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ahlam1399 · #3 09-04-2014, 10:51 AM

Samsung's 850 Pro SSD is out on the market and it's damned impressive. Combine Vertical NAND with the drive's performance enhancing Rapid Mode, and the 850 Pro destroys all comers.

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Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence team, **t content with merely sharing a D-Wave kinda-quantum computer with NASA, has an**unced that it will **w be designing and building its own quantum computer chips. Rather than start from scratch, Google will absorb UC Santa Barbara's quantum computing group, which recently created a superconducting five-qubit array that shows promise for scaling up to larger, commercial systems. Google, probably just behind IBM, **w appears to be one of quantum computing's largest commercial interests.

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One of the biggest events at IFA 2014 in Berlin is Samsung's Unpacked Episode 2 -- and you watch a live video stream of the event right here, embedded below. Samsung will almost certainly unveil the Galaxy **te 4, which the company hopes will put it in good stead against the upcoming large-screen iPhone 6. The Unpacked event will probably be used to talk more about the Gear S smartwatch, and potentially two other new exciting products: The Galaxy **te Edge and the Gear VR.

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IFA 2014 kicked off in Berlin this morning, and already we're seeing an interesting trend emerge: Those cheap-and-cheerful small-screen ******* 8 tablets that Microsoft promised back in April are finally arriving. Both Toshiba and Acer have an**unced their offerings (priced at $120 and $150 respectively), and the usual OEM suspects (Dell, HP, etc.) should unveil their offerings over the next couple of days. These tablets will all be fairly low-spec devices with either a 7- or 8-inch screen, and most of them will be powered by an Intel Atom (Bay Trail) SoC. This means you can **w get a full ******* 8.1 device for just $120 -- a proposition so juicy that Microsoft hopes it can entice customers away from cheap Android tablets and into the ******* camp.

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What happened to the big Android gaming revolution we were promised? The Ouya team raised 8.6 million dollars from its Kickstarter campaign back in 2012, and released its tiny console to consumers about a year later. Despite the incredible hype surrounding the whole endeavor, sales were extremely lackluster. **w, it seems that the development team behind the Ouya is trying its damnedest to get acquired -- possibly by a Chinese company.

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The Le**vo Y40 is also a powerhouse of a laptop in its other specs too, starting with a Core i7-4510U processor and a 2GB AMD Radeon R9 M275 graphics card, a combo that can play most current games and will zip through complex ****** and multimedia tasks. A solid 8GB of RAM is also pre-installed, which will be e**ugh for typical multitaskers, and power users already k**w you can easily upgrade down the line.

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As you may have heard, a large number of private, mostly nude, celebrity photos were leaked onto the internet on August 31. Despite an impressive number of stories dedicated to unproven theories about various potential attack vectors, there is still ** clear evidence of how the private photos were obtained. Let's discuss how the celebrity nudes might've been obtained -- and, more importantly, how to prevent such a debacle from happening again in the future.

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Google is holding an event in India on September 15 to an**unce the launch of Android One, an effort to make entry-level phones less terrible.

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It would seem, despite being outfitted with the finest flash memory that money can buy, even Mars rover Opportunity isn't immune to worn-out NAND cells. After a dozen unplanned reboots in August, most likely caused by the faulty flash, NASA is moving ahead with a complete reformat of the rover's volatile memory. Back in 2004, Opportunity's sibling rover -- Spirit -- was brought back from the brink of death with a similar reformatting maneuver. Considering Opportunity has **w been roving the surface of Mars for over a decade, and all it has required is some small software updates and **w a format, I'd say the little rover has done rather well.

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In a rather odd turn of events, Microsoft China has posted a ******* 9 teaser on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. The teaser, which featured a rather awful fan-made ******* 9 wallpaper, was quickly *******. The post by Microsoft China clearly stated that ******* 9 is 'coming soon,' all but confirming that we'll get our first look at ******* 9 at a special event later this month (probably September 30).