From Hardware Secrets:

Antec offers four power supply models within their High Current Pro (HCP) series: 750 W, 850 W, 1,000 W, and 1,200 W. The 1,000 W model has the 80 Plus Platinum certification, while the other models carry the 80 Plus Gold certification. Today we are going to take a look at the 750 W version, which features four +12 V rails. Let’s see if it is a good buy.

From ArsTechnica:

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), which is now a subsidiary of hard drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced yesterday that it will soon be bringing to market a sealed hard disk drive filled with helium instead of air.

From DailyTech:

It's the 1990s and virtual reality all over again

Valve Corp., the famous game maker who brought the world the popular franchises Half Life, CounterStrike, Portal, Team Fortress, and Left 4 Dead, made waves last week when it posted a job listing seeking hardware developers to help it design first-party hardware.  That led to fervent speculation -- was Valve designing a gaming console?  Was it making a "brain controller"?

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(and other stubborn chipsets that won't run Linux Live via USB)

This guide will help you to get Mint 13 installed and running from a USB flash drive.

You'll need to have a USB flash drive with a capacity of at least a 4GB.

Nokia has been caught red-handed trying to pass off professional photos, shot with professional cameras, as being snaps and videos taken with their Lumia 920 smartphone.

This still photo purports to show OIS (image stabilization) in action, but it is very obviously shot with a D-SLR or similar camera, and not with a Lumia phone.

Nokia has just unveiled its newest flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920 which runs Windows Phone 8.

The phone has a 4.5 inch curved touchscreen, a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and a 8 mega-pixel PureView camera.

Nokia are claiming that the camera is the best currently found in any smartphone.  It features a stabilized lens to minimize camera shake, and can shoot 1080p video as well as still photos.

From the BBC:

Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release without paying is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest.

A Birmingham University study indicates that an illegal file-sharer downloading popular content would be logged by a monitoring firm within three hours.

From Bit-tech.net:

With custom water-cooling still out of reach for many in terms of cold hard cash - after all it's usually more about bling these days than super-cooling - you only have two options if you're an overclocking enthusiast looking to beat the heat in a modern high-end system. All-in-one liquid coolers, such as the Corsair H80 and Antec Kühler, have proven themselves to be as good, if not better, than the very best that air cooling has to offer. They are our first choice when it comes to dealing with toasty CPUs for the simple reason they're incredibly easy to install (so long as you have a 120mm fan slot near your CPU socket), are usually very quiet, and require little if any maintenance.

From ArsTechnica:

Sony President and CEO Kaz Hirai took the stage at the IFA electronics show in Germany today to talk about the company's upcoming products—in addition to a new camera, a 4K TV, and new Windows 8 VAIO PCs (all of which we'll talk about in separate articles later today), the company also announced a new Android tablet and a handful of new Xperia smartphones that will all release between now and the end of the year.

From RegHardware:

Samsung's first Galaxy Beam, the GT-i8520, was a tremendously thick, heavy and expensive handset that very few bought. Having had a rethink, the company is now trying the whole smartphone-with-a-projector idea again with the GT-i8530. Essentially, this handset amounts to a Galaxy Advance S with a Digital Light Processing projector shoved in one end.