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Researchers at UC Davis say that silicon, the most common metalloid and a known booster of bone-mineral density, is highly "bioavailable" when consumed in beer.
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Security analyst at University of Georgia tasked with catching copyright violators allegedly uses his position to shakedown students.
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The latest version of TweetDeck is out, and although it's a minor update it also introduces some useful changes worth noting.
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The 747-8 Freighter, whose passenger version is slated to come a year later, is getting tested alongside the 787 Dreamliner in Washington state.
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A former Intel executive pleads guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud by providing confidential information in the Galleon Group insider-trading case.
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On Monday, Boeing's 747-8 Freighter took off from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., its first flight, and the first for the new 747 program.
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A start-up employee in Indiana telecommutes to work in California by using a robot body stationed at his office. Meet the Texas Robot from Willow Garage.
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The software maker says that an error message warning users that their batteries may need replacing appears to be working as intended, despite some complaints.
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On the podcast: Blackberry vulnerabilities, Verizon blocks 4chan sites, the space station gets a new bay window, and more.
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Sources familiar with the company's plans tell CNET that Google is ready to integrate status updates into Gmail in Twitter-like style, with a stream of text and multimedia updates.
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An exec at the gaming company hinted that its 'Madden NFL' franchise will launch a Facebook version, the first application we've seen of EA's Playfish acquisition to its existing game titles.
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Report from Earth911.com shows more people with questions on how and where to recycle in 2009, with PCs, batteries, and TVs topping the list of search queries.
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Some bandwidth providers sell access to film and TV shows. Will that prompt them to relegate competitors to the Web's "slow lane?" Netflix recently outlined its concerns to the FCC.
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Verizon spokesman says carrier blocked sites associated with online forum to thwart network attacks. It's not clear which sites were affected and exactly what the trouble was.
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The two company have very different approaches to computing, which seems to be reflected in their respective advertising campaigns.
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Strong in nuclear power, Areva purchases concentrating solar-power company Ausra to expand its renewable energy portfolio.
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The software, created by three former Palm executives, lets people use an ordinary Webcam as a security system.
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Smartphones were essential for scavenger-hunters hitting San Francisco's streets as part of a "Tech Search Party" to benefit a local school's technology program.
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The Xinhua news agency says police arrested three people suspected of running a group that disseminated hacking tools and Trojans to its members.
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The FBI wants your ISP to track you, Google may be getting real-time speech translations, and a new government campaign will send you free texts about your pregnancy.
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Saving up for a rainy day? Consider using some of that cash on an umbrella from Blunt. This reinforced dome will hold up to gusts short of hurricane force.
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Advances in product design and prototyping signal the start of a new industrial revolution, Wired's top editor argues in his latest cover story. Anderson and Wired Executive Editor Thomas Goetz discuss the implications of these radical changes in this week's Storyboard podcast.
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The world's first jumbo jet, Boeing's 747, shows that it's ready for service.
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Apple's iPad could sound the death knell for JooJoo, a tablet from an an unknown Singapore-based startup that was once the talk of gadget blogs.
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The federal judiciary is being told to instruct jurors not to tweet, Facebook or perform online research for cases they are involved in. The developments follow a rash of twittering, facebooking and internet researching by federal jurors — some of which have led to mistrials.
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The Boeing 747-8 made it's inaugural flight, more than a year behind schedule.
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Shai Agassi brokers a deal to electrify one-third of the country's fleet within 5 years.
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William Tenn, one of science fiction's most imaginative writers, has passed. Tenn created vivid scenarios of mind-blowing alien worlds in novels and stories that illuminated emotional, political and ethic issues of good old humanity. And as a teacher, he inspired other aspiring writers. Including this one.
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British artist Nick Gentry is using floppy disk drives to created mixed-media portraits.
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GM's date with destiny is set, but there's still no word on what the electric car will cost.
