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Wednesday - September 8th | | 5:01 | | Presented By:
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| 5:01 | | PS3 3.42 Firmware Update Stops Jailbreaking
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 That didn't take long.
 
PlayStation 3
- Sony
- Game
- Firmware
- Video Games
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| 1:30 | | Ousted HP Chief Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-President
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 Mark Hurd, the former CEO of HP who recently resigned over sexual harassment allegations, has secured a job at software giant Oracle.
Mark Hurd
- HewlettPackard
- Sexual harassment
- Oracle
- Larry Ellison
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Tuesday - September 7th | | 20:00 | | Gas Powered Games: PC Gaming Is Not Dead
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 Gas Powered Games CEO Chris Taylor says the PC space is 'where the opportunity is.'
Gas Powered Games
- Chris Taylor
- Video game
- Games
- Strategy
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| 16:30 | | AMD Working on Stickers That Peel Off More Easily
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 Hate all those gaudy stickers that come stuck on your PC? AMD wants to be friendlier to sticker peelers starting next year.
Advanced Micro Devices
- Stickers
- Shopping
- David Pogue
- Intel Corporation
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| 12:30 | | Gearbox Software Owns Duke Nukem... Forever.
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 When do we get our Duke Nukem and Claptrap crossover?
Duke Nukem
- Gearbox
- Duke Nukem Forever
- 3D Realms
- Randy Pitchford
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Monday - September 6th | | 22:30 | | Google Will Simplify Privacy Policy in New Update
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 Google has said it will update its privacy policy to make it easier to understand.
Google
- Privacy
- privacy policy
- Security
- Search
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Saturday - September 4th | | 7:00 | | Four Retro Consoles Torn Apart and Photographed
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 iFixit is turning its gadget-dismantling tools on some of our favorite retro consoles.
IFixit
- Video Games
- Games
- Nintendo
- Console Platforms
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| 6:30 | | Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Laptops Over Overheating
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 Toshiba has recalled 41,000 laptops sold between August 2009 and August 2010 because the units in question represent a burn hazard to users.
Toshiba
- Laptop
- Hardware
- AC adapter
- Recall
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Friday - September 3rd | | 20:30 | | Presented By:
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| 20:30 | | Duke Nukem Forever May Show Up at PAX today
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 2K Games may reveal the long, long, long, long-awaited shooter at PAX 2010.
Duke Nukem Forever
- 2K Games
- Gearbox
- Duke Nukem
- 3D Realms
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| 20:30 | | Nvidia Releases Entire Lineup of DX11 Mobile GPU
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 Nvidia Optimus now in all new mobile GPU parts.
Graphics processing unit
- Nvidia
- GPU
- GeForce
- CUDA
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| 17:30 | | Die-Shot: Next-Gen 8-Core AMD Orochi Bulldozer
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 This is the eight-core version of Bulldozer.
Bulldozer
- Advanced Micro Devices
- Central processing unit
- Bobcat
- Intel Corporation
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| 15:31 | | Windows 7 Family Pack Deal Making a Comeback
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 Upgrade your family of computers.
Windows 7
- Recreation
- Windows XP
- Operating system
- Windows Vista
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| 14:03 | | Whoa... It's a Double Rainbow... for Windows Live
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 What does it mean?
Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows
- Operating Systems
- Windows Live
- DoubleRainbow
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| 13:30 | | Q&A Session With AMD and Troublemakers Behind Opteron and Fi..
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 AMD technology behind Grindhouse style movies.
Advanced Micro Devices
- Opteron
- Hardware
- Processors
- X86
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| 4:30 | | Microsoft Patents Automatic OS Shutdown
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 Microsoft has successfully patented a procedure for shutting down Windows.
Microsoft
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Corporation
- Companies
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| 0:00 | | OilRush Coming to PC, Linux, Looks Stunning
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 Unigine Corp's upcoming OilRush game combines strategy and tower defense.
Tower defense
- Personal computer
- Linux
- OilRush
- Games
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Thursday - September 2nd | | 17:30 | | Report: Asus Has ''Off the Charts'' Reliability Score
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 Apple scores well too, probably because everyone sticks to Apple for support.
Apple
- Macintosh
- Companies
- Apple II
- Product Support
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| 17:30 | | Why Apple Is Wrestling With Relevance
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 According to Jobs, Apple's learned a lot in 4 years. Let's analyze what's been shown.
Apple
- Steve Jobs
- IPod
- iTunes
- Macintosh
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| 16:30 | | HP's Envy 17 With Blu-ray 3D, Envy 14 With Beats
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 Now you can experience 3D movies while you're on the go.
Blu-ray Disc
- Hewlett-Packard
- HP
- Laptop
- Arts
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| 15:31 | | Toshiba Making 24nm Flash -- 8GB on Single Chip
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 Small memory for big capacity.
Toshiba
- FlashMemory
- Memory
- Hardware
- Components
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| 14:30 | | HP Labs Teams With Hynix to Make Memristors
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 Is this the first step towards more advanced forms of AI?
