August 7, 2007 by Brad.

Accessory and peripheral maker LaCie has taken the wraps off its Big Disk Extreme+ external hard drive, pushing the line’s capacity to 2 TB.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

“Intel is giving a lot of cheap speed-freaks cause for celebration today, as the company has just announced some deep price cuts to its line of quad-core CPUs. The chipmaker has knocked down the price of the 2.93GHz Core 2 Quad QZ6800 with a 1066MHz FSB to $999, the 2.66 GHz Q6700 to $530, and the 2.4GHz Q6600 to $300.”

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

Scientists and researchers have discovered a fascinating effect that could cause hard drive data to get crushed in a rapidly-spreading “avalanche” of bit-flipping electrons.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

Word is out that Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

From concept to completion and nine months of labor, this is one pretty fantastic casemod.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

AMD CTOs chime in this morning on what exactly is AMD’s plan for the future. In that we see AMD’s next generation desktop and server parts revealed - the BULLDOZER. Along with that, M-SPACE, BOBCAT, and FALCON FUSION Family.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

10 reasons to get rid of your cell phone and make your life simple, cheaper, and more exciting.

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

The first game to support DirectX 10 out of the box is on retail shelves. We will take a quick look at GPU performance scaling as well as DX9 versus DX10 image quality with screenshot comparisons. Is it time to upgrade to Vista for DX10?

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August 7, 2007 by Brad.

Agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out raids across the US in an operation targeting the import, distribution, and sale of console mod chips.

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