Twitter and Facebook suffered service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation about a coordinated campaign against the world’s most popular online social networks. The attacks, which came a month after the White House Continue reading “Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook”.
Worldwide PC processor shipments in the second quarter of 2009 rose notably, according to new data from IDC. While the increase was unusually positive for the second quarter of a year, IDC’s said it analysis Continue reading “Worldwide PC processor market rebounds in 2Q09, says IDC”.
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Processor @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! “When originally released, Phenom had a nick name of the black Continue reading “August 7 News from Around the Web”.
The successor to the classic Logitech G5 Laser Mouse, the Logitech Gaming Mouse G500 was released today. With its gaming-grade laser engine you can rev up your intensity reaching a maximum hand speed of 165 Continue reading “Logitech Introduces G500 Gaming Mouse”.
A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was “looking into” possible site problems. For users of the fast-growing messaging service, the outage means no tweeting about lunch plans, Continue reading “Hacker attack shuts down Twitter and Facebook is having issues today”.
It was announced today that the forthcoming DC Comics-licensed videogame, Batman: Arkham Asylum, will feature NVIDIA PhysX technology, which allows for the creation of incredibly realistic worlds full of interactive materials and objects. As a Continue reading “Batman: Arkham Asylum to support NVIDIA PhysX technology”.
VIA Technologies today announced the VIA EPIA N700-10EW Nano-ITX board, designed for industrial and embedded applications in environments with extreme temperatures. Measuring only 12cm x 12cm, the VIA EPIA N700-10EW Nano-ITX board supports up to Continue reading “VIA Announces Fanless Nano-ITX Board – EPIA N700-10EW”.
When NASA’s original Apollo 11 moon landing video was accidentally destroyed, it seemed the world had lost a visual record of one of man’s greatest achievements. Fortunately, unique digital video restoration technology from Lowry Digital, Continue reading “NVIDIA CUDA Used to Recover Apollo 11 Moon Video”.
Winbond Electronics plans to lower its sales proportion from standard DRAM to 10% in 2010, and gradually phase out the business, according to company president Tung-Yi Chan. The Taiwan-based memory chipmaker has recently announced a Continue reading “Winbond set to exit standard DRAM business, to add GDDR line”.
The Pentagon has ordered a review of its use of social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, citing concerns that security could be compromised, officials said on Tuesday. Many branches of the military use Continue reading “U.S. military reviews use of Twitter, other sites”.
BFG Technologies announced today the BFG GeForce GTX 285 H2O+ and GeForce GTX 295 H2OC graphics cards with ThermoIntelligence Advanced Cooling Solutionssaving customers time and money by providing a high performance graphics card plus a Continue reading “BFG Tech Announces Limited Edition Water Cooled GeForce GTX 285 & 295 Graphics Cards”.
Increasing the momentum and industry support for its 3D professional graphics accelerators, AMD today announced its newest solution for content creators and computer-aided designers (CAD) who demand mobility: the ATI FirePro M7740 graphics accelerator, set Continue reading “Dell Precision M6400 Laptop Workstations Use ATI FirePro M7740 Graphics”.
NVIDIA today introduced the NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine, part of a suite of application acceleration engines for software developers. NVIDIA acceleration engines make it easy to incorporate valuable, high-performance capabilities into applications, while simultaneously Continue reading “NVIDIA Announces OptiX Ray Tracing Engine”.
Kingston Technology today announced it is preparing production quantities of HyperX DDR3 dual-channel 1.65-volt memory kits, and has successfully achieved 2133MHz speed at CL8 latencies. In September, Kingston will ship a complete line of HyperX Continue reading “Kingston to Debut 2133MHz DDR3 Dual-Channel 1.65-Volt Memory”.
AMD today announced planned support for the OpenGL 3D graphics API by committing to OpenGL 3.1 support for ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators. As a leading environment for developing interactive 3D graphics applications, OpenGL helps Continue reading “AMD Announces Planned Support For OpenGL 3.1; OpenGL 3.2”.