Hewlett-Packard
- Artificial intelligence
- FlashMemory
- HP
- Hynix
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| 13:30 | | AMD CPUs and GPUs Used to Make 'Machete'
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 Opteron and FirePro were the tools behind the film.
Central processing unit
- Graphics processing unit
- Business
- Construction and Maintenance
- Hardware
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| 4:30 | | Commodore Launching Amiga-brand Desktops
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 Retro is hot again, and Commodore knows it. The company this week revealed that it would be reviving the Amiga brand that was so popular in the '80s and '90s.
Amiga
- Commodore
- Personal computer
- CommodoreUsa
- Retailers
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| 4:00 | | An Android Tablet? Archos Just Announced FIVE
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 It's either a famine or a feast, right? Well, feast your eyes on this spread from Archos.
Archos
- Android
- Tablet
- Portable media player
- Touchscreen
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| 2:30 | | Buffalo To Sell Portable 3D Blu-ray Optical Drive
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 Buffalo's new 3D Blu-ray external drive is sleek and compact.
Blu-ray Disc
- Arts
- Movies
- Disk enclosure
- Theaters
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| 1:30 | | Report: Windows XP Still Dominates U.S. PCs
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 Recent stats indicate that Windows 7 is catching up to Vista on the market, however XP still rules the world.
Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- Windows Vista
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| 1:30 | | Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta Begins Thursday
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 Square Enix ironed out the Open Beta bugs.
Final Fantasy XIV
- Square Enix
- BETA
- Software release life cycle
- Final Fantasy
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Wednesday - September 1st | | 21:00 | | Blizzard Unveils Development Update for Diablo 3
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 Blizzard's Jay Wilson said that the Diablo 3 team is no longer in 'discovery' mode.
Diablo III
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Diablo 3
- Jay Wilson
- Blizzard
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| 21:00 | | Three Big Announcements Coming from Valve
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 Not only is Valve experimenting with biometrics, but the company plans to reveal three big surprises over the next twelve months.
Valve
- Business
- Valves Hoses and Fittings
- Industrial Goods and Services
- Fluid Handling
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| 17:30 | | Guess Who Are the Most Loved/Hated Tech CEOs
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 Two thirds of HP must be a little happier now.
Weight loss
- Actor
- Björk
- Lindsay Lohan
- Vanity Fair
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| 15:30 | | The Amazing (Real) Pocketbike PC Case Mod
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 Too bad you can't really ride it anymore.
MOD
- Hardware
- Subcultures
- Burger King
- Big Bumpin
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| 8:30 | | Tom's Hardware's Mailbox: Angelini Goes Postal
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 It's easy to get caught up in the daily grind: benchmarking, writing, editing, and answering what sometimes seems like hundreds of emails. But at the end of the day, all of the work is for you. It's about time we started answering a little more feedback.
Business
- United States
- Mail
- New Jersey
- Mental disorder
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| 3:00 | | Blizzard: We'd Probably Agree to Do a StarCraft Movie if Jam..
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 A StarCraft movie is possible but only if the right people are up for the job.
StarCraft
- James Cameron
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Video game
- Games
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| 2:30 | | HP Settles Kickbacks Case for $55,000,000
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 The United States Department of Justice has announced that HP has agreed to settle over claims that the computer maker defrauded the U.S. government.
United States Department of Justice
- Hewlett-Packard
- Federal government of the United States
- United States
- Justice Department
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| 2:30 | | Developer Brings StarCraft II Controller to iPhone
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 Playing StarCraft II? There's an app for that.
IPhone
- StarCraft
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Games
- Video Games
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| 0:30 | | Samung Galaxy Tab Coming to Verizon?
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 Looks like Samsung's new tablet will land on Verizon.
Samsung Group
- Android
- Verizon
- Samsung
- Tablet
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Tuesday - August 31st | | 20:30 | | Presented By:
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| 20:30 | | Cloud Computing: New Name, Same Old Tech
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 Larry Ellison Doesn’t Get Cloud Computing.
Cloud computing
- Computer Science
- Distributed Computing
- United States
- Minnesota
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| 20:01 | | Open Beta for Final Fantasy XIV Postponed
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The open beta for the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV was slated to begin today, however Square Enix has put it on hold.
Final Fantasy XIV
- Square Enix
- Software release life cycle
- Final Fantasy
- Movies
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| 20:01 | | AMD Reveals Single Link DisplayPort-to-DVI
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 Owners of the Radeon HD 5000 series can add a third DVI-based display using a simple dongle.
Evergreen
- DisplayPort
- ATI Technologies
- Radeon
- Video card
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| 4:30 | | Hackers Often Accidentally Send Code to Microsoft
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 A Microsoft Security official has revealed that hackers often send their code to Redmond by accident.
Microsoft
- Security
- Operating system
- Malware
- Hacker
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