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Turkish website Donanim Haber have discovered that Google Shopping lists the HD 5970 at $599 from ZipZoomfly. While the ZipZoomFly page is missing, this price point fits in well with the 499 price point leaked by several European e-tailers.

If you recall, the HD 5970 was originally set to be priced at $499, according to AMD’s slides. At the time, the HD 5870 was priced at $379, with it’s price expected to drop with competition. Even so, a dual-5870 product seemed like a bargain, and many doubted the validity of this price point.

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Intel plans to launch four 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs (Calpellaplatform), the Core i5-520M, Core i5-430M, Core i3-350M and Corei3-330M, in the first half of January 2010 for the mainstream notebookmarket with one of them featuring Intel’s Turboboost technology.

With the huge range of USB products in the market, you just wont know how far manufacturers can go. Thanko, however decides to go with a pretty cool USB Eyelash Curl.

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Hackers have managed to find a way around one of the key antipiracy protections built into Windows 7. Ordinarily, the operating system requires users to activate their copy of Windows 7 within 30 days. However, a recently outlined method allows the normal notifications to be turned off.

The software doesn't actually get confirmed as legitimate, but users are able to keep using the product indefinitely. Microsoft confirmed on Friday it is aware of the technique, but said that it is working to shore up the activation procedure.