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Research: Hand Soap Chemical "Triclosan" Negatively Affects Muscular Contractions

"Animal models were used to show reduced skeletal and cardiac muscle contractions after exposure to triclosan a chemical commonly found in hand soaps (among other household products) has been found to be harmful to both humans and the environment.

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Apple nicked designs that were a decade old

"Apple did not invent designs for the iPad but just nicked ideas which had been kicking around the technology industry for a decade. According to Samsung evidence, which is being presented in the patent trial, Apple’s IP is invalid. Samsung already argued that Apple’s pinch-to-zoom patent was stolen from Mitsubishi’s old Diamond Touch and yesterday it showed the jury with videotaped testimony from Roger Fidler.

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User Poll: What Cooling Do You Have?
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Video Review #1361: SilverStone Heligon HE01 CPU Cooler

The SilverStone Heligon HE01 CPU Cooler is hardcore all the way. It comes with a Nickel-coated copper base, 6 heat pipes with lots of aluminum fins and a large 140mmm fan. It fits any current Intel or AMD socket, supporting CPUs up to 300W. This twin tower heatsink rocks!

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User Poll: When Do You Game?
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Video Review #1360: BitFenix Hydra Pro & Recon Fan Controllers

The BitFenix Hydra Pro Fan Controller is a basic fan controller in comparison to the Recon Fan Controller, but it still rocks. Both have the ability of controlling up to 5 fans, 30W per channel, but the Recon has a 4.7" touchscreen display and comes with 5 thermal probes. If you require a simple, but rock solid fan controller the Hydra Pro would fit the bill, however, if you're looking for a sophisticated fan controller, the Recon the way to go.

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Q&A Video: Screen Goes Black When Gaming?
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New Amped Wireless Wi-fi Analytics Tool For Windows Allows Consumers To Optimize Their Existing Wi-Fi Network

Chino Hills, CA — August 7th, 2012 – Amped Wireless, the leading manufacturer of high-power, long-range wireless communications products for the home and office, today announced a strategic partnership with MetaGeek, a Boise, Idaho based wireless visualization tool development company. This partnership enables Amped Wireless to compliment and strengthen its current software infrastructure.

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Steam to add productivity, creative software in September

"Valve has never been afraid to push the envelope to improve Steam, especially with such offerings as Greenlight and the Workshop. Now, the company has announced that Steam will expand beyond games into the area of software..."

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From mod to game: How DayZ will evolve as a standalone release

"When Dean "Rocket" Hall started working on the zombie-themed DayZ mod for Bohemia Interactive's ArmA II, he figured it would get a decent response from the few thousand people in the game's devoted modding community. But now that DayZ has broken through to mainstream gaming success—recently crossing over the one million player threshold—it's starting to outgrow the game that it was initially built on top of.

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Q&A Video: Overclock What If You're a Gamer?
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Video Review #1359: Cooler Master CM Storm Stryker Case

The Cooler Master CM Storm Stryker Case is outstanding. It's mix of brilliant looks, excellent build quality and long feature list make this one of the best full-tower cases on the market. If you're looking to build a hardcore computer system, this case will work perfectly. Friggin awesome!

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