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Good Friday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 5:05 AM on April 10, 2009

Good Friday

Bright Side of News reports ATI partners can and will make a Radeon HD 4890 X2
The Inquirer reports Nvidia GT300 tapeout soon
C|Net: In new Microsoft ad, it takes a long time to buy a PC
Microsoft revisits 'Apple tax' ahead of Tax Day
DSL Reports: There's no data to prove metered billing is necessary
and Time Warner Cable offers weak concessions
Wired reports The Pirate Bay's anonymity service signs 100,000 users pre-launch
French Internet piracy law defeated in parliament
DailyTech reports FCC begins working on national broadband plan
C|Net reports RIM hires former Apple, Microsoft designer
Ars Technica reports Bluetooth 3.0 prepped for launch on April 21
DigiTimes reports MediaTek may invest in C-Media
EETimes: IBM fellow says Moore's Law is defunct
and viewpont: Mass GPUs, not CPUs for EDA simulations
AMD renews commitment to OpenGL API for streamlined application development
OCZ Technology launches Mac Edition Vertex Series solid state drives and notebook SODIMMs
TG Daily on Microsoft's 196MP camera
TC Magazine reports Fraunhofer researchers develop new cooling material
NewScientist reports bionic eye cam to shed a light on society
TG Daily: No money for college? Attend 100 universities on YouTube

Software

Gaming

Engadget reports Nintendo president squashes talk of Wii price cuts
Nintendo to launch new Wii Sports Resort in June
Kotaku reports GameStop sells played games as new - sources says; practice could be illegal
Shacknews reports The Chronicles of Riddick DRM sparks outcry
Phoronix on XreaL: The most advanced open-source game engine?
Crysis Wars free trial week - Begins today
GT has BioShock 2 exclusive debut gameplay HD
AtomicGamer has Call of Duty: World at War 1.4 patch
Left 4 Dead blog on creadting L4D's box art
Digital Trends reviews Nintendo DSi
bit-tech previews Red Faction: Guerrilla
TestFreaks review Resident Evil 5 (PS3)

Systems and storage

Expreview reports AMD Sabine platform to support DirectX 11 in 2011 (new notebook roadmap)
Nvidia Tesla GPU computing cluster gives boost to evolution of neural circuitry
HardwareZone: Lenovo's new entertainment platforms revealed
DriverHeaven reviews CyberPower Gamer Ultra Perseus PC
Fudzilla reports Intel's Larrabee is late 09 or early 2010
ComputerBase reports Intel demos 8-cores 64 threads Nehalem platform (in German)
PCGH on Gigabyte GA-GC330UD - New motherboard for Intel's dual-core Atom
Hard Tecs 4U reviews Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3 (in German)
Madshrimps have a big X58 triple channel DDR3 memory roundup: 8 mid-range kits tested
TweakTown reviews 256GB Solidata X2-256 MLC 2.5" SSD
PureOverclock reviews 64GB Patriot XPorter Magnum