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The PlayStation Network will be back up soon, thanks tusker. It will be a phased restoration. The phased restoration will be on a country by country basis beginning in the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.
One person who won't be affected by the PSN outage is serial killer Ivan Milat, who has been refused a playstation in his cell. As a protest against not being allowed to play games, he refused all meals starting Tuesday May 3rd. By Thursday, May 12th, his weight had dropped from 85kg to 60kg.
RamblingThoughts has info on the state of digital radio in Australia. Radio broadcasters continue to launch new digital-only services with up to 20 new DAB+ only stations on air in each market, plus an additional 13 short-term or pop-up stations. There are now more than 80 different digital radio models on sale in Australia, across 700 retail outlets plus online stores. The average sales price has fallen to AUD$105.
BenchmarkReviews looked at the Lucid Virtu graphics virtualisation technology in the new Z68 chipset. Lucid (formerly LucidLogix) appeared on the enthusiast horizon with their "Hydra" technology, which purported to enable vendor-agnostic multi-GPU systems. Users would be able to combine the performance of different video cards from different vendors, rather than being constrained to the cards required by ATI CrossFireX or NVIDIA SLI. Hydra didn't work as well as had been hoped, but the introduction of Intel's new Z68 chipset came with an announcement that Intel had licensed Lucid's "Virtu" GPU virtualization technology.
Jimmy sent in this TV news story on broadband. US network PBS compare the current state of broadband in the US, UK and Netherlands. Not heavy on the tech-side, but touches on points relevant to the NBN debate - effect on business and the like. A guy on a houseboat has better internet than you. :)
IntelInside sent in this amazing Photopic Sky Survey. The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. Some blurb on SMH here. When he realized the work was too monumental, Risinger quit his day job as a marketing director of a countertop company to devote himself full-time to the project.
HardCoreWare compare memory for Sandy Bridge. Which DDR memory kit is best for Sandy Bridge? We seek to find out, as we take kits from five of the leading memory manufacturers and put them to the test. What follows is the toughest conclusion we've had to come to in quite some time.
LegitReviews unlocked a Radeon HD 6950 to 6970. Upgrading the AMD Radeon HD 6950 graphics to a Radeon HD 6970 proved to be an enlightening experience. Testing the same card with multiple levels of shaders, core speeds and memory frequencies showed exactly how each of these things can have an effect in different ways. The largest gains came from completely unlocking the potential of the Radeon HD 6950 by fully flashing the BIOS, effectively turning it into a Radeon HD 6970.
PCMark 7 has been released, including a free version allowing unlimited benchmarking runs. Windows 7 only, though. Techgage checked it out.
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