Quad-SLI Geforce GTX 680 Awesomeness (video)

As we featured yesterday the new Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 officially arrived in stores yesterday ready for an eager public to get there hands on these super fast pimped up graphics cards.

Well Dutch website Hardware.info did better than just purchasing one of the $500 cards, and was able to acquire four of the monsters to test in Quad-SLI. Posting the results for all to see on their website. Watch the video after the jump to see Geforce GTX 680 Quad-SLI in action.

To recap the Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 graphics cards are equipped with 2 GB GDDR5 RAM, 1006 MHz base clock, 1058 MHz boost clock, 1502 MHz memory clock freqency, 2x DVI, 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort 1.2. You can check out the full test and results over on the Hardware.info website.

“All benchmarks were run at 1920×1080 (Full HD) and 5760×1080 (3x Full HD). In both resolutions we tested the games with normal settings and on the highest available settings with 4x AA when possible”

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Facebook Tells Employers Not To Ask For Passwords

It recently came to light that many employers are asking job applicants to hand over their passwords to their Facebook and other social media accounts as part of the hiring process. If there’s one thing that the public objects to it is a violation of their privacy, so it has caused some controversy.

Now Facebook has warned employers not to do it. Facebook has announced that it is serious about protecting the privacy of its users and their stance is that they should never be forced to give up their passwords.

“If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends. We have worked really hard at Facebook to give you the tools to control who sees your information.”

“Facebook takes your privacy seriously. We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges.”

It’s nice to see the company standing up for it’s users and hopefully this will put an end to the whole thing.

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BlackBerry Blade Concept Smartphone

At the moment Blackberry could do with all the help it can get, to pull itself out the declining sales trajectory its currently following. But designs such as the one created by Toronto based design studio Pixelcarve, detailing a new concept for a Blackberry Blade smartphone, might help RIM turn a corner if they are adopted.

The Blackberry Blade concept design has a slight curved and the main touchscreen slides upward to reveal the familiar BlackBerry keyboard. In a similar style to slide out phones by Nokia in the early 90′s. But there are also fixed buttons beneath the touchscreen in addition to a trackpad.

More information on the Blackberry Blade concept can be found over at the Pixelcarve, Crackberry and Digital Trends websites.

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