Key moments from the ceremony at Liege marking 100 years since Germany invaded Belgium, and Britain entered the First World War.

One of Nanoxia’s raisons d’être is for the ultra-silent cases, even if fans are involved.  Part of the complexity of silent designs with fans is managing the air intakes and vents as this is where the noise will come from.  The latest in Nanoxia’s quest for silence is the Deep Silence 3, a steel mid-tower sized chassis to fit ATX, mATX and mini-ITX sized systems.  Compared to the previous Deep Silence models, this number three is aimed at the more budget and size conscious users without going as budget/small as the DS4.

Nanoxia is keen to promote its use of decoupled mounting of the hard disks and power supply along with anti-vibration feet and a dense foam padding designed to absorb vibrations.  This foam is used primarily in the front of the case behind the vanity panel, at the top with the fan mounting holes and inside the case panels.  The case can support eight storage drives (five 3.5”/2.5”, three dedicated 2.5”) and graphics cards up to 345 mm.  By removing the hard drive cage, this length extends up to 430mm.

For cooling, the case uses two 120mm fans in the front and a third at the rear, with an integrated 2-channel fan controller.  There is space for two 120/140mm fans at the top if the Nanoxia foam covers are removed, and another space for a 120mm at the bottom when the secondary HDD-cage is removed.  The IO panel gives two USB 3.0, a USB 2.0 as well as audio ports.

Dustin has previously reviewed a small number of Nanoxia cases, some of which are distributed within the US.  The Deep Silence 3 should be with distributors in Europe as of today, although no formal North America date has been announced.

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Gallery: Nanoxia Releases Deep Silence 3 Mid-Tower

A couple of months ago we reviewed JMicron's JMF667H reference design SSDs, which did relatively well in our tests especially when taking JMicron's older SSD controllers into account. As always, reference designs are only meant for evaluation and do not make their way into retail, so today we are taking a look at Transcend's SSD340. Let's find out how the SSD340 compare with other SSDs, and if it can offer a value proposition that will entice buyers.

Dignitaries gathered at the Singapore Cenotaph on Monday to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the start of World War One, from which 124 Singapore residents never returned.

New laws come into effect in Singapore, making it harder for foreigners to get jobs. Sharanjit Leyl reports on the likely impact on the economy.

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Drone Aviation Holding Company

Patrolling the skies these days is hard. There are so many options to choose from: traditional helicopters, new wide-angle surveillance planes, and even the more cutting-edge drones.

Each of these options has its drawbacks. Beyond the initial purchase price, well-tested helicopters typically cost at least hundreds of dollars per hour to send up. One-off surveillance planes are also not cheap, coming in at around $1,000 per hour. Drones, while very cheap, are problematic. Law enforcement needs a blanket Certificates of Authorization (COA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and possibly a specific Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) each time a drone is used above 400 feet.

Enter a small Florida company now attempting to make snooping from the air both cheap and administratively easy. The Drone Aviation Holding Corporation (DAHC) recently announced that it had sold its second-ever “Blimp in a Box” for local law enforcement purposes.

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Four people are killed and 20 others injured after a flash flood tore through a festival in a village near Venice in northern Italy.

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The tablet market is tapped out. We saw signs of this when Apple reported that its iPad sales were down year-on-year and we're seeing a similar message from retailers. Re/code's Walt Mossberg recently talked to Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly, who said that tablet sales had "crashed."

Global tablet sales are still rising—though less quickly than they once were—but in developed markets the tablet boom may be over. As Apple CFO Luca Maestri said in the company's earnings call, iPad sales were still growing in developing markets. The slowdown is all in the developed world. Samsung also reports that profits are down after tablet demand fell.

Moreover, Joly reported that PC sales—which the tablet was supposed to kill—have picked up. He attributed that resurgence partially to the end of support of Windows XP.

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Ukraine Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey tells the BBC the army is close to winning the conflict with pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Internet spaceships are and have always been serious business. Here, an Aurora puts the screws to a Hornet heavy fighter. Cloud Imperium Games

AUSTIN, TEXAS—We’ve already spent quite a bit of time talking about Elite: Dangerous, one of two crowdfunded, high-profile space combat simulators currently under development. However, as much as I would have liked to do so, I couldn’t take a quick day trip over to actually visit the Elite team in the UK while they were working. Visiting the Star Citizen team, on the other hand, is an entirely different matter. Cloud Imperium Games maintains an office just outside of Austin, Texas, just a few hours away from home.

