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Friday Afternoon
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(link) Friday, 28-January-2011 14:02:38 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's a Folding@Home Challenge running in our Team OCAU forum - you can win a GTX 460 video card by participating.
Mpot spotted these two 360 degree interactive videos which are quite neat. One is flying in a helicopter and the other is at a MUSE concert. Actually I just noticed in the MUSE one you can even choose different cameras to view from.
Sciby noticed that Zero Punctuation have reviewed Minecraft in the usual way. Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn't talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and has a novel coming out soon.
AMD have given a sneak peak of their Radeon HD 6990. What does the next great superpower of desktop graphics look like? Well, it shares an unmistakable family resemblance to the current champ, but its dimensions have somehow been made even larger. Yes, we're talking about AMD's Radeon HD 6990 -- a dual-GPU monstrosity that's set to serve as the company's 2011 flagship -- which has just been shown off at an Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day gathering.
XbitLabs have a 120mm Fan roundup. We continue testing 120 mm fans and today we are going to check out 32 models, which rotation speed exceeds 1350 RPM. We will check out their acoustic performance and airflow.
Tech Report checked out a Sandy Bridge powered laptop. As Intel was rolling out its desktop Sandy Bridge processors earlier this month, it also unleashed a whole family of mobile variants. Join us as we benchmark a behemoth of a laptop powered by Intel's second-quickest mobile Sandy Bridge CPU.
A hacker has impersonated Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook, thanks Sam. Facebook said a software bug let a hacker impersonate the social network's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, in a comment posted to his public fan page on the website. The bogus update posted late Monday suggested that Facebook turn to its users instead of banks for money and got "liked" by more than 1,800 members of the social network before it was erased.
Sony have unveiled the new PSP, thanks dasuperham. The soon-to-come PSP2 promises a PS3-level experience with a much faster, quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a multi-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 graphics chip four times faster than seen before. It centers on a massive five-inch, 960x544 OLED screen that promises a much larger experience than on a smartphone. More here, discussion here.
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