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So, this was on the PC Master Race subreddit. There was a Game Architect, an Online Programmer, HR person that gave a presentation at the poster's school.
As a good servant of the Lord GabeN, he asked the hard questions, which reveals a LOT about what is really happening in the gaming industry.
 
 
 
 
 
 
So (@LinusTech), Ubi may not be intentionally digging its own grave. As users have said in the thread, you don't bite the hand that feeds you. They may be forced to downgrade the graphics. This also confirms the rumor that Watch_Dogs was downgraded so as the console version doesn't look bad next to the PC version.
 
Full thread here: http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2j7r9j/delivering_ubisoft_came_to_my_school_for_a/
There are a few more questions that was answered.
 
EDIT: Another quote.
 

Where to buy links for Core i7 4790K
NCIX: http://bit.ly/1sp1GRb
Amazon: http://georiot.co/48zK
 
Where to buy links for Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition
NCIX: http://bit.ly/1uhrsat
Amazon: http://georiot.co/dY4
 
TWO overclocking beasts today! The Core i7 4790K and Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition!
 

*cough* a follow on from this *cough*
 
This is really great news, and its not a repost goml @KakaoDj .
 
So this wasnt expected, im surprised by the specs, the architecture is crazy, they barely use any power.
 
When i saw the amount of cuda cores, memory and clocks i lost it. 
 
But they are here, brace yourselves. 
 
Put on some dramatic music. 
 
Give it up for the
 
GT 705
 
GT 710
 
and lastly
 
the 
GT 720
 
Boosting the uncanny arcs of Fermi and Kelper
 
Relying on the joys of rebadging.
 
This is a great moment indeed.
 
This day should become a international holiday(even though its easter holiday already for some people)
 
Well then what the **** are we waiting for better dive in.
 
First up the gt 705
 

 
This sexy thing is a rebadge of the gt 610 which was a rebadge of gt 520. spicy. 
 
Let me throw some numbers at you
48 CUDA CORES 64 BIT MEMORY BUS a jesus tier of only 29watts under full load An awesome process size of 40nm If i was you id wait for the classified or lightning versions of this card, you could maybe push it up by 1000mhz.
 
Next up the...
 
GT 710
 

 
This lady killer isnt a rebadge of the of Gt 620, whats this madness, its a rebadge of the gt 630, actually no its not, this is a cut down gt 630, madness is it, whatever.
 
Lets get down to the stats
Uses the genetically superior pci-e gen 2.0 lane. supports DX 11 has 512mb of memory, wait a sec thats less then the 705, i guess the AMD marketers went to nvidia for a day. Thats all i can say about that card, I recommed you wait for a sapphire version, even though this is nvidia im sure a 8gb vram version will be arriving soon after launch.
 
LASTLY
 
the new god('s servant),
 
the new flagship(mascot),
 
Here it is the GT 720
 

 
This you might notice is the same as the above card but its superior.
 
Its not a half rebrand, ITS A FULL REBRAND.
 
This card has a full 1gb of vram. If you convert that to bytes its 1.0737 X 10^9 which is a big number, if you tried to count to that number it would take... A LONG TIME.
 
Unlike the ferocity of the above cards, this one is on a whole new level, those cards have a straightly 1 smx unit whereas this dragonslayer has 2 smx units. THATS 200% THE PERFORMANCE, i think.
 
It also has the DNA of the gtx titan, the 680, 770, titan black, titan brown, every voodoo card and that crazy tall guy from fractal.
 
Well then its been great but thats everything ive got today lads, follow EVGA's step up plans because im sure you titan wielders will be gunning for one of these beauties soon.
 
Sources:
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2578/geforce-gt-705.html
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/1990/geforce-gt-710.html
 
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/1989/geforce-gt-720.html
 
@LinusTech  You know you love these cards.

Giving you guys a heads up here. Intel is offering customers a free copy of Rome II: Total War with any purchase that includes a Core i5 4670K or Core i7 4770K. Make sure you and any friends who are building rigs in the next month or so are taking advantage of this by buying from a qualifying retailer!
 
A great way to use this is to build for friends and see if they're willing to give you the games as a builder's fee... You can put a 4670K and a GTX 770 into a gaming rig and end up with Rome 2: Total War, Batman Arkham Origins, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, and Assassin's Creed IV for your trouble.....
 
R2:TW had a bit of a rough launch, but there have been quite a few patches addressing many of the issues including the terrible launch AI. It's definitely worth a look, especially if it's just a matter of placing your processor order at a qualifying retailer's website.
 
