SilenX Effizio EFX-12-15 Review

Have you ever wondered if using air cooling for your computer will be effective in the future with all the concern about global warming? What exactly is causing global warming is up for debate; however, it would be hard for anyone to ignore the climate change we are seeing today. While I don't think global warming is a fair reason to ignore the benefit of adding fans to your chassis, it leaves me wondering how much benefit it...

Incredibly shrinking AOL is laying off 40, report says

From CNET News.com: AOL plans to layoff as many as 40 employees, and the cuts will come mostly from the company's instant-messaging and e-mail units, according to a published report.

Eric van Miltenburg, senior vice president of operations, and Jason Shellen, who was overseeing AIM...

Lenovo Recalls 50,000 ThinkCentre M70z, M90z AIOs Due to Fire Risk

From DailyTech: Lenovo and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission have announced a voluntary recall of about 50,500 Lenovo all-in-one computers. The machines being recalled include the ThinkCentre M70z and M90z all-in-one machines. The recall states that consumers who own the...

NASA Works with Rovio to Launch Angry Birds Space Game

From DailyTech: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for...Angry Birds?

With NASA's help, Rovio Entertainment's popular mobile game Angry Birds is taking the ongoing bird-pig war to space. PC, Mac, iOS and Android users will soon be able to launch various types of birds at...

WD Closes Acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Wednesday announced that it had completed its acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, effective March 8, 2012, for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. Hitachi now...

Nvidia Demos GeForce Kepler in Action

From X-bit Labs: As Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its next-generation GeForce code-named Kepler in action at Game Developers Conference (GDC) and got applauds for impressive performance, a Chinese web-site published an image of what it claims to be GeForce GTX 670 Ti graphics card.

Epic...

IBM Moves 1Tbps of Data on an Optical Chip

From PC World: IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip that can transfer data at 1Tbps (terabit per second), the equivalent of downloading 500 high-definition movies, using light pulses, the company said Thursday.

The chip, called Holey Optochip, is a parallel...

Ivy Bridge gets early benchmark; graphics gains look good

From CNET News.com: Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors have been benchmarked by enthusiast site Anandtech.

The blog reported earlier this week that while Ivy Bridge's CPU performance offers only a marginal improvement over its predecessor, Sandy Bridge, it shines on the graphics side...

Apple Launches Third Generation iPad with Retina Display, LTE

From DailyTech: There have been plenty of rumors floating around regarding the release of the iPad 3, but we finally now know all the details on Apple's third generation tablet.

As expected, the major new feature for the iPad is the gorgeous 2048 x 1536 instead of the 1024 x 768...

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