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  Asus Transformer Prime teardown reveals cause of GPS issue

  By Sam Byford on January 4, 2012 12:19 pm + 107 comments

  Asus's GPS troubles with the Transformer Prime don't seem to have been easily resolved by the recent Continue reading…

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  How-to: Build a killer gaming PC for under $1,000

  By Vlad Savov on December 19, 2011 11:19 am + 277 comments

  By Vlad Savov and Sean Hollister Ah, the self-built PC. It wasn’t until the turn of this century Continue reading…

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  Seagate and Western Digital cutting hard drive warranties in 2012

  By Adi Robertson on December 17, 2011 05:52 am + 28 comments

  Two major hard drive manufacturers, Seagate and Western Digital, are cutting their warranties to as Continue reading…

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  HP has no plans for future webOS phones, may build tablets (update)

  By Vlad Savov on December 9, 2011 02:19 pm + 33 comments

  HP's statement announcing the open-sourcing of webOS skirted the issue of whether the company will Continue reading…

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  Nvidia and AMD rebadge mobile GPUs, release 600M and HD 7000M series

  By Jamie Keene on December 7, 2011 07:33 am + 7 comments

  Nvidia and AMD have released updated mobile graphics chips almost simultaneously, although in both Continue reading…

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  Sprint LTE phones to be released in second half of 2012

  By Vlad Savov on December 6, 2011 03:47 am + 20 comments

  In an interview with UBS yesterday, Sprint CFO Joe Euteneuer revealed that his company plans to Continue reading…

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  Android graphics, rendering, and hardware acceleration explained by Google

  By Vlad Savov on December 5, 2011 09:33 am + 217 comments

  Dianne Hackborn, part of Google's Android engineering group, has taken to the company's Google+ Continue reading…

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  Nvidia's GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores hits sweet spot of price, performance, and potential

  By T.C. Sottek on November 29, 2011 05:32 pm + 18 comments

  Despite the fact that Nvidia's found a way to make its naming scheme even more irritating — its Continue reading…

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  Acer and Lenovo to introduce quad-core Tegra 3 tablets with Android 4.0 early next year

  By T.C. Sottek on November 29, 2011 10:12 am + 17 comments

  It's no surprise that Acer and Lenovo are looking to compete with the latest hardware — their Continue reading…

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  Kindle Fire rooted and splayed, source code released

  By Vlad Savov on November 16, 2011 04:53 am + 20 comments

  The Kindle Fire — it's just a BlackBerry PlayBook with a big Kindle logo imprinted on its back, Continue reading…