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Early NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 benchmark surfaces online

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Roughly a day before its expected unveiling, a Chinese forum member with a GeForce GTX 1060 sample has shared screenshots showing the card’s performance in 3DMark Firestrike benchmark scores. The card scored 11,255 points in the standard Firestrike test and… Go To Full Article

Western Digital Expands My Passport External USB 3.0 Drives To 4 TB

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Western Digital last week introduced several new members to its My Passport family of external hard drives. The new portable external HDDs can store up to 4 TB of data, an improvement over previous-gen portable storage solutions from the company.… Go To Full Article

Gigabyte X99-Ultra Gaming (with Broadwell-E) @ techPowerUp

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We test the Gigabyte X99-Ultra Gaming with the latest Intel 20-core Broadwell-E processor. This new motherboard comes with both Intel and KillerNIC LAN, U.2 and M.2 drive support, USB 3.1 Type-C, and audio-tailored for gaming. It also supports multiple videocards… Go To Full Article

Microsoft's take on Pinterest has you collecting real objects

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As popular as Pinterest is, it's limited: with certain exceptions, you're really just collecting internet content. What if you have something cool to show off in the real world? The Microsoft Garage team wants to help. It just launched Thinga.me,... Go To Full Article

Startups seek to de-anonymize Bitcoin to fight crime

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Startups in the UK and US are claiming that they're able to strip Bitcoin users of some of their anonymity to fight online crime. Reuters is reporting that London-based company Elliptic has teamed up with the Internet Watch Foundation to… Go To Full Article

ZOTAC GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme Review @ Vortez

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Under observation today is the ZOTAC GTX 1080 AMP Extreme. As tradition would have it, AMP editions arrive with a factory overclock but this graphics card goes further than that by offering a substantial overclock to the GPU and memory… Go To Full Article

Rescuing 1,200 rolls of film that were never processed

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The Rescued Film Project rose to prominence last year with the release of hundreds of photos by an unknown World War 2 soldier. Founded by photographer Levi Bettweiser, the organization seeks out unclaimed film rolls from the 20th century before… Go To Full Article

US recalls 501,000 'hoverboards' over safety concerns

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When the US government said that there wasn't a safe 'hoverboard' in the land early this year, it wasn't kidding around. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling 501,000 of the self-balancing vehicles over concerns that their batteries wil...… Go To Full Article

Twitter kicks off live sports streaming with Wimbledon

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Twitter paid a reported $10 million for the rights to live stream NFL broadcasts, and now we have an idea as to what that will look like. The social network is now livecasting its first live sports event, Wimbledon, using… Go To Full Article

Microsoft's final Windows 10 upgrade prompt goes full-screen

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The free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ends July 29, and Microsoft wants to make sure that all users that haven't yet upgraded are aware they have a limited time to do so for zero dollars. To that end, Microsoft… Go To Full Article

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