So during the last week of June, I loaded up my car for the quick road trip across the blazing Texas summer prairie to poke my nose into things, learning how the game is coming along and meeting with some of the folks who are busy spending the more than $48 million dollars raised so far in Star Citizen’s mammoth crowdfunding effort. Ars last caught up with Cloud Imperium at PAX East in April 2014 at the unveiling of the game’s Arena Commander dogfighting module. Though Arena Commander took a bit longer than anticipated to actually release, I’d finally gotten some stick time and was eager to talk to the developers about the progress being made on the title.

This enormous logo adorns the wall on one of the office's hallways, bearing the surname of game designer legend Chris Roberts. (There's no logo for "Hutchinson Transgalactic Amalgamated Megacorp" yet, but I've got Aurich working with some sketches.) Lee Hutchinson

There was another reason for wanting to visit Cloud Imperium, though: it's sort of a pilgrimage for any '80s-era gamer, because the man behind Star Citizen is none other than the legendary Chris Roberts. Sadly, while we tried to arrange the visit so that Roberts’ and my paths would cross, we couldn’t quite line up schedules. Nonetheless, for someone like me who spent his childhood playing Chris Roberts' games, just visiting his design studio was like taking a field trip to Mecca.

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Few people know what to make of the Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game. By reputation it’s boring, vapid, materialistic, and shallow—according to many serious gamers—and is deplorable not least because players can spend money to get ahead. The wails only grew louder when reports indicated that the game earned $1.6 million in its first five days and is on track to make $200 million in annual revenue, according to one analyst.

While many gamers and gaming journalists struggled to figure out why anyone would spend money on a game made by and featuring a reality TV star, we aren’t totally in the dark. For one, casting shade on the subject matter is a value judgment of a certain set of interests and lifestyle. And on a meta level, how people use their leisure time. Let he who has lived every moment deliberately immersed in deep consideration of the universe cast the first Angry Bird. Materialism in games probably does not cause materialism in the streets.

For another, Kim K is actually pretty self-aware of its own materialism and glorification of social climbing and has a sense of irony about the world it gives players to try and thrive in. To wit, one of the things you can spend in-game money on is new body parts.

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The BBC's James Reynolds has visited an Israeli staging post outside Gaza, where tanks were lined up awaiting orders.

Glass Lantern, Istanbul by Eckersley O’Callaghan Institute of Structural Engineers

The shortlist for The Structural Awards 2014 has been released by the Institution of Structural Engineers.

"We hold the Structural Awards each year to recognise outstanding work by structural engineers, and to raise awareness about the vital global role they play creating innovative design solutions," said Martin Powell, chief executive of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Among the shortlisted structures are several bridges, including one modeled on a Maori fish hook, Richard Wilson's abstract, floating Slipstream sculpture in Heathrow Airport Terminal 2 and the new Apple Store in Istanbul.

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A proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler would block an attempt by Sprint and T-Mobile US to buy spectrum together in the incentive auction that will transfer airwaves from broadcast TV stations to cellular carriers next year.

Announced on Friday, Wheeler's proposal seeks to help the smallest wireless companies develop business partnerships with larger ones. But it would not allow partnerships between the biggest carriers, since more than 95 percent of US customers are served by either AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon Wireless.

"Our goal is to promote the participation of as many parties as possible in the auction," FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Roger Sherman wrote Friday. "If two of the largest companies are able to bid as one combined entity in the auction, their combined resources may have the effect of suppressing meaningful competition. Therefore, the item tentatively concludes that joint bidding arrangements between nationwide providers should not be allowed."

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The French and German presidents have been commemorating Germany's declaration of war on France on 3 August 1914.

Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli on the evacuation by the Royal Navy of Britons caught up in fighting between militias in Libya.

The natural wine movement in Italy says their product is 'true' to wine drunk in the middle ages but it has caused controversy in the industry. Alan Johnston reports from Tuscany.

Kent Brantly, a US doctor infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia, arrives for treatment at a specialised unit at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.

Since a 72-hour ceasefire collapsed, bombings in Gaza have been intense and hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of casualties.