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Friday, 4-October-2013 13:55:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Military thriller writer Tom Clancy has died aged 66. As well as a successful writer, Clancy also became closely associated with the world of video gaming. In the 1990s he founded Red Storm Entertainment, later bought by Ubisoft, which developed games based on Clancy's ideas. Blockbuster video game titles bearing his name included Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six. Discussion here.
OCClub have a guide to overclocking an Intel 4770K, while PCStats cover repairing a notebook screen. PCSTATS will be fixing a cracked LCD screen on a Lenovo T530 ThinkPad notebook, the general procedures outlined here work for any notebook though.
Apparently last month in Norway the most popular new car was the Tesla S electric car. The figures illustrate strong interest in electric cars in a country ranked among the world's top ten petrol exporters. Norway has encouraged electric car sales with tax incentives, congestion charge exemptions, access to public transport lanes and free parking.
Owen sent word of some possible benchmarking shenanigans in Samsung's Galaxy Note 3. After a good bit of sleuthing, we can confidently say that Samsung appears to be artificially boosting the US Note 3's benchmark scores with a special, high-power CPU mode that kicks in when the device runs a large number of popular benchmarking apps. Samsung did something similar with the international Galaxy S 4's GPU, but this is the first time we've seen the boost on a US device. We also found a way to disable this special CPU mode, so for the first time we can see just how much Samsung's benchmark optimizations affect benchmark scores.
After a slightly embarrassing glitch, the Deep Impact comet mission has been lost. "Basically, it was a Y2K problem, where some software didn't roll over the calendar date correctly," said A'Hearn. The spacecraft's fault-protection software (ironically enough) would have misread any date after August 11, 2013, he said, triggering an endless series of computer reboots aboard Deep Impact. However it did complete its primary and secondary missions.
Here's a very cool on-board video from an eagle! More footage here.
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