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- Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator
Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the space elevator will be built about 10 years after everybody stops laughing. We're certainly getting there: as New Scientist reports, NASA has awarded a $900,000 prize to a team that developed a robotic climber capable of ascending a cable at 3.9...
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Last by Cyril at 11:18 PM on 11/07/09 - Saturday Shortbread
Saturday Apple's Steve Jobs: CEO of the decade TG Daily reports Apple plans iPhone lockdown Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store The Washington Times reports 14 more charged in insider trading ...
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Last by Fighterpilot at 6:44 PM on 11/07/09 - Announcing TR's 10th anniversary giveaway
On November 8, 2009, The Tech Report will be ten years old. Can you believe it? TR has grown from a part-time hobby into a in-depth resource on PC hardware producing daily news and multiple articles each week, complete with...
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Last by Darkmage at 12:30 AM on 11/08/09 - Intel working on fix for latest SSD firmware issue
Well, all those user reports weren't flukes. Intel has posted a note on the Support Community forum saying it managed to reproduce a bricking problem induced by its latest solid-state-drive firmware update, and that the company is working on a fix. Here's the meaty part from the message by Alan...
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Last by indeego at 6:17 PM on 11/07/09 - Nvidia lashes out at Intel with cartoons
After trash-talking about Intel last year, Nvidia is now taking another approach in its public-relations war against the semiconductor giant: newspaper-style cartoons. Specifically, Nvidia has put up a website with a handful of seemingly professionally drawn cartoons meant to poke fun at Intel. Much like many political cartoons, Nvidia's...
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Last by vikramsbox at 9:21 PM on 11/07/09 - Shooting my way through Borderlands
"Okay, just one more mission..." That phrase usually preceded me going to bed far too late through most of last week. Yes, I was bitten by the Borderlands bug. For a total of around 20 hours across a few evenings, I shot, electrocuted, set on fire, disintegrated, and drove through...
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Last by Voldenuit at 12:57 AM on 11/08/09 - DFI readies P55 Mini-ITX motherboard
You might think a 95W power envelope is a tad too high for a Mini-ITX build. However, that hasn't stopped DFI from developing a P55 Express motherboard based on the diminutive form factor—and the guys at Clunk.org.uk have nabbed a few photos and specifications. The DFI MI P55-T36 has an...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 10:48 PM on 11/06/09 - Nvidia turns a profit once again
After a few tough quarters, Nvidia is finally out of the red. The company has posted $107.6 million in net profits for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year (ended on October 25), contrasting with sizable losses in its fiscal Q2, fiscal Q1, and the...
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Last by Gelde3001 at 5:20 PM on 11/07/09 - Early Windows 7 unit sales beat Vista's by 234%
So far, the hype surrounding Windows 7 has been much more positive than what accompanied Windows Vista. Has all the upbeat chatter translated into higher popularity? Yes, according to early numbers from NPD. The research firm writes that, in the United States, unit sales of boxed Windows 7 copies eclipsed...
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Last by flip-mode at 5:19 AM on 11/07/09 - Friday Shortbread
Friday Nvidia reports financial results for third quarter fiscal year 2010 NordicHardware reports Nvidia is hiring x86 engineers Fudzilla reports Nvidia impresses people with Tegra 2 NGOHQ reports Nvidia mocks Intel with editorial...
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Last by Thanato at 5:21 PM on 11/06/09 - Dell Adamo XPS has Core 2 Duo, costs $1,799
After last month's teaser announcement, Dell has finally spilled the beans about its unusual-looking Adamo XPS laptop. The PC maker expects to start selling the sleek ultraportable "in time for the holidays" at a starting price of $1,799. Specs-wise, the Adamo XPS packs a 13.4" "high-definition" display, a low-voltage...
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Last by sweatshopking at 5:48 AM on 11/07/09 - Could low-power 'Fusion' CPUs be built on a 40-nm bulk process?
The last AMD roadmap we saw described Ontario, a 32-nm "accelerated processing unit" with two cores, 1MB of cache, support for DDR3 memory, and a built-in graphics processor. We haven't heard much about this future product since then, but today, Fudzilla claims AMD now intends to build that...
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Last by SomeOtherGeek at 10:14 AM on 11/06/09 - Epic lets devs make standalone Unreal Engine 3 titles for free
id Software often gets credit for opening the source code of old game engines a few years after their release. Epic Games has now pulled a comparable feat, except with two major differences: the new Unreal Development Kit doesn't include game-engine source code, but it does give developers all of...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 1:01 PM on 11/06/09 - Tight Radeon HD 5000-series supply may be causing delays
At this point, it's pretty clear that AMD's Radeon HD 5800-series graphics cards are in short supply—especially the 5850. What you may not know is that, according to DigiTimes, this scarceness has forced both PC makers and AMD to rejigger their roadmaps. DigiTimes writes that tight supply "has caused...
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Last by travbrad at 9:50 PM on 11/07/09 - Toshiba crams 320GB into new 1.8-inch hard drive
Hard-drive makers don't just ramp capacities in their 3.5" and 2.5" products—teeny 1.8" drives are also quietly growing in storage density. This morning, Toshiba announced a new 1.8" mechanical hard drive lineup, the MK3233GSG series, which combines capacities...
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Last by UberGerbil at 9:34 PM on 11/06/09 - Thursday Shortbread
Thursday SemiAccurate reports Nvidia crushes MSI's Lucid-based board TG Daily reports AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee Expreview reports Intel denies promoting Larrabee to graphics card makers 2nd update: NY AG claims Dell got $6B via secret Intel pact Ars Technica takes a close look at...
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Last by OneArmedScissor at 9:48 PM on 11/05/09 - New Chrome beta is faster, has bookmark sync
Mozilla Firefox may be getting all the market share points, but Google is still hard at work improving its own web browser. The search giant has released a new Chrome beta that features both improved performance and the ability to synchronize bookmarks across different PCs. The bookmark sync feature...
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Last by Trymor at 5:59 AM on 11/07/09 - Super Talent unveils USB 3.0 flash drive
Now that both Asus and Gigabyte have USB 3.0-compatible motherboards on the way, the next step is devices. Super Talent hasn't skipped a beat, announcing a trio of USB 3.0 flash drives with hefty capacities and impressive top transfer speeds. The new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive series includes...
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Last by spanky1off at 9:10 PM on 11/05/09
