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Want to grab a quick panoramic picture with your iPhone? The makers of the popular RedLaser app have a new photo tool out that can create one using your iPhone's video camera.
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Google releases location-aware mobile advertising, Research In Motion could launch its iPhone killer by next week, and T-Mobile ranks first in wireless customer service.
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A whole realm of new vendors aim to make it easier to process vast amounts of information. It's a field that's as interesting as it is complicated.
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Second-quarter earnings shoot up 83 percent to record levels while sales rise 21 percent as the company sees surging demand for computer chips and TVs.
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The Home Star program has a shot at passage in an oil spill-focused energy bill, paving the way for services and goods to improve home energy and water efficiency.
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Lawsuit claims government agencies, under a contract that involved "hundreds of millions of dollars in sales," got deals "far inferior" to those Oracle gave its commercial clients.
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If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
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Nokia and Samsung continue to dominate as global handset shipments rise 13 percent in the second quarter, though smartphone wars mean operating profits are volatile.
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A report from Bloomberg brings the shocking news that Facebook will not go public next year. Is the social network's repeated shying from an IPO more of a statement than anything else?
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Some say Apple's new Magic Trackpad heralds a mouse-free future. Are mice a dying breed or will they take their place alongside multitouch and gesture?
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Ask Maggie is a weekly technology advice column tackling readers' questions about mobile and broadband products, services, and issues.
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Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman appreciates adventure, and as part of his, he went to see Harley-Davidson put together the machines that will take countless people on endless journeys.
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Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations.
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CNET Car Tech spent some time with the Mitsubishi i-Miev in San Francisco.
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Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans.
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Las Vegas is the setting this week for two of the most popular annual security events. First comes Black Hat for the professional crowd, followed by the more antic Defcon gathering.
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Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla.
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Those reports, which said nearly all of the Internet giant's services were blocked Thursday, turned out to be erroneous.
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Airprobe software, combined with hardware and crypto cracker tool allows people to test the snoop-factor of their GSM phones, and even intercept calls of others.
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The New York Giants and Jets will soon offer replays, statistics, and live feeds of other games to fans at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
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Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can't determine whether or not the activity was state-sponsored? It doesn't matter, former NSA Director Michael Hayden says. Do it anyway.
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Meet Caterina Fake, the creative spark behind Hunch. Her big idea? Develop a web service that knows what you want before you even want it.
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Here in the America, the CIA's drone war in Pakistan is hotly-contested. In Pakistan, two-thirds of the people have never heard of the drones, according to a new poll. You can hear the champagne corks popping at Langley.
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Penguin publishes the first paperback books of substance, bringing the likes of Ernest Hemingway, André Maurois and Agatha Christie to the masses. The business model of the book-publishing industry is about to change.
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What will in-flight entertainment be like in the year 2023? There isn't any.
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Wired magazine's Found page represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming. Help create our next Found page: Show us what taco trucks will look like in 10, 20 or 100 years?
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Clive Thompson waxes philosophical on how text messaging is threatening -- and preserving -- the telephone conversation.
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Being able to legally jailbreak your iPhone is cool and all, but think where this type of legal reasoning could take us.
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An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident.
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San Franciscans gets a peek at what's involved in building a new bridge when builders place the first segment of a tower that will soon hold up a brand-new span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Wired.com shoots photos of the new bridge on a recent tour of the massive construction project.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is ordinarily a mild-mannered man. But they could barely contain his anger on Thursday at WikiLeaks for publishing tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war.
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An Android app's data-collection practice has raised concerns about user privacy and security on mobile phones.
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A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change.
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A genomic hunt for virus genes traced sequences to Ebola and the closely related Marburg virus in no fewer than six vertebrate species. The genes appear to have been mixed in about 40 million years ago, and have stuck around ever since.
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A group of rocket enthusiasts used a rocket to send a Nexus One phone 28,000 feet into the atmosphere.
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Rapper Kanye West, who might be more famous for his controversial pronouncements over the years than for his music, would seem the perfect candidate for starting a Twitter account, but rejected the notion. However, he changed his mind by starting an account and rapping at Twitter's headquarters on Wednesday.
