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- Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current benchmarks, but the IE team has a...
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Last by blubje at 2:22 PM on 11/21/09 - Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server
Black Friday isn't here quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't find any good bargains around—you might just need to look a little harder than usual. For instance, Newegg is currently selling a 13.3" Aspire Timeline 3810 consumer...
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Last by UberGerbil at 11:19 AM on 11/21/09 - Asus hops on the Atom home server bandwagon
Following in the footsteps of HP and Acer, Asus has announced a small-form-factor Windows Home Server machine based on Intel Atom hardware. The new Asus TS mini is debuting at an affordable $349.99, and with dimensions of...
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Last by Usacomp2k3 at 11:00 AM on 11/20/09 - $700 MSI 'nettop' has dual-core Pentium, Nvidia graphics
MSI's latest Wind "nettop" doesn't have the looks or software of Apple's iMac, but it's definitely not far from it in terms of hardware. Unlike previous all-in-one nettops, the new Wind AE2220 features a dual-core Pentium T4300 processor clocked...
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Last by shaq_mobile at 10:56 AM on 11/20/09 - AMD claims spots in top supercomputers
The new Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is now out. Who came out on top this month? AMD believes it did, and it has a pretty strong case. Jaguar, a Cray XT5 system situated the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has become the world's number-one supercomputer thanks...
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Last by Sahrin at 12:59 PM on 11/17/09 - YouTube to get 1080p videos next week
Full-HD YouTube is coming. Google has written up a short announcement on the official YouTube blog to say its video service will start serving up 1080p videos next week. YouTube currently lets folks choose between 360p, 480p, and 720p resolutions, distinguishing the latter two with the letters "HQ" and "HD,"...
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Last by sigher at 9:45 PM on 11/15/09 - Dell Zino HD reaches the U.S., starts at $229
Well, that didn't take long. Two days after its first appearance in Europe, Dell's Zino HD has made it across the Atlantic and onto Dell's U.S. online store. We expected Dell's U.S. arm to charge around $349 for the AMD-based nettop, but as it turns out, the company only...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 12:58 AM on 11/13/09 - Microsoft to get some Wolfram in its Bing
Wolfram Research's Wolfram|Alpha "computational knowledge engine" isn't meant to be a Google-killer, but it might just help turn Microsoft's Bing into one. Microsoft has announced on the Bing search blog that it has partnered up with Wolfram Research to integrate some Wolfram|Alpha features inside its search engine.
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Last by Pettytheft at 8:37 AM on 11/12/09 - Dell Zino HD 'nettop' is cheap, has AMD guts
Eat your hearts out, nettops. There's a new kid in town, and it's got a little more power under the hood than your typical Atom processor and old-school Intel chipset. Dell has started offering the Zino HD, a low-cost, small-form-factor, Athlon-powered PC, on its Irish website. Measuring just 7.8" x...
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Last by Creamsteak at 9:42 AM on 11/12/09 - European Commission holds up Sun, Oracle deal
Remember how Oracle and Sun shook hands on a $7.4-billion merger this spring? The U.S. Department of Justice okayed the deal in August, but now, the European Commission has thrown a wrench into the works. As the Associated Press reports, the Commission has issued a "statement of objections"...
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Last by RagingDragon at 8:44 PM on 11/11/09 - New Chrome beta is faster, has bookmark sync
Mozilla Firefox may be getting all the market share points, but Google is still hard at work improving its own web browser. The search giant has released a new Chrome beta that features both improved performance and the ability to synchronize bookmarks across different PCs. The bookmark sync feature...
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Last by Trymor at 5:59 AM on 11/07/09 - Firefox beats Internet Explorer 6 in popularity
Web developers rejoice: more people are now browsing the web using Firefox than Internet Explorer 6, according to Net Applications figures quoted by Ars Technica. The data show Firefox commanded 24.1% of the market last month, compared to 23.3% for IE6. (In September, the same two browsers had 23.8%...
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Last by Palek at 12:53 AM on 11/06/09 - New BitTorrent protocol supports throttling
With network neutrality hot on the U.S. government's agenda, the last thing you'd expect is for BitTorrent developers to extend an olive branch to Internet service providers. Yet according to TorrentFreak, that's just what's happening. BitTorrent Inc is developing a new, smarter version of the BitTorrent protocol it has...
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Last by Krogoth at 3:56 PM on 11/04/09 - Firefox 3.6 beta has tab-level Aero Peek support
Well, the first Firefox 3.6 beta didn't make it out quite as early as we thought, but it's available now. Just head over to the official beta page on Mozilla's Firefox site to get it—provided you care enough to install and use an unfinished web browser, of course. This...
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Last by blubje at 2:34 PM on 11/03/09 - Etc.
If you don't frequent our forums, you may have missed the announcement of Asus's Xtreme Design contest. This is something a little bit different: a PC design and building contest. The first stage is design only—explain what sort of unique system you would build with the latest components. Try...
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Last by Bensam123 at 10:48 AM on 11/02/09 - ICANN to decide on non-Latin domain names
Some Internet domain names may start looking a little different next year. As the Associated Press reports, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is meeting in Seoul, South Korea this week to discuss, among other things, whether to support domain names written using non-Latin alphabets. If ICANN...
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Last by TechNut at 9:49 AM on 10/28/09 - After over a decade, Yahoo closes down GeoCities
A piece of the Internet's history went dark today. As the Los Angeles Times reports, Yahoo has closed down GeoCities, the legendary hosting service that fostered the rise of poorly designed personal web pages, bad animated GIFs, and embedded MIDI music. Yahoo stopped accepting new registrations for the service "earlier...
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Last by xzelence at 6:50 PM on 10/27/09 -
TR's Windows 7 system guide
Recommendations for building the right enthusiast's PCs
Windows 7 is upon us, as is a whole line of DirectX 11 graphics processors from AMD. Come see how we've updated our system guide to account for these new products and other changes in the hardware landscape.
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