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February 8 marks the centennial of Boy Scouts in America. At a time when shows like 'Man Vs Wild' and 'Survivorman' are experiencing immense popularity, wouldn’t it make sense that they'd see a surge in enrollment? But Boy Scouts, in many ways, are a struggling organization with membership plummeting annually.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — With the disaster-relief phase ending, the streets of Port-au-Prince are now crowded with the white SUVs of international aid and development agencies shuttling purposefully around town. But while the focus may have shifted to rebuilding Haiti, rising unrest over aid and food distribution could sideline efforts to begin reconstruction in earnest.
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If you’re a geeky guy looking to romance a geeky girl, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been with her forever or if she’s a new interest; realize that conventional romantic overtures won’t always work. Think outside the box. Here's some help.
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Google debuted a Super Bowl ad Sunday. The ad tells the story of a romance helped along by a series of Google searches conducted by (one is left to imagine) a young man whose simple plan to study abroad in Paris ends with his need to know how to assemble a crib.
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By building on the original's creepy setting and tweaking the troubling relationship between Big Daddies and Little Sisters, this sequel becomes a worthy successor to a groundbreaking game.
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A renovated missile silo in the middle of the Arizona desert is a reminder of more chaotic times. Ex-crew members share their stories as we take a tour.
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Scott Brown considers the pros and cons of MindSign Neuromarketing's plans to create the "neurocinema," the real-time monitoring of the brain's reaction to movies.
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An Austrian monk is anything but pea-shy when he explains the principles of heredity.
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Do you wonder where those ads for work at home, teeth whitening and so on are coming from, and why they appear on otherwise respectable websites? The answer is complicated, but becoming less so.
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Former Air Force sergeant Brian Regan buried stolen government secrets and encrypted the coordinates, hoping to sell the stash to the highest bidder. Then he had to crack his own code.
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Can aging gamers compete with twitchy teens on today's increasingly complicated virtual battlefields? War is extra hellish when you're too old, or too busy, to fight off the adolescent hordes in games like MAG and Modern Warfare 2.
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Evidence suggests that Apple's decision to use a smaller-than-usual micro SIM card in the iPad was motivated by business reasons, not a lack of space. The company is likely trying to prevent iPhone customers from using the same SIM cards in their iPads.
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Scientists create an atomic clock that uses quantum logic to be precise within one second in 3.7 billion years.
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The Authors Guild says it supports the proposed Google Books settlement to avoid the same mistakes the Recording Industry of America made in its litigation campaign against music pirates. Namely: if you can't beat piracy, you might as well as join it.
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Star Wars fans unload on the creator of their beloved franchise in the crowdsourced film, which makes its world premiere in March at the South by Southwest film festival. Writer and director Alexandre O. Philippe talks about weeding through thousands of submissions from passionate fans to concoct his "participatory documentary."
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An electrically charged surface can change the temperature at which super-cooled water will freeze -- in both directions.
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A DIY project combines milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create a robotic spider that crawls and turns.
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Another publisher denounces Amazon's $10 e-book. The price point has less to do with the inherent value of the content than it does with finding a number most readers cannot resist. But what should an e-book cost-- and who gets to decide?
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Fresh pictures from Tim Burton's madcap 3-D cinematic adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic show the wicked Bandersnatch and Bayard the bloodhound. Plus, a sketch-to-screen series of images shows the transformation of Tweedledee and Tweedledum, straight out of Burton's mind.
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Google’s plan to digitize the world’s books into a combination research library and bookstore has hit another snag: The U.S. Justice Department says that 'despite substantial progress made, issues remain' with the proposed settlement agreement of the class-action suit which would let the project proceed.
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natharward writes "A new development in nano-level diagnostic tests has been applied as a lab on a chip that successfully screened viruses entirely by their size. The chip's traps are size-specific, which means even tiny concentrations of viruses or other particles won't escape detection. For medicine, this development is promising for future lab diagnostics that could detect viruses before symptoms kick in and damage begins, well ahead of when traditional lab tests are able to catch them. Aaron Hawkins, the BYU professor leading the work, says his team is now gearing up to make chips with multiple, progressively smaller slots, so that a single sample can be used to screen for particles of varying sizes. One could fairly simply determine which proteins or viruses are present based on which walls have particles stacked against them. After this is developed, Hawkins says, 'If we decided to make these things in high volume, I think within a year it could be ready.'"
