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CyberPower and Falcon Northwest Go Quad SLIAug 15, 2006 - in Reviews
Two high-end PC makers put dual-core CPUs and four graphics processors into their latest systems. Who wins the Quad SLI challenge?
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AMD intros new Opterons and promises 68W quad-core CPUsAug 14, 2006 - in News
AMD today unveiled its first answer to Intel's Core micro architecture. An updated version of the processor that is driving the firm's revenue growth and market share gains claims to not only close the gap to "Woodcrest" but even surpass it in speed and power consumption. And then there is the promise that quad-cores won't consume more power than today's dual-cores.
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Segway goes farther and off-roading with two new modelsAug 14, 2006 - in News
Segway, makers of the famous self-righting scooter of the same name, is rolling out two new models that have longer range and can even go off the beaten path. The i2 model can travel up to 24 miles on a single charge, while the x2 has rugged tires to take on trails and rough terrain. Both models also have a new wireless remote which functions like a car remote.
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AMD Launches Socket F and AM2 OpteronsAug 14, 2006 - in Picture Story
AMD's new Socket F-based Opteron processor.
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Intel to stop production of four Pentium D CPUs by year-endAug 14, 2006 - in News
Intel informed its channel partners in Taiwan that it plans to stop manufacturing four desktop-use Pentium D processors (model numbers 830, 840, 930 and 940) by the end of 2006, according to channel sources.
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Win Tom's Screaming $10,000 PC!Aug 13, 2006 - in News
On September 26, 2006, Tom's Hardware Guide will celebrate its 10th Anniversary. To show our appreciation for you, our readers, we're giving away a specially commissioned $10,000 PC from Falcon Northwest. Don't miss your chance to get your hands on this monster PC.
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Tapping text messages to trap criminalsAug 11, 2006 - in News
Criminals could one day be routinely trapped on the basis of how they write cellphone texts.
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Scientists envision remote-controlled humansAug 11, 2006 - in News
It's a disturbing thought: being able to remotely control the way a person moves at the push of a button. But scientists have already managed to do just that - although not with the same repertoire of complex movements as, say, a practiced nine-year-old controlling a toy race car.
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Microsoft to discontinue its virtual PC product for MacsAug 11, 2006 - in News
Microsoft will not develop a universal code version of its Virtual PC product to run on Intel-powered Mac systems and plans to discontinue the product.
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Defcon 2006: The man behind the Defcon badgeAug 11, 2006 - in News
This year's Defcon computer security convention had a high-tech badge for an equally high-tech crowd. The circular badge was a colored circuit board complete with a small computer chip, battery and two blinking LED lights. Defcon staff wanted the badge to be difficult to counterfeit, but easy enough to add some interesting hacks.
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MSI introduces HDMI-compliant graphics card for $250Aug 11, 2006 - in News
Micro-Star International (MSI) on August 8 introduced its MSI NX7600GT Diamond Plus graphics card, the world's first, as the company claims, graphics card that is certified to support High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) technology.
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DRAM inventory lowered to seven days on strong demandAug 11, 2006 - in News
Due to strong demand from PC OEMs, DRAM makers have seen their inventory time reduced to seven days, down from 10-14 days before, according to sources.
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Nvidia's Response to Early DIY Quad-SLIAug 11, 2006 - in Reviews
We tested the latest available beta driver that also allows Quad-SLI to be enabled. Nvidia has some comments and explanations on our results for those do-it-yourselfers that want to go quad.
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Armed Assault and F.E.A.R. Extraction Point
Aug 10, 2006 - in Picture Story
Hey Ma!Armed Assault is the sequel-that's-not-a-sequel-thanks-to-legal-reasons for the worlds best soldier sim, Operation Flashpoint. Well, it's more of an update to OFP 1.5 than the pure sequel that we were promised back when the developers Bohemia Inter
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How the 'freeze-the-field' rule led to NASCAR's Mobile Technology CenterAug 10, 2006 - in Reviews
Last May, NASCAR premiered its Mobile Technology Center, a million-dollar, 52-foot Freightliner constructed with the help of AMD, HP, and Featherlite. The story of this truck is the story of a tradition that almost got a man killed in front of thousands of spectators, and how a sport came to accept the need for modernization. It's also about one really cool truck.
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AMD to launch new Socket F/AM2 Opterons on 15 AugustAug 10, 2006 - in News
AMD today officially confirmed that it will be announcing its-next generation Opteron workstation and server processor next Tuesday.
