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NVIDIA G200b to rain on AMD's R700 parade?

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:36:22 EDT

The self confessed answer to NVIDIA's troubles, according to the Santa Clara, CA based company, is the G200b. In reality, apparently a 55nm die shrink of the current 65nm G200, the G200b will supposedly be pivotal in NVIDIA's planned fight back against the acclaim and esteem held by reinvigorated AMD's, HD 4800 series.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: g200b amd r700

Google's Handy Walking Directions To Pick Up Where Ask.com Left Off

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:26:26 EDT

Google is testing walking directions on its Maps site -- a once-handy Ask.com feature that no longer exists

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: google walking directions directions ask

Viacom Has Gone Too Far

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:23:35 EDT

The media conglomerate's battle with Google and YouTube has officially gotten ugly and very, very personal.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: viacom google youtube thoughts

Google slams Bell Canada: open Internet is "extraordinary"

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:21:21 EDT

Google weighs in on Bell Canada's P2P throttling system, blasting the company's approach and the sad state of the ISP market. Not surprisingly, other incumbent ISPs don't think Bell's solution is too bad, and one even cops to some P2P throttling of its own.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: google bell canada internet

EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:20:03 EDT

Round up.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: gizmodo treehugger best of

Samsung unveils Aura and Eclipse Montevina-based laptops

TheAttacks — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:16:45 EDT

Montevina-based laptops are slowly but surely starting to trickle out, and Samsung's the latest to joint the party with a new Aura machine and the entirely new Eclipse line.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: samsung montevina laptops

Panasonic's Lithium Vivi RX-10S electric bike does regenerative braking

TheAttacks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:57:46 EDT

We're still a bit unconvinced about this whole "using our own energy to induce motion" thing, but if you got restless leg or some other siren call to the bicycle, the Lithium Vivi RX-10S seems the way to go.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: lithium vivi bike regenerative braking

High-pitched voices are most attractive -- with a few exceptions

TheAttacks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:52:34 EDT

Have you ever seen Singin' in the Rain? One of the movie's most hilarious moments is when the beautiful silent movie star Lina Lamont is asked to start making "talking pictures." As soon as this gorgeous screen siren opens her mouth, the illusion of her beauty is shattered.

Channel: Science Tags: voices attraction

Obama on Mental Health Exception for Late Term Abortion

TheAttacks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:48:20 EDT

Obama, when asked to clarify his position on third-trimester and partial-birth abortions, said, ". . . I think it's entirely appropriate for states to prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don't think that 'mental distress' qualifies as the health of the mother.&q

Channel: News Tags: obama abortion

G8 urged to relieve world crises

TheAttacks — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:44:27 EDT

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to tackle the "interconnected challenges" of climate change, rising food prices and development.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: un world leaders g8

Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on

TheAttacks — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:28:12 EDT

It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

Channel: Science Tags: Tunguska blast meteor russia

Solid state drive makers promise better power management

TheAttacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:20:35 EDT

One of the key selling points of solid state drives has been that they use less power than hard disk drives. The Tom's Hardware review, however, says: "While conventional hard drives may operate at relatively low power when little movement is required...flash based drives do not."

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: ssd power consumption hard drives

Fox News Making Stuff Up About Obama

TheAttacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:03:26 EDT

Wow. . .

Channel: Popular Videos Tags: humor fox news wtf

the daily show - baracknophobia

TheAttacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:56:13 EDT

The Daily Show pokes fun at all the rumors circulating about Sen. Barack Obama

Two-Faced Mac-like Windows Desktop

TheAttacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:40:19 EDT

Designer Vijayakrishnan gives us a tour of his gorgeous Windows multi-desktop, which makes you look at it three times to figure out what operating system he's using.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: windows desktop mac

SSDs Don't Reduce Power-consumption, they Increase it

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:56:51 EDT

And you thought your solid-state hard-drive (SSD) increased your laptop's battery life? Think again. In a new article, Tom's Hardware investigated the possibility that SSDs in fact increase power consumption of the system, and the results were astonishing.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: sdd power consumption toms hardware

45nm, Socket AM3 Phenoms to work in current sockets?

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:50:10 EDT

Yesterday, we spotted a couple of reports that hinted AMD would have 45nm Phenoms with both DDR2 and DDR3 memory support out before the end of this year. One of the reports, which was whipped up by Fudzilla, said DDR3 support in Phenoms would imply a new AM3 socket incompatible with current AM2/AM2 sockets.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: am2 amd phenoms

Use Microsoft to win Apple products

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:45:49 EDT

Microsoft is dangling prizes made by arch-nemesis Apple to entice Australian web surfers to give its online search products a second chance.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: microsoft apple msn ninemsn google prizes

Linspire getting swallowed by Xandros

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:43:44 EDT

Linspire, the Linux company started by Michael Robertson, is ready to fully assume its place as a footnote in operating system history. The company is being swallowed by another smaller Linux player, Xandros. The deal is expected to be officially announced on Wednesday.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: linspire xandros linux

Mobile Web To Get Standards

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:38:43 EDT

A group of mobile operators have just unveiled a new initiative they're calling "BONDI" whose goal is to encourage development of new mobile web applications while not compromising customers' security.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: mobile web bondi

Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:03:02 EDT

Intel has bad news for software developers. It's been hinted at already, but now the company has stated explicitly: it's not enough for software developers to be targeting dual, quad, or eight cores.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: intel processors cpus multi core developers

Apple Orders a Few Flash Chips...Like 50 Million of 'Em

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:59:46 EDT

Apple just placed a very large order of NAND flash chips from Samsung, which has in turn forced Samsung to tell other customers to wait. 50 million 8GB chips were reportedly ordered by Cuptertino primarily for use in Apple's iPhone (that's on top of the 25 million that were ordered in June).

