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Morning, all. For what it's worth, this week is one of those strange ones where all of our editors are occupied with big projects....

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Microsoft is cleaning house, it sounds like. We found out this morning that the company might cut down on the number of OS editions with...

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As I mentioned on the podcast this week, I have been working to re-fit Damage Labs with new hardware all around....

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VLC media player is arguably the best video playback software around. If you're a fan, good news: version 2.0.0 has been released in...

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Watch out, Dropbox. You're about to get some competition from Google. At least, that's what the Wall Street Journal says, quoting "people familiar with the...

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Howdy, all. I was out traveling all of last week, first visiting Intel up in Oregon and then down to Santa Clara for AMD's...

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Wait, doesn't Google already make the default web browser for Android? That's what I thought when I came across this bit of news yesterday. As...

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Looks like Adobe is hard at work trying to keep Flash secure. After successfully teaming up with Google to integrate a sandboxed Flash Player...

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With major new versions of Firefox and Chrome rolling out every few weeks, it's easy to tune them out. Believe it or not, though, the...

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A group of MIT researchers has developed a new algorithm that improves upon the fast Fourier transform. In some situations, the algorithm is claimed...

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By now, you're likely familiar with the basic technology behind Lucid's various products. Whether it's the original Hydra GPU load balancer or the

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Morning, all. We're back and, I think, mostly recovered from CES, provided that we didn't bring home any swine flu or black plague again...

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If you'll humor me, I'd like to take a brief break from all the CES coverage to complain about the sad state of Blu-ray on...

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All has been quiet on the Xonar front, but that's set to change early this year. Asus is prepping a couple of new audio...

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In light of Google's frantic browser release cycle, fresh versions of Chrome aren't always terribly noteworthy. According to the latest update on the Google...

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Of all people, Microsoft is cheering Internet Explorer 6's long-awaited decline into irrelevance. In a post on the Windows Blog yesterday, the company revealed...

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You'll have to forgive me for the tardy timing of this blog post. What with Christmas vacation, followed by a crazy work week, topped with...

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We're working on our web servers this morning, so you're likely to see some brief down time, followed by a period of transition where some...

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