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The Harry Potter series of novels is popular, to say the least. It's popular enough to spawn a malware e-mail scheme. An e-mail promising an attachment that contains a copy of the latest wildly anticipated novel "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" contains a virus instead. But at least it's...
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A recent survey ranked YouTube number one when it came to online video sites. There was some pretty stiff competition too, especially from companies that might seem like they should have cornered this segment years ago, such as Time Warner/AOL: "YouTube's share of the U.S. online video market was 60.2 percent in May, according to Hitwise....
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Hey HotHardware Fans! As you've probably noticed, we've had a lot going on here in the last few weeks. We recently revamped the home page to speed things up and to incorporate new features that allow you add your own comments to our news, that ease social bookmarking of our news and articles, and to generally make it easier to navigate through...
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Video: MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-HD-OC @ XBIT Processors: Weighing the value of today's processors @ TR Intel "Mysterious" Celeron processor revealed @ InsideHW.com...
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AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August AMD's Stable Infrastructure Strategy Enables Availability of Systems from Platform Partners in September SUNNYVALE, Calif. - June 29, 2007 - Continuing to lead the shift of mainstream...
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Video: ATI Radeon HD 2600 / 2400 Articles @ TechPowerUp, Phoronix, Technic3D Dell UltraSharp 2707WFP LCD Monitor @ HardwareZone Processors: Intel E6300 Budget Overclocking Review...
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According to Ken Lowe of Sigma Designs, a company that develops performance integrated SoC semiconductors and markets them to the DVD industry (among many other industries), HD DVD has only a few months to live. Although the format wars commenced not too long ago, HD DVD is expected to rest in peace by fall of 2007. Just how reliable is this...
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Video: An Open Letter To ATI/AMD @ Phoronix V7 D22W12 22" Widescreen Monitor @ Motherboards.org Cable Box Liberation Looms @ Digital Trends Processors: Overclocking...
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There have been recent reports that the American Medical Association (AMA) will have an upcoming vote on the subject of video game addiction and whether or not it should be considered a formal mental disorder. If the vote favors the notion that video game addiction is indeed a mental disorder...
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Video: Foxconn 8600 GT Overclocked Graphics Card @ I4U Samsung SyncMaster 206BW 20 Inch Widescreen LCD Monitor @ Tweaknews.net Motherboards & Chipsets: Five flavors of Intel's P35...
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The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 was disclosed this morning, which the hard drive manufacturer touts as “the fastest high-capacity drive to date.” The 7200.11 is the company’s first 1TB hard disk drive, achieved with the use of only four platters (as opposed to five). Power consumption is modest...
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At the peak of the dot-com boom (June of 2000), the unemployment rate for the computer industry was 2.3 %. Right now, it is even lower at 2.1%, which certainly comes as a green light to engineers and computer scientists. This year’s cohort of computer science and engineering students can expect an advantage in an industry that has grown steadily...
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Processors: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Reviews @ TR , PCPer , TechGage , Hardware Secrets A Letter to AMD’s CEO @ NGOHQ...
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Google Inc. has installed solar panels on the roofs of two of its carports and eight of its buildings. This is only the beginning of a massive project that Google has launched, which is to build America’s largest corporate campus solar panel system. "Google has produced enough electricity...
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Contemporary routing solutions mainly involve electricity, which is inefficient as the process involves the conversion of bursts of light into electrons and back again. The alternative, optical routing, has been a challenge because pulses of light are difficult to control. That may soon change as scientists at Cornell University are working...
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Video: XFX 7950GT 512mb 550M @ Bjorn3D Samsung 275T 27-inch Wide-Screen Review @ Techgage Memory & Storage: Corsair Flash Voyager GT 8GB @ Hard-H2O Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000...
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Google saves too much information about you, and keeps it too long. At least that's the general consensus among privacy watchdogs and various governmental agencies. But Marissa Mayer, VP of Search for Google, said Google is trying to find a way for Google to allow you to explicitly consent to...
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Haptic technology refers to technology that allows a user to communicate by means of the sense of touch via a computer interface. It seems complicated, but such feats as vibrating phones and video-game controllers are a few examples of haptics at work. In fact, the most famous haptic device is the PHANToM, which allows users to feel what they...
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Processors: AMD's BE CPUs: More Power to Low Power @ LostCircuits Motherboards & Chipsets: ECS NF650iSLIT-A nForce 650i Motherboard @ PCStats Memory & Storage:...
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Google just won an argument with Microsoft before their lawyers even got to deliver an opening statement; Microsoft decided to take the high road and allow users to decide which desktop search program to use. If you select Google for all your desktop searching needs, then the Vista seach engine will be disabled, thus no longer causing the...
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Who knew that playing video games could be healthy? Quick, somebody e-mail Jack Thompson: "Buried at the bottom of a couple mainstream articles about the Wii is a slightly different take on the whole “fitness” phenomenon. Mary Jane Zamora is a 50 year old woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2005. After a round of chemotherapy...
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Honeywell, a Fortune 500 company and multinational corporation based in the U.S., declared today that their MAV (Micro Air Vehicle) will be deployed in Iraq. These MAVs will be used to spot IEDs (improvised explosive devices) from the air. The MAV deployment represents the very first time a...
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