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If the Empulse RR runs as well as it looks, the competition should be very nervous.
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LAS VEGAS — In a city filled with slot machines spilling jackpots, it was a 'jackpotted' ATM machine that got the most attention Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference, when researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated two suave hacks against automated teller machines that allowed him to program them to spew out dozens of crisp bills.
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The Samsung HZ35W would be a great GPS-enabled camera, if it could only give us accurate coordinates.
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A wind-powered vehicle can travel downwind faster than the wind. It's been proven at El Mirage. Not that we expect the debate to end quietly.
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President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Amazon will ship the third generation of its Kindle e-book reader on Aug. 27, offering a cheaper, Wi-Fi only version for just $140. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also offers some optimistic predictions about the future growth of e-book sales.
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We asked for your help to show BP how to improve upon their terribly Photoshopped oil-cleanup images, and you delivered some awesome images.
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The most deadly weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't AK-47s or grenades -- they're roadside bombs made out of gas cans, garage door openers and fertilizer. Here’s how the U.S. military is fighting back.
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The rich are adding to their millions with pre-IPO stock, but today's internet stock rockets are social networks built by their members -- so shouldn’t Regular Joes get a cut, too?
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The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real-time -- and says it uses that information to predict the future.
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Rankings of the best and fastest ISPs in U.S. cities are now available, thanks to stats from Speedtest.net. And while the country is far from leading the world, the nation's tubes aren't nearly as bad as many suspect.
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Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web's governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website's code against multiple web standards simultaneously.
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A federal appeals court orders Virginia's attorney general to back away from threats of suing a woman for posting elected officials' Social Security numbers. The reason: The government published the private data first.
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A storm of Star Wars-themed jokes hit Twitter, mimicking WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of U.S. military memos. Only this stuff is funny. Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo shares techniques he used to get the #wookieeleaks hashtag to take off.
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kkleiner writes "BlindType has created a new touchscreen keyboard program of the same name that changes size, orientation, and position to match your wandering fingers as they type. BlindType also features some of the most impressive typing correction software I've ever seen. The result is a practical touchscreen interface that knows what you meant to type, even if you make mistakes. Lots of them. In fact, you can type without looking at the screen at all."
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ArbiterOne writes "The 11th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is today. Celebrated worldwide on the last Friday of July, this day honors those who fight in the digital trenches to keep the Net alive. OpenDNS offers a way to remind your boss about the holiday, while another blogger shares war stories. The startup Ksplice has created an homage to these heroes in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure." Reader Netbuzz submits a sobering look at the profession from Network World, which notes, "In the past year, [sysadmins'] pay has dropped, and more of their positions are being farmed out to temporary workers."
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Barence writes "Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has vented his frustration at the success of the iPad and said developing a Windows alternative is 'job one urgency.' 'Apple has done an interesting job of putting together a synthesis and putting a product out, and in which they've... they sold certainly more than I'd like them to sell, let me just be clear about that,' Ballmer told analysts. The Microsoft boss said the company plans to deliver a range of tablet formats in the next year, some based on Intel's next-gen Oak Trail processor. 'It is job one urgency around here. Nobody is sleeping at the switch. And so we are working with those partners, not just to deliver something, but to deliver products that people really want to go buy.'" In Microsoft's vision, slates will run a derivative of Windows 7.
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sridharo sends in a report from the BBC that researchers have identified ancient rocks from Nili Fossae that could contain fossilized remains of life. These rocks are very similar to Pilbara rocks in northwest Australia. The rocks are estimated to be up to four billion years old, which means they have been around for three-quarters of the history of Mars. "[Many] scientists had hoped that they would soon have the opportunity to get much closer to these rocks. Nili Fossae was put forward as a potential landing site for NASA's ambitious new rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, which will be launched in 2011. ... But Nilae Fossae was eventually deemed too dangerous a landing site and it was finally removed from the list in June of this year." The research, led by a scientist from the SETI Institute, was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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An anonymous reader writes "Programmers who design and code algorithms for investment banking are unhappy with their salaries. Many of them receive a low 6-figure salary whereas their bosses — who manipulate these algorithms and execute the trades — often earn millions. One such anonymous programmer points out that he was paid $150,000 per year, whereas the software he wrote was generating $100,000 per day."
