The Tech Report has caught onto the latest PC enthusiast miracle CPU, a mobile variant of AMD’s Athlon XP. This mobile version is able to hit the same clock speeds at a lower voltage than its desktop counterparts which allows…
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InfoWorld is carrying the story of Microsoft’s move to make the upcoming “Longhorn” OS a bit smarter than its predecessors. They plan to have the OS detect odd behavior, such as network activity and memory usage, and automatically counter threats….
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The Daily Camera has an article on the “Grey” album that has been causing quite the hubbub on message boards and blogs everywhere. Take one Jay Z album, mix in a Beatles album, throw in a few lawyers and you’ve…
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CNET News has an article that focuses on the LCD’s rise to glory with analysts expecting monitors based on them to overtake CRT sales in the fourth quarter. With dropping prices and the usual benefits over CRTs it isn’t surprising…
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Investor’s Business Daily did a bit of war-driving and is surprised to find that it’s downright easy to do. War-Driving is simple enough, drive around with a wireless capable laptop in tow and assorted accessories to search for open wireless…
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PC World has some news on the continuing high capacity DVD format wars. The DVD Forum has approved the HD-DVD which is backed by the likes of Toshiba and NEC. Competing formats, such as Sony backed Blu-Ray, can still launch…
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Microsoft is planning to release an updated Windows XP “Reloaded” operating system later this year. So far there isn’t much in the way of details on what this OS rehash will bring but it sounds like it will be XP…
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Hitachi has created a complex device that is able to display a “3D” image. While the method sounds too unwieldy in most settings we can only hope they’ll learn something from their research and create a more mangeable system. EE…
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mini-itx.com is running an article that show’s off one man’s cluster of mini-itx PCs. Clusters are the basis for quite a number of supercomputers with many machines pooling their resources for one goal. A neat endeavor overall….
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Ars Technica takes an, as usual, indepth look at Intel’s Centrino processor. Since it is currently the most popular mobile processor out there it’s nice to see just what makes it a speedy little chip….
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A team of researchers at Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory were able to create diamonds that were 50% harder than natural diamonds. There are sure to be useful applications for this but improving on nature’s work is most impressive. Reuters has…
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