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Just a reminder for those participating in Chimp Challenge 2008. It's time for people to swap over their folding machines to Monkey_Bollocks, in order for us to be at maximum output at the start of the challenge, please swap over your username to Monkey_Bollocks as soon as possible.
Microsoft have withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo after months of negotiations. Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft CEO Stephen Ballmer said in a letter to Yahoo made public today. Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $US5 billion ($5.37 billion), Yahoo has not moved toward accepting our offer.
Bit-tech interview Doug Dobson, Chief Technology Officer at PC Power & Cooling, to discuss his views on the industry and find out how the company has changed following the acquisition. With the company’s acquisition by OCZ Technology last year, and the increasing number of competent power supply manufacturers establishing themselves in the industry, we felt it was a good time to find out what’s happening inside PC Power.
With numerous reports of Grand Theft Auto IV freezing up on some PlayStation 3 consoles, Take-Two's technical support posted a 12 step remedy that should fix the problems. Sony also confirmed the existence of the freezing issues and said that it is working with all concerned parties to pin down and fix the issue. Xbox 360 owners have experienced similar issues, but no remedy exists yet.
Fortune Magazine reports that Steve Jobs dropped from No. 1 to No. 120 in the Top-paid CEOs list. Having topped Forbes‘ list of the U.S.’s highest-paid CEOs last year with a total compensation of $646 million — thanks almost entirely to restricted stock grants that vested in 2006 — Apple’s $1-a-year CEO dropped to No. 120 this year. Total 2007 compensation: a mere $14.6 million.
Anandtech have a quick update to their VelociRaptor article after receiving a new drive with the latest firmware. The acoustic and thermal characteristics of the new drive did not differ from our previous results. However, the performance differences noticed when testing the new drive is worth a quick update to our original article.
A new version of the CPU temperature monitoring tool Core Temp has now been released, as well as the latest instalment of GPU-Z. Both packed with multiple bug fixes as well as support for future hardware.
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