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Intel's Thunderbolt Thumb Drive is Twice as Fast as USB 3.0

Posted 06/07/2013 at 11:08am | by Paul Lilly

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World's fastest thumb drive uses Thunderbolt, not USB 3.0.

At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel was showing off a prototype thumb drive that it claims is the fastest in the world. Intel can make that claim because unlike most other thumb-size flash drives, it plugs into a PC's Thunderbolt port rather than a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port. In true thumb drive fashion, it plugs in without the aid of a cable, giving users fast access to 128GB of flash storage.

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Study Crowns Internet Explorer 10 as the Most Energy Efficient Browser

Posted 06/07/2013 at 9:48am | by Paul Lilly

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A new twist in the browser wars.

Up to this point, the browser wars have been defined by market share, standards support, privacy protocols, speed, add-ons, and various other features that make surfing the web a more pleasurable experience. Microsoft would be tickled pink if you'd also consider energy efficiency when deciding which browser to use, because if that's your primary criteria, look no further than Internet Explorer 10.

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NSA's Cell Phone and Email Spying PRISM Program Costs Taxpayers $20 Million Annually

Posted 06/07/2013 at 9:20am | by Paul Lilly

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U.S. government is watching you through a PRISM.

Privacy advocates are up in arms over reports that the U.S. government is harvesting cell phone and email data from major Internet companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Through a supposed top secret program codenamed PRISM, the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI have what appears to be unfettered access to emails, chat logs, voice calls, videos, photographs, documents, and more.

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SteelSeries to Showcase New H-Series Headset Line at E3 2013

Posted 06/06/2013 at 8:28pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is right around the corner and gaming peripheral maker SteelSeries is super excited about the new products that it has lined up for this year’s event. The company will be showcasing a trio of headsets at E3 2013, which gets underway on June 11, SteelSeries announced in a press release Thursday.

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New MSI Gaming Laptops Get Haswell and Kepler Treatment

Posted 06/06/2013 at 4:35pm | by Chris Zele

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GT70 Dragon Edition

Company announces refreshed GT70 Dragon Edition gaming notebook and more.

MSI launched several new gaming laptops at Computex 2013 featuring Intel’s new Haswell CPUs along with Nvidia’s new 700 series mobile GPUs.

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GeForce GTX 770 Video Card Roundup

Posted 06/06/2013 at 11:45am | by Chris Zele

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MSI GTX 770 Lighting

Let the overclocking commence!

The GTX 770 was released last week and along with that announcement came a flurry of new cards from video card vendors such as MSI, Gigabyte, Asus, and EVGA.

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Origin PC Adds Silverstone's SG10 Chassis to SFF System Lineup

Posted 06/06/2013 at 11:07am | by Paul Lilly

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Small but spunky.

Small form factor (SFF) systems are growing in popularity, especially as PC gamers look to venture out of their bedrooms and into the living room. Luckily for them, SFF cases are increasingly capable of housing high-end hardware, which is thanks in part to optimized designs but also power efficient hardware. We bring this up because boutique system builder Origin PC just dropped us a note to let us know it's now building systems inside Silverstone's box-like SG10 SFF chassis.

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Uh Oh Microsoft, AMD Wants to See Other OSes (Android and Chrome)

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

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AMD to bring chips to Google's OS party.

Never has the future of Microsoft looked as uncertain as it does right now. Not only are PC sales down, but Windows 8 is such a drastic change over previous versions, it has OEMs and hardware makers looking at supporting alternative platforms. That includes AMD, which revealed at Computex that it's suddenly interested in developing hardware for Google's open source Android and Chrome OS platforms.

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Microsoft Gives a First Look at Windows 8.1

Posted 06/06/2013 at 9:34am | by Paul Lilly

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First public demo of Windows 8.1.

Microsoft last week formally introduced the world to Windows 8.1, an upcoming update to Windows 8 that will bring back the Start button (yay!) but not the Start menu (boo!), along with a handful of other features. Following up that announcement, corporate vice president of Windows program management Antoine Leblond joined Windows CFO and CMO Tami Reller and a few other top Microsoft executives on stage at Computex do demo the upcoming free update. Don't worry if you couldn't attend, the software giant also released a YouTube video highlight the release.

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AVADirect is First U.S. System Builder to Nab Clevo's P375SM Gaming Laptop

Posted 06/06/2013 at 8:59am | by Paul Lilly

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Hello again, Haswell.

The braggadocios system builders at AVADirect are hooting and hollering about being the first vendor in the U.S. of A. to offer Clevo's P375SM gaming laptop, a powerhouse machine built around Intel's new HM87 chipset for Haswell. Pricing starts at just shy of two grand for the 17.3-inch notebook equipped with an Intel Core i7 4700MQ processor, though there are plenty of upgrade options at your disposable if you have too much cash in your pockets weighing you down.

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