Enter here to win a waterproof USB 3.0 hard drive and a speedy USB 3.0 thumb drive
— 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

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Seagate releases NAS-specific 4TB hard drive
— 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

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Intel targets servers with affordable DC S3500 solid-state drive
— 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

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Apple shows cylindrical Mac Pro, Haswell MacBook Air line, OS X Mavericks
— 5:13 PM on June 10, 2013

iOS 7 was definitely the main attraction at today's Worldwide Developer Conference, but it wasn't the only one. Apple also lifted the curtain on...

Type: News story Tags: Software Operating systems Mac

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Release roundup: Computex edition
— 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

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Intel shows Thunderbolt thumb drive at Computex
— 11:50 AM on June 6, 2013

Ah, now there's something we haven't seen before. According to the folks at PC World, Intel showed off what it called the "world's fastest...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

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20Gbps Thunderbolt gets a name: Thunderbolt 2
— 9:07 AM on June 5, 2013

In April, we learned all about Intel's next-generation Thunderbolt controller, dubbed Falcon Ridge. This controller combines the dual 10Gbps channels of existing Thunderbolt implementations...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Displays

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SandForce improves SSD encryption, power management
— 8:01 PM on June 3, 2013

LSI's SandForce division doesn't have a new SSD controller to show off at the Computex trade show this year. It does, however, have a...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

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SanDisk Extreme II SSD combines NAND storage, built-in flash cache
— 2:01 PM on June 3, 2013

We've seen SSDs used as standalone drives. We've also seen them employed as solid-state caches. Now, SanDisk has combined those two roles in...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

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WD introduces world's slimmest 1TB hard drive
— 11:10 AM on June 3, 2013

Mobile hard drives are slimming down to fit into the next generation of notebooks. We've already seen WD introduce several 500GB models that are...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Mobile computing

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Deal of the week: A Radeon HD 7870 for $187.49, and other bargains
— 5:15 PM on May 31, 2013

This week for our deal post, we've got a trio of hardware deals and a trifecta of game bargains. Let's start with the hardware: ...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Power Storage Gaming

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Asus PQ321 squeezes 3840x2160 resolution into 31.5-inch desktop display
— 9:17 AM on May 31, 2013

Every time we post a story that mentions a high-PPI notebook, tablet, or smartphone screen, folks chime in about the need for higher pixel densities...

Type: News story Tags: Displays

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IMFT boss expects 2D flash to scale down to 10 nanometers
— 11:18 AM on May 29, 2013

IM Flash Technologies, Intel's joint venture with Micron, is responsible for the flash memory in an awful lot of modern SSDs. Most recently, the...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory

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