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by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Its been a long time coming, well a few months is an eternity in gadget years, but Microsoft’s Zune HD has officially launched. Given the amount of hype surrounding it you’ll find plenty of coverage around the web. Here are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Distributed computing is a fancy term for splitting up computing work between internet capable computers. It’s not a new technique as distributed.net and seti@home can attest to and it harnesses the processors in millions of home systems today.In fact SETI@home…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 16, 2009 · 0 comments

Facebook, everyone’s favorite social network, have a bit of an issue with Intel and AMD. They aren’t seeing quite the performance benefits that the two companies tout for their products when they use the new platforms in their massive server…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Trillian holds a special place in the hearts of those that used to have multiple instant messenger accounts and the odd IRC server to connect to. Unfortunately faced with a ton of not-so-instant communication methods their previous software versions have…

Read more Ars Technica Previews Trillian Astra