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(link) Wednesday, 11-August-2010 14:25:15 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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US Senator Ted Stevens has died in a plane crash. He'll be particularly remembered by the internet generation for his comments describing the internet as a series of tubes, and not a big truck. As Stevens' death was confirmed, Alaskan and national political figures from all sides of the political spectrum spoke highly of the man many Alaskans knew as "Uncle Ted."
Bit-Tech have an interview with VIA. In some respects, it's the company that could have had it all, moving away from chipsets in the mid 2000s, VIA gained experience with small, low power computer hardware thanks to its EPIA mini-ITX boards and Nano CPUs. Indeed, it remains the only company with a licence for designing and produce both x86 and ARM CPUs. Yet VIA remains a name dimly remembered in Europe and the US - if it's even remembered at all - we wrote a grand total of three news stories about them in 2009, and just one in 2010. Where did it all go wrong? Or did it go wrong? Discussion here.
XbitLabs consider Phenom II X6 memory. How greatly do DDR3 frequency and timings affect the performance of contemporary Socket AM3 systems and what will happen if we pair Phenom II X6 processor in an AMD 890 FX based mainboard with DDR3-2000 SDRAM?
The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics sounds like something from X-Men, and they have been using a giant robotic arm to control an F1 simulator. Players (or subjects, the researchers prefer to call them) sit in a cabin on a robot arm some 2 meters off the ground and drive a Ferrari F2007 car around a projected track with force-feedback steering wheel and pedals. The aim is to make the experience as realistic as possible without having to buy a real F2007, and to test the simulator with an environment that requires sudden, massive acceleration.
Techgage checked out PhysX in Mafia II, while XbitLabs benchmarked current video cards in StarCraft II. While only time will tell whether the novelty will be as popular as the predecessor, the game has already captured minds of almost all gamers in the world. With the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a question of possible hardware upgrade arises, and we are going to help you to come up with an answer.
JD sent in this article about the internet generation preferring real life. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don't even know how to google properly.
HardOCP compared GeForce GTX 460 1GB SLI vs. Radeon HD 5870 CFX. In light of the GeForce GTX 460 1GB SLI providing superior gaming performance compared to Radeon HD 5850 CFX, we wanted to game the 460 SLI against AMD's Radeon HD 5870 CFX and check out performance.
Today's timewaster is Happy Wheels, a very messy physics puzzle type thing.
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