It’s been a while since we checked in on the Deluxe Comfort Girlfriend Body Pillow, but we can now confirm that it is still available from Sears. And despite receiving a 20% price bump from $10 to $12, it’s still the saddest, most inexplicable human being substitute you can buy. More »
Camera tosses are a well-loved tradition with photographers. You don’t need professional gear to stage spontaneous pics of your own—you just need ThrowMeApp, an Android Phone and a little bit of hand-eye coordination. More »
Get some time in with the Twitter‘s Favorite button now, because it may not long before it goes the way of the dinosaurs. According to The Next Web, Twitter is currently testing two new buttons – “Like” and “Star” – with a small group of users. It appears that these new buttons might be planned as a replacement for the Favorite button, which has been around since 2008.
Twitter has yet to make an official announcement on these new buttons, which makes it hard to tell if this is just as simple a test or a slow roll out. It seems that Like and Star are two different words for the same action, so perhaps Twitter is testing both to see which one users prefer most? In any case, they appear to do essentially the same thing as the Favorite button, adding tweets you like to a list that you can look back at later.
The Next Web tried to get in touch with Twitter, but naturally the social network had nothing to say about the Like and Star buttons being spotted in the wild. If Twitter does decide to implement new Like or Star buttons in place of the Favorite button, you can bet there will be some blow back from users, as the Favorite button has become an integral part of the site for many users since its introduction.
It’s still difficult to say what the plan is for these new buttons, though. Perhaps they’ll be implemented alongside the Favorite button instead of in place of it? At this point, your guess is as good as ours, so we’ll just have to sit back and wait for Twitter to make a statement on the issue. Are you seeing Like or Star buttons popping up on your Twitter page?
Twitter reportedly testing new “Like” and “Star” buttons is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Now that AMD’s fresh new FX processors based on the Piledriver architecture are out in the wild, the specialist hardware sites have seen fit to benchmark the top-lining FX-8350. Overall, the group feels that AMD has at least closed the gap a bit on Intel’s Core juggernaut with a much better FX offering this time around, but overall the desktop CPU landscape remains unchanged — with Intel still firmly at the top of the heap. Compared to its last-gen Bulldozer chips, “in every way, today’s FX-8350 is better,” according to Tom’s Hardware: cheaper, up to 15 percent faster and more energy efficient. Still, while the new CPUs represent AMD’s desktop high-end, they only stack up against Intel’s mid-range Core i5 family, and even against that line-up they only edge ahead in heavily threaded testing. But if you “look beyond those specific (multithreaded) applications, Intel can pull away with a significant lead” due to its superior design, says Anantech. As for power consumption, unfortunately “the FX-8350 isn’t even the same class of product as the Ivy Bridge Core i5 processors on this front,” claims The Tech Report.
Despite all that, Hot Hardware still sees several niches that AMD could fill with the new chips, as they’ll provide “an easy upgrade path for existing AMD owners and more flexibility for overclocking, due to its unlocked multipliers.” That means if you already have a Socket-AM3+ motherboard, you’ll be able to do a cheap upgrade by swapping in the new CPU, and punching up the clock cycles might close the performance gap enjoyed by the Core i5. Finally, AMD also saw fit to bring the new chip in at a “very attractive” $195 by Hexus‘ reckoning, a much lower price than an earlier leak suggested. Despite that, however, the site says that AMD’s flagship FX processor still “cannot tick as many desirable checkboxes as the competing Intel Core i5 chips.” Feel free to scope all the sources below to make your own conclusions.
Read – Tom’s Hardware
Read – Hot Hardware
Read – AnandTech
Read – Hexus
Read – The Tech Report
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, AMD
AMD FX-8350 review roundup: enthusiasts still won’t be totally enthused originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google seems to have run out of the 8GB version of its Nexus 7 tablet. Sometime today, the $200 slate went from “In Stock” to “Coming Soon”, with the Play store giving would-be purchasers the option to sign up for an email notification when it becomes available once again. Might this be a case of demand exceeding supply, or could the least capacious Nexus 7 be on the outs — making way for a forthcoming 32GB version? No one outside of Mountain View can say for sure, but odds are favorable we’ll find out at next week’s Android event. Stay tuned.
[Thanks, Jeffrey]
8GB Nexus 7 no longer available at Google Play store originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
During today’s Facebook earnings call, head honcho Mark Zuckerberg told investors that, overall, people spend “more mobile time on Instagram than Twitter,” pointing to comScore numbers to back up the claim. Not a bad justification for that huge billion dollar investment. More »
The lustrous patina that protects the backside of Apple’s new iPad Mini isn’t just some cheap shellac or sealant coat—it’s actually “grown” on the metal itself in an electrochemical process known as anodization. Here’s how. More »
Our very own Eliane Fiolet is at the Asus Windows 8 event in New York City–yes, there are two technology events going on today–where Asus has just announced six–count them, six–new lines of Windows 8 PCs. The new lines are the VivoTab, VivoBook, the Transformer Book, the Touch Zenbook, the TAICHI, and the Asus All-in-One.
Let’s take a look at the new Asus Transformer Book:
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Surprise! There’s a new iPad out. Again. Already. But should you ditch the one you’ve got for the new guy? Our guess is probably not. More »
Halloween is almost here and if your Christmas shopping tradition is any indication, you’ve probably also left your candy buying to the last minute. But why continue to fill Hershey and the Mars family’s wealthy pockets with your hard-earned cash when a little doi-it-your-selfing can result in big savings, and only slightly disappointed neighborhood kids. More »
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