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Intel, SGI To Build 10 PFlops Supercomputer For NASA

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 22:50
Santa Clara (CA) - Intel and supercomputers is a combination of words we have been hearing quite a bit lately.
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AMD Announces 6 And 12-core Opterons

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 22:20
Sunnyvale (CA) - AMD has updated its server processor roadmap with single-die 6-core and dual-die 12-core Opteron processors.
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Blizzard Wants Copyright Laws Changed

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 20:10
Cheating is bad, but does cheating infringe on a video game publisher's copyright? World of Warcraft-maker Blizzard, a subsidiary of Vivendi, is trying to argue in court that it does. If this argument succeeds, it could change the way all software copyri
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Impending Doom 4

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 19:50
Independent developer id Software today announced Doom 4 is under development. The title is the fourth game in the franchise that has been credited for pioneering the first-person shooter. The latest title in the Doom series will be developed in-house, a
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Teenager Creates First OS X Multi-touch Table

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 18:30
Orem (UT) - Think only multi-billion-dollar corporations such as Apple and Microsoft can create multi-touch devices that react to finger gestures?
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Apple Tops In Technical Support

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 17:20
Cupertino (CA) - Apple in number one in technical support, according to the Consumer Reports magazine.
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China Wags Finger At "illegal" Online Maps

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 17:20
Beijing (China) - The Chinese government is chastising several online providers, including Google maps, for providing "illegal" satellite imagery of the country and neighboring islands.
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Microsoft Teams Up With Hyundai-Kia To Provide In-Car Infotainment

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 16:30
Microsoft and top South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai-Kia have announced that they are to pair up and design an in-car music/information system.
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Sprint Nextel And Clearwire Announce $15 Billion Deal

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:50
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have joined forces to create a single company worth just under $15 billion.
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Baby Dies After VOIP 911 Call Sends Ambulance To Wrong City

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:00
An 18-month old toddler in Calgary, Canada, died after it took two ambulances 40 minutes to get to him after the VOIP phone used to make the call mislead the emergency services.
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Cisco Beats Its Own Lowered Sales Estimates As Slowing U.S. Economy Bites

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 11:00
The slowing U.S. economy is biting a lot of tech companies hard, but Cisco has managed to meet its own lowered financial forecasts and beat those of the analysts in its latest quarterly results.
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Intel DX10 Drivers; NVIDIA Laughs

TomsHardware.com - Wed, 05/07/2008 - 00:30
Intel releases its DirectX 10 drivers 2 years after announcement. NVIDIA says Intel's efforts are "downright incapable."
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XP Service Pack 3 Surfaces After Long Delay

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 23:20
After much teasing, Microsoft's long-awaited final Windows XP service pack 3 became available on Tuesday via manual download and automatic update. Microsoft had halted the planned release of Service Pack 3 one week ago when the company discovered that th
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Amazon Spin-off Brings Rare Music To Consumers

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 23:20
Seattle (WA) - If you're looking for that rare album from the '70s and don't want to spend a fortune on Ebay, Amazon's "CreateSpace" service may have the answer for you.
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Playboy Online Loses To Porn Streaming

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 22:40
Internet pundits like to suggest that the Web is built on porn: If it weren't for the popularity of smut and its associated advertising and subscription revenue back in the late 1990s, other media business may never have figured out how to profit from on
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Scientists Propose Climate Supercomputer With 20 Million CPUs

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 20:20
Berkeley (CA) - In supercomputing, the sky is the limit, literally.
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NBC Posts TV Shows To Zune Marketplace

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 20:00
Burbank (CA) - Several months after pulling its content from Apple's iTunes store, NBC has decided to post TV shows to Apple's direct competitor at Microsoft's Zune Marketplace, a move that can't be seen as anything other than a direct insult to Apple.
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Intel To Launch 4-series Chipsets At Computex 2008

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 19:30
  Intel will officially launch its 4-series chipsets at Computex 2008, while motherboard makers will start shipping products in the third week of June, according to sources at motherboard makers. Initial 4-series chipset shipments will consist of the P45
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NVIDIA and Intel War To Start In 2010

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 18:30
The Intel-NVIDIA war heeds warning from CRT Captial Group, saying NVIDIA maybe providing motivation to the chip giant. CRT Captial Group analyst Ashok Kumar issued a warning stating the recent tirade by NVIDIA CEO, Jen-sun Huang may have adverse effects
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Super Talent Announces 120 GB SSD For $650

TomsHardware.com - Tue, 05/06/2008 - 13:50
California based Super Talent Technology made waves yesterday when it announced that all of its latest MasterDrive MX SSDs are to be priced under $1000.
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