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Nvidia Just Built Its Own Gaming Supercomputer: The Grid
Nvidia wants to make a Netflix of gaming—perfectly smooth, perfectly simple, superbly rendered PC games steamed to your system as if you owned an expensive rig. And so, here’s a GPU tower that the company says just that, combining 700 Xbox 360s in one tall box. Each Grid rack contains 240 Nvidia GPUs that stream…
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Libya Is Quickly Becoming a Level from Twisted Metal
Just this morning we showed you a chopper-rocket-packing truck of the Libyan rebel army. Looks like it wasn’t the only one they’ve got: we found another hybrid missile pod pounder, firing away across flaming war wreckage. The scene is apocalyptically-surreal. DefenseTech speculates the salvaged rocket pod atop this car (in a single model, as opposed…
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Lulz Security Raids Bethesda Softworks Servers and US Senate
The scurvy dogs aboard the SS Lulz have raided Bethesda Softwork’s servers after unsuccessfully trying to extort game info out of them. Ah well. They’ve also released a bunch of internal data from the US Senate’s website for further giggling. The Bethesda attack centered around FPS title Brink, from which LulzSec plundered over 200,000 user…
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Put an Assault Rifle in Your PC with This Assassin Motherboard
You can go the route of modesty with a gaming rig—sure, but there’s something to be said for the glowing, flowing, completely outrageous rig of conspicuous PC carnage. How about a motherboard that looks like a disassembled gun? The Gigabyte G1.Assassin straps enormo-heatsinks in the shape of barrels and a full magazine. And it looks…
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There’s a Man with a Laser-Sighted Sniper Rifle Hunting Rats in Moscow
Look, everyone needs a hobby. I like to read, and stare solemnly out my window. It’s good to stay active! But this Russian fellow has a particularly engaging pastime: hunting down Moscow’s rat population and blowing them to rodent hell. Gennady, whose last name is a mystery because he is a covert rat sniper, used…
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Xbox 360 Designers Cook Up Modular, Imaginary Kitchen
We usually don’t post concept renders—and for good reason. They’re usually stupid, and for that reason never, yknow, exist. But Astro’s modular KitchenScape appliance set is quite the opposite: very clever, and worthy of existence! And highly attractive. Each unit in the set—a coffee maker, toaster, juicer, and teakettle—all provide plugs for each other. Think…
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iSpy Conspiracy: Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You’ve Been, All The Time (Updated)
This is a map of everywhere I’ve been for nearly the last year. Everywhere. I didn’t carry around a special tracking device. The FBI isn’t sending goons in unmarked vans to track me. All I did was use an iPhone. And if you have an iPhone, you’re being tracked right now, too, whether you like…
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A Hacker’s Shady Start: Geohot In Middle School
George “Geohot” Hotz wanted to crack the PS3—so he did, and infuriated Sony. He’s become a target, globetrotter, and spectacle. But before? He was little tech-inept deviant. Gizmodo’s got his yearbook, and two people who probably signed it. We talked to two alumni of Glen Rock Middle School in New Jersey, where a little George…
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Japan Hit by Second Major Quake (Updated)
A second earthquake—magnitude 7.4—has hit northeastern Japan, prompting a tsunami warning. The quake, strong enough to move buildings in Tokyo, hit 78 miles north of the devastated Fukushima plant at 11:32 pm, local time. Update 1: TEPCO officials say they’ve not encountered any further problems with Fukushima’s six reactors in the aftermath of this newest…
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PS3 Hacker Flees the Long Arm of Sony for South American Freedom
The saga of George “geohot” Hotz continues, hurtling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration. He fought the law and lost—a judge demanded he hand over his PS3-hack relevant hard drives. His answer? I’m out, bitches. According to a court document filed by Sony in its noble, interminable battle to prevent people from…
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Delicious Overkill: The Gratuitously Overclocked 5 Ghz Core i7 Monster
Sometimes a computer at CES is interesting because it’s functional and intuitive. Sometimes a computer is interesting because it’s the size of an air conditioner, filled with heinously tacky neon lights, and overclocked to hell. Guess which one this is! I found Origin PC’s 5 Ghz, liquid-cooled “Big O” sitting on a dusty stretch of…
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WSJ Reports Tomorrow’s iTunes Event Is Beatlemania
We’ve been waiting. And waiting. And, really, sort of gave up. But after years of speculation and dispute, the Wall Street Journal says The Beatles are arriving on iTunes, tomorrow. Streaming will have to wait for another day. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Details are scant, but they don’t really matter—all the WSJ claims is that EMI, Apple,…
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Oprah Audience Explodes Into Hysterics Over Free Xbox Kinects
We were kind of hoping today’s Kinect plug on Oprah would mean she’d be piloting a virtual raft with her body, but the episode’s YOU GET A KINECT! YOU GET A KINECT! YOU GET A KINECT! finale is even better. Oprah’s typical studio audience is, to put it politely, not exactly a core Xbox demographic—but…
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