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Razer Announces 14-inch Razer Blade Laptop

Posted 05/30/2013 at 7:40pm | by Jimmy Thang

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The gaming laptop that’s thinner than a dime

Today Razer announced a 14-inch version of the Razer Blade. Known simply as the Razer Blade (yea, we don’t get these new-age naming conventions either), the small gaming laptop is incredibly svelte being thinner than a standing dime. Measuring .66 inches tall, Razer boasts that it is the world’s thinnest gaming laptop and that it is actually skinnier than the fattest part of a MacBook Air.

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Microsoft Teases Return of Start Button in Windows 8.1

Posted 05/30/2013 at 12:31pm | by Paul Lilly

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This isn't the Start button you're looking for.

Sound the trumpets and cue the chorus line to begin singing songs of praise, Microsoft is bringing back the Start button! That's right, in a sneak peek at Windows 8.1, the Redmond software giant displayed the Start button's triumphant return, which at a glance is cause for celebration. Are you excited!? Well, don't be. Sorry to play with your emotions like that, but even though the Start button is making a return, clicking it only drops you right back into the modern UI. You can toss those trumpets aside and tell the chorus line to put a sock in it.

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PCKeeper Antivirus Tests Pay-What-You-Want Business Model

Posted 05/30/2013 at 11:55am | by Paul Lilly

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Security software vendor lets YOU set the price.

One of the arguments software pirates throw around for stealing digital content is because they can't afford the asking price. That doesn't exempt them from the moral implications of paying for versus stealing software, but what if a company was willing to let you set your own price? It's not a new concept -- there's the awesome Humble Indie Bundles, and we've seen music artists go this route, too -- but it's not something we've seen among security vendors, until now.

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Acer Upgrades $199 Chromebook Model with Faster Storage

Posted 05/30/2013 at 9:29am | by Paul Lilly

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Be on the lookout for new Chromebook models.

Psst! Hey, you there. Yes, you, the one browsing Acer's C7 Chromebook. Which would you rather have, capacity or speed? Speed, you say? Well in that case, go ahead and take that Chromebook out of your shopping cart and head over to Best Buy. It's there that you'll find the first of several planned new models in Acer's C7 Chromebook line, including an upgraded version of the $199 model you were holding.

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AMD's Opteron X-Series Processors to Challenge Atom in Microserver Market

Posted 05/30/2013 at 8:34am | by Paul Lilly

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AMD makes a run at Atom.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) this week announced a new family of low power server processors optimized for scale-out server architectures. The Sunnyvale chip designer also attached a couple of interesting claims to its new Opteron X Series, formerly known as "Kyoto," the first of which is that these are the highest density, most power-efficient small core x86 processors ever built. The other claim has to do with how they compare to Intel's top Atom chip.

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GeForce GTX 770 Benchmarks

Posted 05/30/2013 at 6:00am | by Josh Norem

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Nvidia delivers a juiced GK104 in the GeForce GTX 770

Today the embargo lifts on the second GeForce GTX 700 series GPU to be announced in a week's time; the Titan-cooled but GK104-powered GeForce GTX 770. Unlike the GTX 780 announced last week, this card does not use the monstrous GK110 GPU, but instead opts for a highly-clocked version of the GK104 chip found previously in the GTX 680, GTX 670, and GTX 660 Ti. It's the highest clocked-part of all of those cards though, and also has 7Gb/s memory instead of the 6Gb/s variety found in all the previous Kepler cards, giving it a signficant bump in memory bandwidth.

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Liberty Reserve Indicted for Laundering $6 Billion

Posted 05/29/2013 at 4:50pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Largest international anti-money laundering action in history

Last Thursday, the official website of the Costa Rica-based digital currency Liberty Reserve went offline, stirring panic among its million-odd users. It soon became clear that it was no ordinary outage, but a case of the proverbially long arm of the law finally catching up with the notorious website and delivering a death blow.

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FanimeCon 2013: Cosplay Gallery

Posted 05/29/2013 at 2:46pm | by Jimmy Thang

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60 cosplay pictures from FanimeCon 2013

We had the chance to check out FanimeCon 2013 in San Jose, California this past weekend. While the annual event is widely known as an anime convention, gaming played a huge part of the show. In addition to having an entire expo hall dedicated to video games, there were a ton of game-inspired costumes. Popular outfits this year included the large roster of League of Legends champions to the ever popular Team Fortress 2 classes, and much, much more!

Presented below are some of our favorite FanimeCon 2013 cosplay costumes. Let us know which ones are your favorite in the comments section!

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Google Hopes You'll Go Gaga Over Gmail Tabs

Posted 05/29/2013 at 12:13pm | by Paul Lilly

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Tabs work for browsing, can they for email as well?

Can you remember surfing the web before tabs? Power surfing has never been the same, and even casual web users can benefit from tabbed browsing. Google didn't invent the concept, nor did the company even popularize tabbed browsing, but it is incorporating tabs of a slightly different kind into its Gmail service on the desktop and mobile. It's almost like a pre-sorting system.

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Asus Teases Upgraded Supreme FX Audio on Z87 Maximus VI Formula Motherboard

Posted 05/29/2013 at 11:29am | by Paul Lilly

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The next evolution of SupremeFX is coming.

I found nestled in my inbox this morning a note from Asus saying it's getting ready to introduce an "even more advanced version of SupremeFX on the upcoming Formula" board built for Haswell. Along with the note, Asus attached a teaser photo marking the recent evolution of SupremeFX (versions III and IV), leaving the world to wonder what it has in store for the next release. Care to venture a guess?

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