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Science – IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (also known as ETH Zurich) utilized an IBM supercomputer to develop a method of early diagnosis that they say trumps the current approach to measuring bone mass density, the computer company announced Monday.
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Voted for on July 02, 2008 09:48am
Gadgets & Tech – In the ever-rotating, but never stopping merry-go-round that is Microhoogle, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night that Microsoft has been looking for partners in recent days that would help it make a new bid for Yahoo's search business.
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Gadgets & Tech – See that robot there? It's burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn't it? If it didn't, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick...
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News – An outspoken soldier who wrote one of the most brutally honest blogs ever to come out of Iraq has been forced to shut down his site, after criticizing his superior officers one time too often.Ã;â;;Ã;Â
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Gadgets & Tech – NVIDIA execs have been talking smack about general-purpose CPUs for a while now, and it looks like Intel's ready to do some talking of its own -- speaking to CustomPC, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said that general-purpose GPU computing intiatives like NVIDIA's CUDA would be nothing more than "interesting footnotes in the history of computing annal
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Money – Attention, rich jackasses! Do I have the vehicle for you: a million-dollar RV that doubles as a boat. Yes, that's right, it's an RV that's designed to drive right into a lake and keep on going.
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Voted for on July 01, 2008 11:09pm
Video Games – First, there was the leaked K-Mart circular revealing a sweet $50 price cut to the Xbox 360 Premium. Since then, the possibility has gotten firmer. Notably the Hollywood Reporter says that a "major retailer" and industry sources have informed them the cut will happen before E3 (though they call it the Pro). And usually reliable Ars Techni
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Gadgets & Tech – We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.
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Gadgets & Tech – A bit more tricklage on RIM's "Apple Killer," the touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder: The official model number is the BlackBerry 9500, and the touchscreen is a bit higher res than the iPhone's (360x480 to 320x480). It'll be running OS 4.7.0 (the Bold runs 4.6). As we inch closer to the September release date expect to hear a lot more, since
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Gadgets & Tech – Either Toshiba is still stinging from the HD DVD loss to Blu-ray, or they're really in need of some fast cash from the really low barrier of entry DVD market. Either way, it seems like the Japanese company is going to introduce an internet-connected DVD line called "DVD Download DL", using the nets to bring next-gen connectivity features
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Gadgets & Tech – Silicon Alley Insider reported yesterday that the waiting list to be accepted into the iPhone developer program is six months long.
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Gadgets & Tech – The current iPhone's relatively poor JavaScript has been a point of lament for users experiencing slow rendering of AJAX pages and a virtual inability to use JavaScript-heavy, Web-based games. With the latest builds of iPhone OS 2.0, however, Apple has dramatically boosted JavaScript performance.
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Voted for on June 30, 2008 11:27pm
Gadgets & Tech – High-priced upgrades have long been a collective burden of shopping at the online Apple Store. A new article from CNET UK has a run-down of pricing comparisons, noting that Apple's direct upgrade prices are, on average, about 200% that of Dell's.
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Gadgets & Tech – MCE has announced its Blu-ray recordable drive, capable of 6X Blu-ray write-speeds and 16x DVDÃ;â;;Ã;±R speeds. The drive plays both Blu-ray and HD-DVD media and features LightScribe compatibility and it will allow professionals to author Blu-ray movies using Adobe Premier Pro CS3's Encore softw
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Gadgets & Tech – Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey.
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Voted for on June 30, 2008 11:22pm