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theodp writes "For show-and-tell at SIGGRAPH 2010, Microsoft Research brought Street Slide, 'a multi-perspective street slide panorama with navigational aides and mini-map.' Very slick (demo video). Technology Review explains that Street Slide stitches together slices from multiple panoramas, making it possible to see all the shops on a street at once. Someone using Street Slide's panoramic view can slide along the facades looking for places of interest (perhaps guided by logos or ads at the bottom), and zoom back in to a classic Bing Streetside bubble view at any time."
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scurtis writes "An insider has told eWEEK Europe that some Internet service providers in the UK only sign-up customers who can be guaranteed a good service, in order to improve average speed claims. The revelation comes after the regulator Ofcom criticised broadband service providers earlier this week for not delivering the speeds promised to consumers. Meanwhile, TalkTalk's chairman Charles Dunstone has argued that Ofcom could be doing a lot more to push BT — as the operator of the copper infrastructure — to improve maintenance of the lines and its communication with fellow service providers."
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schliz writes "Physicists have observed 'bizarre' behaviour in graphene electrons that they say could make the material even more suitable to replace silicon in future electronic devices. When strained in a particular manner, nanobubbles formed on a sheet of graphene, within which electrons came to occupy particular, quantum energy levels rather than the usual, continuous range of energies in unstrained graphene. By controlling electrons' energy levels, researchers could control how easily they moved through graphene — in effect, controlling their conductivity, optical, or microwave properties."
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astroengine writes "Sure, we're looking 172 years into the future, but an international collaboration of scientists have developed two mathematical models to help predict when a potentially hazardous asteroid (or PHA) may hit us, not in this century, but the next. The rationale is that to stand any hope in deflecting a civilization-ending or extinction-level impact, we need as much time as possible to deal with the threatening space rock. (Asteroid deflection can be a time-consuming venture, after all.) Enter '(101955) 1999 RQ36' — an Apollo class, Earth-crossing, 500 meter-wide space rock. The prediction is that 1999 RQ36 has a 1-in-1,000 chance of hitting us in the future, and according to one of the study's scientists, María Eugenia Sansaturio, half of those odds fall squarely on the year 2182."
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suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in the entire world and both companies continue to grow, even as growth slows significantly in more developed markets. Every other ISP trails dramatically. Japan's NTT comes in third with 17 million subscribers, and all US providers are smaller still. 'The gap between the top two operators and the world's remaining broadband service providers will continue to grow rapidly,' said TeleGeography Research Director Tania Harvey. 'Aside from the two Chinese companies, all of the top ten broadband ISPs operate in mature markets, with high levels of broadband penetration and rapidly slowing subscriber growth.'"
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thecarchik writes "The Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, first shown as a concept at this spring's Geneva Motor Show, got official approval as a production model today from the company's board of directors. Just consider the specs: a 500-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-8 engine with a 9200-rpm redline, 0-to-62-mph acceleration of 3.2 seconds, and top speed of 198 miles per hour. Oh, and did we mention it gets 78 miles per gallon on the European cycle? The astounding fuel efficiency comes courtesy of an E-Drive mode that lets the 918 Spyder drive up to 16 miles on pure electric power, though [ahem] not at 198 mph."
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spidweb writes "One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of PC games helps him. From the article: 'You don't get everything you want in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an honorable, ethical being. You don't get both. Most of the time. Because, when I'm being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of it, even when I'm the one being ripped off.' The article also tries to find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player PC games to continue to exist."
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myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.'"
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An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."
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Perl 6 may have been "finally coming within reach" in 2004, but now it's even closer. Reader rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation Rakudo Star has been released today for 'early adopters.' This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler releases in that it is bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are made. It is available for download at github.com."
