Category: Tech News

Asetek Liquid Cooled All-In-One PC Delivers True Desktop Performance
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Asetek Liquid Cooled All-In-One PC Delivers True Desktop Performance

Asetek, the industry leading supplier of liquid cooling systems for computers, today demonstrated how liquid cooling enables all-in-one PCs to deliver performance on par with the best performing desktop systems while maintaining attractive price points & near silent operation. The sleek all-in-one (AIO) prototype features a 24″ display and uses a liquid cooled Intel

IBM’s Supercomputer is Cooled by Hot Water
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IBM’s Supercomputer is Cooled by Hot Water

Cooling down a super computer with hot water doesn’t sound like that is a cooling method at all does it. Well, unless the hot water you are using is cooler than the what is being cooled. That’s exactly what IBM has done in Switzerland with a Supercomputer it built for Aquaser. The liquid cooled supercomputer [...]

Meet the Chase and Broadturn Families, their Farmers
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Meet the Chase and Broadturn Families, their Farmers

Most of us take the food we eat for granted. Many of us have no idea what a farmers life is all about or how difficult it is. For me, these videos brought back a lot of childhood memories. Good healthy food, good people and a honest living. As you may have gathered, besides technology, [...]

Northrop Grumman wins contract to build US Army’s new hybrid airship
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Northrop Grumman wins contract to build US Army’s new hybrid airship

To assist U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the United States Army has awarded Northrup Grumman a lucrative contract to build the LEMV surveillance ship. This long-endurance surveillance airship is over a football field in length. It will be able to carry 2,500-pounds while hovering 20,000-feet at a 34 mph. LEMV will be able to maintain altitudes [...]

Radio Controlled Kites in Singapore: Video
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Radio Controlled Kites in Singapore: Video

An RC kite is pretty much what it sounds like. That is, a kite fitted with RC (radio control) receiver and flown through the air via a propeller. In structure, it has a lot in common with kites and yet it is flown around like an RC plane. John Catanzaro who narrates  the video below [...]

Google TV Unveiled
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Google TV Unveiled

Today Google made the announcement that we all have been waiting for — Google TV. Although bugs are still present in the demo, the implications are pretty clear what Google is going all out for the 4 billion TV users worldwide. Or shall we say, advertising to the 4 billion TV users global. Google has [...]

Digg Sacks 10 Percent of Staff
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Digg Sacks 10 Percent of Staff

As many of you know last month the founder of Digg “Kevin Rose” has returned as CEO replacing the previous CEO Jay Adelson. Kevin has wasted little time making changes to get the popular social news site back on track by cutting 12 positions or about 10 percent of the staff. Digg is a user [...]

McDonald’s offers free Wi-Fi Internet Access
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McDonald’s offers free Wi-Fi Internet Access

Never thought I would live to see the day McDonalds would offer free Wi-Fi Internet access. Apparently I was wrong, that day is here. The McDonald’s Corp. next month will drop the $2.95 charge to access the Internet at its U.S. stores. Hurray!

Trashed Hard Drives Get Sculpted Into Awesome Cars, Bikes, and Robots
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Trashed Hard Drives Get Sculpted Into Awesome Cars, Bikes, and Robots

Looking at these photos below we can see not everyone tosses there old hard drives in the trash. Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator turned the worthless old hard drives from trash into really cool looking sculptures. “The overall concept was to make something out of just hard drive parts and pieces,” says Rivera. “I wanted [...]

Intel, NEC to Develop Supercomputer Technologies of Tomorrow
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Intel, NEC to Develop Supercomputer Technologies of Tomorrow

Intel Corporation and NEC Corporation today have agreed to jointly develop High Performance Computing (HPC) system technologies that will push the boundaries of supercomputing performance. NEC will bring these technologies to market in future supercomputers based on the Intel Xeon processor. NEC’s expertise in this field coupled with the Intel Xeon

Convergence Technologies Files Lawsuit Against HP, Sapphire and Microloops
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Convergence Technologies Files Lawsuit Against HP, Sapphire and Microloops

Convergence Technologies (USA) LLC, of Reston Virginia, today announces that it has filed a lawsuit (Docket No. 1:09cv1256) in the Eastern District of Virginia against Hewlett-Packard, Sapphire Technology Limited (a Hong Kong company) and Taiwan Microloops Corporation (a Taiwanese registered company, herein referred to as Microloops) for the infringement, contributory

New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10
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New NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Reduce Cost Of Supercomputing By A Factor Of 10

NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing (HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed “Fermi”. Designed from the ground-up for parallel computing, the NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs slash the cost of computing by delivering the same

NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010
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NVIDIA Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2010

NVIDIA Corp. today reported revenue of $903.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 ended Oct. 25, 2009, up 16 percent from the previous quarter and up slightly from $897.7 million reported in the same period a year earlier. On a GAAP basis, the company recorded net income of $107.6 million, or $0.19 per [...]

Duracell Releases Ultra Advanced with POWERCHECK battery
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Duracell Releases Ultra Advanced with POWERCHECK battery

Duracell is trying to knock out the competition with some new improvements to their batteries with the introduction of the  Ultra Advanced battery that provides a gauge on the battery they call a Powercheck, naturally the gauge informs consumers on how much power is available in the battery. Each battery has the gauge located on [...]

The Complete Guide to Google Wave Now Available and Free
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The Complete Guide to Google Wave Now Available and Free

Have an interest in Google Wave but have absolutely no idea what it is all about or where to get started. Your not alone, this has been a hot subject around here. I did manage to get an invite which was cool, and took some time to play with it.

Check Out Your Internet Connection Speed
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Check Out Your Internet Connection Speed

Sometimes we wonder if there is something wrong with our Internet connection because it seems a bit slow. Other times we just want to know isour ISP ( Internet Service provider) giving us what is being paid for.

Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World
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Average Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World

This awesome bar graph shows the average Internet costs and average speeds from around the world for the top 20 nations in the ITIF Broadband Rankings. I’m sure most of you knew the US isn’t doing so well in that department, sad I know. In the number one position is Japan, where the average broadband [...]