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12:00 am - Valve Working on Secret TF2 Project; Fans Want HL3

Toms Hardware - The Team Fortress 2 blog is hinting at a top secret project slated to hit Steam in 2012. Meanwhile, fans are actually demanding new Half-Life 3 news, protested on Saturday as a result.

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3:10 pm - Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road Ahead

Toms Hardware - Kazuo Hirai, who takes over as President and CEO of Sony Corp. in April, believes the company needs to set aside previous tradition and focus on the new "user experience" in order to succeed.

11:12 am - Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in a Plane Crash

AnandTech - Micron's long time CEO, Steve Appleton, has died in a plane crash at the age of 51 at the Boise Airport on Friday morning. He was reportedly flying a single-engine Lancair plane, which stalled and then nosedived shortly after take-off. A......

8:08 am - Ukraine Latest to Crackdown on Illegal File Sharing

MaximumPC - This isn’t the best time to be in charge of a file-sharing site, with authorities around the world — everywhere from the United States to Middle-earth (or New Zealand as it’s known more popularly) to Sweden — currently on a rampage agai......

2:00 am - EU Asks Google to Delay Policy Changes for Investigation

Toms Hardware - EU regulators have asked Google to step back while they conduct an investigation.

8:00 pm - AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps

Toms Hardware - In addition to revealing its 2012 and 2013 roadmaps, AMD sported an ultrathin form factor packed with its Trinity APU.

5:16 pm - European Regulators Ask Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes

MaximumPC - While the uproar over Google’s updated privacy policy has lessened in the U.S., European officials are taking things a step further today. The European Commission has asked Google to delay implementing its new privacy policy so the matter can be fu......

5:00 pm - Seized Streaming Site Reappears with Harsh Words for U.S. Authorities

MaximumPC - Well, that didn’t take long. One of the largest streaming sites taken down by U.S. authorities yesterday is already back up and running on a new domain, and boy are they upset. While the Department of Homeland Security ICE division was happy to acc......

4:42 pm - Anonymous Intercepts FBI and Scotland Yard Conference Call

MaximumPC - An element of hacker group Anonymous announced today that it has intercepted a conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement wherein they discuss tracking down Anonymous. The 16 minute call was recorded and has been posted on various sites, ......

4:25 pm - Smartphone Sales Leap Ahead of PCs for First Time Ever

MaximumPC - Nobody in their right mind would dump their desktop or notebook PC for a smartphone, but plenty of people are willing to own both as they seek to stay connected and check email on the fly. Underscoring this point is fact that smartphone sales in 2......

4:24 pm - Head to Head: Amazon Kindle Fire vs. Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet

MaximumPC - If you can’t beat Apple’s iPad, change the rules of the game. Amazon and Barnes & Noble are taking a bath on sales of the $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Nook Tablet, respectively, and making up for it with profits on sales of electronic mercha......

4:03 pm - Micron CEO Steve Appleton Perishes in Plane Crash

MaximumPC - Micron Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Appleton, passed away this morning after a small plane he was piloting crashed at an airport in Boise, Idaho. Appleton, 51, joined Micron not long after his graduation in 1983. He started out on t......

4:00 pm - Micron's CEO Dies in Plane Crash Friday Morning

Toms Hardware - Micron's CEO was killed Friday morning while trying to land his plane at the Boise airport.

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3:00 pm - Deals for Feb 3: 23" Dell UltraSharp IPS LCD Monitor $229

Toms Hardware - Get your weekend tech deals here!

2:45 pm - Goliath wins: AMD retreats, retrenches, and seeks to reinvent itself

Extremetech - AMD's Analyst Day, in more depth. AMD isn't going to tangle with Intel at the high end anymore -- so what comes next?

1:20 pm - Motorola, Woot.com Sold Refurbished Xooms With Previous User Data Intact

MaximumPC - Quick question: what's the one thing you should absolutely, positively do any time you trade in or return a piece of used tech? Answer: wipe the hard drive. If you already knew that, you might want to spread the word to your friends and neighbors, be......

12:42 pm - Dropbox Offers Up To 5GB Of Additional Space To Beta Build Users

MaximumPC - Dropbox has a lot of things going for it, but if you use the cloud storage service with any regularity, there's a good chance you'll bang up against the 2GB offered in the free version fairly quickly. (Assuming that you don't Gmail account chain tric......

12:00 pm - Ubisoft DRM + Server Switch = Unplayable Games Next Week

MaximumPC - DRM sucks. You know it, we know it, Gabe Newell and CD Projekt know it. Ubisoft apparently never got the memo however, and in the process of switching servers next week, the company will offer up yet another reason for DRM sucktitude. Thanks to that ......

11:46 am - Cadillac CUE raises the bar with capacitive touch, haptic feedback, dual-screen display

Extremetech - Slick, yes, but does new technology make the Cadillac XTS, ATS and SRX better or just different from other touchscreens and the Audi-BMW control knobs?

11:00 am - Apple is Now World's Largest PC Company (If Tablets Are PCs)

Toms Hardware - Canalys is, as far as we know, the only major market research firm that has chosen to include tablet shipments in overall PC unit shipments.

7:19 am - MIT’s photonic crystals lead towards nuclear batteries everywhere

Extremetech - Researchers at MIT have developed photonic crystals that, in as little as two years, could enable the use of hydrocarbon and nuclear reactors in portable electronic devices.

7:00 am - Petition Targeting Apple's Factory Conditions Reaches 163K+

Toms Hardware - There's a petition asking Apple to release a worker protection strategy for new product releases.

5:01 am - Windows Phone 8 detailed: It’s like Windows 8, but not quite

Extremetech - From deep Windows 8, Skype, and SkyDrive integration, through to the addition of NFC "wallet" payments and BitLocker encryption, it sounds like Windows Phone 8 will be a very exciting mobile OS indeed.

2:30 am - DRM Blues: Ubisoft PC Titles Rendered Useless Next Week

Toms Hardware - Several PC titles from Ubisoft will go dark next week thanks to the company's strict DRM.

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1:49 am - AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabric

AnandTech - A theme of the new AMD is modularity. We've of course heard this before as it has always been a goal of AMD's to bring to market more modular, configurable designs, however this time the rhetoric is a lot more serious. In our earlier cove......

11:30 pm - Crytek Taking on Onlive, Facebook with GFACE

Toms Hardware - Crytek is backing a small team of developers creating what seems to be a social platform that borrows from Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Xbox Live while adding the game streaming abilities of OnLive.

10:24 pm - Motorola Droid RAZR, RAZR MAXX Update Enables CDRX for Better LTE Battery Life

AnandTech - While we don't usually cover every software update on every platform, I thought it worth noting something special about the new update which will begin going out shortly to the Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX. Among the features included in......