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New Maps Coming For Halo 2

Microsoft Game Studios have announced that a new multiplayer map pack for Halo 2 will be available on June 28th of this year. This follows a number of unofficial announcements, including a published press release on Microsoft's Korean version of the Xbox.com site. Add comment

Luxtera Integrates Photonics Interfaces Into Silicon Chips

Luxtera claims to have designed the world's first 10Gbit CMOS photonics platform. The technology will allow building photonic interfaces into mass-produced silicon chips for an optical modulation speed of 10 Gbit per second. Add comment

Folded Proteins Get Gold Standard

Stanford researchers have developed a color-coded method for determining whether a protein has folded or unfolded by attaching it to gold nanoparticles. Add comment

Gigabyte Technology Demos VIA PT880 Pro Mainboard

Gigabyte Technology is exhibiting a mainboard based on VIA PT880 Pro chipset that supports Intel’s processors and native PCI Express x16 and AGP 8x ports for graphics cards in a store in Tokyo, Japan. Add comment

Amazon Under Fire For Data-Gathering Techniques

If you're a customer at Amazon.com you're already familiar with the "You might like..." ads place around the site, calculated based on previous purchases youve made on the site. Well Amazon is going even further to target products to consumers habits, and some privacy advocates aren't pleased. Add comment

Nasty Worm Gives State Computers Indigestion

The FBI and the Washington State Patrol are investigating the source of an Internet worm that crippled the state Department of Revenue’s computer network this week and double-billed 1,400 businesses for tax payments. Add comment

Sony fined $90 Million, told to halt sale of PlayStation

Looks like Sony is in trouble for a little bit of patent infringement. Add comment

NEW Windows Messenger 5.1.0639

A new build of Windows Messenger 5.1 has been released by Microsoft. Add comment

BrainGate plugs brains into computers

A company in the U.S has developed technology that plugs a human brain into a desktop computer according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Add comment

Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed

Italian, US cosmologists present alternate explanation for accelerating expansion of the universe: Was Einstein right when he said he was wrong? Add comment

World’s Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites

British physicists and computer scientists are playing a key role in facing one of the biggest computing problems in the world - how to process the massive data volumes expected from the world's biggest particle physics experiment the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN in Switzerland. Add comment

IBM Supercomputer Shatters Own Speed Record

An IBM Blue Gene supercomputer has nearly doubled its previous world-beating speed, performing at 135.3 trillion floating points per second, said the Department of Energy (DoE). Add comment

Sony Releases New PlayStation Portable

First "Star Wars" movies, then Harry Potter books. Now, Sony Corp's new PlayStation Portable is getting the midnight-release treatment reserved for the most hyped of pop culture products. Add comment

Greatest Sexual Moments In Videogame History

Gotta get this one out of the way first - it's probably the most well-known unintentional sexual moment in classic videogames. Add comment

Intel Deploys Prestandard WiMax

WiMax backers continue to seed early versions of the technology among prospective customers, hoping that it will spark demand when services roll out in early 2006. Add comment

European Domain Name Gets Green Light

A European Union Web address took a critical step toward becoming a reality this week after gaining the approval of the Internet's domain-name oversight body. Add comment

Hackers Hit California State University

Hackers gained personal information of 59,000 people affiliated with a California university -- the latest in a string of high-profile cases of identity theft. Add comment

AMD Confirms Obligatory BIOS Support for New AMD Athlon 64

Representatives for Advanced Micro Devices confirmed on Wednesday that to support AMD Athlon 64 processors revision E will need a BIOS update. Add comment

How to avoid buying bootleg Anime @ newenglandanime.com

Could apply to any media you buy online, really... Add comment

AMD Intends To Close Process Gap At 65 nm

AMD is making bold claims regarding its general lag behind rival Intel in CPU process technology. Add comment

Yahoo To Match Google’s 1 Gig Email Storage

Yahoo Inc. is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software in its ongoing duel with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Add comment