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nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will provide instant translation of foreign languages. "The company has already created an automatic system for translating text on computers, which is being honed by scanning millions of multi-lingual websites and documents. So far it covers 52 languages, adding Haitian Creole last week. Google also has a voice recognition system that enables phone users to conduct web searches by speaking commands into their phones rather than typing them in. Now it is working on combining the two technologies to produce software capable of understanding a caller’s voice and translating it into a synthetic equivalent in a foreign language."
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MikeChino writes "As battery manufacturers race to produce more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, some scientists are looking to make the cars themselves a power source. Researchers are currently developing a new auto body material that can store and release electrical energy like a battery. Once perfected, scientists hope the substance will replace standard car bodies, making vehicles up to 15 percent lighter and significantly extending the range of electric vehicles."
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An anonymous reader writes "According to 4chan's owner and administrator 'moot,' Verizon has explicitly blocked all traffic on their network from boards.4chan.org, where all of 4chan's boards are located. Moot explains that only traffic to and from port 80 is being dropped and they were able to confirm that it was intentional. 4chan's downtime for Verizon users has been in effect for at least 72 hours since Saturday, February 7."
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With the Oracle/Sun merger finally completing at the end of January, one former Sun worker has taken the time to reflect a bit on the extravagant compensation and golden parachutes that the former executives at Sun are receiving for failing at their jobs. "I think it's fair to say that, for all the miscues that eventually led to its demise, the company created many products and technologies of value along the way, enough so that Oracle thought it was worth it to acquire them and try to keep them going. However, I think that it's equally fair to conclude that, after years of running losses, including about $2 billion in fiscal 2009, so that a buyout was necessary to avoid looming bankruptcy, Sun's executives did nothing to deserve lavish rewards, by any conceivable meaning of the word 'deserve.' But what actually happened is by now a familiar story. [...] And here's a prediction that I feel quite certain of: if, against expectations and my hopes, Ellison drops the ball and things start going south for Oracle, it's the employees who will suffer for it, and he'll be doing just fine."
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A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, "The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom."
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GJdeBoer writes "The book is aimed at people who are managing a network and would like to get insight into the performance of that network. It covers the installation and configuration of the Cacti application. In the preface the book states that it's not necessary to be a Linux Guru to use the book and that exactly is the case. The book builds up your knowledge about Cacti and the necessary steps to configure it for your network, and it teaches you about Net-SNMP and RRDTool, the building blocks of Cacti." Read on for the rest of GJdeBoer's review.
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With the oh-so-dreaded Hallmark holiday on the horizon we are flooded with tips and tricks (mostly designed to sell us things our mates cannot live without) of how to please/capture/sedate the ones we care for. One writer even suggests ways to capture the interest of a geeky girl. That said, what are some of the crazier romantically inspired, geeky V-day stunts or activities that you or someone you know has executed to terrible success or failure?
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Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (who shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users. "Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."
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SpuriousLogic writes "Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones. All of the ones he has purchased in the past, the man writes on his personal blog, ended up being 'mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights' even though they were naturally all phones run on open source operating systems. Things have changed now, he adds, now that he has caved and bought Google's Nexus One a couple of days ago."
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An anonymous reader writes "Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of the successful attacks are crafted these days. There is an underground market growing around these vulnerabilities, but there are also 'white markets' — set up by VeriSign, TippingPoint, Google — where they buy zero-day flaws and alert the companies so that they can patch their products before the vulnerabilities can be taken advantage of."
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Barence writes "Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefox's development code, closing the door on Apple's aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a Mozilla platform engineer, "we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree in case we wanted to reverse that decision." We had come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific code," he notes on the Mozilla developer planning forum."
