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Giveaway: Giveaway #73: Nexus Mice & 1100W PSU Giveaway

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Video Review #1409: Roccat Apuri - Active USB Hub with Mouse Bungee

The Roccat Apuri is a USB hub that also doubles as a Mouse Bungee. It's any other USB2 hub in the sense of performance, but the Apuri has looks and design to boot. It come with 4 USB2 ports and when used with the power adapter it provides 2A on each port. It can be used passively, but the USB cable only provides 500mA per USB port. The mouse bungee works well at keeping the cable out of the way, but can be removed it so desired.

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Video Review #1408: Silverstone Redline RL04 Case

The Silverstone Redline RL04 Case has the looks, features and is affordable. This case has lots of drive bays, plenty of fans can be installed, dust filters, lots of space behind the motherboard tray for organizing cables, water cooling potential and more. It's an excellent choice for anyone on a budget.

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Video Review #1407: Antec GX700 Rugged Gaming Case

The Antec GX700 Rugged Gaming Case is a product gamers will love. It has a military theme and loaded with excellent features. They include two 140mm fans, one 120mm fan, more fans can be installed, dust filters, five 2.5" or 3.5" drive can be installed, 240mm radiator can be installed and much more. Hoorah!

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Video Review #1406: Antec SP1 Portable Bluetooth Speaker

The Antec SP1 Portable Bluetooth Speaker is a perfect size. It's not to large nor is it to small and what that means is you can take it just about anywhere and get decent audio. One unique feature is the ability to place and receive calls thanks to it built-in mic. And I don't know about you, but being about to turn your smartphone into a quality speaker-phone is very cool!

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Valve Confirms Linux-based Steam Box

"Gabe Newell's already expressed his less-than-positive sentiments on the Windows 8 ecosystem. So it's really not much of a surprise that the Steam Box, Valve's own take on the game console, is going to be Linux-based.

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USB 3.0 getting a speed boost to 10 Gbps

"The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has used CES 2013 to announce an enhancement to the USB 3.0 (aka SuperSpeed USB) standard that will see the throughput performance of USB 3.0 double from 5 Gbps to 10 Gbps. The speed boost will come courtesy of enhanced USB connectors and cables that are fully backward compatible with existing USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices.

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Nvidia announces its own portable gaming console

"Nvidia managed to pull out a big surprise and announced its own portable gaming console based on the new Tegra 4 chip, the Nvidia Project Shield. The new Shield is pretty much a standard sized controller with a flip-up 5-inch 1280x720 294dpi Retina-class touchscreen with Nvidia DirectTouch tech. It features rechargeable batteries capable to keep up with up to 38 hours of gaming and up to 24 hours of HD video playback, great integrated audio system with custom bass reflex and integrated console-grade game controller.

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Video Review #1405: Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Level 10 M Gaming

The Thermaltake eSPORTS Level 10 M Gaming Mouse is not your typical gaming mouse. As a matter of fact, just about everything about it is unique. The design, build quality and styling is amazing and the fact that there's ventilation and the palm rest is adjustable is outstanding. It also has an aluminum base, comes with 7 buttons, 8,200 DPI Laser Sensor, 11 macro keys, 5 game profiles, 128kb of memory, comes with powerful customizable software and has many LED color options. This is one crazy mouse :)

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Microsoft issues 'fix it' for IE vulnerability

Microsoft has released a quick fix for a vulnerability in older versions of its Internet Explorer browser that is actively being used by attackers to take over computers. The vulnerability affects IE versions 6, 7 and 8. The latest versions of the browser, 9 and 10, are not affected. The company occasionally issues quick fixes as a temporary protective measure while a permanent security update is developed if a vulnerability is considered particularly dangerous.

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Kid gets 3DS porn for Christmas

"A five year old kid was delivered some hardcore porn this Christmas and apparently his parents have written a stiff letter to Santa. While it does not surprise us that a geriatric bloke with a beard who likes small children sitting on his knee might try and groom a five year old, according to 9News the kids parents were not impressed. The kid found photos of porn on his 3DS console he received for his Christmas present this year. Without killing the illusion that Santa delivered the toy to the kid, it appears that the console was purchased from Gamestop and was pre-owned..."

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Video Review #1404: Fractal Design Node 605 HTPC Case

The Fractal Design Node 605 Case is one of the best HTPC cases around. This case has style, excellent build quality, there's plenty of room to install lots of hardware, fits standard ATX motherboards & ATX PSUs, includes 120mm fans, accommodates long video cards, & much more. If you're looking for a quality HTPC, this is probably it!

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