DotA Guide: Yurnero - The Juggernaut Introduction

DotA is the most popular custom made map for Warcraft III. To allow players a better comprehension of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide. One of the best Agility based melee fighter this game has, Yurnero can turn the tide of a battle if played correctly. You can recruit him from the Sentinel Agility Tavern. He performs well alone or with a teammate. Try to ally with a stunner (perhaps a ranged one) and your lane will not get breached. Farming is also a very important part, Blade Fury allowing him to earn gold from early levels. There is little to know about this mysterious swordsman: "Slicing through armor with the greatest of ease. Whirling, dancing like a dervish, swiping foes with a flick of the wrist. Poetry...

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Intel Core i7-3930K and i7-3960X Available for Pre-Order in the US

Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors have made their appearance in more than one online stores by now, but recently the chips were also listed in the US where a store offers its customers the chance to pre-order the upcoming Core i7-3930K and i7-3960X. The chips were spotted by CPU-World in the online store of one e-tailer which has listed the Core i7-3930K at $609.99 (441 EUR), while its older brother, the Core i7-3960X, can be pre-ordered for $1099.99 (796 EUR). Both of these prices are somewhat higher than those expected by most of us, but this isn't an unusual occurrence for unreleased hardware as retailers usually try to profit as much as they can from the eagerness of early adopters. Just as its name implies, the Core i7-3960X...

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AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs Will Reach Volume Shipments in 2012 – Report

While AMD has recently said that it will begin shipping its first 28nm Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs by the end of this year, it seems like the company won't be able to deliver such chips in mass quantities until 2012. The Fudzilla report claims that the most important hurdle AMD's next-generation graphics cores have to overcome is TSMC's inability to build enough of these GPUs by the end of 2011. Despite this setback, VR-Zone claims that AMD will however ship some 28nm parts by the end of this year, so we could still some limited supply of low- or mid-range Radeon HD 7000 graphics cards make their appearance this year. Availability should be very limited at least until 2012 starts as this is when TSMC is expected to improve the yields of its...

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G.Skill Readies 16 GB RipjawsZ High-Grade Memory Kit

As the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors, and accompanying motherboards, near availability, G.Skill is preparing a memory kit that can keep up with them.   Called RipjawsZ, the RAM has a total of 16 GB capacity, being composed of four 4 GB modules. They operate at 2,133 MHz (PC3-17000) and latencies of 9-11-9-28. This much was mentioned in this report, but the kit does fall under an NDA so there is hardly any more info about it right now. Fortunately, some pictures were included in the preview, showing black PCBs with blue heatsinks and the RipjawsZ brand written in big letters. The official release, as well as one or more reviews, will appear in about a week or two, most likely. For information about the processor series or the many...

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No Patch for Critical Duqu 0-Day Vulnerability in Windows Next Week

Microsoft plans to release four security bulletins next week as a part of its monthly patch cycle, but an update designed to fix the critical zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Duqu malware won’t be among them.  Jerry Bryant, group manager, Response Communications Trustworthy Computing Group, confirmed this detail officially, while stressing that the software giant is indeed hard at work on a patch. Bryant notes that the level of risk to which customers running Windows are exposed because of the Duqu malware attacks is low. “Our engineering teams determined the root cause of this vulnerability, and we are working to produce a high-quality security update to address it. At this time, we plan to release the security update through...

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Acer Iconia Tab A200 Leaked, Receives Bluetooth Certification

Acer is about to announce a new Iconia Tab tablet, namely the Iconia Tab A200, which was spotted recently at Bluetooth SIG. According to the folks over at PocketDroid, the slate should be delivered with Android 3.2 Honeycomb on board, but there's no mention of any kind of platform on the Bluetooth SIG site. The tablet is described as being “lightweight and smaller than a magazine,” so we can't be sure if it's a 10-incher, or it will be out with a smaller display. Other technical details about the unannounced slate are kind of blurry, but one thing is certain, the Iconia Tab A200 will released in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. In addition, Bluetooth SIG documents confirm that the Iconia Tab A200 will be delivered...

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Fujitsu Supercomputer Is Fastest in the World at 10.51 Petaflops

Supercomputers seem to be spoken of a lot these days but, then again, with monsters the size of the Fujitsu K, this is hardly surprising. The Top500 list of supercomputers will probably have the K at the very top next time it is compiled. Though Fujitsu has not yet held the official press release that will officially claim the world's fastest title for the HPC application, a report did it well enough in advance. Right now, the K can work at ten petaflops or, more precisely, 10.51 petaflops, in line with how Fujitsu wanted to make this possible by 2012. The conglomerate has 88,128 processors spread across 864 racks and relies on $10 million (7.22 Euro) worth of electricity a year. The formal press release will be made at SC11 (will take place...

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ASUS Transformer Prime Tablet Smashes Through Benchmark

ASUS Transformer Prime barely got through the FCC, and it came out in pieces too, but that still didn't stop a certain someone from seeing its benchmarking score.  As unlikely as it sounds, the tablet, which is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Kal-El ARM SoC (system-on-chip), was found on AnTuTu benchmark. The AnTuTu benchmarking app showed it clearly superior to both tablets and some high-end smartphones. Apparently, with a score of 12,872, the Kal-El device was very much ahead of the rest. For the sake of comparison, the score is roughly twice as high as the one that the Original Transformer is able to dish out. More data may or may not show up in leaks before ASUS actually make the official introduction of the Eee Pad Transformer prime,...

