The Evad3rs Are Breaking Up, No More Jailbreaks for iOS 7.1/iOS

A sketchy report by the Air Herald states that “Enthusiastic jailbreakers have been suggested by hacking group Evad3rs not to upgrade to the iOS 7.1 and stay away from it.” The reasons are unknown, but it is being suggested that the team is breaking up. According to the report in question, the team didn’t provide any solid reason as to why jailbreakers should refrain from getting iOS 7.1, but it most likely has to do with the fact that Apple killed off all known jailbreaks in this particular update. Since iOS 7.1.1 supersedes iOS 7.1, the same warning applies for the newer firmware. It’s also common knowledge that iOS 7.1 poses a battery drain risk, so that’s another thing to look after. Nevertheless, most of the iDevice customer...

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8 GB Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X Shipping for €730 in Europe

The Radeon R9 290X graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices is pretty powerful even in its base form, but Sapphire decided not only to overclock it, but also add a cooler and, to make matters even more serious, double the memory too. So instead of a 1 GHz Radeon R9 290X with 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM at 5 GHz frequency, we have the Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X with 1.060 MHz GPU clock and 8 GB of GDDR5 operating at 5.6 GHz. It's like having a dual-GPU video card, only without the extra GPU and the whole extra power consumption that comes with it. Or the hybrid cooler. Or the reputation. Or the expectations for that matter. No one will expect Sapphire's Radeon R9 29)X Vapor-X to play Lichdom: Battlemage on three 4K UHD displays any time...

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Intel's Core i7-4770K CPU No Longer the Fastest

Reviews can be really enlightening things, and the one that TweakTown posted not long ago did us the nice favor of showing that the strongest unlocked CPU in Intel's lineup is not the strongest of all CPUs anymore. You would think that it would take a bit longer for this to happen. After all, Intel hasn't released the fourth generation "refresh" unlocked CPUs. That range, known as Devil's Canyon, will only come out during the summer. That didn't stop the newest Haswell fourth-generation processor from outdoing the Core i7-4770K though. Sure, the Core i7-4770K can be overclocked like nobody's business, but in its base form, it loses to the Core i7-4790. Granted, the name of the latter kind of spoils that, but there was enough room...

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