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Solving the myth of laptop battery life

Technology lovers everywhere require our collective effort to solve an industry-wide problem. We have been called to task. It is time to take a stand against inaccurate laptop battery life claims. How many times have you been plugging away at something on your laptop only to be interrupted with a sudden need to plug in? […] Add comment

Portable Ubuntu runs Ubuntu in Windows

You’ve heard about Ubuntu, you’ve probably seen it evangelized as the first consumer-friendly Linux distro, and you’re probably curious what all the fuss is about. It’s also pretty likely that you’re not willing to tamper with your system by giving dual booting a whirl, and I bet you’re definitely not willing to abandon Windows entirely […] Add comment

Phoenix cops raid home of critical blogger

What do you do if you’re a police department currently battling a harassment suit with a citizen that has been highly critical of you in a public blog? Why you raid his house, take all his stuff and have the evidence sealed, of course! In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of […] Add comment

Windows 7 build 7075 in tester hands

Windows 7 6.1.7075.0.winmain.090401-1840 is on the prowl. [via] Add comment

Ongoing DDoS against Register.com

TheINQ is reporting an ongoing DDoS attack against Register.com, a domain registrar, effecting millions of websites. Add comment

Ford <3 Opera

Ford picks Opera for in-dash browsing. Finally, something more dangerous while driving than texting. Add comment

PowerPoint danger

Warning to PowerPoint users: there’s a security alert, and your audience is probably asleep. Add comment

Quebec: no English-only subtitles

Quebec bans English-only game subtitles. It seems the French are restless this week. Add comment

France gets 3-strikes

Yay, the tired 3-strike baseball metaphor made it to France’s pirating pig-dogs. Add comment

Verizon upsell

Verizon is rather transparent about it’s latest upsell. Personally, I think it’s just a lazy web dev. Not that I know any. Add comment

Quad SLI on one card

Is this the GTX 390? Add comment

OCZ releases first 1kW PSU with 90% efficiency

Congratulations to the OCZ team for the world’s first 1kW PSU with an 80+ Gold (90% efficiency) rating. Add comment

Worst rebrand ever

Worst rebrand ever? Tropicana sales plummeted 20% after getting makeover. [via] Add comment

NVIDIA GPU driver v185.66 beta released

NVIDIA has taken the wraps off of the newest driver revision for GeForce 9000, GT 100 and GTX 200-series GPUs. Weighing in at roughly 100MB, this beta Windows XP/Vista driver delivers the following changes: Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU. Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. […] Add comment

FBI hunts Wolverine leaker

The FBI is hunting movie pirates. Guess they ran out of important things to do. Add comment

Realtek HD audio driver v2.21

Realtek HD audio driver v2.21 was released today for users of Windows 7/Vista/XP. [Via] Add comment

Conficker Eye Test

Go – it’s worth it just for the legend. 😀 Add comment

Adobe Photoshop works on Windows 7

Ever wondered if Adobe Photoshop works on Windows 7? It does. [via] Add comment

Windows 7 build 7074?

It’s entirely and completely unsubstantiated at this point, but a user by the name of “Juimed” over at w7forums has posted a picture of Windows 7 build 7074: The build has a compile date of 8:55 AM on 3/31/2009, and features a build string of 7074.0.x86fre.winmain.090331-0855. Obviously many posts like this (such as the original […] Add comment

Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GTX 280

Arctic Cooling tames the heat on NVIDIA’s GTX 280 with the awesome Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 VGA cooler. Add comment

Razer Arctosa gaming keyboard

Meet the Arctosa, Razer’s new entry-level gaming keyboard. Add comment