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An External Blu-Ray Player Is Your “DVD is Dead, Long Live Blu-Ray!” Deal of the Day

If the DVD is dead and the Blu-ray is king, it might be a good idea to have a way to watch said Blu-ray discs on your computer, mightn't it? Read More >>

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Sony’s UK Boss Says They “Might Consider” 4K Phones

The idea of 4K TVs still boggle my mind (and eyes), but 4K phones? Do we even need them? According to a comment last week by Qualcomm's VP of Product Management, Raj Talluri, we will see phones with resolutions higher than 1080p one day, and speaking to Sony's UK Managing Director Pierre Perron, that's something Sony would back -- if enough people showed interest, that is. Read More >>

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Next-Gen Processors: What Can We Expect?

CES 2013 was the exact point where processors became more than just geekdom. For decades, Intel's ruled the roost with a near-monopoly on processors. With the advent of smartphones and tablets, though, the field was blown wide open, and now there's a whole bunch of companies competing to put a slice of their finest silicon into your lucky hands. Here's what's going to be powering 2013's most lustworthy devices. Read More >>

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Samsung’s New Exynos Processor: Your Next Phone’s Gonna Be Fast

Samsung's Exynos processors have powered a lot of the faster devices out there, from the Galaxy S II, which was way ahead of everyone in terms of speed, to the newer Nexus 10. Now the Exynos 5 Octa Processor is here. Wait, octa? As in eight cores? Read More >>

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Why 4K Phones Aren’t Such a Bad Idea

At a small press event at CES today, Raj Talluri, Qualcomm's VP of Product Management dropped this little nugget. "You are just starting to see 1080p display phones. I think that will go even higher." My brain instantly exploded. Read More >>

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Meet the New Crazy-Fast Snapdragon 800 and 600 Processors

Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor has been blowing us away with its speed in phones like the Nexus 4, and that's why we can't wait to meet its big brothers. The Snapdragon 800 boasts a quad-core Krait 400 CPU, that can go up to 2.3GHz per core. Read More >>

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Gorilla Glass 3 Hands On: Somehow Even More Indestructible (Exclusive)

Corning is unveiling the newest iteration of its popular Gorilla Glass line of scratch and crack resistant screens at the Consumer Electronics Show tomorrow but we were able to get an early preview of just how tough GG3 really is. And boy is it. Read More >>

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Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need to Know

Intel's talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it's new, some of it we've heard before. But we'll let you know everything important that goes down today. Read More >>

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The Tegra 4 Is Here

Here it is: the next biggest, baddest mobile processor, the silicon monster that'll power your next coveted super-smartphone. It packs 72 GPU cores, 4 A15 CPU cores, and built-in LTE. Read More >>

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Toshiba’s New 20-Megapixel Image Sensor Is a Remnant of the Megapixel Wars

Toshiba's new TCM5115CL 20-megapixel image sensor is the highest-resolution ever built for the tiniest point-and-shoot cameras. Uh oh, are the megapixel wars back? Read More >>

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The Most Expensive Hard Drive Ever Spun 22.7 GB on 11-Inch Platters

Twenty-two Gigabytes seems like a paltry amount of storage by today's standards, but in the early days of networked computing—when most storage capacities were measured in a lower order of magnitude—IBM's ultimate DASD offered an unheard of amount of space. Read More >>

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NVIDIA’s Tegra 4: Six Times as Powerful as Tegra 3, 1080p at 120Hz and 4K Video?

A leaked slide, published by Chip Hell, purports to show the specs of NVIDIA's next high-power mobile processors — and if the leak's accurate, it looks like NVIDIA is more than catching up with the competition. Read More >>

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Intel CEO Paul Otellini Will Retire This May After 40 Year Tenure

At this point, there aren't that many people who've worked at Intel as long as CEO Paul Otellini has. But after 40 years at the 45-year old chip maker—the last eight of them as CEO—he's hanging up his stirrups this May. His timing couldn't be better. Read More >>

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Google’s Guts Look Like a Technicoloured Dreamland

We saw the insides of one of Google's once-secretive data centres for the first time last month. But now, as part of Google's new 'Where the internet lives', big G has thrown open the doors to eight of its back-end buildings across the globe, including the myriad of multi-coloured guts that make up Google's nerve centre. This is the technicoloured dreamland where your data is stored, people. Read More >>