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Wednesday, 10-December-2014 14:41:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Ralph Baer, who can pretty much be considered the father of video games, has died aged 92. It was simply called the "Brown Box," and it later came to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 after he licensed out the design. The device set the footprint for home consoles to this date: a computer in a box that was manipulated with controllers and connected to a television. He also developed a "light gun" controller that was bundled with a shooting game. It is widely believed to be the first-ever video game peripheral. Later, he designed the Simon pattern-matching electronic toy that's still available today.
The Government have a new press-release outlining new measures to tackle online copyright infringement. The Government has sought the least burdensome and most flexible way of responding to concerns about online copyright infringement, while protecting the legitimate interests of the rights holders in the protection of their intellectual property.
There's another highly stealthy Linux trojan that seems linked to government espionage. The previously undiscovered malware represents a missing puzzle piece tied to "Turla," a so-called advanced persistent threat (APT) disclosed in August by Kaspersky Lab and Symantec. For at least four years, the campaign targeted government institutions, embassies, military, education, research, and pharmaceutical companies in more than 45 countries.
AMD have released a major new update to their Catalyst drivers. As Tech Report explain: The release, dubbed Catalyst Omega, marks a departure from AMD's policy of posting new drivers on an as-needed basis. Catalyst Omega drivers will be special, yearly releases into which the company will bundle major new features. These releases will complement the more frequent maintenance updates, which will continue to be posted as needed. More coverage of Virtual Super Resolution on TR, and a Performance Analysis on TechPowerUp. More coverage on PC Perspective and Tweaktown.
SilentPCReview have a quiet mini-ITX gamer build guide. A quiet system in a smaller form factor is our followup to the Quiet ATX Gaming Build Guide posted in the last couple of weeks. It is another high performance rig, but still quiet enough to be just about inaudible even atop your desk. Your family will never know that you're gaming on this machine unless your sound effects are on speakers and they can see the action on your monitor.
TechSpot cover the effect of temperature and cooling on CPUs. If you’re looking for authoritative information on how much cooling is enough for your CPU, you’ll be hard-pressed to find an answer. While we all know that modern processors need some degree of active cooling, very little official information exists to say how different temperatures affect a CPU's performance.
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