NCIX: http://source.ncix.com/Intel-FREE-Rome2/index.html
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8008671011
Newegg: http://promotions.newegg.com/intel/13-6075/index.html
 
Other Retailers to be added as the links get sent to me.
 

http://kotaku.com/20-year-old-designs-a-better-windows-than-microsoft-1482249033?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/12/5203934/windows-8-2-start-menu-concept
 


 
Microsoft, please, hire this man. He knows how you can make Windows 8 amazing. Honestly, if Windows 8 was like this, I would make the jump without a second thought. I wouldn't even mind some of the notable bugs and whatnot, because at least I'll be happy with the UI I am using. I used Windows 8 back in the beta days. Now, I'm sure a ton has changed since then (actually, I know a lot has changed), but after the final beta build, I switched back to Windows 7 and never gave Windows 8 a second thought. The UI is an absolutely disaster and makes for an unpleasant Windows experience. Why "upgrade" to something that is inferior?
 
Anyways, again, if Windows 8 ever becomes something like this, I will gladly make the jump, and I'm sure the majority of people will as well.

http://cramgaming.com/youtube-getting-tough-video-game-monetization-12989/
 
Looks to me like gaming networks lost all their appeal:
 
 
Let me know what you guys think about this...

Thread at /.
 
Velcroman1 writes:
 
Oh God. No no no. Stop it. You bastard (I imagine JP Morgan as a single man because it sounds like a man's name.).

... Not sure how this is going to affect BTC. They say "Bitcoin Killer", but at the same time, I think BTC would still be popular as it is a way to directly keep your money out of corporations' hands. Whereas, this is not. Even if it is "anonymous", it isn't anonymous from their perspective (the organization handling the transfers).

But I just don't know....

Not good. Not good at all. For BTC at least, price-wise. 

Why this didn't already exist before the crypto-craze (my name, not theirs), I have no idea. 

What do you guys think?

NOTE: The Boldened part of that quote is incorrect. Bitcoins are not anonymous (though they appear to be), if you work hard enough, and they do have transaction fees. 

Also, you can't mine this, obviously. Which is why I think BTC will remain popular even with options like this arising.

Interesting comment:

By "Overzeetop":
 
... I kind of agree there. It just doesn't make sense.

 

Microsoft Research has developed a smart bra that prevents women from emotional and stress eating. Microsoft posits that by reducing emotional and stress eating, the bra wearer’s overall health can be improved.
 
It's essentially a wearable stress sensor. The bra has two sensors — an EDA sensor and EKG — for detecting when the wearer is stressed out. A built-in computer (in the middle between the cups) then sends an alert to the girl’s smartphone, telling her to chill with the quarter pounders. 
 
When asked about a male version, the designer said that her team did try to develop a version for men, but that male underwear is too far away from the heart for an accurate EKG reading. (Insert lewd joke here.)
 
EDIT: This bra was specifically made for Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer after he was "asked" to retire..jk..but seriously, this bra is real
 
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/172308-microsofts-new-smart-bra-stops-you-from-emotionally-overeating

http://kotaku.com/leaked-documents-reveal-that-fallout-4-is-real-set-in-1481322956?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow




While the whole Survivor 2299 thing was disappointing, this is great news to hear! Now we just have to wait for Bethesda's official announcement and some more info.
 

While no announcement was made Gigabyte went on and published on its website details on two custom-cooled and factory-overlocked graphics cards powered by AMD's Hawaii GPU, the GV-R929XOC-4GD (Radeon R9 290X) and GV-R929OC-4GD (Radeon R9 290). 

Pictured below, both cards come equipped with the dual-slot WindForce 3X 450W cooling solution (three fans, 6 mm and 8 mm heatpipes), and feature a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface, a GPU clock of 1040 MHz (the stock R9 290X/290 go up to 1000/947 MHz), a 512-bit memory interface, 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 5000 MHz, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The cards' prices are still unknown.

Source:http://www.thewp-hub.com/2013/12/nokia-offering-lumia-to-samsung-user.html
Main thread was posted by @snowComet http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/85832-samsung-galaxy-s4-catches-on-fire-samsung-wants-you-to-keep-quiet/
 
That's a good PR

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5198062/ubuntu-touch-os-phones-coming-from-unnamed-oem-next-year
 

 
 
It lives! It's great to see the official Ubuntu phone getting life pumped back into it, because I was personally very excited for this phone, and I'm sure many of you were as well. The OEM is currently unannounced, so we'll just have to wait and see who it's going to be. Hopefully it's somebody good!

Source:http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/11/5201030/steamos-will-be-available-to-download-on-december-13th
 
 
 
Too bad I'm a noob in Linux

Digital Storm Is going to showcase a Steam Machine at CES 2014. Digital Storm's Steam Machine is going to cost $1,469, while ibuypower's is $499. It will feature a liquid cooled Intel processor, an NVIDIA graphics card (up to a GeForce GTX Titan), and up to a 700 W power supply. Well let's ask the person himself about this digitalnav what are your thoughts.