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TSMC Reports Record Revenues for Q2 2010
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Intel to Start Shipments of New Core-Logic Sets to Mainboard Makers in October
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Nintendo Preps to Unveil Launch Information for 3DS
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Nvidia Continues to Lead the Desktop Graphics Market in Terms of Volume
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Market of Blu-Ray and DVD Players Begins to Stagnate
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Today we are going to talk about six mainboards on AMD 890FX chipset, namely: ASRock 890FX Deluxe3, Asus M4A89TD Pro and Asus M4A89TD Pro/USB3, Biostar TA890FXE, Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 and MSI 890FXA-GD70. We will compare their technical specifications, BIOS functionality, overclocking potential; will check out their performance and power consumption.
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ATI Becomes World's Largest Supplier of Discrete Graphics Chips
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Wi-Fi Continues Rapid Market Penetration
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EC Initiates Two Anti-IBM Investigations
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Elpida Announces 2Gb 1066MHz DDR2 Mobile Memory for Next-Gen Mobile Electronics
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Amazon Rolls-Out Most Affordable Kindle So Far
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Nvidia's Second Quarter Revenue Set to Be Below Expectations By Over $100 Million
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AMD "Ontario" Processors Not Projected to Consume 25W
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AMD Plans Phenom II X6 1045T Chip for Q3 Launch
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AMD Readies Two "Zacate" APUs for Late Year Shipments
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Monitor temperatures on five components and control up to five fans—without sacrificing a 5.25-inch drive bay—with NZXT's Sentry LXE.
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The NZXT Phantom is a spacious and potentially stylish Extended ATX case with lots of storage and cooling possibilities.
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The silicon-based optical data transfer technology could make transfer speeds of 50, 100, or 400 Gbps possible—and 1-Tbps speeds may not be far off.
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Among other things, the new specification allows for easier porting between mobile and desktop computing platforms.
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If you need a second or third computer but money is tight, you don't need to buy a full system. You can build a surprisingly speedy Linux PC that will excel at everyday tasks, and cost less than $200.
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Accell's adapter is a useful (but expensive) way to split one DisplayPort output into three DVI connections.
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Priced at about $75-$79, the GDDR5-based ATI Radeon HD 5550 is a (small) step up from the 5450, but far from the best you can do for the money.
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PC gaming has matured in the nine months since Windows 7 debuted—and it's moved in a few surprising directions.
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The XtremKey can withstand temperatures from -60 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, is watertight up to 100 meters, and can survive a five-meter drop.
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With 19 programmable buttons, the WarMouse Meta may be a dream for some gamers, but it's potentially complex enough to give soft-core players nightmares.
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But reducing soot will lower the Arctic climate more quickly than CO2
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NVIDIA is sure to come out fighting
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Price competition is kryptonite for profits
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All kiosks to get Blu-ray by the fall
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HTC EVO 4G owners rejoice: Froyo will soon be here!
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Personal information may be exploited for nefarious purposes
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The FDA meets today to discuss the pill's effectiveness
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Congress is not going along with forced hybrid fleets
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Laser weapon is shipping, but some are angry at a price raise; company called previous lasers "lightsabers"
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Lockheed is trying to determine why the parts are failing at higher than expected rates
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Third party has no association with site, but made liberal use of its data policy
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In an apparent leak, Kepler team scientist spills the goods... then backtracks.
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Tennessee town of 17,000 has issued over 7,300 traffic tickets in half year since adopting system
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Apple's iPhone 3G is allergic to iOS 4
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Device launches August 27th, preserves well-liked E Ink technology
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Yahoo Japan says Microsoft's Japanese language offerings were insufficient, strange relationship triangle arises
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Could lead to an endless supply of clean energy
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Five contracts awarded to firms
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DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Wednesday
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Porsche next halo sports car gets the green light
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Self-boarding gates pose no security threat according to TSA
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Computer crime doesn't pay in the long run
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Phone is months from launch, but bragging match has already started
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Motorola says "No Jacket Required" for Droid X
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Millions of dollars goes to anyone who can solve the problem
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University research report observing high conductivity using surprisingly simple metal mix
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Researchers are working on a controller that gets hot or cold depending on what is happening in the game. Kinda neat seeing a couple old peltiers being used for something like this.
