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Learning a second language in high school or before can have many obvious advantages, from making new friends to opening up new job prospects. As...

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What happens when you ask the CEO of Microsoft to autograph a MacBook Pro? Does he take it in stride or throw a chair...

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Birds don't breathe like us mammals: instead of pushing air in and out of their lungs, they keep air flowing through a one-way system of...

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We may not be big enough (yet) to have an HR department and multiple positions available. However, The Tech Report does have a sizable enough...

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If one thing demarks enthusiast components from other computer hardware, it has to be their aesthetics. Whether you're looking at elegant copper heatsinks, motherboards...

Poll Question: • Do aesthetics ever influence your component selection?

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Is this officially the future? New Scientist reports that Google has been quietly working on a quantum computing project for the past three years, and...

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Morning, all. Apologies for the lack of posts yesterday (save for Ronald's ever-reliable production of tasty Shortbread, of course), but Christmas left me flat...

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Merry Christmas, everybody!  Hope you have a good one.

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A good number of you read my first impressions blog post about James Cameron's Avatar, in which I praised the visuals and cinematography but...

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Last night, I went to see the Avatar premiere. James Cameron's massively hyped CG epic came out in Europe a couple of days ahead of...

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A recent statement by Eric Schmidt has drummed up quite a bit of controversy, but Google says its CEO's words were taken out of context....

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If you saw something like this in the night sky, what would first come to your mind? A mishap at the Large Hadron Collider?...

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TR reader Sargent Duck sends in a very relevant suggestion for the Friday Night Topic in light of tonight's L4D2 blog post from Cyril. ...

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Tip of the day: If you use NTFS compression on the cache files in your Steam\steamapps directory, you can save a lot of space.  The...

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Sometimes, great new inventions stem from entirely accidental discoveries—take the microwave oven, for instance. Soon, we may owe self-cleaning windows, better electric cars, and...

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The U.S.'s largest cable company may soon become one of its largest content firms, as well. Quoting a source close to the merger, CNBC.com reports...

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Last Saturday, we wrote about how NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has discovered a substantial amount of water on the...

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In September, we wrote about how a trio of science teams had discovered evidence of water on the Moon. As ScienceNow reports, NASA

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