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Plextor gets back into the enthusiast game with new M8PE solid state drives

Plextor is back and making hardware for gamers and enthusiasts again. It will show off its new M8PE at the upcoming Flash Memory Summit, with samples.
Computing News
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Microsoft celebrates Windows 10 Anniversary Update with new Ninja Cat backgrounds

Celebrate Windows 10's anniversary update release tomorrow in style, with a brand new set of ninja cat Windows 10 wallpapers for your desktop and phone.
Computing News
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Microsoft leaves loophole open for free Windows 10 upgrade

Microsoft's free upgrade is still available for those who make use of assistive technologies like screen readers and vocal commands.
Computing News
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe shows off the latest Oculus Rift consumer version.

New Oculus Rift teardown prices total component cost at just $206

Building the Oculus Rift VR headset may not have cost Oculus anywhere near the $600 retail price, if a new teardown is anything to go by.
Computing News
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Tactical Haptics shows us future of VR controller feedback with Oculus integration

Tactical Haptics' latest development melds its feedback system with the Oculus Touch controllers, making them far more responsive to usage by players.
Computing News
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Foveated rendering now closer to reality with Fove's latest ergonomic redesign

Fove is showing off a new version of its VR headset at this year's SIGGRAPH conference, with a redesigned head strap and improved ergonomics.
Computing News
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Borg-like G20CB systems from ASUS now come packing Nvidia GTX 1080s

Graphical power is a major sticking point for a gaming PC, so it's good to see that ASUS now has 10 series Nvidia cards in its G20-CB rigs.
Computing News

Apple's latest patent could make the humble stylus a jack of all trades

The new stylus Apple hopes to patent has enough internal hardware to act as a mouse, as well as a joystick depending on the situation.
Computing News
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Lockheed Martin’s ‘spider’ robot searches airships for tiny holes, then patches them

Nobody likes spiders, but Lockheed Martin has made a new crop of SPIDER bots to help repair its growing fleet of hybrid airships.
Emerging Tech News
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Listen up! Google just made it possible to get accurate 360-degree sound online

Internet-based VR may not be viable right now, but it's a possibility in the future, and now it will have decent sound thanks to Google's Omnitone.
Computing News
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We're gonna need a bigger pool: Check out 'Sharknado' water slide by Super-Fan Builds

Sharknado is the subject of the latest episode of Super Fan Builds, offering one fan a thematic slide for her shark-free pool.
Smart Home News
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Nvidia's new Quadro cards offer Titan X-beating power with a price to match

Nvidia's new pair of professional-aimed Pascal Quadro cards offer Titan-X beating performance for a high-price.
Computing News
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AMD’s new $10,000 graphics card has its own built-in SSDs

AMD has a new graphics card tool for professionals, with up to a terabyte of solid-state storage built in to a Radeon Pro Duo.
Computing News
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Virtual reality and DotA 2 fan? We have the VR headset for you

The DotA 2 International 2016 championships are just a few days away at this point, so to celebrate there's a new HTC VIve strap bundle.
Computing News
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Transistors may stop getting smaller, but Moore’s Law isn’t dead yet

Moore's law is under threat once again and this time by a real end of the line: we can't afford to make transistors that much smaller.
Computing News
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Kojima Productions’ new logo movie offers everything we love about videogames

The trailer for Death Stranding trailer was a bit ambiguous, and the logo movie for Kojima Productions isn't any clearer.
Computing News
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Pokémon Go decoded: Data miners dig into Niantic's hot new app

Pokémon Go decoders have been digging through the game's code, and have discovered all sorts of exciting information about how it works behind the scenes.
Gaming News
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Telltale’s polished engine makes ‘Walking Dead,’ ‘Batman’ games look better

The next Walking Dead game from Telltale will see main characters make a comeback, and they'll look better than ever due to an updated engine.
Gaming News
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‘Pokémon Go’ officially launches in Japan following delay

Pokémon Go has launched in Japan, following a delay reportedly caused by the leak of an email between developer Niantic and launch partner McDonald's.
Gaming News
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PlayStation VR wants to put you in front of a 226-inch screen with its virtual cinema mode

Sony's PlayStation VR will give users the chance to use cinema mode to watch films and play games on a 226 inch screen.
Computing News
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Nova U.2 SSDs from Super Talent bring big speed to big solid state storage

Super Talent's new Nova U.2 SSDs offer fast sequential read/write speeds at capacities all the way up to two terabytes, more than enough for most.
Computing News
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Microsoft literally counting the seconds until free Windows 10 upgrade expires

Windows 10's free upgrade period is about to come to a close, so Microsoft is making one last-ditch effort to get you to do grab it.
Computing News
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Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a hot tub, out of a DeLorean?

Super-Fan Builds has created the perfect centerpiece for a Back to the Future fan by putting a hot tub into the back of a Delorean.
Smart Home News
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Are you a Facebook Messenger user? You’re now officially one in a billion or so

Facebook Messenger has just crested a billion users, making it almost as popular as Facebook's other messaging app, WhatsApp.
Mobile News
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Razer wants to take you on a Poké-tour with its new ‘Pokémon Go’ social app

Razer's new social app, RazerGo, makes it possible to send messages to just about any Pokémon Go player up to 600 miles away.
Gaming News
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Nvidia is giving away 100 prizes to puzzle solvers, starting on July 21

Nvidia is going to be giving away 100 prize packs to eager gamers as part of a revamped Order Of 10 promotion; get your thinking caps on.
Computing News
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A VR Odyssey: Samsung’s Oculus Rift killer named in trademark application

Samsung's Odyssey could be its next big VR headset, if trademark filings are any indication - it could have positional tracking too.
Computing News
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Photo-realistic graphics could take 40TFLOPS, according to Epic's Tim Sweeney

If you want your in-game graphics to look like real life, you'll need a lot of power. According to Tim Sweney of Epic, you'll need 40 teraflops.
Computing News
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How should we move around in VR? Nobody has figured it out yet

Nobody seems to be quite sure how we'll all move around in the future, but everyone has a favorite solution and they're keen to champion it.
Computing Features
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VR treadmill maker Virtuix partners with Hero for Chinese VR rollout

Virtuix is set to install its Omni treadmills in arcades and esports centers around China after securing a deal with Hero Entertainment.
Computing News
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Can't touch this — GTX 1060 sails ahead of RX 480 in leaked benchmarks

Some supposed benchmark results of the upcoming Nvidia GTX 1060 have appeared online and they show it outperforming the RX 480 quite handily.
Computing News
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Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and 1070 may have DisplayPort compatibility problems with the HTC Vive

A number of users have reported that their GTX 1080 and 1070 graphics cards are not working with the HTC Vive headset over a DisplayPort connection.
Computing News
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Nvidia's Pascal-based GTX Titan could be based on the Tesla P100 core

Nvidia's enterprise focused Tesla P100 could form the basis of its most powerful card this graphics generation: a Pascal Titan.
Computing News
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First Japanese VR porn festival ends prematurely, due to overcrowding

Japan's first attempt at running a virtual reality porn festival ended before it could start, as too many people showed up to enjoy its varied technology.
Computing News
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