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| 50 Best Google Street Views Posted: 10 Jul 2013 10:51 AM PDT Google Street View: Explore 50 of the world's most beautiful places from your living room  Google Street View: creepy or cool? We're leaning towards amazing! How else would some of us ever be able to visit some of the world's most remarkable landmarks and historical structures? Furthermore, if you're trying to take advantage of this summer by really going scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef or scaling Mt. Kilimanjaro, why not preview the locales with Google Street View first? After all, you'll be able to see some of the most breathtaking parts of the planet for free and you won't have to deal with some of the extreme weather conditions!
To help you on your quest of discovery, we've compiled the 50 best Google Street Views we could gather and arranged them alphabetically. Keep in mind that we would have liked to include places like the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids in Egypt, but unfortunately Google Street View isn't available everywhere just yet. Still, we think there's enough here to dazzle you. 
Presenting the best Google Street Views To get the most out of Google Streetview, make sure to click on your screen to move the camera around, click on the road ahead or use the navigation arrows to traverse the terrain. Also make sure to click on user-submitted photos (wherever applicable) to get a better view of each location. Have you been to any of our favorite Street View locations? Let us know in the comments below! |
| Digital Storm Rolls Out Veloce, a 13.3-inch Full HD 1080p Gaming Laptop Posted: 10 Jul 2013 09:02 AM PDT  Scrappy notebook comes ready to rumble
Whether you want to consider Digital Storm's new Veloce an Ultrabook with a gaming punch or a gaming notebook with Ultrabook-like dimensions is up to you. What we can tell you is that it's a 13.3-inch laptop that measures just 1.26 inches thick and weighs 4.6 pounds, putting it in a thin and light class of laptops. Unlike most other systems with these kinds of dimensions, however, the Veloce has game. It starts with an Intel Core i7 4800MQ processor and continues with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M GPU, both of which drive the system's Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) display. That's right, this thing isn't wielding a 1366x768 panel and instead went the distance with 1080p. "Veloce is a gaming notebook the industry has been waiting for," said Rajeev Kuruppu, Digital Storm's Director of Product Development. "The notebook strikes the optimal balance of power and portability without sacrificing gaming performance and is the first Haswell based slim gaming notebook, to offer a stunning Full 1080 HD display." 
Other specs include 8GB of DDR3-1600 memory, 750GB hybrid drive with 8GB solid state drive, 8X DVD burner, Killer Wireless-N 1202 LAN + Bluetooth 4.0 module, SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, HDMI output, VGA output, and Windows 8 64-bit. Veloce will be available to purchase on July 17th starting at $1,535. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook |
| Leaked Intel Roadmap Reveals New Batch of Haswell Chips Posted: 10 Jul 2013 07:25 AM PDT  Faster Haswell parts are on the way
Intel's Haswell architecture hasn't been on the market all that long, but such is the advance of technology that something newer, better, and faster is always right around the corner. In this case, it's still Haswell we're talking about, but according to a leaked roadmap, Intel is getting ready to refresh its Haswell family with a few new chips in the third quarter of 2013, including two that fall into the company's "Premium Performance" category and one that's an "Extreme" part. The three chips in question include: - Core i7 4960X (6 cores, 12 threads, 3.6GHz base, 4GHz Turbo, 15MB cache, 130W TDP)
- Core i7 4930K (6 cores, 12 threads, 3.4GHz base, 3.9GHz Turbo, 12MB cache, 130W TDP)
- Core i7 4920K (4 cores, 8 threads, 3.7GHz base, 3.9GHz Turbo, 10MB cache, 130W TDP)
As previous roadmaps have shown, Intel appears to be targeting the second quarter of 2014 for a Haswell platform refresh, perhaps indicating that the Santa Clara chip maker will skip over the 14nm Broadwell architecture on the desktop except for BGA chips. Speaking of which, Intel also revealed a handful of BGA processors, including three Haswell parts (Corei i7 4770R, Core i7 4670R, and Core i7 4570R) and three BayTrail processors (Pentinum JR2850, Celeron J1850, and Celeron J1750). Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook |
| NEC Announces 24-inch MultiSync PA242W Display for Professionals Posted: 10 Jul 2013 05:30 AM PDT  A monitor for serious photography and graphics pros
