Author: Nick

Russian spy proposes to Edward Snowden on Twitter

Anna Chapman, model spy and Snowden suitor. (Credit: Deracore/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) I stand in the light with The Darkness in shrieking: “I Believe In A Thing Called Love.” Yet if I were ever to propose to my future wife — we’re currently not speaking, of course — I am not sure that Twitter would be my chosen medium.

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Amazon slashes price of Kindle Fire HD to $169

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. (Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Amazon is cutting the cost of the Kindle Fire HD, knocking 12 percent off the Android tablet’s price. The price of the 7-inch, 16GB tablet has been slashed to $169 in the U.S., 139 pounds in the U.K., and 169 euros elsewhere in Europe

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Why next-gen consoles won’t run games at 4K

Back in March, Microsoft’s CVP of Marketing and Strategy Yusuf Mehdi told Forbes that the Xbox One would support 4K gaming, saying that there was “no hardware restriction there at all”. However, some testing from AnandTech suggests that while that statement might be technically accurate, whether it’s playable or not might be a different matter. At Computex, AnnadTech’s Ian Cutress got his hands on a 4K monitor and decided to run some gaming benchmarks and see what happened.

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