Archive for August 7, 2007

Confirmed: Intel to Release New Four-Core 45nm “Penryn” processors Q4 2007

Intel will be launching new four core 45nm Intel Core Extreme “Penryn” processors in Q4 2007, a few months ahead of schedule. The top of the line proc. is likely to hit 3.33GHz, run a 1333MHz system bus and hold 12MB of L2 cache.

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Time for Hard Drive Manufacturers to Cut the GB BS

If a car company were to put up a big sign advertising their new mini van had 100 cubic feet of cargo space, but it actually had about 75, do you think you would have the right to complain? Then why is it we all just accept the misleading way hard drive manufacturers advertise the amount of space on their drives?

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More Than 70,000 Bridges “Structurally Deficient” - Cost $188 Billion

More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion.

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Girl’s boyfriend *accidentally* cooks her laptop in the oven…

Just read the story. The end is the best.

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Storage robot at your service: a review of the Drobo

Ars Technica looks at Drobo, the “storage robot” designed to give you flexible and secure external storage via USB 2.0.

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