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Tuesday, 13-August-2013 01:37:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Carcin0Genic pointed out that Youngpro has been setting records - congrats! Today, G.Skill announced that its RAM has once again broken the world record in overclocking. Professional Overclocker "YoungPro" from Team AU set a new record for DDR3 memory at 4400MHz using G.Skill's Trident X RAM.
ASUS are ending Windows RT tablet production. "It's not only our opinion; the industry sentiment is also that Windows RT has not been successful," Shen told the Wall Street Journal Friday at a Taipei earnings conference. Asus now makes the VivoTab RT tablet, which runs on an ARM processor. In the future, it plans to focus on Windows 8 tablets that run on X86 chips from Intel because those tablets have compatibility with older Windows apps that RT lacks, Shen said.
North Korea meanwhile are making a smartphone.. kinda. It is worth noting, however, that North Korea Tech observed that workers are shown with finished products, inspecting them and testing them but there is an absence of actual manufacturing — which suggests the cellphones were probably made to order by a Chinese manufacturer and shipped to the factory for inspection before going on sale.
A South Australian woman is suing her insurer over the loss of real gold bars bought with money she made gold farming in WoW. "She made a lot of cash from this internet trading (but) found cheques and money orders extremely inconvenient ... she would ask for cash through the mail." Mr Jones said Ms Fincham decided to convert $75,000 of her earnings to gold bullion, purchasing 75 bars of the precious metal from Adelaide Exchange Jewellers.
Samsung have some thoughts about life beyond SATA for SSDs. During our time at Samsung's SSD Summit, we looked at (but didn't touch) technologies that the company is expected to introduce over the next year. Like many of its competitors, Samsung is is investing heavily in next-generation protocols, physical interfaces, and form factors. PCI Express is where the company sees storage moving to next.
Mashable reckon 3D printing will explode in 2014, when some patents expire. Here's what's holding back 3D printing, the technology that's supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents. In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire, says Duann Scott, design evangelist at 3D printing company Shapeways.
Ghoaty sent in today's timewaster: Let's Go Jaywalking, which seems like a modern Frogger. :)
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