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Written by HTL Newsroom
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Sunday, 08 January 2012 00:00 |
Introduction
When the new year rolls around there is one thing that true tech heads look forward to, CES. This year HiTechLegion is making another appearance. Last year, there was only the leader and his faithful companion. This meant that only 2 abled bodies could cover this massive trade show. We did the best we could to bring you guys everything that was important. This year we have an entire force to cover everything. We'll have Backdraft, skataneric, crowTrobot, Vinman, and oh_fubar scouring booths and visiting suites. The ultimate blend of young and old (well ... mostly old). Maybe an AED will be used, maybe not, we'll see how the old men hold up. Stay tuned for more info....
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Written by George Cella -Cella-
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Monday, 23 January 2012 00:00 |
Introduction
The release of USB 3.0 had the usual slight hiccups of any technology upgrade. Not so much in terms of performance, but in terms of standardization. Sure, the sockets on the I/O panels were staying the same to ensure backwards compatibility for the user, but motherboard headers were a whole different issue. It took a few months for the manufacturers to get together and agree on one standard plug. This left case manufacturers with only a couple of avenues for their front I/O panels while the decision was made.
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Written by HTL Newsroom
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Friday, 27 January 2012 18:50 |
Affiliate News
Cases, Cooling
Graphic Cards, Motherboards
Peripherals
Miscellaneous
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Written by USA Today
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Friday, 27 January 2012 09:38 |
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The shape of TVs to come might be even wider than widescreen.
Today's high-definition sets evolved to a rectangular 16-by-9 shape from the more square analog TVs. But a wider 21-by-9 display standard is in the works at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
Vizio's 58-inch 3-D LED CinemaWide display is expected to be the first 21-by-9-inch HDTV to market. It's due in stores in March in time for the NCAA men's and women's March Madness basketball tournaments and will be $3,499.99, including four pairs of 3-D glasses. (Pre-order at vizio.com.)
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Written by Reuters
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Friday, 27 January 2012 09:05 |
Latest News
(Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co posted a record $4.7 billion quarterly operating profit, driven by booming smartphone sales, and will spend $22 billion this year to boost production of chips and flat screens to pull further ahead of smaller rivals.
The South Korean firm, the world's top technology firm by revenue, is locked in breakneck competition with Apple Inc in the red-hot smartphone market. Apple, overtaken by Samsung in the third quarter, regained its crown as the world's biggest maker of smartphones in the fourth quarter, with record sales of 37.04 million iPhones....
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Written by TorrentFreak
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:57 |
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In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.
However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.
As of today, these people are still unsure whether they will ever get their personal belongings back.
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Written by Vincent Petronio -Vinman-
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:00 |
Introduction
As the old saying goes, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". Each of us in our own special way see things differently, be it color or the way something is shaped, configured or designed. Take buying a car for instance. Sometimes I end up drawing the same conclusion as everyone else on the car lot but then after taking a more in depth look and actually taking the car for a spin, you find out that it was not what you expected it to be. It can even leave you pondering "what were they thinking?" or the opposite, leaving you totally enamored and speechless for it was so much more than just what meets the eye.
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Written by Stephen Duffin -smduff-
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 00:00 |
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Just recently, my wife and I had some friends over and, by the end of the night, we all ended up playing Tetris on the Wii. I must admit that I'm not a huge gamer but I do occasionally like to get in a round or two of a few different games, Tetris being one of them. If you have never played Tetris before, it is a very simple game, you try to create solid lines from falling blocks all of which are different shapes. A Tetris consists of four solid lines being created at one time. As you progress through the levels, the blocks fall faster and faster and it becomes increasingly harder to create the lines without any holes. I got to thinking that building a computer was sort of like a game of Tetris, there are many different components required to get a solid base system, just like Tetris. Without some very solid components, sooner or later it's going to be game over.
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Written by TechNewsWorld
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Friday, 27 January 2012 09:57 |
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Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have made progress in hiding objects from microwaves using special materials -- a development that could bring them a step closer to cloaking them from visible light. However, they're still a long way off from the kind of thing imagined in fantasy movies.
That invisibility cloak Harry Potter throws around himself to hide in plain sight soon may be fact, rather than fiction. Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have demonstrated one -- sort of.
The researchers hid an 18 cm cylindrical tube from microwaves by putting it in a shell of plasmonic metamaterial.
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Written by ArsTechnica
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Friday, 27 January 2012 09:26 |
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Flight risks, firearms charges and an inflatable tank are just some of the latest wrinkles in the bizzare case of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. After his arrest, Dotcom's mansion received delivery of a full-size inflatable replica of a Russian T-72 tank, which is now parked in front of the "Dotcom Mansion" and is busy infuriating the upscale neighbors. The T-72 "Threat Decoy" is similar to those used by the military for field training and intelligence deception, manufactured by companies such as Inflatable Images in the US and Russia's Rusbal; each sells for thousands of dollars.
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Written by SlashGear
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Friday, 27 January 2012 08:48 |
Latest News
The NASA team that operates the Kepler space telescope has used their all-seeing eye to find 11 new planetary systems. The new discovery brings the total number of planets that have been discovered by the Kepler team to 60. In all, there are 729 confirmed extra-solar planets. As always, the team uses regular changes in the light of the star to tell if planets are orbiting.
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Written by PCWorld
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:02 |
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Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.
Linux Mint 13 will feature an entirely new user interface, called Cinnamon. Earlier this week, the Linux Mint developers released a version of the shell. Previous editions of Linux Mint used a standard version of the Gnome environment.
"We're hoping [Cinnamon] will seduce most Linux Mint users, whether they're coming from Gnome 2, Gnome Shell or other desktops," said Linux Mint creator and lead developer Clement Lefebvre.
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The Ocean (1)
