Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology has developed a “direct methanol fuel cell” which uses a mixture of methanol, water, and air to generate electricity. While they have no products available that use the technology they expect some some hefty battery…
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AnandTech has somewhat reliable sources when it comes to information dealing with unreleased products so it stands to reason their info on ATI and NVIDIA’s upcoming video chips is close to the truth. They dish out some info on launch…
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The Tech Report ran a barrage of tests against three motherboards which are all capable of running dual AMD Opteron 64-bit processors. The two Tyan boards, Thunder K8W and Tiger K8W, come in sporting AMD chipsets while MSI chose to…
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X-bit labs has hit up the rumor mills again, this time they’ve stirred up some info on a possible 8-way AMD Opteron processor based server being launched this week. There’s no mention of what company is launching such a machine…
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Yahoo News has some information on CompUSA’s new kiosk-like machines which it is introducing into its stores that will allow customers to search for and order software which will be burned onto media for the customer in the store. It…
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eMachines is prepping new models of its PCs for the spring quarter according to CNET News. They mostly target the budget conscious with their products but they do have a line of notebooks featuring the AMD Athlon 64 which is…
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Short-Media has a Q&A format article going on with some common questions regarding just what 64-bit processors are and what they can do. There has been quite a bit of talk about it lately so it’s good to clear the…
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The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle has the story of work by researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology which could lead to smaller and faster chips. The article is a bit lite on details but it sounds a lot like…
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University of San Francisco researchers attempted to use the flash mob technique to try and pull together enough processing power to create a supercomputer that would rank on the Top 500 supercomputer list. Unfortunately they did not reach their goal…
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Microsoft is planning on shipping out a sizable lot of “limited edition” Xbox consoles bundled with their hit video game Halo and featuring a translucent green machine case. 1up has the rest of the details and pricing on this rather…
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Lieberman Inc. is working on a dual processor laptop computer according to the folks at X-bit labs. There is no mention of what processors will be going into the product precisely but a high price tag and short battery life…
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