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Just seven months ago ago, HP was making preparations to get rid of its PC business. That move was eventually canceled, and now,...

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With the rise of e-readers and tablets, I've found myself trading time formerly spent watching TV for time spent reading books. Much of that...

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Thinking a little slowly this Monday? Why not overclock your brain? MIT's Technology Review blog has the goods on GoFlow, a startup...

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Morning, all. We are getting our first real snow of the winter here in the KC area, and the kids are out of school...

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While I was out traveling last week, someone remarked to me that Best Buy may be having some financial trouble, a fact they found somewhat...

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Apple has gotten big lately. Really big. So big that, last summer, it briefly became the highest valued company by market capitalization in the...

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After a mild start, it looks like this winter is gearing up a bit, dropping snow and ice around various parts of the U.S. this...

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So it turns out both Geoff and I got Bradley electric smokers for Christmas this year. I'm pretty excited to try mine, but...

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Asus has emerged as one of the chief players in the tablet market with its Transformer devices, and Hasbro isn't happy about it. According to...

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In late October 2010, I flew out to Austin for the first demonstration of AMD's Brazos platform—and a chance to test it. I was sitting...

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The carrier merger of the decade won't happening after all. After getting blackballed by the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice, AT&T's planned acquisition of...

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Could someone remotely hack into your printer, steal your personal information, and then set the device on fire? Yes, according to researchers who went public...

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As the first PCI Express 3.0-compatible motherboards slowly begin to seep into the marketplace, the next major revision of the interconnect is already in the...

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I've been thinking some lately about how our modern perspective warps our sense of scale about history. The simple fact of the matter is...

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I've been watching the Occupy Wall Street effort and its associated attempts in other U.S. cities with some fascination. The running joke is that...

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Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died. A tribute page on the Apple website delivers the news, along with a brief note:

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So here is, I think, an interesting question. What did you do for your education, and what do you now do (if you're finished...

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Unless you've been living under a rock this week, odds are you've heard about that experiment at CERN—you know, the one where researchers detected particles...

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