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If you have a Sony 40" Bravia TV, Dan warns there's a fire risk advisory about them. We have recently become aware of a potential issue affecting a very limited number of BRAVIA LCD TV models, which were available for purchase in Australia from mid 2007 through to late 2008. This issue has come to our attention via a report from Sony Corporation in Japan that a limited number of these products might contain a component affected by a quality issue, which in a rare number of cases may over-heat and ignite inside the television and may possibly result in the melting of the upper rear casing of the television.
CN notes that the Attorney-General's department has removed a section from its latest copyright discussion paper that mentioned a "streamlined" way for copyright holders to get information from ISPs. The original paper (PDF), released on Friday, sparked outrage over proposals to "streamline" the process for copyright holders to gain access to personal information of alleged infringers from an internet service provider (ISP). The Department of the Attorney-General told ZDNet Australia in a statement that the paper originally released on Friday was a draft that was mistakenly posted online.
Reece sent in this mind-bending quantum levitation video. Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field. For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit here. Very cool, no pun intended.
HotHardware have a Z68 Motherboard Roundup, with boards from ASUS, EVGA, ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI and ZOTAC. Until Intel's next-gen, high-end Sandy Bridge-E and its companion X79 chipset launches sometime this quarter, Sandy Bridge-based family of second generation Core processors and the Z68 Express chipset remain Intel’s premiere desktop platform. It is with that in mind that we've just taken a look at several different motherboard offerings from manufacturers that cover a range of form factors, feature sets, and price points.
Sony have confirmed pricing and availability of the PlayStation Vita in Australia and NZ, thanks Null Object. February 23, 2012. lso somewhat unexpected: The price – AUD $349.95 in Australia, and NZD $449.95 for the wi-fi only model. If you want 3G as well, that’ll be an extra hundred bucks – AUD$449.95 and NZD$549.95. This puts Antipodean gamers just one day after North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, who get theirs on February 22. Europeans will fork over €249.99 for the Wi-fi only, and €299.99 for 3G. More info on the gadget here.
Tech Report have a Radeon HD 6950 shootout. We've gathered three souped-up Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards from Gigabyte, MSI, and XFX. Which one delivers the most bang for your buck?
Meanwhile TechSpot have a mini-ITX faceoff. Today we're looking at a new breed of Mini-ITX motherboards from Asrock called the Z68M-ITX/HT and A75M-ITX. The former is an Intel Z68 board that supports Intel's second-generation Core processors (Sandy Bridge), while the latter utilizes AMD A75's chipset to support Socket FM1 processors, namely the new Fusion A-series desktop APUs. In addition to comparing Asrock's boards, we'll spice things up by selecting Intel and AMD's $140 CPU offerings. In other words, this review will also serve as a comparison for the Core i3-2120 and AMD A8-3850.
Philip sent in this 50-core tablet. Kinda. Inside the JAGUAR3 you will find the ZMS-20 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which features two 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores along with an additional 48 StemCell processing cores, effectively making it a 50-core processor. We don’t have a lot of technical details on these 48 StemCell cores, but ZiiLabs compares them to GPU cores and says they easily make ZMS-20 ”the most powerful SoC available for tablets today.”
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