Graphics professionals demand more from a monitor than what a standard TFT panel can offer, and even some In Plane Switching (IPS) displays might not make the cut. If color accuracy is the name of the game, NEC hopes to win with its new 24-inch MultiSynic PA242W monitor with SepctraViewII calibration software and sensor. With SpectraViewII, NEC promises near perfect (99.3 percent) coverage of Adobe RGB and 100 percent of sRGB color space that's finely tuned for professional chores. The PA242W is built on a GB-R LED backlight. According to NEC, this provides a wider color gamut and more color control than a conventional white LED backlight, making it suitable for applications where accurate color isn't just desired, but necessary. Think photography, retouching, video editing, and pre-press, to name just a few. "The PA242W's greater color gamut and color control provide trusted color reproduction, empowering photographers and other graphics users to focus on their work," said Art Marshall, Product Manager of Professional and Medical Desktop Monitors at NEC Display Solutions. "The simple print matching and built-in KVM feature improve their overall productivity as well." You can load ICC profiles to emulate custom color spaces and match image prints. Other features include a 1920x1200 resolution, 340 cd/m2 brightness, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 10-bit active matrix AH-IPS panel, internal 14-bit programmable 3D lookup tablet (LUT), five customizable Picture Mode presets, Picture in Picture (PIP) and Picture by Picture (PBP) support, built-in USB hub, four-way ergonomic stand, and several input options (10-bit DisplayPort, 10-bit HDMI, DVI-D, and VGA). The MultiSynic PA242W and PA242W-BK-SV are available now for $1,049 and $1,299, respectively. Each is backed by a 4-year limited parts and labor warranty. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook |
| Google Chrome 28 Lands on Windows and Mac with Richer Notifications Posted: 10 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT  Rich notifications for all!
Google has begun updating Chrome users on Windows and Mac with version 28 (you can manually check by selecting "About Google Chrome" from the customization pull-down menu). Windows users are the bigger beneficiary, as they're the ones who will begin to see richer notifications for apps (shipping to Mac soon), a feature that was previous only available in the beta build of Chrome but is now accessible to everyone. The other big mention is that this is the first version of Chrome to ship with the Blink rendering engine rather than WebKit. Blink is actually a fork of WebKit developed by Google and Opera Software as part of the Chromium project. With Blink, Chrome users should see improved performance, speed, stability, and security. In addition to feature updates, Chrome 28 fixes a handful of bugs, some of which proved lucrative to the bug hunters who found them. Collin Payne, for example, was awarded $6,264.40 for discovering a Critical bug related to network sockets. Google also paid out $3,133.70 for a Medium vulnerability that allowed for a man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL, as well as several other rewards. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook |
| Adopt an Acer Predator AG3 Series Desktop Starting at $1,000 Posted: 09 Jul 2013 09:01 PM PDT  A multimedia monster
Acer today is invading the the U.S. market with its new Predator AG3 Series of desktops built around Intel's 4th generation Core i7 architecture, otherwise known as Haswell. The goal is to offer mainstream gaming and/or multimedia performance at a price point that won't shatter the bank. Towards that end, there will be range of configurations available starting at $1,000 (MSRP). "Our new Predator AG3-605 Series offers a range of models to suit various power and budget requirements for those needing a system for games and other multimedia pursuits," said Frank Chang, director of desktop product management for Acer America. "Outfitted with fantastic audio technology and Intel's 4th generation processors, these desktops give gamers and multimedia enthusiasts a robust system for enjoying the latest mainstream games, music and movies. Plus, the inclusion of solid state drives in select models adds the extra convenience of storing the PC's current state, so users can pick up where they left off with ease." The Predator AG3 Series supports up to 32GB of DDR3 memory. Select models will come with up to a 120GB solid state drive, as well as up to 3TB of hard drive storage, a Blu-ray drive, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 graphics card, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and EAX support. You can find the Predator AG3 Series at "leading retailers" now. Follow Paul on Google+, Twitter, and Facebook |
