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Friday, 7-October-2011 14:03:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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iD Software have released Rage, their first game since Doom 3 in 2004, and anticipated since 2007. HWHeaven have a review, while PCPerspective have a performance and image quality evaluation. With reports of stability issues, graphical glitches and other issues this wasn't an average launch and it wasn't helped by AMD's accidental publishing of a driver which made matters worse. Now, with the latest AMD driver designed specifically to improve the Rage experience we delve into id's latest release to find out what all the fuss is about NGOHQ have compared the PC and console versions.
A new law in Italy has resulted in their Wikipedia site being taken offline. This legislative reform proposal, which the Italian Parliament is debating these days, provides, among other things, also to require all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request without comment, a correction of any content that the applicant deems detrimental to its image. Unfortunately, the evaluation of "cause injury" of such content must not be released to a third Judge and impartially, but only the opinion of the person allegedly injured.
Tech Report have a Llano Mini-ITX faceoff. The tight integration of AMD's Llano platform is perfectly suited to Mini-ITX motherboards. We test two of 'em from Asus and Zotac to see what's what.
HWHeaven compared three all-in-one CPU watercoolers. Never a company to rest on their laurels Corsair were not happy with just being a degree or two cooler, they wanted more and so a new product hit the market a month or so ago. The H100 is the new high end model in Corsairs Hydro range of liquid coolers and today we put it head to head with the H80 and Antec 920 to see how each compare.
CN sent news of the FBI's encryption backdoors and making wiretaps easier. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order. The mandate would include being able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages.
People are upset that the original Siri app, the "personal assistant" now included in the iPhone 4S, has been disabled for earlier devices by being removed from the App Store. So, why take it down? Two reasons come to mind. For one, it’s pretty tough to up-sell current iPhone 4 owners to the iPhone 4S if one of the biggest features is already available (albeit to a limited extent) as a third-party app. Less nefariously, having a third-party app (especially one that hadn’t been updated in around a year) available with the same name as a feature would be beyond confusing. If it were solely about avoiding confusion, though, why pull down the server for those who already have the app?
The Government has a new website about violent extremeism in communities. Since 2001, Australian law enforcement and security agencies have foiled four major terrorist plots on Australian soil. Law enforcement and security agencies in Australia have been successful in detecting and disrupting terrorist attacks before they could occur.
Tomb Raider has turned 15, and is celebrating with some new artwork.
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