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Compact Disk (CD) Turns 26 and It Still Won't Die
maximumpc.com — Another birthday for the CD has come and gone and yet the damn things just won’t die. On Aug. 17th, 1982, the Compact Disc was born into an age of rampant consumerism that was the 1980s. Big hair was in, big vinyl and the big snarls of tape from cassettes was out.The CD of course wasn’t without its drawbacks. More… (Hardware)
optimusprime01
Army Moves Ahead with Mobile Laser Cannon
blog.wired.com — The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 31-ton-plus truck.More… (Hardware)
MrBabyMan
Dell's Eee-killer to ship with Ubuntu preinstalled
arstechnica.com — Leaked specifications indicate that Dell's upcoming subnotebook product will be available with Ubuntu 8.04. The product could be available as early as this week.More… (Hardware)
MaGCoLEverything You Need to Know About USB 3.0 (+PICS)
maximumpc.com — No doubt you’re familiar with the Universal Serial Bus – we ranked it as our top PC innovation of all time. But what do you know about the next version of this ubiquitous interface? More… (Hardware)
Athlon 64 2000+ at 8-watts outperforms Intel Atom
engadget.com — MD's going through some rough times, no doubt about it, but for fanboys of the CPU maker (wait, do CPU fanboys still exist?) here's your feel-good story of the year.More… (Hardware)
SVOboy
Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor Hard Drive
bit-tech.net — According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers.More… (Hardware)
zaibatsu
Nvidia the first to ship OpenGL 3.0
techspot.com — Almost exactly four years after the release of its predecessor, OpenGL 2.0, OpenGL 3.0 is here and now has a vendor officially supporting it. Nvidia announced this week that they are the first vendor to do such, with a beta driver package available that supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30.More… (Hardware)
SirPopper
Dell: Can't Replace DVD Drive Because It's Not Possible
consumerist.com — Dell told Arthur to replace his broken DVD drive himself, even after he shipped his laptop to Dell expressly so they could perform the replacement.More… (Hardware)
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Fastest RAM ever?
technology.newscientist.com — Engineers and physicists from Germany have demonstrated the quickest prototype yet of an advanced form of RAM tipped by hardware manufacturers to be the future of computing. The device is so fast it brushes against a fundamental speed-limit for the process.More… (Hardware)
JusTuring
USB 3.0 ready!
tgdaily.com — In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.More… (Hardware)
PeterNortonGuy builds Massive folding farm with 51 nVidia Video Cards
overclock.net — A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD. More… (Hardware)
mark076hIntel's new chip to be called Core i7
physorg.com — Intel Corp. said Sunday it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established "Core" brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.More… (Hardware)
warrior007Amazing advancements in Invisible Cloak Technology: See pic
chron.com — Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus. Includes a stunning picture in which the technology is put to use!More… (Hardware)
Mathieugothax
Forget the '$100 Laptop' ... Try $12!
abcnews.go.com — As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12. More… (Hardware)
Intel Plans to End the "MHZ Game" with a "many core" Game
washingtonpost.com — To keep up with the demands of the increasingly digital world, the "multi-core" or "many core" approach is necessary because by 2015, running chips at faster and faster frequencies could have yielded products like laptop or desktop computers that create as much heat as a nuclear reactor, engineers said. More… (Hardware)
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