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Innodisk introduces memory modules with special coatings

Innodisk, a leading manufacturer of special-purpose DRAM and NAND flash products, has introduced its new breed of memory modules with conformal coatings applied are protected from moisture, dust and chemical contaminants. Such modules are useful in extreme environments, including industrial, embedded, automate and so on. Innodisk conformal coatings refer to …

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Microsoft vows stronger support for PC games

Microsoft Corp. has mostly concentrated on Xbox video games throughout the last decade or so. While the software giant has continued to advance DirectX, a multimedia application programming interface for PCs, the first party titles from Microsoft Studios have been designed primarily for the Xbox platform. Nonetheless, Microsoft promises that …

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8pack and Hivizman smash 10+ 3Dmark world records

Overclockers' resident OC master and emasculator 8pack, has once again broken a bunch of world records, with the help of fellow overclocker Hivizman. No wonder the first post about it on the OCUK forums was ‘hey, leave some for the rest of us.' The record breaking was all part of a …

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MSI teasing new Gaming series product

If you've been paying attention to the MSI UK Facebook page over the last couple of weeks then you might have noticed that a few teasers have been posted for an upcoming ‘Gaming series' product, due t0 release next month. So far very little information is available aside from one …

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Dutch police down drug marketplace Utopia

When the US authorities used good old fashioned police work to take down the original Silk Road last year and arrest its alleged owner, Ross Ulbricht, it seemed like they'd dealt a serious blow to the online trading community, but it didn't last long. Within days alternatives had appeared and …

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Win a STEAM game of your choice this week!

This weekend we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our silly Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from the upcoming game WATCHDOGS. It means you can …

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Apple Mac Pro shipping estimates slip to April

Apple’s online stores in the U.S. and the U.K. on Tuesday changed shipping estimates of the latest Mac Pro desktops to April, delaying the highly-anticipated product by another month. The reasons why Apple cannot ship the new workstations immediately are still not clear. Apple’s new Mac Pro utilizes numerous proprietary …

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Nokia set to debut its first Android phone at MWC

Nokia is set to reveal its low end Android powered smartphone at the Mobile World Congress this month according to the Wall Street Journal. The publication cited sources “familiar with the matter”, the phone is said to be code named the Nokia Normandy and will appear at the Barcelona based …

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ARM unveils Cortex-A17 core for mainstream devices

ARM Holdings, a leading developer of microprocessor technologies for mobile and low-power devices, on Tuesday introduced its new general-purpose core designed for entry-level and mainstream devices based on Google Android operating system in 2015 and beyond. In addition, ARM revealed its new cost-optimized Mali-T720 graphics processing unit. ARM Cortex-A17 processor …

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US military begins testing on smart guns

The United States army has begun testing a new brand of rifles that could allow the average soldier to achieve marksman levels of accuracy over distances over a kilometre, thanks to smart features that allow the gun itself to track your target and decide the optimal moment to fire. Produced …

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Barclays data reveal could have been inside job

Barclays bank and its customers had a nasty shock yesterday, when it was revealed that the information of people that use the bank, was being sold on black markets and used for all manner of criminal activity, from fraud, to blackmail and other scams. While the bank has a looming …

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Bitcoin value continues to tumble

The value of bitcoins over the past year has been an interesting ride to watch, since it ballooned in just ten months from around $30 per coin, to a massive $1,200 at one point. Since then it's cruised at around the $950 mark but most recently, it's tumbled spectacularly after …

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Man at Arms builds a Halo energy sword

Man at Arms is a series of Youtube videos that has an experienced bladesmith crafting all sorts of weaponry from video games and movies, but for his latest project, he's building a Halo energy sword. Of course it doesn't have the power to one shot kill an Elite, but it …

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Aerocool GT Advance Case Review

Today we are going to take a look at another case from Aerocool, the GT Advance, which is designed for those users who are on the tightest of budgets.  At a price of only £25, this is one of the cheapest branded models you will find, making it ideal for …

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AMD, partners roll-out Radeon R7 250X graphics cards

Advanced Micro Devices and its partners on Monday began to roll-out new graphics card aimed at the mainstream market. The “novelty” is expectedly based on an existing graphics processing unit, but belongs to a new product family and carries an all-new model-number, the Radeon R7 250X. The new Radeon R7 …

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