NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k

Would you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today, and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend at its Shanghai Game Festival by unleashing its latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 -- and oh yeah, it's packing two 28nm Kepler GPUs! Trumping the recently released GTX 680 as the "worlds fastest graphics card," it's loaded with a whopping 3,072 Cuda cores. The outer frame is made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, while you'll find thixomolded magnesium alloy around the fan for vibration reduction and added cooling. Aiding in cooling even further, the unit also sports a dual vapor chamber and center-mounted fan. It'll cost you a spendy $1,000 to pick up one these puppies come May 3rd, and you'll likely be tempted to double up -- two can run together in SLI as an effective quad-core card. With that said, NVIDIA claims that a single 690 runs 4dB quieter and handles about twice the framerate as a duo of GTX 680s in SLI -- impressive, but we'll reserve judgement until we see it for ourselves. check out the press release after the break if you'd like more information in the meantime (...and yes, it runs Crysis -- 2 Ultra to be exact -- at 57.8fps, according to NVIDIA).

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Achievement Unlocked: Apple Wins Applecom.com And Appleprinters.com After WIPO Complaint

Apple still doesn't own iPad.com, apple.co.uk or many other domains that contain its name or names of its products, but it is now the proud owner of applecom.com and appleprinters.com -- two domains that were the subject of a complaint Apple made to the World Intellectual Property Organization about a month ago. If you now visit those URLs, they automatically redirect to Apple's main site.

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3 dead, 1 missing in mishap during yacht race (Providence Journal)

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U.S. House Passes Controversial CISPA Cybersecurity Bill 248 To 168

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Wiz Khalifa Busted for Drug Possession in Nashville

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This Philips AmbientLED Bulb Is Your Never-Worry-About-A-Bulb-Again Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Earth Day, the one day a year when the world gets motivated about making our planet a little cleaner. Some plant a garden, others wait 24 hours to take their trash to the dump. I spent the day inside with all my lights on, celebrating the my electro-savings with my Philips AmbientLED Light Bulb. This year alone, I could be saving up to $140 in electricity, not to mention helping polar bears, dolphins and penguins and other cute animals that are taking the brunt of our pollution problems. Not only does this light replace your incandescent 60 watt bulb, it also claims to last for 15 years. That's 15 years never reading a lightbulb description ever again. More »

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Kohler VibrAcoustic baths bombard your senses with light and sound to drown out stress

Bathtime isn't just for luxuriating in champs and bubbles as part of an MTV-guided tour of your Manhattan high-rise (we're looking at you Ms. Carey). It's also for taking some well-deserved time off to undo pent up stress and get yourself clean with the help of an audiovisual assault. Which is why Kohler's rolling out a new line of its Underscore baths with VibrAcoustic tech that incorporates lighting, sound and vibrations to help "bathers... drift into deep relaxation" -- just not so deep they pass out and drown. The systems range in price from $1,055 to $4,634, with the Chromotherapy feature reserved for the higher end models, and come bundled with a touchscreen unit that can connect to mobile devices for audio streaming. Of course, there are also four pre-loaded tracks composed by a sound therapy specialist specifically calibrated to sync your breathing up with preset beat and chord patterns and get you to calm down. It's a whole new world of hygiene just waiting for you to take the plunge. So, if you've got money to burn and New Age-y predilections, this is your next bathtub.

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