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Wednesday, 6-February-2013 10:58:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Gigabyte have a new prize draw. To celebrate the forthcoming Chinese New Year of the Snake, we’re inviting all HWBOT members to consider shedding their CPU-Z skin and adopt ours. All submissions on any hardware platform, submitting any benchmark screenshot featuring the GIGABYTE OC CPU-Z, will be automatically entered in a weekly prize draw to win a GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI motherboard.
Giga Fool sent in this cool submarine cable map. TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map has been updated for 2013. The latest edition depicts 244 cable systems that are currently active or due to enter service by 2014. There's an interactive version to explore.
Telstra may be clamping down on peer-to-peer soon, thanks IntelInside. Telstra confirmed the move in a statement after a source contacted Fairfax Media, publisher of this article, to say the telco planned to introduce throttling as a "trial" that was likely to become permanent and which required users to opt out if they didn't want to take part in it.
There's a new 3DMark, with coverage on LegitReviews, Tweaktown and PC Perspective.
The bones found a few months ago in Leicester in the UK have been confirmed as Richard III. Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA from the bones matched that of descendants of the monarch's family. Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley, from the University of Leicester, told a press conference to applause: "Beyond reasonable doubt it's Richard." Richard, killed in battle in 1485, will be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral.
Here's some new car tech info from slick: Car technology has moved a long way and the safety obsessed nuts over at Volvo reckon there will be zero injuries or deaths in their vehicles by 2020. Driver-less cars from Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will be available as early as 2014. They'll have technology which will allow the car to drive itself in heavy traffic at speeds up to 60km/h. Some vision of the Audi driver-less technology on youtube.
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