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Gwmaw writes "The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad on Monday on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station. The 4:14 a.m. EST (0914 GMT) blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center shattered the predawn tranquility with a deafening roar and a brilliant tower of flames that momentarily turned the dark Florida sky as bright as day." HD video of launch attached.
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An anonymous reader writes "A new Google domain — 1e400.net, a nod to the company's famously misspelled name — is now the net's 44th most visited site. Google says the domain is used to 'identify servers' on its internal network, hinting that reverse DNS plays a role. The domain was registered in September and launched in October, about the same time Google unveiled Spanner, a new addition to its backend infrastructure designed to shift loads automatically among its data centers."
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The Washington Post updates a story we discussed last spring about a push in the Democratic-controlled congress to legalize some forms of Internet gambling in the US. "Partly bankrolled by offshore gambling companies, the campaign has already persuaded the Obama administration to delay enforcement of a 2006 law cracking down on Internet wagers. ... The federal government, which rarely prosecutes online gambling, would net billions of dollars in tax and licensing revenue if it were legalized, proponents say. ... The outlook on Capitol Hill, however, is uncertain given a slate of unfinished business... [and] nervousness among Democrats about November midterm challenges. ... [A politically conservative poker player said] 'There's a part of the party that always believes this isn't something people should do. But I think it behooves the party to be a little more broad-minded on this issue.'"
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Rambus Launches Mobile XDR Memory, Targets Mobile Products
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Micron and Nanya Unveil 43nm DRAM Process Technology
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IBM's New Transistor Previews Next-Generation Chips
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Intel Intends to Lead SSD Market
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Nvidia Is Keeping Its Eyes on External Graphics Adapters, But Reveals No Plans
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Netbooks Get More and More Popular
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Globalfoundries Targets Volume Market
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AMD's Six Core Chips to Feature Dynamic Performance Boost
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3D HDMI Spec Available for Public Download
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Patriot Pushes DDR3 Speeds to the Extreme
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ATI Launches Radeon HD 5450 Product, Cedar Chip
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The heir to the famous Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme is not very different from its predecessor, but nevertheless, we managed to discover at least one significant distinguishing feature. Read more in our review.
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Nvidia Optimus Due on February 9th
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New Clarkdale processors are very interesting not only because they offer Nehalem microarchitecture in mainstream price range. These are also the first desktop processors with an integrated graphics core. Our today's article is going to focus on Intel HD Graphics accelerator built into the new LGA1156 CPUs.
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ISS will be 90% complete after mission...
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Indian climate panel looks to offer independent insight...
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EOS T2i is first to EOS model to support SDXC storage...
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Hydronamic environment may play a crucial role in determining fish body shape, study indicates...
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RIM making adjustments to better compete with the iPhone and Droid smartphones...
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Lasers could be used for faster bus between CPU and memory...
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Quality issues for firm continue...
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Program allows free update for late buyers of Office 2007 to 2010...
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Company tries to set the record straight after former exec airs critical op-ed piece...
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April 15 is the last day gamers playing the original Xbox can play online...
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Yesterday was a bitter one for Australia's piracy opponents...
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Amazon and Google look to upset Cupertino's star...
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Executive blames lack of creativity for the supposed problems at Microsoft, points to RIM, Apple, and Amazon as innovators...
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The tenth person to plead guilty in that Galleon insider trading case was a former treasury department executive at Intel. According to the New York Times, the man has agreed to cooperate with authorities but still faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Throughout 2007, the executive, Rajiv Goel, provided Mr. Rajaratnam with details of Intel's quarterly earnings before they were publicly released. He also tipped Galleon's founder about a pending joint venture between the Clearwire Corporation and Sprint Nextel, a deal that Intel planned to invest $1 billion in.
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Thinking about leaving your 16 year old kid home alone in your $1.5 million home while you are away for the weekend? Better hope he doesn't have a Facebook account. Didn't this just happen a while back?
A 16-year-old schoolboy saw his parents' Ł1million home trashed by gatecrashers after he advertised a party on Facebook when he was left alone for the weekend.
