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ASK Inc. Japan is about to release MSI’s latest graphics card ‘Radeon R9 270X HAWK’. Powered by the new AMD Radeon R9 270X GPU, the card comes with 1280 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1100MHz (1150MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5600MHz. The card also employs MSI’s original Twin Frozr IV Advanced cooling system and has dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The MSI Radeon R9 270X HAWK will be available from October 18th for 30,000 Yen (about $304). [Product Page]

At the end of last week, we did bring you word that the iPhone 5s stock has already run rather low over in the US, which does not come across as surprising at all, although the iPhone 5c has more or less remained unloved among consumers considering how easy it is to pick up a unit online as well as in retail stores if you have a hankering for the “budget iPhone”. Come to think of it, the iPhone 5c is not really all that budget oriented, at least when one thinks about it. Word from a Chinese source claimed that Apple has already reduced its production of the iPhone 5c because of sluggish sales figures, limiting its production from 300,000 each day to half that amount – 150,000 per day.

Assuming that this particular rumor from China is true, it would certainly reflect some analysts’ viewpoint that the iPhone 5s has been outselling the iPhone 5c by a considerable margin of more than two to one. Well, I guess at the end of the day, one is unable to “win” all the time, and there are always lessons to be learned from a particular situation out there. How many people do you know who own the iPhone 5s, and how many others are carrying the iPhone 5c?

Apple Limiting iPhone 5c Production (Rumor) original content from Ubergizmo.

For those of you who are frequent users of Flickr, you might have noticed that Flickr has just received a new beta design from Yahoo, where it will deliver a new photo viewing experience. Joining up is a snap, all you need to do is to just click the “Try our new Photo Experience” button on any photo page on Flickr, and you ought to notice three main changes. First of all, the photo would be bigger than ever before, right about 25% larger in size compared to its predecessor – meaning that more pixels are crammed in to deliver a cleaner view.

Apart from that, the “story” would be located right next to the photo, as all photos have a story behind them, such as in the comments, tags, as well as photo-specific information. The whole idea of the new beta design in Flickr was to present a larger image that does not require you to perform much, if any, scrolling, at the same time check out whatever other information it carries.

Last but not least, the new photo experience has been built from the ground up, relying on new technology in order to depict photos in a far faster manner than ever before. The performance boost will hopefully be significant enough for users to notice as they go from one photo to another. [Press Relaese]

Flickr Gets New Beta Design And New Photo Experience original content from Ubergizmo.

Don’t think that the NSA’s bulk communication data collection is focused solely on the communications themselves. The Washington Post has published more Edward Snowden documents which reveal that the agency collects large volumes of contact lists from email and instant messaging users around the …

Talk of a cross-platform play reality between the Xbox and the PC has been brought up many times over the years, not the least of which was last week when Ausgamers posed a question on the topic to Microsoft’s Phil Spencer. Among several other questions, Spencer was asked if Xbox One and PC cross-platform play […]