The temperature difference isn't large - less than 10 degrees heating or cooling after five seconds, but the researchers involved discovered that, as with haptics, just a little sensory nudge can be enough to convince involved participants in a virtual environment that they are experiencing something like the real thing.
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Lian Li PC-T60 ATX Test Bench @ Phoronix
Cooling
CoolIT Vantage ALC Cooler @ Hardware Heaven
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G.Skill Phoenix PRO 120GB SSD @ Guru3D
Kingston HyperX blu KHX1600C9D3B1K2/4GX @ Overclockers Club
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I know I shouldn't laugh at stories like this but I just can't help it.
A woman in California has recently gone public with claims that she not only watched as a Dell tech support worker downloaded nude pics of her remotely, but that he also set up a website featuring the photos. Oh, and he used her Dell credit card to buy stuff for another woman.
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How come these massive, record setting gigapixel images are always pictures of towns? Can't we get gigapixel pictures of the beach or a beauty pageant?
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It looks like Google's strategy of knuckling under to China's demand is working out well. Just kidding, almost all Google's services are being blocked again.
Several of Google's Web services in mainland China were fully blocked on Thursday (PDT), including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Other services including Google Images, News, Docs and Groups remain "partially blocked," according to Google's Mainland China service availability chart.
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I want this couch! You want this couch! Now all we have to do is wait until it moves from the concept stage to production and we'll be all set.
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This is our pre-weekend shout out to all of you out there that aren't currently folding and could spare a bit of your PC's resources to help a wonderful cause. Although [H]ardOCP has the #1 Folding team on the planet, we still need your help to stay there. Folding is easy, all you have to do is download and install the Folding@Home program, set your team number to TEAM #33 and you are all set.
If you still need help or have any questions, forum member "Xilikon" put all the Folding guides that a person could possibly need into one easy-to-find location. Hit the link, follow the directions and you'll be up and folding in no time at all.
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A new report, citing anonymous industry sources, claims that Facebook is postponing an initial public offering until at least 2012. I'm not sure how you can "put off" something that hasn't seen announced before but there you have it.
This comes as no surprise as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been very careful on the subject. "At some point along the path, I think it'll make sense to have an IPO. But we're not running the company to do that. We're running the company to serve more people," he said recently.
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Redbox, the popular DVD rental kiosk provider, and wholly-owned subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc., today announced it has started rolling out Blu-ray™ titles with availability at approximately 13,300 kiosks nationwide. Redbox will rent Blu-ray Discs® at $1.50 per night plus tax and the company expects to have availability across its network of approximately 23,000 kiosk locations by the fall.
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GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions is proud to announce that GIGABYTE On/Off Charge technology also works on the iPhone 4. GIGABYTE first announced On/Off Charge in April this year by demonstrating how it speeds up iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch charging from a PC's USB port whether the PC is operational or shut down.
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The funny quote of the day is brought to you by Steve Ballmer. Speaking to a group of financial analysts, Microsoft's CEO made this comment about iPad sales:
As for Apple and the iPad, Ballmer said, "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold."
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Lian Li PC-7FNWX Case (German) @ Hardware-Mag
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Gelid Solutions Tranquillo @ Overclockers Club
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PCPer Podcast #115 PC Perspective
ZFS Benchmarking On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & Btrfs On Linux @ Phoronix
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RunCore Pro-V 200GB SSD @ LanOC
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I knew it! I knew it! Google is spying on us...in real time!
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the 'invisible links' between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events."
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Room temperature ice? The next thing you are going to tell me is that sex boosts brain growth! Whatever.
Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanocičncia i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the troposphere and found a way to make artificial materials to control water condensation and trigger ice formation at room temperature.
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Analyst firm, UBM TechInsights announced that Intel has won two of its top awards, including the Most Innovative Logic Process Award for the 32-nm Intel® Core™ processor and the Most Innovative Memory Process for the Intel-Micron Flash Technologies 25nm Manufacturing Process. The 25nm NAND flash memory was recognized as the most advanced process in terms of feature size and for breaking technology scaling barriers.
