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ASK Inc. Japan will launch Leadtek’s latest GeForce GTX 780 3GB OC graphics card. Codenamed WFGTX780-3GV2, this high-end graphics card is packed with 2304 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit memory interface, a core clock of 876MHz (928MHz Boost Clock) and a 3GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz. The card also adopts Leadtek’s own HURRICANE III triple fan cooling solution and has dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The Leadtek GeForce GTX 780 3GB OC will be available from September 20th for 85,800 Yen (about $865). [Product Page]

The big Y continues its Mayer-fueled reinvention with a long-awaited update to its My Yahoo personalized homepage builder. The online offering has gotten a new mobile-friendly overhaul, with the promise of more customization and content discovery. Users can add email accounts, calendars, stocks, sports and, naturally, Flickr. There are also a number of pre-fabbed layouts from designers like Oscar de la Renta and bands like Fun. And for good measure, Yahoo’s added a link for porting over your settings from iGoogle. More info can be found in the source link below. Also, after the break, you’ll find a video of DJ Clinton Sparks giving the new My Yahoo the wheels of steel of approval.

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Word surfaced not too long ago that the NSA could have a backdoor for a specific type of encryption algorithm popularly used by developers. Today RSA Security, which offers this encryption to its customers by default in a toolkit, has sent out a notification advising those users to stop using it for the time being, […]

While the Windows Phone platform is commanding a very small percent of the smartphone market share overall, it is growing albeit slowly. This could be seen as good or bad news, depending on how you want to look at it, although Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer seems to be pretty upbeat on the matter. Speaking at the company’s 2013 Financial Analyst Meeting, Ballmer commented on the Nokia deal and talked about the Windows Phone market share, and how he felt that by having little to no market share was actually a good opportunity of sorts.

“Mobile devices. We have almost no share. I don’t know whether to say that with enthusiasm or kind of uncomfortable tension. But I’m an optimistic guy. Any time we have low market share sounds like upside opportunity to me. We’re paying to do it all day every day…It’s getting after it and really making sure we deliver the kind of revenue and gross margin upside that’s certainly there.” We guess by not having as many users to answer to, Microsoft will not receive too much of a backlash which is what Apple did when they ran into problems with Siri, Apple Maps, and the redesigned iOS 7 whose look might not have sat well with many iOS users. Either way it will be interesting to see how the Nokia deal will turn out for Microsoft, but what do you guys think?

Ballmer Sees An “Upside Opportunity” In Low Windows Phone Market Share original content from Ubergizmo.

If you have ever played the older versions of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto way back in the day, you might recall the London expansion pack that would basically be Grand Theft Auto, except that it takes place in London. It was a novel idea and we’re sure many gamers got a kick out of it, but unfortunately if you were hoping that Rockstar do something similar again, except with Grand Theft Auto 5 graphics, you’d be out of luck. According to Rockstar’s Dan Houser, a new GTA London game would be very unlikely, although London is definitely a place the developers would like to revisit in the future for a different franchise.

Speaking to the Guardian, “I think for us, my gut feeling is, GTA London was cool for the time, but games were more limited then […] These days I think we would love to set a game in the UK, set in London, whatever, but I don’t know if it would be a GTA game. I think there are plenty of great stories we could tell about the UK, great environments to showcase, great gameplay mechanics that could have a UK bent to them–I just don’t think it would be a GTA necessarily.” What do you guys think? What other countries would you like to see the GTA franchise try to emulate?

No New GTA London Planned For The Moment original content from Ubergizmo.