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 of 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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Obama, Romney tweak strategies for tight race this fall (reuters)

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THG Week in Review: April 22-28, 2012

Welcome to THG's Week in Review! Below, our staffers look back at the stories, stars and scandals that made the last seven days some of the craziest ALL MONTH.

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• Giuliana and Bill Rancic are expecting their first child, via a surrogate.
• Karla Vanessa Perez, a Mexican woman, is apparently expecting nine.
• Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley are adopting their second baby.
• Sarah Michelle Gellar is pregnant with her second as well.
• Megan Fox is currently pregnant with her first child, too!
• Nadya Suleman, meanwhile, cannot take care of hers.
• Do you think Octomom's kids should be taken away?

Ellen Reads 50 Shades of Grey

• Should Ian Somerhalder star in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie?
• Either way, Ellen DeGeneres read it aloud on her show (above).
• Adam Lambert called out the gay community as "catty."
• The pregnant man Thomas Beatie and his wife split.
• Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are (maybe) a thing.
• The John Edwards trial is an insane thing.

Justin Bieber Talks Penis

• Justin Bieber apparently has a name for his unit. It's Jerry.
• Katy Perry may have a new boyfriend in Robert Ackroyd.
• Rihanna may have a new girlfriend in Melissa Forde.
• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are going strong.
• Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran are hot and heavy.
• Jenelle Evans and Kieffer Delp may be back on.

Snooki and JWoww vs. The World Trailer

• MTV released the first Snooki & JWoww spinoff trailer. It's quite absurd.
• Lane Garrison was charged with domestic violence after fighting his ex.
• The Real Housewives of New Jersey premiere earned record ratings.
• Sheree Whitfield got the ax from The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
• Rosie O'Donnell really does not like Lindsay Lohan.
• Are Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie at war?

The Bachelorette Promo

• The Bachelorette spoilers (and promos, above) are already surfacing!
• Beyonce was named the World's Most Beautiful Woman by People.
• A pair of new Breaking Dawn photos were released by Summit.
• Carlina Duran, Miss Dominican Republic, was stripped of her title.
• Wiz Khalifa was arrested for marijuana possession ... big surprise.
• Jimmy Fallon had President Obama slow jam the news (below).

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Houstonians fight back against TSA public bus searches (Americablog)

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Hugh Grant: Yes, Fatherhood Is Life-Changing After All

"Everyone was right all these years, saying, 'Hugh, why don't you have some children? It changes your life,' " the actor, 51, and dad to 6-month-old daughter Tabitha, says in an interview Friday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Apple Reportedly Canceling WWDC Orders for Multiple Tickets

According to developer reports, Apple is canceling the WWDC ticket orders orders of companies that purchased multiple tickets on a single credit card.

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Navarro: How Romney can win over Latinos (CNN)

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Mail.Ru Q1 Earnings: Revenues Up 45% To $160M

Mail.ru, the Internet giant -- and 2 percent owner of Facebook -- today reported Q1 revenues of $160 million, up 45 percent over last year and posted annual earnings with a full-year net profit $208.6 million -- a impressive rise of 158.2 percent as it launched a range of new products and continued its push into international territories using games as its main assault weapon. The company runs one of the country's biggest social networks and its biggest web mail service, both of which saw significant growth over last year. With Mail now numbering 32.7m Russian subscribers and Odnoklassniki (?OK?) with 25.3m monthly active users as of March 2012.

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Over A Year Since Launch, The Mac App Store Passes 10,000 App Milestone

Apple's iOS App Store always seems to outshine its computer-based counterpart, but it seems the company's Mac App Store has just hit a big milestone of its own. With the help of some timely database queries, French blog MacGeneration reported earlier today that Apple's Mac App Store now plays host to over 10,000 applications. A quick check with iOS and Mac app directory AppShopper homes in a bit more -- at time of writing, they count 10,334 listed apps in the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store, for those of you who don't make it a point to remember minutia like this, launched back in January 2011 with just over 1,000 apps available for download.