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Looking to replace my Radeon HD 5970 and decided to go with ASUS' ROG Matrix 5870 Platinum that we recently reviewed. It is loaded with features rarely seen on video cards and I thought it would find a good home in my personal rig. And yes, we have a purpose behind our upgrade too.
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MSI's newest offering supporting AMD's line of processors comes in the form of the 890FXA-GD70. This board could potentially be a P55 killer, with its balance of features and performance prowess. How does it do in the HardOCP gauntlet and better yet, how well does it overclock?
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Our first look at the GeForce GTX 460 showed it to be an impressive product with excellent all-around performance for the price. Next our SLI follow-up showed that a GTX 460 SLI rig was competitive with NVIDIA's own flagship DX11 products. But how does GTX 460 SLI compare with AMD's HD 5850, 5870, and 5970 cards?
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Other companies made the closed loop self contained CPU water cooler famous. CoolIT Systems intends to make it one of the easiest to install and best optimized and efficient liquid cooling systems around. The ECO C240 doubles up on cooling surface area. Does CoolIT hit its mark?
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NVIDIA's new multi-display Surround Technology is put to the test with GeForce GTX 480 SLI video cards in 3x1 Surround mode. We compare directly to AMD's Eyefinity technology and the same three displays with 2GB Eyefinity6 HD 5870 CrossFireX and 1GB HD 5870 CrossFireX.
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The Gigabyte HD 5770 Super Overclock provides us with "Ultra Durable" components, cherry-picked GPUs, higher GPU frequencies, and a new cooling solution. With all that, does it wipe the floor with a Radeon HD 5770? How about GBT's claims comparing its card to the aging GTX 260? We put it to the test.
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Thinking of upgrading your CPU air cooler since things are getting a little hotter under the colar? We cover some newer solutions from big names in air cooling and compare those to the tried and true solutions that we have come to know and love.
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Corsair has built a tremendously solid brand in the computer power supply market over the last couple of years. Today it steps into a new realm, that being the 1200 watt market. Making great PSUs gets harder as the power scales. Let's see if Corsair can ride the winds once again and pull off a bigger-than-a-kilowatt win.
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Our first look at the GeForce GTX 460 showed it to be an impressive product with excellent all-around performance for the price. But what about SLI performance? How does GTX 460 SLI performance compare with a single GTX 480 or GTX 470 in real world gaming? Two 460 cards are now only $80 more than a single GTX 470.
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Today NVIDIA is answering the demands of money conscious gamers by introducing the new GeForce GTX 460. The GTX 460 is a refinement of the Fermi architecture, designed to land significant performance improvements for gamers resting in the $200 USD sweet spot. We will find out if this truly does deliver gaming bliss on the cheap and why NVIDIA is calling the GTX 460 an "Overclocker's Dream."
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Take your 2 year old GTX 280 video card and pair it up with another 2 year old GTX 280 and what do you get? You get an NVIDIA SLI system capable of delivering huge multi-display NV Surround gaming resolutions with the latest games.
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ASUS' latest AM3 offering promises to be at least an interesting one. Not only does it feature USB 3 and SATA 6Gbps support, it also offers the lowest cost of entry into the world of quad core computing with support for a Core Unlocker. All with an 890GX chipset with integrated graphics as well.
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Ever wonder just how much performance has improved with drivers since launch date with AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5800 series? We did after NVIDIA's recent driver launch, so we aimed to find out just how much AMD's drivers have improved. We compare the launch driver, the first WHQL driver, and the current WHQL driver.
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Many have waited for NVIDIA's 3D VISION SURROUND Technology with bated breath. The wait is over and NVIDIA can now give its GPU owners a 3x1 multi-display gaming experience; and in 3D too! Does NVIDIA's implementation live up to the expectations of those that have been using competitive technology for eight months?
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The HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo X offers us a new cooling solution and higher frequencies, but is that enough to outdo the tried and true reference Radeon HD 5870 and a GeForce GTX 480? We put it to the test in Splinter Cell Conviction, Metro 2033, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Aliens vs. Predators, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Furmark for our power and temperature testing.
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