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Tuesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:22 PM on December 4, 2012 The Fantastic Four Bloomberg: McAfee founder arrives in Guatemala after fleeing Belize Nvidia 310.70 drivers TNW: Windows 8 blows past OS X's... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	27
AMD: We're not abandoning socketed CPUs by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:20 PM on December 4, 2012 If you were reading the news last month, you might have noticed those slightly worrying rumors about Intel ditching socketed CPUs in 2014. Intel... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	80
Our dual Radeon HD 7870 giveaway has a winner by Scott Wasson — 5:09 PM on December 4, 2012 The winner of our dual Radeon HD 7870 giveaway is Mahmoud Shmaitelly. Mahmoud, check your email and reply to our message to claim... Type: News story Tags: Graphics The Tech Report	37
Win8 adoption low among web surfers, Steam gamers by Geoff Gasior — 1:04 PM on December 4, 2012 Microsoft says it's sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8. However, the new OS made up only 1.3% of web traffic in November according... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Operating systems	150
Piledriver trickles down to Opteron 4300 and 3300 CPUs by Geoff Gasior — 11:37 AM on December 4, 2012 AMD has released a fresh batch of Opteron processors with Piledriver inside. These chips are based on the same "Abu Dhabi" microarchitecture as the Opteron... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Servers	20
New Catalysts fix bugs, improve Far Cry 3 performance by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:30 AM on December 4, 2012 I don't know if AMD was totally serious when it announced plans to slow down its driver release cycle earlier this year. The company has... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	18
New 3DMark scene has fire, brimstone, particles by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on December 4, 2012 The folks at Futuremark say they're "deep into final testing" of the next 3DMark, and they've posted a fresh trailer to get us all hyped... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Gaming	31
Here's what kind of PC you'll need for Crysis 3 by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:19 PM on December 3, 2012 The Crysis series has always been notorious for its steep hardware requirements. Crytek posted minimum, recommended, and "hi-performance" PC specs for Crysis 3 on the... Type: News story Tags: Gaming	144
Monday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 4:17 PM on December 3, 2012 7 Up CPU World: AMD server CPU roadmap for 2013 and 2014 and new mobile Celeron processor to launch in Q1 2013 IHS:... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	36
Steam's Big Picture mode out of beta by Geoff Gasior — 1:55 PM on December 3, 2012 It's official: Steam's Big Picture mode is finally ready for prime time. The couch-friendly user interface for Valve's game and content distribution service was revealed... Type: News story Tags: Gaming Software	75
Super-heating flash memory reportedly extends endurance by Geoff Gasior — 12:43 PM on December 3, 2012 The inconvenient but unavoidable truth about flash memory is the fact that individual cells degrade every time they're written or erased. These cells will burn... Type: News story Tags: Storage Memory	34
Historical graphics review compares 64 cards by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:57 AM on December 3, 2012 Benchmarking graphics cards is a time-consuming affair. A lot of games require manual testing with Fraps, and since driver updates make historical data obsolete, cards... Type: News story Tags: Graphics	48
Rumor: Lower-wattage Ivy Bridge chips coming by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:48 AM on December 3, 2012 Less than a year old, and Ivy Bridge may already be going on a diet. Oh my. According to someone with knowledge of Intel's plans... Type: News story Tags: CPUs	19
Don't forget to sign up for our dual Radeon HD 7870 giveaway by Scott Wasson — 9:26 AM on December 3, 2012 Morning, folks. Hope you had a good weekend. Just want to remind you that you can still enter to win a pair of Radeon HD... Type: News story Tags: Graphics The Tech Report	15
Some new iMacs are 'Assembled in USA' by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on December 3, 2012 Well, this is interesting. In its teardown of the freshly released 2012 Apple iMac, iFixit found an unexpected detail: the words "Assembled in USA"... Type: News story Tags: Mac	37
Sunday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 8:42 AM on December 2, 2012 The Starting Five Ars Technica: How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the "darknet" would defeat DRM Wired: Don't blame us for Windows 8′s slow... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	63
Saturday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki — 6:54 AM on December 1, 2012 Eight is Enough X-bit labs: Quad-core microprocessors to dominate notebooks in 2016 and hp starts to sell cheap-looking Envy-branded PCs, creator of... Type: News story Tags: Shortbread	92
Friday night topic: Slimy software companies by Scott Wasson — 5:47 PM on November 30, 2012 I'll admit it. I actually bought a piece of software from Corel today. I decided to upgrade to Paint Shop Pro X5 from... Type: News story Tags: Software	149

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