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Asus ROG G53SX Notebook Is a Gaming Powerhouse

Asus continues to expand its range of ROG gaming notebook with new products and the latest to make its arrival is the G53SX which seems to resemble a great deal the older G74SX laptop, but is comes with a smaller 15.6-inch display. Just as it was the case with its predecessor, the G53SX features the same all-black look and angular design characteristic to the company's ROG-series notebooks. At the heart of the Asus G53SS notebook stands the Intel Core i7-2670QM processor, that features four computing cores operating at 2.2GHz, which xan be paired together with up to 16GB of DDR3 memory (four DIMM banks are available) and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M dedicated graphics card. This GPU is based on the GF114 core and packs 384 stream processors,...

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MSI Showcases Micro-ATX X79MA-GD45 LGA 2011 Motherboard

At the start of this week we took a glimpse at what was then the only micro-ATX LGA 2011 motherboard to ever come into our attention, the ASRock-built X79 Extreme4-M, but it now seems like MSI will also have a similar model on offer, the X79MA-GD45. Like all the other high-end motherboards fabricated by the Taiwanese company, this latest of MSI's creation also sports Military Class III components for improved overclocking and reliability. In order to fit in the micro-ATX form factor, the X79MA-GD45 was however forced to drop some of the features of its larger siblings, mainly the extra expansions slots. Despite this change, the motherboard still manages to come with a complete feature set sporting no less than four DDR3 memory slots as well...

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Lenovo 20-inch C225 All-in-One Is Based on an AMD APU

One would think that 6 GB of RAM and 1 TB HDDs aren't exactly entry-level market material, but Lenovo seems to disagree and showed it through the C225 all-in-one.  Two versions of this All-in-One personal computer are available for customers to choose from. One has 4 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory), a capacity that is pretty much standard at this point, as well as a hard disk drive of 500 GB. Already the entry-level parameters are skimmed, but they are exceeded completely by the other version of the system, with 6 GB RAM and a HDD of 1 TB. In that order, they cost $499 and $699, which means 361 Euro and 506 Euro, respectively. The means that Lenovo used to keep the AiO still part of the low-end market were the size and the processing...

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Download Automatic Fix for Duqu 0-Day Vulnerability in Windows Kernel

While a security update for the Critical zero-day vulnerability in Windows kernel exploited by the Duqu malware is not yet available, Microsoft has reacted quite fast to enable customers to at least deploy a temporary solution until it releases an official patch.  The automatic fix currently being offered to all Windows users comes to introduce a workaround capable of blocking Duqu from exploiting the TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402). The security hole resides in the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine, and is caused when a Windows kernel-mode driver handles the TrueType font type improperly, Microsoft explained. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. The...

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Twitter for BlackBerry 2.1.0.18 Beta Now Available

A new flavor of Twitter for BlackBerry is now available for download via the BlackBerry Beta Zone, namely version 2.1.0.18, which brings along a nice range of enhancements when compared to the previous release of the application.  The new app iteration brings along a new feature, offering users the possibility to easily switch accounts by hitting Alt + Space. At the same time, the new mobile software release brings along a series of fixes for issues discovered in the previous app flavor, such as Tweet Refresh, which notifies on every Tweet and not according to time set in Options. The issue preventing users from viewing user profiles of multiple @mentions was solved, the same as the problem with responding to a Tweet from selected account....

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Root for Galaxy Nexus Already Available

Galaxy Nexus, the latest Google phone out there, has been already rooted, although it is not yet available for purchase.  The handset was officially introduced only a few weeks ago, and is expected to arrive on shelves starting with mid-November with the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform on board. Users will be able to root the new smartphone immediately after purchasing it, provided that this is something that they are looking to achieve, of course. The root method for Samsung's new Galaxy Nexus comes from the guys over at MoDaCo, and is said to be only temporary root (the handset will revert to the original state when rebooted). They called the required file for rooting this mobile phone Superboot, which is a boot.img that...

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Helal Linux 3: Ubuntu for Muslims, With Unity

Helal Linux 3.0 is an Ubuntu-based operating system with support for Arabic languages. It has both both Unity 3D and the GNOME Shell 3.2 interface, as well as the GNOME Classic one. Hanny Sabbagh, the main developer behind the Helal Linux project, contacted us a couple of days ago in regard to his brand-new operating system, based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). As the title says, Helal Linux 3.0 is an Ubuntu for Muslims, supporting both English and Arabic languages. It contains lots of fixes for bugs still present in Ubuntu 11.10. Among the included apps present in Helal Linux 3.0 we can mention LibreOffice 3.4.3, Y PPA Manager, Skype, Pidgin, Othman, Monajat applet, Hijra applet, FileZilla, Firefox 7.0.1, The GIMP 2.6.11, CompizConfig...

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