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Thursday, 12-September-2013 13:56:13 (GMT +10) - by Grec
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External hard drives are only getting bigger, with Seagate predicting that they will be shipping 20TB HDD's by 2020. "With SMR technology, Seagate is on track to improve areal density by up to 25% or 1.25TB per disk, delivering hard drives with the lowest cost per gigabyte and reaching capacities of 5TB and beyond," Mark Re, Seagate's chief technology officer, said in a statement.
A new gaming PC has just come out, and it's smaller than an Xbox controller - 4.5 inches on each side to be exact. But what if you want a gaming PC that can fit in your hand? That's where the Gigabyte Brix II comes in: it's both cute and powerful. Earlier this year, the company introduced the Brix lineup of tiny barebones computers that fit potent laptop processors in incredibly small cases, just 4.5 inches on a side. Now, the company's updating the lineup with new Haswell processors — and one with Intel's Iris Pro graphics inside. For specs and photos, read more here.
Techcrunch has posted a summary of everything Apple revealed yesterday in their Cupertino keynote, including the new iPhone5s and the iPhone5c. As the naming scheme implies, the 5s is the high-end successor to the iPhone 5 and it features (among other things) a snappy new 64-bit A7 processor, an M7 co-processor for tracking motion (you know, for fitness apps), and a Touch ID fingerprint sensor built into the home button.
For anyone looking for a new set of affordable PC headphones, eTeknix have done a review roundup on 5 headphones that are under $150. When it comes to picking the right peripherals for your system, it is safe to say that you are going to be spoilt for choice and regardless of your budget it will be hard to narrow down your choices for each component. While the keyboard and mouse options out there may be seemingly limitless, so too are the choices for audio equipment.
Intel's unveiled some pretty cool looking gear at their Developers forum, including world’s first smartphone powered by a 22nm Intel SoC - For photos and more on the keynote, read here.
Techreport also have a brief piece on the Intel's keynote. IDF — Intel CEO Brian Krzanich dropped a surprise announcement on the attendees of his opening keynote at the Intel Developer Forum today: a new family of processors from Intel, known as Quark.
Meanwhile Tech Report have compared the specs of the Sandy Bridge-Ep, and the new Ivy Bridge-E against each other. Last week, Ivy Bridge-E premiered in a trio of processors aimed at Intel's high-end X79 desktop platform. Today, similar silicon dubbed Ivy Bridge-EP heads to enterprise aboard the new Xeon E5-2600 and E5-1600 v2 product families, bringing more cores, more cache, higher memory speeds, and virtualization improvements to server and workstation systems with one and two sockets.
Mark Zuckerburg has spoken at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 on the future of Facebook, mobile revenue - and the NSA snooping scandal. "I think it's my job and our job to protect everyone who uses Facebook, and all the data they share with us," Zuckerberg said. "It's the government's job to protect us and our freedoms, and I think they did a bad job of balancing those things...They blew it, communicating the balance of what they were going for."
China is cracking down on people that start rumors online, and now gives offenders three years jail time. A post deemed defamatory that is forwarded more than 500 times, or viewed more than 5000 times, could land the author in jail for up to three years. A maximum sentence of 10 years awaits those charged with ''organizing others to spread fake information that results in serious public disorder''.
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