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Modern Warfare 2 has long earned the ire of PC gamers for its lack of dedicated servers, but Infinity Ward has now announced that it’s taking away much more than control over hosting with the game in one long face-palm of a question and answer session. No servers, no console, no mods, no problem!
What was once an unverifiable rumor from an anonymous source has now, sadly, become a confirmed fact. Intel won’t be integrating USB 3.0 support into its chipsets until at least 2011. Motherboard makers such as ASUS can still opt to add discrete 3.0 controllers at an extra cost, but Intel…
Microsoft launched Windows 7 with full DirectX 11 support, but until now, Vista users running ATI’s newest 5000 series cards were left out in the cold. Its not like you’ve been waiting months to play the newest DX11 titles, but at least you now have the comfort of knowing that you don’t need to upgrade your OS in order to take advantage of your new GPU.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – ICANN – has, as expected, approved internet domain names (IDNs) containing non-Latin characters. The first languages to be accepted will include Chinese characters, Hindi, Cyrillic and Hebrew, along with about a dozen others. More will be added over the coming months and years.
Researchers are two steps closer to creating a mass-market version of technology called phase-change memory that could change how computers of the future are put together. Intel and Numonyx, the chipmaker’s joint venture with STMicroelectonics that’s focused on flash memory, announced Wednesday they’ve built a new type of phase-change memory chip they hope will help fulfill the technology’s promise for small size and large capacity.
Xerox announced a new silver ink that it’s calling a breakthrough in printable electronics, a leading-edge concept that’s generated a lot of discussion but few actual products to date. In concept, printable electronics is just what it sounds like: using a printer, basically an inkjet, to print electronic circuits.
Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publish their own Web pages. Once the Internet’s third most visited domain, it will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26.
