November 8, 2007 by Brad.

Pioneering work on magnetic materials in the 1980 lead to the discovery of the phenomena known as giant magnetoresistance. This, in turn, rapidly led to ultra high density magnetic storage read heads that are used in today’s hard drives. The discoverers of this phenomena are awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

meet Dell’s unannounced all-in-one XPS One. What we’re seeing here is a 22-inch display flanked by stereo speakers, topped off by a webcam, a slot-loading Blu-ray burner along the right bezel, a 2.66GHz E6750 Core 2 Duo, integrated or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 graphics, and up to 4GB of RAM.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

“Anyone who uses Photoshop all the time is looking to speed it up
—especially, if you’re like me, you’re regularly working on images larger than 200MB. The most obvious tip? Buy a new Mac Pro and load it up with 3GB to 5GB of RAM.” Here’s some alternatives, instead.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

USB 3.0 should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

[Jalopnik’s desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We’ll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as soon as he can type them into his digital audio-visual receipt and transmission unit. - ed

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

What would you say to a video card that performs like a $399 GeForce 8800 GTS for under $250? Say hello to the GeForce 8800 GT. TR tested the card in Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, Team Fortress 2, and BioShock.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

The new GeForce 8800 GT gives the GeForce 8800 GTS and 2900 XT a run for the money. We put them to the test, along with the 8800 GTX and Ultra, using the Crysis and UT3 Demos. Did we mention MSRP is $200 to $249?

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

Now that you’ve added another monitor to your computer setup, you’ve got double the screen real estate to get things done
—but are you putting all that space to good use? Whether you want to stretch your desktop wallpaper or taskbar across two monitors or perfectly snap all your windows into place every time, there are a few utilities that can help

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

Gears of War is being released on the PC this week and we
’ve got an exclusive look at performance and image quality in this game under Windows Vista in DX10. We test the GeForce 8800 GTX, GTS, and GT along with the Radeon HD 2900 XT. We cover DX9 vs. DX10 and best gameplay experience.

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November 8, 2007 by Brad.

NVIDIA’s ESA promises to deliver some system monitoring tools that reach into system areas that are normally left untouched. Extending a reach into monitoring your PSU, chassis, and cooling system looks to be a very welcome addition to enthusiast hardware.

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