The Associated Press is reporting that eight people are dead after an off-road racing truck hit spectators near the start of the California 200 off-road race Saturday evening. Witnesses say the truck had just completed a jump called “the rockpile” that occurs about two miles from the start of the race when it lost control, [...]
Toshiba Europe has recently added two more back-to-school-oriented laptops to its offer, the 17.3-inch Satellite Pro L670-172 and 15.6-inch Satellite Pro S500-131. Both models are based on Intel’s Calpella platform and run Windows 7 Professional 64bit. Priced at €749, the L670-172 weights about 2.8kg and has an LED-backlit display (1600 x 900 native resolution), a 2.26 GHz [...]
It’s coming up on a year since we published our last memory review; possibly the longest hiatus this section of the site has ever seen. To be honest, the reason we’ve refrained from posting much of anything is because things haven’t changed all that much over the last year – barring a necessary shift towards low-voltage oriented ICs [...]
ASUS’ Republic of Gamers range is soon to have a new member, in the shape of the ASUS Rampage III Formula. Using the X58 chipset, this board is designed for looks, uncompromised performance, overclocking, and the best possible online gaming experience with the new SupremeFX X-Fi 2 audio solution. However, based on our recent high-end [...]
Asustek Computer plans to launch its first tablet device with Google’s Android mobile operating system in March, the company’s CEO said Friday. Asus’s first Eee Pad — a Windows 7 version that will cost $1,000 when it ships in December — comes with a docking station that transforms it into a laptop The Android tablet [...]
It looks as though Intel is planning to take a 32nm-sized shot at ARM next year, when it releases its next generation Medfield” Atom CPUs for the smartphone market. InfoWorld spotted a juicy document on Intel’s website yesterday, which outlined a few details about the new chip. Unsurprisingly, Intel’s internal police force has already intercepted [...]
Graphics cards aren’t that smart. But they are good at doing the same thing over and over again. This, researchers reckon, makes them good at ‘brute force’ password attacks, in which, if one password doesn’t hack it, another is tried. Using a decent graphics card, the number of attempts can ratchet up into the billions, [...]
With the advent of 3D glasses with polarizing filters and LCD shutters you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d seen the last of the archetypal 3D glasses with different colored filters. Well, think again because European researchers have come up with technology they say can display 3D images at a monitor’s full resolution, with no darkening [...]
We’ve seen pico-projectors in mobile phones, point-and-shoot cameras and pocket camcorders, but this is the first time we’ve seen one added to a conventional camcorder. Little known Chinese brand Ordro’s offering – the HDV-350S – captures up to 1080p video at 60 fps or 12 megapixel still pictures, features 10x optical zoom and includes a [...]
Apple’s iPhone 4 introduced several significant hardware upgrades over previous models, specifically a much improved screen and a camera capable of HD video recording, LED flash, a second, forward-facing camera and a built-in gyroscope. It was going to take developers a little while to start releasing apps that took advantage of these improvements, but now [...]
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