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Monster Machines: China Has The World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Watson may have been able to trounce a pair of Jeopardy champs, but it can’t hold a candle to the new king of number crunching, the 3.12 million-core Tianhe-2. Built by China’s National University of Defense Technology at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer runs on a proprietary Linux build.

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How To Overclock Your Video Card To Boost Gaming Performance

Overclocking — running your hardware at higher speeds than it was designed to run — is one of the best ways to boost your gaming performance. Here’s how to overclock your video card and get faster, smoother games without spending any extra money.

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Garbage Can That Looks Like The Mac Pro Is A Hot Item In Japan

You know how people are comparing the new Mac Pro to a garbage can? Turns out one Japanese garbage can is already reaping the rewards.

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OS X Mavericks First Impressions: A Little Good Going A Long Way

Mavericks is the first OS X release since Snow Leopard that doesn’t constantly make you stop, consider a new feature that has just made your life worse in some incomprensible way, and then hope very hard that this is a bug, because it cannot possibly be an intended feature. And because the world is essentially a good place where people (like software engineers) do not deliberately inflict things like Launchpad on good, hardworking people.

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What iOS 7 Looks Like On Your iPad

There’s no tablet flavour of the iOS 7 beta, but using a simulator feature on Apple’s XCode developer platform, German site Apfelpage has given us a look at what the next-gen operating system will look like on the iPad. Aside from a few changes, it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve already seen from iOS 7.

17 June 2013

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Lunchtime Deal: Refurbished Dell Laptops, PCs And Monitors

Dell often holds sales on its computer hardware and accessories, you just have to keep your eyes open until the gadget you want is discounted. If you don’t mind refurbished gear, you can possibly get what you want even cheaper by regularly pointing your browser to Dell’s Outlet site.

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Surface Pro Australian Review: A Beautiful Shame

After months of waiting, Aussies can finally get their hands on the Surface you really, really want. A Surface running a real Intel CPU and a real operating system in Windows 8: This is the Surface Pro.

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Which Of Your Gadgets Has The Most Impressive Battery Life?

For 4.5 years I used a 15″ macbook pro from mid-2008. It had changeable batteries so twice I went to Apple and convinced them to give me a new one for free. The three batteries I used in that machine were very different. The first one was a champ. It would last for six hours at its peak. It degraded slowly and predictably over time. It was reliable. But then, after two blissful years, it started throwing out Service Battery alerts.

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MacBook Cheat Sheet

Anyone looking for a full breakdown and comparison of the entire MacBook line-up: I’ve put together a pretty comprehensive comparison between every model, every option, specs, etc. with information from Apple and around the internet.

15 June 2013

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First Active Noise-Cancelling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up

If you have a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise-cancelling.

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