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After seeing the character design for Quiet, the female sniper in Metal Gear Solid V, Halo designer David Ellis said the industry is disgusting, "full of man babies," and that this feels "icky."

Christopher White · Sep 8, 2013 · Hot! with 129 comments

Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: the blind. Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely...

· Oct 3, 2007 · Hot! with 32 comments

Samsung has announced 80GB and 160GB flavours of its new 3.5" SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra silent and high-speed hard disk drives. The S166 Series has a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, provides an 8MB buffer,...

· Apr 4, 2007 · Hot! with 8 comments

AMD is pushing a new motherboard format called DTX, which it says will allow system assemblers to build smaller PCs that are quieter and more energy efficient. The DTX spec is intended to bolster the...

· Mar 20, 2007 · Hot! with 9 comments

After handling 19 sets of patches in July and August, system administrators will catch a bit of a break next week when Microsoft Corp. is expected to release just three security updates for its Windows...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 8, 2006 with -1 comments

Thanks -tom for pointing this out on the forum! In yet another silent release by Apple, the U2 iPod has been rereleased. It silently appeared on Apple's site today, with the slogan "Back for...

Simon Andrews · Jun 6, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Mobile hard drives--partly because of their smaller, 2.5-inch size and their need to conserve notebook PC power--have always lagged behind 3.5-inch desktop models in performance and capacity. But a new generation of higher-performance, power-thrifty models...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Oct 7, 2004 with -1 comments

Intel's release this week of a 64-bit Xeon server processor made one thing clear - AMD has its rival in a real tizzy. As an Intel spinmeister was describing the new Nocona processor, we couldn't...

· Aug 6, 2004 with -1 comments

Unlike Novell and Linuxtag, Lindows - the consumer Linux maker - says it is neither for nor against SCO's legal battle against IBM and Linux. Lindows.com on Thursday sought to distance itself from the legal...

Daniel Fleshbourne · May 29, 2003 with -1 comments

The answer to our prayers? THE GAINWARD COMPANY , known to make very fast nVidia based cards, is going to surprise us again. We expect this PowerPack card will be faster than many...

· Jan 30, 2003 with -1 comments

Yesterday at approx 10:30am disaster rocked a small house in nothern New Brunswick. When I awoke I made my way over to my computer as I habitualy do every morning, pressed the power button, ...

· May 28, 2002 with -1 comments

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