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Intel’s upcoming ‘Devil’s Canyon’ CPUs are built with overclockers in mind

Intel reportedly plans to release a new set of high-end CPUs designed specifically to maximize their overclocking potential later this year.
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Toshiba’s new wireless adapter gives external hard drives wireless connectivity

Got an external hard drive you wish you could access wirelessly? Check out this adapter, which lets you do just that.
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Unix botnet Operation Windigo steals your credentials and sends tons of spam

An Internet security research team has discovered "Operation Windigo," a Unix botnet which has infected thousands of systems.
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New Corsair Carbide Series SPEC cases are aimed at penny-pinching PC builders

Corsair's new line of PC cases offer some decent visual flair and features for the bargain basement price.
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Apple pushes Safari 7.0.3 for Mavericks, 6.1.3 for Mountain Lion to developers

Apple has released betas of Safari version 7.0.3 on Mavericks and 6.1.3 and Mountain Lion to developers.
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Google account phishing scam hooks users with fake Google Drive login

There's a phishing scam going around that tricks users into giving up their Google login credentials using a fake, but legitimate looking Google login page.
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Dropbox buys Zulip, a chat client that’s in private beta

Dropbox now owns Zulip, a private messaging start-up currently in private beta.
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Avast security exec: ‘Abandoning Windows XP is a big mistake’

Avast Antivirus COO Ondřej Vlček calls ending support for Windows XP 'a big mistake.'
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New Mac Pro gives Windows 7 the heave-ho, won’t run in Boot Camp

The new, high-end Mac Pro offers a lot of bells and whistles, but Windows 7 support in Boot Camp isn't one of them.
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Cloud down! GChat and Google Drive experience service issues

Google Talk has experienced a service outage today.
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UK banks buying extended Windows XP support from Microsoft for ATMs

The UK's five largest banks join a group of institutions that will pay Microsoft to continue updating Windows XP even after they stop supporting it.
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Microsoft unwraps OneNote for Mac OS X, and makes it free to use as well

Microsoft just unveiled OneNote for Mac OS X today, which is free to use.
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Roughly 10 percent of federal government PCs will run Windows XP after support is cut off

Roughly ten percent of federal government PCs will continue to use the aged operating system once the cutoff date for support arrives next month.
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Your favorite browser probably didn’t hold up at this week’s Pwn2Own hackathon

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari weren't safe during the Pwn2Own hacking competition at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
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Asus Duet’s marriage between Google and Microsoft on the rocks

Asus has quietly put their the Transformer Book Duet TD300 on ice after Google and Microsoft both put the brakes on its release.
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Google’s new search layout melds paid ads with real search results

Google's newest tweaks to their search layout could make it more difficult to tell the difference between ads and actual results.
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Google Drive’s new prices make Dropbox, OneDrive seem like ripoffs

Google just announced some dramatic price cuts for their Drive cloud storage service.
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Bright House Networks to become first cable provider to offer 1GB in-home broadband

Bright House Networks, a regional cable provider, will be the first to offer 1GB Internet service to residential customers in the U.S.
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The FAVI Swivel Screen case gives your iPad Air a notebook-esque QWERTY keyboard

Favi's Swivel Screen portfolio case gives your iPad air a physical QWERTY keyboard.
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LaCie Little Big Disk may be the world’s fastest portable hard drive

LaCie claims that its Little Big Disk can transfer data at a record-setting 1.375GBps.
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With these new notebooks, Razer hopes to pretty much own your bank account

Razer just revealed a pair of ridiculously powerful notebooks, but as you might expect, they won't come cheap.
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Maingear’s New Pulse 14 aims to balance power, portability and price

Maingear hopes to give laptop lovers the best of all three worlds: a good price, plenty of power, and a healthy amount of portability.
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Windows XP users should ditch Internet Explorer, says US Dept. of Homeland Security

CERT doesn't really think you should be using XP at all, but if you have to, they want you to at least switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer.
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Apple’s loyalty program just got better for schools and businesses

Apple values their education and business customers more than ever, as they've recently made sweeping improvements to the loyalty program for those groups.
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Intel’s new 800Gbps cables push data faster than ever

Intel is leading the charge to make next-generation cables that can handle the ever-increasing power of our most massive computers.
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DRAM price fixing lawsuit settles for $310M

Anyone who bought anything with DRAM in it between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2002 may be entitled to some settlement money.
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MSI’s Nightblade barebones rig is a good fit for novice PC builders

This barebones gaming PC offers a framework to work with, leaving you to choose and stuff in essential components like the CPU, graphics card and more.
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Asus announces AMD AM1-compatible motherboards

The AM1M-A and AM1I-A motherboards will be among the first to hit the market designed to work in tandem with AMD's AM1 APUs.
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Dell Announces New Kid-Proof Latitude 13 “Education Series” Laptops

The main selling point of Dell's newly announced Latitude 13 "Education Series" laptop come are designed to survive the fast pace of the classroom.
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Mozilla wants to know why Dell is charging customers for Firefox

Dell is charging U.K. customers to pre-install Firefox on their new PCs, and Mozilla is not happy about it.
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Microsoft to unveil DirectX 12 at GDC 2014

Redmond will be unwrapping the next generation in its long-running graphics API in a couple of weeks.