Month: June 2013
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Recent Russian “Meteor” Shock Waves Circled The World…Twice
The recent Russian meteor that struck back on February 15th earlier this year in Russia’s Chelyabinks region apparently produced a shock wave which was able to circle the entire world two times. These findings published in the recent issue of the Scientific Journal of Geophysical Research Letters, available here, suggest…
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Journey: Collector’s Edition PlayStation 3 Review
Ever since I first got my hands on the demo for Journey I simply couldn’t wait to purchase the full game, but as is often the case with these things I didn’t have the money at the time or release, other games were still being worked through and before long…
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Alienware Says Next-Gen Consoles’ “PC-Like” Design Shows PC Supremacy
In an interview with PCGamesN Alienware’s general manager Frank Azor stated that the new generation of consoles are merely looking to imitate the PC platform. “A lot of the innovations and things that are proven on the PC are making their ways onto consoles…The consoles are looking more and more…
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Americans Worried About Account Hacks, But Can’t Be Bothered With Extra Security
According to a new report, by Harris Interactive on behalf of Imperium, 79% of Americans have stated that they are worried about their accounts, for various online services, being hacked/compromised yet 75% of them say they have never used two factor authentication and 27% of them say they just cannot…
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Microsoft Says PS4 Hardware Specs Irrelevant, Xbox One Better Optimised
While it is well-documented that the PlayStation 4 has “better hardware” in terms of more graphics cores on the same AMD GPU and faster memory bandwidth between all the system components, Microsoft executive Albert Penello told the Official Xbox Magazine that actually none of that really matters. The reason why…
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Systena Unveil Tizen-Linux Powered Full HD Tablet
The Tizen operating system is essentially a WebKit runtime running on top of the open source Linux Kernel and it was developed with some key players like Intel, Samsung and the Linux Foundation. The Source Developer Kit (SDK) of Tizen 2.0, the latest incarnation, is entirely licensed to Samsung so…
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Xbox Live Ultimate Game Sale Starts July
Microsoft has confirmed that it is going to be starting a new Xbox Live Ultimate game sale over on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The sale will slash the prices of many big name titles like BioShock Infinite, Max Payne 3, Tomb Raider and more. With a whole host of discounts…
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Compulab Reveal MintBox 2
Compulab have revealed their second incarnation of the MintBox according to FanlessTech. The MintBox 2 will run Linux Mint out of the box and comes equipped with passively cooled Intel Core i5 processors. The previous generation ran AMD E-Series Zacate APUs so this is a dramatic improvement on the CPU…
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BitFenix Unveil New Ronin PC Case
We first got a glimpse of BitFenix’s new Ronic PC Case back at Computex and now BitFenix have finally gotten around to releasing this new case to the consumer market. The Ronin is an mid-tower case by BitFenix and it will come in black only for the time being. There…
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SilverStone AR02 CPU Cooler Review
SilverStone released their Argon series of CPU coolers about three months ago and this launch comprised of the AR01, AR02 and AR03. We have actually already reviewed the SilverStone AR01 and you can see our review here. Today we are taking a look at what you might call the AR02’s younger sibling as this is…
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AMD And Razer To Co-Sponsor League of Legends Cup At Multiplay i49
AMD has joined Razer as co-sponsor of the Multiplay Insomnia 49 (i49) League of Legends (LoL) tournament. Additional financial consideration from AMD added to Razer´s contribution brings the total LoL tournament purse to £10,000 – the largest prize pool currently promised at i49. As with the previous Razer League of…
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StopWatching.Us Now Has 520,000 Backers, Still Rising Fast
Just under two weeks ago we told you that StopWatching.Us, the organisation created by Mozilla and others against U.S government surveillance, had achieved 100,000 backers in a relatively short space of time. Now the organisation has racked up 520,000 backers at the time of writing with that number expected to…
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Nokia EOS 41MP Smartphone WIll Arrive As Lumia 1020
We have already heard rumours about Nokia preparing a 41 megapixel smartphone and now it seems we have a few more details about the rest of the smartphone. Firstly the “Nokia EOS” 41 megapixel smartphone is actually now expected to come to market as the Lumia 1020 according to reports. Furthermore…
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Green Man Gaming Launches Unique UK Trade-in Service
Green Man Gaming is one of the world’s fastest growing online games retailers and today they are launching a brand new Trade-in service in the UK for Xbox 360 and PS3 games, allowing customers to trade their games in against anything on GMG, including a PS4 or Xbox One pre-order.…
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SilverStone Tundra TD02 240mm AIO Review
The build up to SilverStone’s Tundra series of All-In-One closed loop liquid CPU coolers has been a very exciting one for me. While quite a few of news sites falsely reported that the Tundra is based on a collaboration between SilverStone and Asetek/CoolIT, the Tundra series is unique because it…
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