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Saturday science subject: Our friends the parasites Human beings in the civilized world have spent incalculable resources improving sanitation, getting rid of disease, and curbing infant mortality, especially in the past century... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Friday night topic: The worst summer movie season? Man, this year's crop of summer movies seems to be... awful. I'm not excited about much of anything beyond Toy Story 3, and the only... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Wi-Fi quadricopter offers augmented reality dogfights This year's E3 expo is teeming with new games and funky motion controllers. And then there's Parrot's AR.Drone, which has four tiny helicopter rotors,... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Gaming |
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Apple becomes highest-valued tech company No, that headline isn't a typo. As the Associated Press reports, Apple's market capitalization surpassed Microsoft's on Wednesday, making the Mac maker the highest-valued... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Mac |
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Etc. Wow. Six years of Lost, and I don't really know what exactly happened. Then again, I never could watch the show as a... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Friday night topic: What value biodiversity? I have always wondered about the question of biodiversity. Does it matter that a species might disappear from the Earth? There are many... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Settling in the Great Green North One of our loyal readers recently asked why I haven't talked more about... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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HP: We'll put webOS in slates, printers Soon after HP announced its acquisition of Palm, executives from the two companies went on record naming slate devices as possible candidates for... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech |
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Saturday science subject: The Neanderthal in us Did Neanderthals and early humans interbreed? Scientists have been asking themselves that question for decades, but now, as New Scientist reports, we may finally... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Police raid editor's home in iPhone leak fallout Remember how Gizmodo recently came into possession of a fourth-generation iPhone prototype misplaced by an Apple engineer? Although some onlookers initially suspected a deliberate... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech |
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Saturday science subject: The Sun in HD A little over two months after departing Earth, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has started beaming back images of the Sun—images that purportedly have "clarity... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Friday night topic: Things that have gotten worse Submerged as we are in technology and its progress, I think we sometimes take for granted that things will and do improve over time. ... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing |
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Saturday science subject: Oxygen schmoxygen Think oxygen is a requirement for multicellular life? Think again. As ScienceNow reports, a team of Danish and Italian researchers have discovered the first... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Poll: Enterprise IT hardware and you We tend to focus a bit more on the consumer side of the PC hardware business, but there's a whole other world out therethat of... Poll Questions: • How would you describe your level of involvement with the IT hardware in your workplace, including engineering/design, procurement, upgrades, repairs, maintenance and the like? • Have you been directly involved with the purchase or installation of a new server at your workplace in the last year? • How many PCs, workstations, or servers do you have responsibility for or control over at work? • How large is the annual IT budget at your company or organization (best guess, if not sure)? • Do you use a virtualization application in your workplace? • Which brand of server has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Which brand of workstation has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Which brand of laptop has your business or organization purchased the most in the past two years? • Do you use enterprise-class hardware to build or upgrade PCs or servers in your home? Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Where have all the good computer desks gone? As you may or may not know, depending on whether you listened to our last podcast all the way through, I've moved to beautiful... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Saturday science subject: Deep freeze Freaked out about the prospect of global warming? A few hundred million years ago, the planet warming by a few degrees might have been the... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Saturday science subject: Exoplanet atmospheres Finding out about the atmosphere of planets outside our solar system may have just gotten easier—or at the very least, easier without the need for... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Etc. Well, my Radeon HD 5830 review decided—entirely of its own accord, mind you—to bleed into next week. I pretty much burnt myself out on... Type: News story Tags: Miscellaneous |
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| MSI's Z87-GD65 Gaming motherboard reviewed | 24 |
| Might as well call it the Xbox One-Eighty now. | +43 |