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An item on the itinerary for this year’s Google I/O Developer Conference contains an item of particular interest: The conference is a celebration of all development, and includes seminars on AJAX, HTML5, LAMP, Android, and other initiatives relevant to the web or Google’s Zerg hive mind. Add comment
The Den of Geek took a moment to discuss popups, a nuisance that has made a creeping return in the last 18 months. Apparently we owe our gratitude to a company named Adimpact, which has turned to DHTML for popup serving. Regarding the technology, affiliate marketing blogger Shawn Collins had this to say: “works around […] Add comment
Corsair has just opened an online store selling some of its fastest, most expensive products like the new Dominator-GT DDR3-2000 kits based on the soon-to-be-on-everyone’s-wish-list Elpida Hyper ICs. DDR3-2000 isn’t particularly new, but it’s rare to find sticks that can push those speeds while still keeping the memory voltage at a Core i7-friendly 1.65v. These […] Add comment
Guru3D checks out the ASUS GeForce GTX 295. Fancy. Add comment
Lian Li’s new PC-A06F mid-tower case is THIN. Add comment
Is the DFI LANParty UT X58-T3eH8 the hardest of the hardcore X58 motherboards? I think so. Add comment
VR-Zone has info on the upcoming 40nm NVIDIA GeForce GT 218-line of entry-level video cards expected to hit in April. Add comment
TechReport and Guru3D both benchmark NVIDIA’s new tiny ION platform. Add comment
Antec is back with a revised version of their popular gaming case called the Nine Hundred Two. Add comment
Can something be both awesome and terrible at the same time? The Cooler Master V10 200+W Hybrid T.E.C. cooler comes close. Add comment
The Icy Dock MB671SK internal SATA HDD enclosure lets you quickly swap SATA drives. Add comment
According to several conference attendees, Bill Gates unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes upon TED conference attendees, announcing “not only poor people should experience this.” The stunt was clearly designed to make a vivid point about the continuing battle against malaria in developing nations, as Mr. Gates was at TED to discuss his work with the […] Add comment
On Monday we reported that Cox was preparing to trial congestion management techniques in its Kansas and Arkansas markets. Less than a week later, we’re receiving word that Cox may be up to more than throttling traffic. Icrontic reader Samuel Devoran tells us that Cox Communications may be outrightly filtering select protocols: Legal bit torrent […] Add comment
If you’ve never heard of OpenCL, you need to stop whatever you’re doing and read ahead. To begin, we all know that multi-threaded applications have not been as abundant as we had hoped. For those precious few applications that are multi-core aware, few leverage the full potential of two cores, much less the four that […] Add comment
While NVIDIA releases incremental GPU upgrades, the burning question on everyone’s mind has been: “So, just how good is the Ion?” Talk about NVIDIA’s new Netbook platform began in early December and, after a little smack talk, has finally made its way into the hands of testers. The svelte little box marries an incredibly potent […] Add comment
Not to be left behind by Western Digital, the Seagate Constellation drive joins the 2TB club. Add comment
Scientists believe that removing the CCR5 gene from a patient’s white blood cells will foster HIV immunity. Add comment
While Intel lines up an octo-core Xeon for this year’s ISSCC, two-way SMP Xeons have quietly begun to make their appearance at eTailers. Based on the Nehalem-derived Gainestown core, these 2P-enabled parts feature a second 6.4GT/s QPI link to broker inter-CPU communication. As far as specs are concerned, the chips officially sports tri-channel DDR3, 4MB […] Add comment
Using the COROT satellite, scientists have uncovered the most Earth-like exoplanet to date. Add comment
Microsoft has ended speculation regarding Windows 7’s iterations by announcing that there will be six separate editions of the new operating system. Microsoft is anchoring their new product strategy to the Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional editions. Virtually identical to Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional value propositions, these two SKUs […] Add comment
We got a peep of this chip in Vegas when AMD and Intel threw down in a liquid helium-drenched overclocking slugfest, but the Core i7 975 appears closer to release than ever. Lads over at XS threw it under some LN2 and crushed the 3DMark05 world record. Points aside, the chip features the new D0 […] Add comment
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