 
Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/img/13-12-11/Digital_Storm_Steam_Machine_teaser.jpg
 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615190-1/nasa-unveils-6-foot-superhero-robot-valkyrie/?ttag=fbwp
 

 
 
Wow, I'm very impressed. As seen in the video above, the Valkyrie can slowly, but accurately, step onto a step and turn a wheel. It's amazing how far robotics has gotten in the past few years, and in a few years we could EASILY have robots that can act almost (or fully) human-like, which is both very cool and very scary. Then of course farther down the line I'm sure these robots will become autonomous...which is...well...good or bad, depending on who is using them.
 
Thoughts on the Valkyrie?

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/12/9/5190996/tech-companies-call-for-nsa-reform
It's finally happening, the lawsuit against the government that needed to happen. While for the time being this probably won't the NSA's surveillance, when everything is done over with, and if these companies come out on top, the NSA will be gone, and hopefully most government surveillance will go with it.
If these companies don't win, something's up, because there is plenty of compelling evidence to take down the NSA. Only time will tell now, and it'll be very exciting to keep up with this news. Stay tuned.

The Asus ROG Poseidon GPU pictured more. The Poseidon is a GeForce GTX 780, and not a GTX 780 Ti, meaning that it offers just 2,304 CUDA cores and 192 TMUs, and not the 2,880 CUDA cores and 240 TMUs of the GTX 780 Ti.
 

 
Source:http://www.techpowerup.com/195296/asus-rog-poseidon-graphics-card-pictured-some-more.html
 

(firstly no one is having a baby due to this news).

According to the internet "shit is going down". 
 
 
 
Videocards were living happy, no matter what colour they were, blue pcbs, red pcbs, hell even yellow pcbs. BUT THEN the backplate nation attacked(free cookie if you get the reference)
 

 
Not really much to say here, its factory oced and has a backplate, its also a gtx 780 ti. *distant cheers*
 
http://videocardz.com/48344/galaxy-geforce-gtx-780-ti-hof-comes-backplate

Samsung claims an "industry first" as it shrinks it awesomely popular 840 EVO ssd's to an mSATA form factor.
 
The largest drive will come in a 1TB capacity, with 500GB, 250GB, and 120GB versions also available. It looks like chip stacking was used to create such large capacities. Samsung claims 540MBps Read and 520MBps Write speeds. It will be made available globally starting this month, so look out for them!
 
This will be amazing for slim notebooks that don't have full-size sata ports to accommodate large capacity ssd's!
 

 
Source: http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=31060

Link: http://techbeat.com/2013/11/harvard-scientist-creates-first-3d-printed-battery/
 

 
 
 
I personally think this is just insane!
 
INSANELY AWESOME!
 
It could cut costs of batteries down immensely, and we could soon be printing our own with the right materials!
 

http://torrentfreak.com/isps-say-they-will-block-kickasstorrents-without-a-court-order-131130/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29
 
 
 
 
Whatever your view on piracy is, just throw that aside for a few seconds. Internet censorship is never a good thing, no matter what the site involved is. So that's obviously a bad thing, but they're also not even going through the courts to do this. This is going on in Ireland, but I wouldn't be surprised if other nations started to do the same. I'm sure Britain already has KAT blocked though (correct me if I'm wrong).
 
Thoughts on this?
 
And now I will introduce you to my 3 best friends:
1) http://www.epicbrowser.com/
2) https://www.torproject.org/
3) http://www.hotspotshield.com/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/1/5164340/delivery-drones-are-coming-jeff-bezos-previews-half-hour-shipping
 
>How Jeff Bezos came up with this idea

 
Ok, now back on topic.
 

 
 
I dunno if I would want to trust my online deliveries to this drone. I know it'll be insanely fast, but it needs to be tested A LOT more first before it ever gets used, but that's just my opinion. Is it a crazy idea? Yes. Is it a genius idea? Yes. This really is really cool and all, but it just needs to be tested more...

AU Optronic a Display panel maker, that I just heard of is working on Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixels) panels and promises "affordable" 27-inch and 32-inch monitors beaming those many pixels by Q1 or Q2, 2014. This may make 4k more cheaper because AU Optronic supplies LCD panels to a variety of monitor manufacturers, including ASUS, BenQ, Philips, and even Samsung. AFFORDABLE 4k IS HAPPENING!

source: http://www.techpowerup.com/195276/au-optronics-working-on-affortable-ultra-hd-monitors.html

As you guys can see its a pcb, there are chips and shit, its matte black. From the looks of it, it looks like 4gb vram .Its got a 12+3+2 phase power design which is nice as well. The solder points of the crossfire bridges are now completely gone(its like evolution in genetics for gpus). There is also the v check points so you can measure all the crap that you want. Lastly two 8 pin power cables required(optional 6 pin for memory)
 
http://videocardz.com/48270/msi-radeon-r9-290x-lightning-pcb-pictured
 
btw outputs are two dvi(no analog support anymore), hdmi and full sized display port.