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Jon Jones, Rory MacDonald and more: UFC 145 pictures

Check out Tracy Lee's pictures from Saturday night's bouts, including Jon Jones' title defense, Rory MacDonald's win, Ben Rothwell and Michael McDonald's knockouts and more.

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Intel's Ivy Bridge will offer '20 percent more performance with 20 percent less average power'

So, there's still a little while to go before Intel gives Ivy Bridge a full unveiling, with official benchmarks, pricing and all those trimmings. But in the meantime, the BBC has detailed just how different this new architecture is compared to 32nm chips like Sandy Bridge and also AMD's coming Trinity processors. Most of this stuff we already knew -- like the fact that Intel has switched to a 3D or 'tri-gate' transistor design -- but what's new is a direct and official boast about performance. According to Kirk Skaugen, Chipzilla's PC chief, we can expect Ivy Bridge to deliver "20 percent more processor performance using 20 percent less average power." Now, judging from leaked desktop and laptop benchmarks, this broad-brush claim masks some very different realities depending on what type of CPU or GPU workloads you want throw at the chip, so stay tuned for more detail very soon.

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Travis Browne and Matt Brown highlight UFC 145 preliminary card

UFC 145's preliminary card wasn't one to remember, though Travis Browne, Matt Brown and Chris Clements gave memorable performances in Atlanta on Saturday night.

Travis Browne pulled out the submission of the night with a triangle choke of Chad Griggs in the first round. Browne knocked Griggs to the ground with knees, then used a textbook choke to take out Griggs at 2:29 in the first.

Despite tiring out early, Matt Brown stopped the quick ascent of Stephen Thompson with a unanimous decision. The judges saw it 30-27, 29-27, 30-27 for Brown. Matt Brown grabbed a calf slicer in the first round, but Thompson worked his way out. In the second, Thompson controlled most of the round, landing shots as an exhausted Brown couldn't answer, until the final minute. Brown knocked Thompson to the ground with an elbow, then used ground and pound until the round ended. Those elbows opened a large cut on Brown's forehead. Thompson had better stand-up early in the third, but Brown's takedown and triangle choke late in the third round kept Thompson from fighting back.

[ Related: Impromptu gymnastics competition breaks out inside Octagon ]

Unsurprisingly, Anthony Njokuani and John Makdessi's bout turned into a kicking contest, with Njokuani taking the bout 30-27 on all three judges' cards. Njokuani kept his distance while landing kicks to the abdomen and legs of Makdessi. Makdessi could never move inside enough to actually get some offense.

On an injured ankle, Mac Danzig won a decision 30-27, 30-27, 29-28 over Efrain Escudero. Escudero caught Danzig with a heel hook early, but Danzig defended by spinning out and taking Escudero's back before they returned to their feet in the first round. Danzig used a clinch in the second to control Escudero. On an ankle severely swollen from the heel hook, Danzig came out strong in the third, somehow having good movement. He returned to the clinch, again controlling Escudero against the fence.

Chris Clements won an exciting, back and forth split decision with Keith Wisniewski, 29-28, 28-29, 29-28. Wisniewski got a takedown early in the first round as well as a big forehead cut. After an inexplicable stand-up, Clements knocked Wisniewski to the ground with a spinning back kick to the body. In the second round, Wisniewski took Clements back to try for a rear naked choke, but Clements threw elbows into Wisniewski's face. Clements had a much better third round, landing shot after shot that Wisniewski had no answer for.

A lackluster bout started the card in Atlanta, as Marcus Brimage and Maximo Blanco never truly found an offensive attack. Brimage was able to use kicks? to get a bit of an edge, but seemed unsatisfied with his 29-28,? 28-29, 29-28 win.? Afterwards, he and Blanco got into a very odd tumble-off.

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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 16th, 2012

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you're like us and really want to know what's going on, then you've come to the right place. This past week, Verizon announced that its LTE service now covers two-thirds of the US population, and T-Mobile dropped its 'nice girl' image in attempt to position its HSPA+ network as a viable competitor to LTE. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the "best of the rest" for this week of April 16th, 2012.

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