Archive for March, 2008
Details of AMD’s Manufacturing Plans Around the Corner
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by Tom Krazit
CNet.com - AMD could finally be getting ready to explain how it intends to build chips in the future, almost a year after dropping hints that it would revamp its manufacturing strategy.
Hans Mosesmann, an analyst with Raymond James, believes AMD is about to reveal a new manufacturing strategy that […]
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MacBook Air hacked in security contest
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by Tom Krazit
CNet.com - A team of security researchers has won $10,000 for hacking a MacBook Air in two minutes using an undisclosed Safari vulnerability.
IDG News Service is camped out at CanSecWest in lovely Vancouver, Canada, and has chronicled the exploits (gotta love security puns) of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and […]
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Tall Tales: Giant Squid
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by Hayley Birch
Are the oceans hiding monsters of epic proportions? And will they survive long enough for us to track them down?
FirstScience - Hemmed in on all sides by two metre-long, tentacled sea demons, Scott Cassell must have thought he’d breathed his last…
30 minutes later he emerged from what would have been his […]
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Stuff of Life (but Not Life Itself) Is Detected on a Distant Planet
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by Dennis Overbye
New York Times - Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and had confirmed the presence of water there, clearing the way for a bright future of inspecting the galaxy for livable planets, […]
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Intel to Answer AMD’s Fusion?
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by Andy Patrizio
InternetNews - A future Nehalem processor would combine Intel’s graphics technology with a dual-core CPU. Intel is reportedly preparing its own product to compete against AMD’s “Fusion” processor, a combined CPU/GPU, for an early 2009 release, according to published reports.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has made no secret of plans to […]
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ASUS Reveals Eee PC Desktop Variant
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by Brandon Hill
DailyTech - The Asus Eee PC lineup expands to include a desktop model. DailyTech reported in late January that ASUS was hard at work on a desktop variant of its popular Eee PC sub-notebook. The original Eee PC turned out to be the surprise hit of 2007 and the company […]
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