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What was the big news ten years ago today? AMD launched the 1.1GHz Athlon with on-die L2 cache, a Voodoo 3 3500 was $169.99 and T&L was "the future."
AMD has "demonstrated" a 1.1GHz Athlon. We ain't in Kansas anymore girls. I would have to say that is some serious stuff.
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[H] forum reader polonyc2 posted a link in the forums to the DirectX end-user redistributable. The package weighs in at just under 105MB and supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 & 2008, Windows XP 64-bit and Windows XP Service Pack 3.
This download provides the DirectX end-user multi-languaged redistributable that developers can include with their product. The redistributable license agreement covers the terms under which developers may use the Redistributable. For full details please review the DirectX SDK EULA.txt and DirectX Redist.txt files located in the license directory.
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Cooling
Spire TherMax Pro CPU Cooler @ Tech-Reviews
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How To Reverse Engineer A Motherboard BIOS @ Phoronix
NZXT's Avatar Gaming Mouse v2 @ TechREACTION
QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player @ techPowerUP!
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EVGA Geforce GTX275 CO-OP @ BmR
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You know you are a bad mofo when you hack a Trusted Platform Module chip with a needle, some acid and rust remover. Thanks to Henrico D. for the linkage.
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.
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Why on earth would Steve Jobs get so mad over a tweet about the iPad? Hell, I don't know, why does that guy do anything he does? I'll bet that Wall Street Journal guy (that made the tweet) will think twice next time.
There was inevitably some cultural friction when Apple's secretive CEO took his new iPad around to New York's professionally indiscreet media. Exhibit A is a single tweet from a Wall Street Journal editor, which purportedly made Steve Jobs go ballistic.
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I found the broadband bargain of the day! Only $70,000 for a basic install! What a bargain!
A couple who want a broadband connection for their home and guesthouse business have been told by BT it will cost Ł45,000 to have it installed. Ray and Frei Walker have managed with an old 'dial-up' service for the last nine years at their detached Victorian home in Dufton, Cumbria
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I've watched this video twice now and I have no idea what to say....I am at a complete loss for words.
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Best PC Mods of 2009 @ Kotaku
Mass Effect 2 Remains Atop UK Charts @ Joystiq
New Fable 3 Info Will 'Really Upset People' @ Shacknews
Retail Ninja Blade (PC) Gold @ Blue's News
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This location-based operating system called the Locus OS is pretty damn slick. The operating system was designed by a guy named Barton Smith and supposedly the multiple widget desktops are designed around locations (home, work, car) and automatically switches between desktops thanks to GPS and wi-fi mapping.
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Reports indicate that online video has exploded. No word on the extent of the damages, injuries, casualties or what caused the explosion but many expect a group called "nerds & geeks" to be behind this.
The online video market continued to grow in December, as nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched 33.2 billion videos in the month a lone, said comScore last week. When broken down, the numbers mean that 86.5 percent of total U.S. Internet users watched online videos and averaged 187 videos per user. The average length video watched was 4.1 minutes, up from 3.5 minutes in a report from last March.
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Cases & Modding
Antec Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case @ Legit Reviews
Dynatron Azenx P-Secure Secure HDD Enclosure @ Pro-Clockers
Cooling
Noctua NF-P14 FLX Case Fan @ Verdis Reviews
Motherboards
Foxconn Inferno Katana P55 Motherboard @ Ninjalane
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I know this may be hard to believe but, a new survey claims that people do not like slow web sites. On top of that, the study also claims that consumers will go somewhere else if your website takes too long to load. Ya think? Thanks to Edward C. for this one.
Conducted by Equation Research, the study polled 1,500 people who use the Web at peak times such as holiday shopping, booking summer travel or executing trades during financial market shifts. It concluded that poor Web performance is rife in the retail, finance and travel industries, and that this has a dramatic and lasting impact on where consumers spend money online.
