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Microsoft: Xbox One Available in November for $499

Posted 06/10/2013 at 11:48am | by Paul Lilly

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Microsoft makes a splash at E3.

As expected, Microsoft will make its upcoming Xbox One console available to purchase in time for the holiday shopping season. The console won't come cheap, however, as the Blu-ray equipped gaming device will command $499 when it ships in 21 countries this November, Microsoft revealed on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Setting the stage for a showdown with Sony and its competing PlayStation 4 console, Microsoft's pre-E3 event was mostly about showing off exclusive launch titles.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Leaves Beta, Now Available for $149

Posted 06/10/2013 at 9:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Lightroom 5 sheds it beta digs.

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of its Photoshop Lightroom 5 software for Windows and Mac OS. The photo editing software is being offered both as a standalone product and as part of Adobe's Creative Cloud, a $50 per month streaming subscription package that includes continually updated versions of various Adobe software, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and more.

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Awesome Google Doodle Celebrates Maurice Sendak’s 85th Birthday

Posted 06/10/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Google goes "Wild" with latest doodle.

Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are" and other popular children's books, would have turned 85 years old today if he was still alive. Sadly, he suffered a stroke just over a month before his birthday in 2012 and passed away at 83 years old, but he left behind a literary legacy that has already stood the test of time. Google chose to honor the children's author with one of its neatest doodles to date.

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Barnes & Noble Offers Deep Discounts on Nook HD and HD+ for Father's Day

Posted 06/10/2013 at 7:32am | by Paul Lilly

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Save up to $120!

Barnes & Noble is pushing hard to make its Nook HD (7 inches) and Nook HD+ (8.9 inches) tablets the go-to gift item for Father's Day by rolling out its deepest discounts to date. That's saying something, considering you could have saved anywhere from $50 to $90 on a Nook HD/HD+ for Mother's Day. This time around the discounts run as deep as $120, provided you make a purchase between now and June 16, 2013.

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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Identified, and Interviewed

Posted 06/09/2013 at 4:19pm | by Justin Kerr

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Edward Snowden gives his side of the story.

The source of the NSA leaks have finally been identified, and 29 year old Edward Snowden has come forward as the man responsible. Snowden went on record during an interview with The Guardian, and he answered several questions to help us understand his motivation behind the leaks, and what he hopes it will accomplish.

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Lenovo Officially Starts Up Its First U.S. PC Manufacturing Line in North Carolina

Posted 06/09/2013 at 10:41am | by Justin Kerr

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Lenovo is finally pumping out machines made in the USA.

Lenovo has been on a roll these days. While the PC industry on a whole continues to suffer, they have continually taken market share and have prospered against the odds. Normally when a company has a recipe for success they continue to iterate, but last year they announced the reversal of a longstanding trend. Rather than continue adding production capacity in low cost labor markets, the company would build a brand new state-of-the-art PC manufacturing line in North Carolina. Late last week Lenovo announced it has made good on its promise, and machines are finally rolling off the line.

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Epic Announces Support for Oculus Rift in Unreal Engine 4 as Part of its Integrated Partners Program

Posted 06/09/2013 at 9:27am | by Justin Kerr

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This Kickstarter success story just keeps getting better.

Oculus Rift is still little more than a really promising virtual reality development kit, but that promise gets more real everyday as industry heavyweights throw in behind the scrappy little startup. Epic Games has always been an Oculus partner, but late last week the company finally announced native support for the VR headset in Unreal Engine 4.

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China Poised to Reclaim Supercomputing Crown

Posted 06/08/2013 at 10:34am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Tianhe-2 notches up 30.65 petaflops during benchmark test

China scaled the supercomputing summit in late 2010, when a 2.507-petaflop machine named Tianhe-1A (or Milkyway-1) was ranked as the fastest supercomputer by TOP500, which publishes a list of the fastest 500 supercomputers twice a year. Its stay there, though, was brief, lasting all of six months. But if you think it was just a flash in the pan, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), the organization which developed the Tianhe-1A, is building the Tianhe-2 in order to prove you wrong.

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13 Most Anticipated PC Games of E3 2013

Posted 06/07/2013 at 3:12pm | by Brittany Vincent

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Battlefield 4, The Witcher 3, and more!

The excitement of E3 2013 is heating up and this year is poised to have shocking reveals, next-generation surprises, and amazing PC games. Maximum PC will be at the Los Angeles expo covering the event next week, but we couldn't wait to talk about some of the top-notch games that will surely be there. While we can't preview every PC game at the show, because we're still not 100% sure what's going to be there, we thought we'd select 13 of our most anticipated PC games from the 2013 event.

Is there a PC game that you thought we should have included in our gallery below? Let us know in the comments!

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No BS Podcast #204: Intel's Haswell CPUs, Nvidia's GTX 770, and 4K Displays

Posted 06/07/2013 at 1:57pm | by The Maximum PC Staff

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So much hardware, so little time

In Episode #204 of the Maximum No BS Podcast, Maximum PC Deputy Editor Gordon Mah Ung strikes back after being on hiatus from episode #203. Joining Gordon on this Podcast are podcast host Senior Editor Josh Norem, Associate Editor Tom McNamara, and intern Chris Zele.

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