Finishing off one of the tech sector’s worst-kept secrets, Google announced an agreement to acquire online media phenom YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. The companies announced after the bell Monday that the Continue reading “Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 billion”.
If you’ve maxed out your processor by overclocking and want to squeeze more out of it or are just looking to reduce core temperatures lapping the processor might be something worth looking into. Legit Reviews does some lapping and eventually removes the IHS on our Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 processor to show you what to do and not to do when it comes to messing with the IHS on your processor.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has been under attack from IPs sourced in China since early September, admitted the Commerce Department last Friday. The Chinese systems have been hitting any system at the Continue reading “Chinese hackers attacking the Commerce Department”.
A recent SitePoint and Ektron survey of Web professionals suggests AJAX will soon surpass Flash as the predominant Web development model of choice. Increases in expected Microsoft-based endeavors, however, make it difficult to predict a Continue reading “AJAX to overtake Flash?”.
Hewlett-Packard has made an agreement with former board members George “Jay” Keyworth and Tom Perkins to pay “any reasonable expenses” that they have already incurred in connection with the HP board snooping scandal. Perkins is Continue reading “HP agrees to reimburse two for cost of snooping”.
Consumers will have access to the first 50GB Blu-ray disc, which boasts twice the capacity of a regular disc, when Sony Pictures releases the Adam Sandler comedy “Click” on Tuesday. The dual-layer disc promises to Continue reading “First 50GB Blu-ray disc for sale on Tuesday with Click”.
The X-Prize Foundation is hoping the cash prize will inspire someone to sequence the hunam genome faster and cheaper than in the past. $1 million dollars will be given for decoding the genomes of 100 Continue reading “The $10 million genomics race”.
Intel may raise its stake in Nvidia so that they can form a strategic partnership to oppose the merger of AMD and ATI, according to sources at Taiwan-based motherboard makers. Nvidia shares climbed last week Continue reading “Intel said to be seeking strategic partnership with Nvidia”.
North Korea faced a barrage of global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions Monday after it announced that it had set off an atomic weapon underground, a test that thrusts the secretive communist state into Continue reading “North Korea Conducts Underground Nuclear Bomb Test”.
Legit Reviews has recently talked with OCZ about some of their highly anticipated Cryo-Z and V-12 cooling solutions. It seems both are still months away from shipping to retail stores, but we still got some pictures of the prototype coolers at OCZ’s offices here in the United States. If you’re interested in twelve heat pipes on a CPU cooler or phase change cooling read on!
Last week Stanford University released a beta version of its Folding@Home client that runs on ATI’s Radeon X1900 and X1950 series graphics cards and today Legit Reviews takes a look at the new client. LR covers why to fold, how to fold on your GPU and how to speed up GPU folding by running 3D clock speeds on your video card. To top it all off LR announces a contest that will give out a couple of ATI Radeon X1900 series to a couple lucky people.
China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops Continue reading “China jamming test sparks U.S. satellite concerns”.
Microsoft is on track to ship Windows Vista to businesses in November and to consumers in January, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs. But analysts at Gartner believe Microsoft could benefit by delaying Vista until Continue reading “Analysts split over MIcrosoft Vista launch date”.
The PC is changing. Once simply a computer with spreadsheets for the family budget and games for the kids, home PCs are rapidly evolving into home entertainment systems, equipped with digital television tuners, high-definition displays, Continue reading “PC makers prepare for convergence”.
Google on Thursday launched a Web site, Google Code Search, which the company says will let programmers search billions of lines of code for tips on how to write their own software. The service, conceived Continue reading “Google crawls into source-code search”.