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Sony Corporation today announced the development of millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology that realizes high speed wireless data transfer inside electronic products such as television sets. By replacing complicated wires and internal circuitry with wireless connections, this technology enables a reduction in the size and cost of the IC and other components used in electronics products, delivering advantages such as size and cost-reduction and enhanced reliability of the final product.
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Thermalright has been a company name that is synonymous with high end CPU air cooling for years now. Tuniq is one of the newer guys on the block when it comes to the elite heatsink and fan unit. Today we have a showdown of epic proportions, at least to the computer hardware cooling enthusiast. Propeller vs. Venemous X.
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AMD's lowest-end discrete GPU to support DX11 is being launched today at $49-$59 MSRP, the ATI Radeon HD 5450. We will give you all the official information on this new video card, plus some power and temperature testing and a simple apples-to-apples DX11 game test using DiRT 2.
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Dark Void was recently released with some neat PhysX effects. We'll explore gameplay performance and show you what PhysX support will do for you in this game with plenty of screenshots and performance comparisons.
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The X58A-UD7 is GIGABYTE\'s newest entry into the fiercely competitive LGA1366 board arena. The board packs a lot of promise, built on GIGABYTE\'s tried and true X58 based design with some nice bells and whistles added for that extra bit of appeal including USB 3.0 and SATA III features.
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The ASUS Maximus III Gene expands not only the Republic of Gamers product line, but the lineage of "Maximus" motherboards ASUS has created under the name. Thus far every Maximus board has been nothing short of excellent and even bordering on legendary, the Maximus III Gene continues this tradition.
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Today we have the ASUS EAH5750 Formula video card on our test bench and we put it through its paces. The ASUS EAH5750 Formula offers a big custom heatsink and fan unit, but the big question is does it offer any advantages to gamers or is it just a lot of hot air?
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ABS has a long history in the do-it-yourself computer components market. ABS was the company that spawned the creation of Newegg. ABS has had its own computer power supply line for some time, but overall the products have been weak. Is the latest ABS Majesty true royalty at 1100 watts, or another PSU court jester?
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If running a canned benchmark is something you consider a challenge, this is not for you! In fact, it is not for most of us. But if you feel the need to get under the covers when it comes to OpenCL, this is your chance. AMD has put together a short series of videos about OpenCL from a programming viewpoint.
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NVIDIA's "Fermi" next generation GF100 GPU is not here yet. Nope, we do not have hardware. But NVIDIA has given us an in-depth look at the specifics behind the architecture as it relates to gaming. NVIDIA certainly remembered us gamers and the fact that we like lots and lots of polygons.
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AMD brings DX11 down to the sub-$100 level today with the launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5670. This new video card marks DX11's entrance into the low-end realm, but does it have the performance needed to use the special DX11 features like Tessellation in games? We run this video card through its paces and use DiRT 2 to find this out. We also compare to the GeForce GT 240 and Radeon HD 5750.
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We give our readers a few of our first thoughts about NVIDIA and its new NVIDIA Surround feature that will help push forward multi-display gaming to the masses. This is a great day for PC gamers, but there are a couple of things that need to be said.
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We've covered AMD's ATI Radeon Eyefinity in terms of the experience provided, and now we will evaluate how Eyefinity actually performs across the entire line of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series video cards. From the Radeon HD 5970 down to the Radeon HD 5750, we review the performance of Eyefinity in some new games and some old.
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Intel fuses its new 32nm Westmere processor along with its 45nm GPU onto one package. This is Intel's new Clarkdale CPU that will be officially known as Intel Core i5-6XX and Intel Core i3-5XX series processors. Today we look at the Core i5-661 which we compare to the Core i5-750, Core i7-965, and AMD Phenom II X4.
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Looking for the perfect "enthusiast" media box for your living room? The Box Office from Patriot Memory may be about as close as it gets. The only thing not included is an eye patch and a Jolly Roger.
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As DFI's newest member of it much vaunted LANParty series of motherboards, the DK P55-T3eH9 seems more than willing and able to step up to its legacy. But will this be the last ATX motherboard we see out of DFI?
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