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- Saturday science subject: The Moon, comets, and water
Last Saturday, we wrote about how NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has discovered a substantial amount of water on the Moon. There was talk about comets, not solar wind, being the source of the water pretty early on, and New Scientist now says "evidence...
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Last by wira020 at 11:56 AM on 11/22/09 - Upcoming microATX MSI H57 motherboard pictured
Intel will aim its upcoming dual-core, 32-nm Clarkdale processors at the mid-range and mainstream markets, but that doesn't mean matching motherboards have to be dull and boring. We already caught a gander at an enthusiast-oriented H57 motherboard from Asus earlier his week, and now, the guys at TechSweden
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Last by albundy at 3:32 PM on 11/21/09 - Asus' upcoming Clarkdale motherboard revealed
If we can trust the latest wave of stories from the rumor mill, Intel's 32-nm Clarkdale processors will launch just a month and a half from now. Meanwhile, motherboard makers are putting the finishing touches on motherboards designed to accommodate those processors. One of those boards is the Asus P7H57D-V...
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Last by UberGerbil at 3:12 PM on 11/18/09 - Saturday science subject: Moon water 2: Aquatic boogaloo
In September, we wrote about how a trio of science teams had discovered evidence of water on the Moon. As ScienceNow reports, NASA has now made an even more spectacular find. The agency's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which smashed into the Moon on October 9...
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Last by Mavrick88 at 12:00 PM on 11/16/09 - Nvidia says it didn't, won't block Lucid's Hydra
Our hands-on preview of the Lucid Hydra GPU load-balancing chip included some reporting about the status of the first Hydra-based product, MSI's Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, and the rumors that have swirled around that delay, some centering on a possible role Nvidia might have played in the whole drama....
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Last by shank15217 at 9:17 AM on 11/17/09 -
Hands on with Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer
The first performance results revealed
We recently got the chance to test Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer first hand. We came away with some of the first public performance numbers, along with our impressions of this magical toy that allows Radeons and GeForces to work together.
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Last by mattthemuppet at 2:16 PM on 11/16/09 - Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator
Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the space elevator will be built about 10 years after everybody stops laughing. We're certainly getting there: as New Scientist reports, NASA has awarded a $900,000 prize to a team that developed a robotic climber capable of ascending a cable at 3.9...
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Last by zima at 8:10 AM on 11/12/09 - DFI readies P55 Mini-ITX motherboard
You might think a 95W power envelope is a tad too high for a Mini-ITX build. However, that hasn't stopped DFI from developing a P55 Express motherboard based on the diminutive form factor—and the guys at Clunk.org.uk have nabbed a few photos and specifications. The DFI MI P55-T36 has an...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 10:48 PM on 11/06/09 - Etc.
Every year at this time for the past few, we've had a strangely ample ladybug bloom. The things gather all over the sides of our house, and many of them manage to slip inside through open doors or cracks. Today, while I was making breakfast, I spotted one...
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Last by Flying Fox at 10:42 PM on 11/03/09 - Saturday science subject: A really old gamma ray burst
The neat thing about light and other radio waves is that, even though they travel extremely fast by our standards, they still take billions of years to go from one end of the universe to another. So, the further away we point our telescopes, the further back in time we...
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Last by gaffo at 9:09 PM on 11/02/09 - Gigabyte, too, has USB 3.0 and 6Gbps SATA mobos
Although we caught a peek at two Asus motherboards with USB 3.0 and 6Gbps Serial ATA connectivity earlier this week, the firm certainly doesn't have a monopoly on support for new, state-of-the-art I/O technologies. Gigabyte has followed suit with an entire lineup of P55 motherboards that claim similar...
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Last by stdRaichu at 9:00 AM on 10/30/09 - Intel may not add USB 3.0 to chipsets until 2011
Today, adding USB 3.0 support to a motherboard involves buying a third-party controller. And things may stay that way for the next year and a half or so. According to EE Times, Intel has postponed the implementation of USB 3.0 in its own chipsets until 2011. Quoting two anonymous sources,...
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Last by mutarasector at 12:07 AM on 10/28/09 - USB 3.0, 6Gbps Serial ATA coming in new Asus mobos
Over just the past few weeks, we've seen the arrival of Intel's mainstream Core i5 and i7-800 processors, the first DirectX 11 graphics cards, and Windows 7. What's missing? Why, next-gen I/O connectivity, of course. We already caught a gander at Asus' 6Gbps Serial ATA-toting P7P55D Premium...
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Last by UberGerbil at 1:22 AM on 10/27/09 - Saturday science subject: Gene therapy and blindness
Can gene therapy help blind kids regain their sight? Yes, according to a new paper by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and in the United Kingdom. As ScienceNow reports, the paper shows results of treatment for Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) in four children aged 8 to 11 as...
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Last by Ragnar Dan at 12:37 AM on 10/26/09 -
Gigabyte's GA-P55M-UD4 and MSI's P55M-GD45 motherboards compared
Lynnfield goes MicroATX
The first wave of P55-based Lynnfield motherboards has included not just the usual ATX fare, but also number of interesting MicroATX models. We've rounded up a pair of micro boards from Gigabyte and MSI to see how they stack up against full-size competition.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 1:20 PM on 10/26/09 - Tech Share moves forward thanks to large donation
Earlier this year we shared how the students at Ebenezer Educational Center have been able to spend some time with the Eee PCs you helped us procure and ship half way around the globe. Although they've been using them on an occasional basis, daily access was not...
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Last by FireGryphon at 5:01 AM on 10/30/09 - Saturday science subject: Placebo
Why do people get better when taking sugar pills instead of the real thing? It's not just psychological, according to a new study by researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. As Reuters reports, the researchers were able to see the placebo effect in action by...
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Last by TurtlePerson2 at 9:44 AM on 10/19/09 - Foxconn LGA1156 sockets may hamper extreme overclocking
Think twice before busting out that tank of liquid nitrogen and overclocking the pants off a Lynnfield PC. Or, at least check the brand name at the back of the socket retention mechanism. An article posted on AnandTech this morning suggests LGA1156 sockets manufactured by Foxconn may not...
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