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People are wondering if Paypal may have been compromised, due to suspicious emails they've recieved with what seems to be Paypal-specific info inside. So, beware bogus Adobe and Skype emails, and hopefully there'll be more info about the possible Paypal issue, or some other explanation, soon.
Lots of vendors are shipping motherboards with fixed Sandy Bridge chipsets - the thing to look for is "B3 Revision". Specific info is available from ASUS, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI. Discussion continues here.
The Crysis 2 Multiplayer Demo was released recently. All versions of the new demo will include two maps, “Skyline” and “Pier 17”, as well as two modes “Team Instant Action” and “Crash Site”. Lots of screenshots and gameplay videos in this discussion thread.
Tech Report meanwhile consider Bulletstorm. TR's Cyril Kowaliski talks about his impressions playing Bulletstorm, the new futuristic shooter from Epic Games and People Can Fly. Cyril gives the game a thumbs up, saying it owes its success to a key ingredient usually missing from popular single-player shooters: genuinely fun combat. Techspot looked at CPU & GPU Performance in Bulletstorm.
While we're talking games, there's a new Battlefield 3 teaser which looks pretty impressive. Powered by Frostbite 2, the next generation of DICE’s cutting-edge gaming engine, Battlefield 3 delivers spectacular visuals, earth-shattering destruction and real as hell combat gameplay providing a dramatic immersive First Person Shooter experience. More info and discussion here.
Tzortst spotted what has to be one of the most cringe-worthy tech videos out there. Found this in the back room of my old job. It was titled "YO MS Raps!" MS-DOS 5.0 was the first version available in a retail package. Looks like MS spent a few $$$ to produce the effects in this video to promote it. I can see where Steve Ballmer got some of his moves from now!
From John: After complaining about “unfair” competition from international online sellers last year, Myer have opened a new online site - set up to ship in from overseas and avoid GST on items under $1000.I checked out the site tonight and the first big offer is an emachine Notebook for $498. It must be an extremely extremely fast notebook, as according to the specs it not only has Intel Pentium Dual Core P6200 processor but also AMD A50 Fusion APU on board! The best of both worlds all on one machine...
HWSecrets have a thermal paste roundup. We added five new thermal compounds to our previous roundup, for a total of 10 thermal compounds from Cooler Master, Coolink, Deepcool, Evercool, Gelid, Noctua, Prolimatech, Spire, Thermalright, and Zalman.
From Rod: I thought this was pretty funny, someone got Linus Torvalds an invite to a celebrity party before the Oscars. From the article: So me and the wife were completely out of our depth, and knew absolutely nobody. We go out for a date night every week, so we a fair number of movies, but we really aren't movie people - the kinds of movies we go to don't make a huge impression. So there we were, cram-packed with celebrities, not remembering names or faces.
Breech spotted a project from Google and MYOB to get Australian small businesses online with free websites. More here. Google and MYOB have announced Getting Aussie Business Online, and plan to sign up 50,000 businesses this year. The companies noted that while Australians regularly turn to the internet to research local shops and services, two-thirds of Australian small businesses are invisible online because they don’t have a website.
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