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Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculations about a possible Doom movie: Film production company Universal Pictures announced on its website that the movie based on the popular first-person-shooter game recently has gone into production and will be released on August 5 next year. Add comment

Is A Prosthesis For Parts Of The Brain Possible?

Professor Theodore W. Berger, director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California, is creating a silicon chip implant that mimics the hippocampus, an area of the brain known for creating memories. If successful, the artificial brain prosthesis could replace its biological counterpart, enabling people who suffer from memory disorders to regain the ability to store new memories. Add comment

New Netsky Worm Linked To South Korea

Antivirus researchers have discovered a new version of the Netsky worm that contains text linking it to a university in South Korea. Add comment

AMD Offering Blueprint For $249 PC

Advanced Micro Devices plans to unfurl next week a blueprint for building a low-price computer aimed at providing Internet access to people in so-called emerging markets. Add comment

Ripping DVD to XViD: Ultimate guide 2.0

The ultimate step by step guide to XViD. Every step explained. Every setting explained. Add comment

DVD2XViD 2.0: The ultimate guide

The ultimate step by step guide to XViD. Every step explained. Every setting explained. Add comment

American Passports To Get Chipped

New U.S. passports will soon be read remotely at borders around the world, thanks to embedded chips that will broadcast on command an individual's name, address and digital photo to a computerized reader. Add comment

DVD+R Double Layer Reaches 8x Recording Speed

The DVD+RW Alliance today revealed a concept of DVD+R DL media supporting up to 8x recording speeds at the World PC Expo conference in Japan. Add comment

Sony Quietly Opens Retail Stores

Many retailers are worried about Sony's recent opening of several retail outlets, which changes Sony's traditional rollout of their products. Add comment

Digital Audio Player’s Hard Drive Hits 100GB

Carlsbad, California-based Digital Mind (DMC) this week announced an update to its Xclef 500, a Mac- and PC-compatible digital music player that the company claims is the first to offer 100GB of storage capacity. Add comment

Intel Announces New Intel Pentium M Processor 765

Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel Pentium M processor 765, expanding its mobile processor offerings and enabling a broader range of Intel Centrino mobile technology-based notebooks for corporate and home users. Add comment

Corsair Announces 550 MHz CAS2.5 DDR Modules

Corsair Memory today announced their fastest ever DDR memory module, a DDR550 module that supports very aggressive 2.5-4-4-8 latencies. Add comment

Google Patches One Security Hole, But Another Surfaces

Search engine darling Google Inc. has patched a hole in its search engine the could have allowed malicious hackers to modify the content of the Google search results page or silently modify search results, but a new hole may have already appeared. Add comment

Intel Kills TV Chip Plans

Earlier this year, Intel delayed its chip for large-screen televisions. Now the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is killing it. Add comment

AMD patents Peltier cooler on chip

An AMD Patent ([url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,800,933.WKU.&OS=PN/6,800,933&RS=PN/6,800,933]US patent number 6,800,933[/url])for incorporating a Peltier device onto a CPU core was approved on Oct 5th. Add comment

Tabbed Browsing Flaws Detected

Tabbed browsing, one of the more popular features built into alternative Web browsers, contains a security flaw that puts users at risk of spoofing attacks, research firm Secunia warned on Wednesday. Add comment

‘Drag-and-Drop’ IE Flaw Persists

Microsoft officials confirmed the existence of two vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer 6.0 that affect all versions of Windows, including Windows XP Service Pack 2 users. Add comment

Nvidia Puts A Firewall On A Motherboard

Better known for its graphics chips, Nvidia has become the first to release a motherboard controller that makes it possible to build a hardware firewall within a PC itself. Add comment

Intel To Ship Dual-Core Xeon In 2006

Intel plans to ship its first Xeon processors based on a new dual-core architecture in 2006, company officials said this week, a disclosure that surprised industry observers who had expected the chips to appear in 2005. Add comment

NEC Shoots To Regain Supercomputer Title

Less than a month after IBM claimed the world's fastest computer crown from NEC, the Japanese company announced it is trying to win it back with a new supercomputer that will be available at the end of the year. Add comment