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Web fonts will soon look better in Chrome

@ 2014/07/21 read/post comments(0)

For all of Google Chrome's advantages, its sub-par rendering of web fonts has always been a sore point. With the release of Chrome 37, however, that's about to change. This post on the Chromium blog reveals that… Go To Full Article

ECS LIVA Review: The Nettop Rises Again

@ 2014/07/21 read/post comments(0)

Nettops and netbooks, as a class of products, have been on the decline over the last few years. However, the introduction of SoCs based on the new Silvermont Atom cores has given the segment a chance to reinvent itself. ECS… Go To Full Article

ASUS ROG Maximus VII Formula Released

@ 2014/07/21 read/post comments(0)

One of the major announcements at Computex this year was that of the Maximus VII Formula, ASUS’ ‘gaming-rather-than-overclocking’ focused member of the Republic of Gamers line-up. The additions for the new Formula will centre on the PCIe storage support that… Go To Full Article

Hackers make Xbox One's Kinect work on a PC

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Microsoft famously said the Xbox One Kinect wouldn't work on a PC, but hackers have already done the trick mere days after the release of the Kinect for Windows v2.0 SDK. As shown in the video below, they managed to… Go To Full Article

Palit's passive GeForce GTX 750 Ti is silent but deadly

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Heads up home-theater PC users—or anyone who wants an affordable, potent gaming card in a silent package. Palit has created what it claims are the first GeForce GTX 750 and 750 Ti cards with passive cooling. The KalmX series has… Go To Full Article

How to Install and Use Another Desktop Environment on Linux

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Each Linux distribution comes with a single default desktop environment chosen from the many different desktop environments available for Linux. But you don’t have to stick with the default. Go To Full Article

Google finally agrees to fix Chrome bug that drains Windows laptop batteries

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Chrome may be the browser of choice for around 35 percent of the world's internet users, but it's not without its flaws. A report by Forbes has highlighted that the browser won't return to an idle state if it's not… Go To Full Article

Superlux HD668B Headphones Review

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Superlux is a Taiwanese manufacturer of audio components that targets the “affordable market”. Their headphones have slowly entered the market during the past years and they have made quiet a hype in various enthusiast forums and gaming communities. At first,… Go To Full Article

Kingston Technology Leads the DRAM Module Industry: TrendForce

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The global PC DRAM module market revenues arrived at US$ 7.3 billion in 2013, a 32% YoY increase from 2012's US$ 5.5 billion, according to DRAMeXchange, the memory and storage research division of TrendForce. The main factors leading to the… Go To Full Article

This bacteria eats nothing but electricity to survive

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All life is ultimately powered by electricity, albeit indirectly; most organisms consume sugars that produce electrochemical reactions. Several types of bacteria are known to skip the sweets and go straight for the electrons, however -- and... Go To Full Article

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