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The Samsung Mega becomes the first officially certified 802.11ac Wi Submitted By Frank

▲30 Votes Comment  The Wi-Fi Alliance has kicked off its 802.11ac certification program. First in line to get the official Wi-Fi stamp of approval was the Samsung Mega 6.3, followed by two other Mega variants and the... 
gigaom.com |  56m ago
 

Apple TV finally gets a *real* HBO Go app, plus WatchESPN & Crunchyroll Submitted By Jerry

▲13 Votes Comment  Apple's set-top box Apple TV is getting a handful of popular streaming video service apps that nearly everyone should be happy about. 
venturebeat.feedsportal.com |  1h ago
 

Report: The CIA Picked Amazon To Build Its Cloud Even Though IBM Would've Been Cheaper (AMZN) Submitted By Morty

▲6 Votes Comment  Andy Jassy, Amazon The CIA picked Amazon over IBM for a big cloud computing project because it "represented the best value," even though IBM's would've been less expensive to build. That's one of t... 
www.businessinsider.com |  1h ago
 

Apple TV now supports HBO GO and WatchESPN Submitted By Morty

▲19 Votes Comment  Apple on Wednesday announced that theHBO GO and WatchESPN apps are now available onApple TV. The company also added support for news channel Sky News, East Asian media channel Crunchyroll and music... 
bgr.com |  1h ago
 

Entelo, The Big Data Recruitment Platform Used By Box, Yelp And Square, Lands $3.5M From Battery And Menlo Submitted By Jeanie

▲10 Votes Comment  Screen shot 2013-06-19 at 6.53.00 AMIn today's tech industry, if you ask a startup founder to describe the biggest hurdles that stand between them and total world domination (or at least market pen... 
techcrunch.com |  1h ago
 

Tesla issues Model S recall due to unsafe back seat Submitted By Miranda

▲24 Votes Comment  The company is contacting affected customers individually and will transport the faulty vehicles, reinforce the striker brackets, and return the cars to their owners. 
venturebeat.feedsportal.com |  1h ago
 

iPhones Wi-Fi hotspot passwords are vulnerable to attack, researchers say Submitted By Charlotte

▲18 Votes Comment  Researchers demonstrate that the list passwords for protecting the iPhone's mobile hotspot are drawn from is just too small. The "randomly generated" passwords are also not random enough. 
gigaom.com |  1h ago
 

BenQ XL2720T Gaming Monitor Reviewed Submitted By Jerry

▲30 Votes Comment  On the very first monitor review I did for AnandTech, I skipped over the input lag tests. I didnt have a CRT I could use for a reference, and as someone that isnt a hard-core gamer themselves, I wa... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

June 2013 Top500 List Published: Xeon Phi Takes Top Spot Submitted By Brian

▲18 Votes Comment  Kicking off this week is the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany, one of the two major supercomputing/high performance computing conferences of the year. There will be sever... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

UPDATED! AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz Race Submitted By Ferris

▲12 Votes Comment  AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz RaceToday at E3 AMD announced their latest CPUs, the FX-9590 and FX-9370. Similar to what were seeing with Richland vs. Trinity, AMD is incremen... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Hands On with a Tegra 4i Phone Submitted By John

▲28 Votes Comment  When we stopped by NVIDIA to play with Shield, they had another surprise in store for us with a Tegra 4i-based phone currently being shopped around from an unnamed ODM. The unusual Brand markings o... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Hands On with the Final NVIDIA Shield Hardware, Update: Now with Video Submitted By George

▲11 Votes Comment  It seems like forever since CES 2013 when we first laid eyes on and played with NVIDIAs Project Shield. Time flies, and since then Shield has dropped the Project and become just NVIDIA Shield. Its ... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

AMD Evolving Fast to Survive in the Server Market Jungle Submitted By Frank

▲34 Votes Comment  There are two important trends in the server market: it is growing and it is evolving fast. It is growing fast as the number of client devices is exploding. Only one third of the world population h... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Patriot Drives Further into Mobile with FUEL+ External Batteries Submitted By Andrew

▲7 Votes Comment  With the DRAM industry no longer as interesting as it once was (although I'd argue that with Haswell, high frequency DRAM is exciting once more - if only Intel would do a GT3 desktop SKU), Patriot ... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) Performance Preview: Qualcomm Mobile Development Tablet Tested Submitted By Sloane

▲33 Votes Comment  Weve written about Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) before, for those unfamiliar, this is Qualcomms new flagship SoC with four Krait 400 CPUs at up to 2.3 GHz, Adreno 330 graphics, and the latest modem IP ... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

ASUS 8-Series Haswell Motherboard Video Series Submitted By Brian

▲9 Votes Comment  For the past week we've been publishing a series of videos recorded with ASUS about its new lineup of 8-series Haswell motherboards. With two more videos to come, I wanted a single location for all... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Intel SSD DC S3500 Review (480GB): Part 1 Submitted By Frank

▲10 Votes Comment  We always knew that Intel would build a standard MLC version of its flagship S3700 enterprise SSD, and today we have that drive: the Intel SSD DC S3500. 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Building a mini-ITX Haswell System with ASUS [video] Submitted By Newman

▲23 Votes Comment  For our final installment, JJ put together a bunch of components for a mini-ITX Haswell build and took us through his build process. The motherboard itself is a Z87-I Deluxe, an upcoming mini-ITX Z... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Samsung Announces Galaxy S4 Zoom - 16 MP, Zoom, Makes Calls Submitted By Claire

▲25 Votes Comment  Samsung's Galaxy camera came out almost a year ago, and it roughly mimicked the specs of an international SGS3 but included a unique camera system and body. Although the device couldn't make phone ... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago
 

Seagate Introduces NAS HDD: WD Red Gets a Competitor Submitted By Ferris

▲33 Votes Comment  Consumers looking to fill their SOHO / consumer NAS units with hard drives haven't had too many choices. Western Digital recognized early on that the dwindling HDD sales in the PC arena had to be m... 
www.anandtech.com |  42m ago