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Sunday, 16-September-2012 17:31:37 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has said people are over-reacting to the data retention laws. But not everyone agrees. "Stamping out criminal conduct is an important objective, but the idea that everything we say on the telephone may be captured and listened to for the next two years, or every email we send will be captured and looked at for the next two years - is it wrong to call that spying?" Burnside says. Discussion continues here.
Western Digital have announced that future drives will be filled with helium, allowing higher capacities and hilarious squeaky voices. Western Digital is preparing to launch a line of hard drives filled with helium gas that is said to drastically reduce internal friction and thus lower power consumption by 23% while increasing capacity by 40%.
Here's a tour of a huge electronics market in China. I'm currently residing in the lovely industrial town of Guangzhou, China here on a business trip to visit a few factories. Yesterday, I had the joy of visiting what I think is the coolest damn place on the planet: A Shenzhen electronics market!
Apple's "Ping" is the latest failed social network to be scrapped. But Ping ended up landing half-baked. A deal with Facebook reportedly fell through, leaving the service lacking in the friend-discovery department. And it felt uncomfortably commercial, with frequently prompting users to buy tracks. Speaking at the May All Things Digital conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “We tried Ping and I think the customer voted and said, ‘This isn’t something that I want to put a lot of energy into.’”
ThinkComputers have an NVIDIA 600 series overclocking guide. Welcome to the ThinkComputers overclocking guide for the NVIDIA GK104. Also known as the NVIDIA GeForce 680, 670, and 660Ti! This guide does MAY apply to other cards in the series, but, use it at your own risk, as it has not been tested on those devices. If this is your first time overclocking, we hope this guide will be useful to you.
More from IDF: Digital Radios and Spring Meadow on HotHardware, NUC mini-PC and wireless charging on LegitReviews.
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