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Traveling Terabyte Project helps soldiers keep in touch with DefconAug 10, 2006 - in News
Tech savvy soldiers now have a new way to stay in touch with the Defcon computer security convention. Hackers at the Defcon computer security convention have created the "Traveling TeraByte Project" (TTB) which is a set of hard drives, filled with multimedia, in a rugged Pelican case. Soldiers and tech contractors, who missed this year's Defcon, will be able to view and copy nearly a terabyte worth of movies, computer security talks and MP3 music.
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Intel open sources Linux driver for latest graphics chipsetAug 10, 2006 - in News
Intel continues to quietly but consistently expand its open source Linux driver initiative. The company recently added support for the just released 965 version, which is currently shipping as a new-generation chipset for Core 2 Duo computers.
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ in channel for $149, price cut to followAug 10, 2006 - in News
As earlier expected, AMD started shipping its Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 3600+ dual-core CPU to channel partners ahead of the original schedule.
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TG Daily at the NASCAR Allstate 400
Aug 9, 2006 - in Picture Story
Meet NASCAR's $750,000 tech truck: The fancy paint work hides state of the art computer technology that provides the backbone for the timing and scoring of NASCAR races. Join us for a walk through the "technology center" and see how computers and other te
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University of Calif. joins Google book scan pushAug 9, 2006 - in News
The University of California has joined Google bid to scan the book collections of the world's great libraries, the organizations said on Tuesday, marking renewed momentum for a project nearly derailed by stiff resistance from publishers.
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Blackhat 2006: 'Bluebag' detects Bluetooth devices within 200 metersAug 9, 2006 - in News
A pair of Italian hackers has created the lazy man's Bluetooth scanner by cramming eight Bluetooth dongles and a miniature computer into a rolling luggage case. While Bluetooth scanning has been around for a few years, the "BlueBag" case uses an extra omnidirectional antenna to prescan the area. The pair says the Bluebag can detect devices up to 200 meters (about 600 feet) away and can run for up to 10 hours without power.
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2007 BMW X5 intros high-speed communication chip based on Flexray techAug 9, 2006 - in News
BMW today announced a new version of its X5 flagship SUV. It's larger, stronger and faster and probably better and more expensive than its predecessor, but what makes this new model especially interesting form a technological view is the presence of a Flexray chip.
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Driver update enables DIY quad-SLI systemsAug 9, 2006 - in News
If only four graphics cards deliver enough pixel power for your PC and you just weren't ready to shell out more than $5000 for a new PC, then here's your solution: Nvidia today posted the first generally available driver to support do-it-yourself quad-SLI graphics.
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First look inside NASCAR's state-of-the-art timing and scoring vehicleAug 9, 2006 - in News
It is perhaps the ultimate symbol of the pairing of motorsport and information technologies: the million-dollar NASCAR Technology Center vehicle, used to score every race in the Nextel, Busch, and Craftsman circuits. At last weekend's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, AMD and NASCAR gave TG Daily an up-close and personal look at the highest-tech vehicle this side of the Space Shuttle.
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A Tale of Two GTs: Radeon X1900GT by Sapphire and PowercolorAug 9, 2006 - in Reviews
ATI's Radeon X1900GT is a new upper mid-range product that packs a punch.
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Tom's Hardware's $10,000 PCAug 8, 2006 - in Picture Story
The Tom's Hardware $10,000 PC. Custom built by Falcon Northwest with a sound-dampened aluminum chassis and painted in Mach V Exotix. Click through the following pages to see what is inside.
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The Inside Story of the Defcon BadgeAug 8, 2006 - in Picture Story
Joe Grand holds up his gold badge. Grand designed this year's Defcon badge.
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Defcon 2006: Casinos could be losing millions to slot machine hackersAug 8, 2006 - in News
For some slot machine cheaters, a simple push of a remote control can empty a slot machine in seconds. These remote controls have been available to criminals for a few years, but now a small company in Florida is selling these devices to help casinos fight back against cheaters. "Jack" and "Mike" from Jackpotters talked with TG Daily and described how the small devices work and how much money casinos are losing.
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Dell blames cooling assembly for XPS 700 delaysAug 8, 2006 - in Reviews
Dell Computer corporate communications specialist Liem Nguyen told TG Daily this afternoon that a problem with the installation of the cooling assembly in the company's top-of-the-line enthusiast desktop system, the XPS 700, has been pegged as the culprit responsible for shipment delays, a series of which has plagued the product since its announcement late last May.
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