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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 Machupo at 8:17 AM on 11/22/09 - World Hello Day Shortbread
World Hello Day VR-Zone reports Asus unveils new Eee PC, EeeTop, and EeeBox powered by Nvidia Ion Tranquil PC reveals new Intel Atom processor D510 (pictures and specs) MSI Big Bang Fuzion Hydra 200 specs and games compatibility list (in French) Fusion-io achieves one terabyte per...
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Last by crazybus at 6:34 PM on 11/21/09 - 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 - Internet Explorer 9 to feature GPU acceleration
In recent months, Apple, Google, and Mozilla have really managed to squeeze impressive amounts of performance out of their respective web browsers, making page rendering and web applications noticeably snappier with each release. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 lags behind a bit in current benchmarks, but the IE team has a...
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Last by KoolAidMan at 7:18 AM on 11/22/09 - Deal of the week: A $550 ultraportable and a $225 home server
Black Friday isn't here quite yet, but that doesn't mean you can't find any good bargains around—you might just need to look a little harder than usual. For instance, Newegg is currently selling a 13.3" Aspire Timeline 3810 consumer...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 11:23 PM on 11/21/09 - Name Your PC Day Shortbread
Name Your PC Day AMD stock upgraded to 'buy' The Register reports Dell is beat by The Street State of Mozilla and 2008 financial statements Will AOL's implosion ever end? TechFlash reports shareholders quiz Ballmer about Macs, Windows, mobile phones BJ court (in China) rules against...
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Last by willmore at 11:52 AM on 11/21/09 - Chrome OS VMware image pops up on BitTorrent
Eager to try Chrome OS, but don't feel like going through the trouble of building a usable version of the operating system from the publicly available source code? Well, good news: as TechCrunch reports, a kind soul has gone through the motions and uploaded a convenient VMware image...
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Last by Dirge at 1:51 AM on 11/22/09 - Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server arrives next week
Atom-based home servers are ganging up on shoppers this holiday season, promising perks like centralized data storage, automated backups, and media streaming at bargain prices. According to the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft will add icing to the cake next week by patching in full Windows 7 support to...
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Last by UberGerbil at 3:58 AM on 11/21/09 - Fixed TRIM firmware for 34-nm X25-Ms due this month
If you have one of Intel's new 34-nm solid-state drives and are waiting on TRIM firmware that doesn't brick your drive, good news. Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group has posted an update on the Intel Support Community forums, promising a fixed firmware update will be...
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Last by Lazier_Said at 2:20 PM on 11/20/09 - Google pulls the curtain off Chrome OS, releases source
As planned, Google showed Chrome OS to the world for the first time earlier today. The unveiling came hand-in-hand with the release of the operating system's source code under the Chromium OS project, which allows anyone to grab the code, modify it, build it, and run it. Google...
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Last by indeego at 10:04 PM on 11/21/09 - Lenovo plans another cheap ThinkPad ultraportable
So, rumor has it Lenovo is cooking up a $449, 11.6" ThinkPad ultraportable based on AMD hardware. That's not the whole story, though: apparently, the firm also intends to grace us with a $549 ThinkPad ultraportable outfitted with a 13.3" display and a choice of Intel and AMD dual-core...
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Last by vikramsbox at 10:55 PM on 11/21/09 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat benchmark appears
Finally, a DirectX 11 benchmark based on an actual game. Shacknews writes that GSC Game World has released a freely downloadable benchmarking tool based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat, its upcoming post-apocalyptic survival shooter. The benchmark takes you on several flights through a reconstruction of Prypiat, the abandoned Ukrainian city...
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Last by SPOOFE at 3:04 PM on 11/21/09 - Thursday Shortbread
Thursday TechCrunch reports the Google phone is very real. And it's coming soon. Fudzilla reports ARM promises dual-core mobile phones in 2010 C|Net reports Best Buy starts Black Friday craze a week early Acer,...
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Last by smilingcrow at 1:47 PM on 11/20/09 - Report: Elusive Apple tablet delayed until late 2010
The Taiwanese rumor mill has more news about Apple's mysterious yet eagerly anticipated tablet product. This time, DigiTimes has heard from its sources at component makers that Apple will delay the tablet's launch from next March to the second half of 2010. Why the delay? Word is that the Mac...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:04 PM on 11/19/09 - ThinkPad 'netbook' seems to be real, AMD-based
Remember those dubious-looking spy photos of a strange ThinkPad netbook we saw earlier this month? They weren't fake. Well, either that, or a prankster has masterfully crafted a whole batch of very authentic-looking PR photos and sent them to the folks at Netbooknews.de. The evidence definitely seems overwhelming,...
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Last by neon at 11:10 AM on 11/21/09 - Office 2010 beta is now available
If spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations get you all hot and bothered, then you might be happy to know that Microsoft has released a public beta of its upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite. You can grab the beta right now from the official download page; just click "Get It Now"...
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Last by Coran Fixx at 10:54 AM on 11/21/09 - Asus hops on the Atom home server bandwagon
Following in the footsteps of HP and Acer, Asus has announced a small-form-factor Windows Home Server machine based on Intel Atom hardware. The new Asus TS mini is debuting at an affordable $349.99, and with dimensions of...
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Last by Usacomp2k3 at 11:00 AM on 11/20/09 - Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising demo hits the web
With the surge of new and exciting games coming out this season, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, demos aren't an extinct species just yet. As Shacknews reports, Codemasters has just released a demo of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, its tactical military first-person shooter that came out last month.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 9:31 PM on 11/18/09
