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2185 votes | submitted 2008-09-06 14:07:52 by JonMelon | 267 comments
In this video you see the presentation of an automatic book scanning machine, called ScanRobot.
553 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 06:59:39 by steve9924 | 64 comments
Engineers at in England and California have set a record in storage speed, outperforming the current
rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash solid-state technology and IBM's storage
virtualization technology, the researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million
Input/Output (I/O) per second.
671 votes | submitted 2008-09-05 02:01:07 by optimusprime01 | 86 comments
Intel on September 15 is expected to roll out the Intel Xeon 7400 series Dunnington processor
targeted at the server market, the final member of the "Penryn" family of processors, according to
sources at server vendors. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear
initially as the Core i7 processor in the 4th quarter.
650 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 04:19:50 by Mathieugothax | 42 comments
Based on the Deneb FX core, the FX cpus will be featuring four processing engines, have shared
level-three cache and will be based on a 45 nm manufacturing process. Expected for Q2 09, will it be
too little and too late to challenge Intel's i7? A lot of us hope not, for competition and prices
cut sake.
244 votes | submitted 2008-09-03 23:03:57 by 1KrazyKorean | 46 comments
When will the madness end?
627 votes | submitted 2008-09-02 16:06:12 by JusTuring | 135 comments
Chinese researchers have unveiled details of Godson-3, a scalable microprocessor with four cores
(work in parallel) that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by
2010, with an eight-core version in development.
552 votes | submitted 2008-09-01 05:46:37 by insaincain02 | 64 comments
Intel has been talking up its Atom processor since the beginning of the year, and it has clearly
described its vision of a future where all of us are connected through a vast network of Mobile
Internet Devices
983 votes | submitted 2008-08-29 17:27:06 by upick | 95 comments
First it was Intel. Now, Big Blue is keen on solid-state drives. IBM said Thursday it is testing a
4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant
gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.
861 votes | submitted 2008-08-27 20:48:42 by numberneal | 165 comments
Find out which jet fighters made the final cut.
2691 votes | submitted 2008-08-26 01:42:10 by mark076h | 318 comments
This amazing Linux Cluster consists of 6 Intel Core 2 Quad(2.4GHZ) Processors, 48GB of RAM spread
across 6 GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R Micro ATX motherboards and put inside an IKEA Helmer cabinet, WHY YOU
ASK? 3D computer rendering is very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems,
are usually to distribute them on to more computers
902 votes | submitted 2008-08-25 17:23:18 by bubashelili | 56 comments
By Ari Rabinovitch HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - paralyzed for the past 20 years, former Israeli
paratrooper Radi Kaiof now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum. That is the sound of an
electronic exoskeleton moving the 41-year-old's legs...
717 votes | submitted 2008-08-22 13:54:58 by JusTuring | 109 comments
There is a new competitor to cable and DSL. Verizon has been introducing a new fiber optic service
called FiOS, which is faster than DSL. It rivals, and may exceed, cable’s fastest speeds. At this
point, FiOS is only available in some areas.
1246 votes | submitted 2008-08-22 21:04:20 by BLAM8 | 321 comments
I called Apple famed customer support to see if they had any solutions for these bugs. Their fix for
my problem getting service when coming out of the subway? Turn Airplane Mode on and off. If there's
a more ghetto fix for a problem than that, I'd like to hear it. Last time I checked the C train
didn't have wings.
1344 votes | submitted 2008-08-19 19:14:17 by optimusprime01 | 251 comments
Another birthday for the CD has come and gone and yet the damn things just won’t die. On Aug.
17th, 1982, the Compact Disc was born into an age of rampant consumerism that was the 1980s. Big
hair was in, big vinyl and the big snarls of tape from cassettes was out.The CD of course wasn’t
without its drawbacks.
1102 votes | submitted 2008-08-19 19:23:04 by MrBabyMan | 154 comments
The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 31-ton-plus truck.
1659 votes | submitted 2008-08-19 06:07:24 by MaGCoL | 210 comments
Leaked specifications indicate that Dell's upcoming subnotebook product will be available with
Ubuntu 8.04. The product could be available as early as this week.
2049 votes | submitted 2008-08-18 22:53:43 by MrBabyMan | 172 comments
No doubt you’re familiar with the Universal Serial Bus – we ranked it as our top PC innovation
of all time. But what do you know about the next version of this ubiquitous interface?