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news.cnet.com — The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is home to one of the world's top supercomputing labs. Just seeing all this iron makes me want one for my basement :) Cool photo tour!!More… (Hardware)
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Bend Over Dude, You’re Getting A Dell
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]ripten.com — Some Dell laptops come with dissabled audio ports, after pressure from the RIAA. Dell will enable them for you for only $99. Bargin.More… (Hardware)
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An alarm clock that should never be built
crave.cnet.com — Having difficulty waking? You just lack the motivation to get out of bed and shut the alarm off. Perhaps this alarm clock will do the trick. When you don't answer the alarm the "Tyrant" will randomly place telephone calls to the people in your cell's phonebook!More… (Hardware)
rocjoe71Dismantling the World's Largest Gantry Crane (PIC) view!
MrBabyMan
2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh
reghardware.co.uk — Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.More… (Hardware)
SirPopperDon't buy Nvidia's GTX 200 cards now! Price cut on the way!
tgdaily.com — It's getting better and better. Loosk like ATI's Radeon 4800 is much better than Nvidia expected.More… (Hardware)
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NVIDIA - "significant quantities" of laptop GPUs defective
engadget.com — informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.More… (Hardware)
BugMeNot2HOW TO: Build Your own Homemade Flame Thrower
mirror.linnwood.org — Homemade flame thrower using PVC pipe, a lighter and a backpack, It's made entirely of parts you can get at your average hardware store.More… (Hardware)
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Solid State Drives Don't Extend Battery Life - Shorten's It
gizmodo.com — Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom's Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible? More… (Hardware)
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Not just for Games Anymore, The Present and Future of GP-GPU
extremetech.com — It wasn't so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of "GP-GPU," general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it's about ready for the mainstream. Here's some of what you can look forward to.More… (Hardware)
Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores' in processors
news.cnet.com — Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server."The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device."More… (Hardware)
ATI readies OEM special: SuperRV770 to challenge GeForce GTX
tgdaily.com — AMD’s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia's very best.More… (Hardware)
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Cooling Data Centers Could Prevent Massive Electrical Waste
cleantechnica.com — It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow.More… (Hardware)
upickThe 13 Best Movie Robots
filmwad.com — With Wall-E dropping nationwide today, we've been thinking about the best robots to ever pour out their mechanical hearts on the big screen. We put together this list, which is only as good as our frail human bodies allowed it to be. More… (Hardware)
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VelociRaptors In RAID 5, A Case Study In Speed
hothardware.com — The team at HotHardware decided to RAID up not two but three WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card, to see what the numbers looked like. This is only a quick-take on read performance but it certainly gives you a sense of scale and what these drives are capable of in the right environment. More… (Hardware)
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