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: apple samsung flash chips iphone

MSI Wind shipping in "3 to 5 weeks," Advent rebadge available now

TheAttacks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:56:37 EDT

Okay, so we've got hard evidence the Wind is shipping out somewhere in the world, but the latest status check on Amazon reveals that it'll be another 3 to 5 weeks before Americans can indulge.Interestingly enough, the Advent 4211 rebadge is shipping this very moment to customers in the UK for Ã;Â£279.99.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: advent 4211 msi wind msi amazon

Diamond working on 950MHz 4870

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:31:53 EDT

Diamond is prepping its ATI Radeon HD 4870 XOC Black Edition graphics card that will be available exclusively with Smoothcreation's systems. The new card is designed with a custom firmware that enables this card to reach a rather impressive core and memory clocks.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: diamond ati radeon 4870

News Corp Consolidates All Fox Interactive Employees Into New Facility

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:30:35 EDT

Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp subsidiary that controls most of its online assets, has signed a 12 year lease agreement for a new facility in Playa Del Rey. All FIM companies in Southern California will move to the new facility starting in June of 2009.

Channel: News Tags: fox fox interactive

Mac mini Rack Lets It Hang Anywhere, Adds Front USB 2.0 Hub

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:27:55 EDT

Mac mini Rack Lets It Hang Anywhere, Adds Front USB 2.0 Hub

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: mac mini gizmodo usb

The Eee PC 903, 904, and 905 make their unofficial debut

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:05:01 EDT

The non-stop barrage of Eee-branded gear from ASUS continues on today, with the first appearance of the Eee PC 903, 904 (above), and 905.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: eee pc release

Spaniard runs Mac OS X on MSI Wind

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:03:49 EDT

A Spanish bloke managed to install Kalyway 10.5.2, a modified version of Apple's Leopard OS, onto MSI's Wind netbook, turning it into a Mac Pro, at least sort of.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: os x kalyway msi wind

Hi5 Plucks An App Developer From Its Platform

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:01:43 EDT

Second-tier social network Hi5 has acquired app developer PixVerse for an undisclosed amount, just four months after launching its app platform based on the OpenSocial specification.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: hi5 developer pixverse

The Today Show Has Seen the Future of Gadgetry, and It's Idiotic

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:59:38 EDT

You've gotta feel sort of bad for people who get all of their gadget news from places like the Today Show. I mean, they did a section on future gadgets this morning, and what did it feature? A $700 doorbell! A $430 water filter!

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: gadgets the today show video

Tesla's Elon Musk promises sub-$30k all-electric car in less than four years

TheAttacks — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:57:43 EDT

Yes -- more breaking electric car news! Just after Tesla CEO Ze'ev Drori announced Telsa's plans to build the Model S, Elon Musk began discussing its development of electric car tech to get the price of future cars to (and below) $30,000.

Channel: Autos Tags: electric car engadget

WTF? North Carolina DMV Slowly Adapts To Digital Age

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:16:34 EDT

Thanks to some text message-savvy grandchildren, North Carolina drivers whose license plates have the potentially offensive "WTF" letter combination can replace the tags for free.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: wtf north carolina dmv

Threats to GPS

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:29:56 EDT

GPS jamming is becoming endemic with almost every world power and hackers are working out a way to stuff the global positioning system up.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: gps hackers jamming

MSI Wind Delayed Again, Now to July 7

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:28:52 EDT

Reports have been floating around from various forums and tipsters that the MSI Wind was delayed yet again. MSI has confirmed the delays with a representative explaining that the problem is still industry battery shortages.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: msi wind delay july

ATI All-In-Wonder has been revived

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:27:42 EDT

AMD has today resurrected the once highly popular All-in-Wonder lineup of hybrid solutions. The new card is simply dubbed the All-in-Wonder HD; the first ATI based graphics card ever with HD tuner support embedded.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: ati amd all in wonder hardware review

Facebook rivals ordered to accept settlement

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:26:22 EDT

Facebook's long and embarrassing legal tussle with three men who accused founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their social networking concept may soon end, now that a judge has ordered the parties to accept the settlement they reached.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: facebook legal battle settlement

Lian-Li Launches the all new Tyr X500 HTPC/Gaming Chassis

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:25:16 EDT

Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the Tyr X500 chassis designed as a stylish midi-tower HTPC/Gaming chassis. Combining the usual toned down profile of HTPC cases with the arresting larger profile of traditional Lian Li chassis.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: lian li gaming chassis computer case htpc chassis hardware review

ASUS EN9600GT TOP Video Card Review

TheAttacks — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:23:48 EDT

What happens when the world's leading enthusiast motherboard supplier rolls up its sleeves and gets a little dirty with NVIDIA's price/performance leader? You get the ASUS 9600 GT TOP, an overclocked and beyond the limit of ordinary video card.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: asus video card hardware review

Top 10 Ways to Trick Yourself into Saving Money

TheAttacks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:03:36 EDT

While every person's financial needs are different, anyone can set up simple systems to help themselves stop buying what they don't need and almost automatically save money they'll need later. Let's take a look at 10 ways you can cut costs and do right by your money without much effort.

Channel: Money Tags: saving money tricks tips

Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015

TheAttacks — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:21:46 EDT

A new report from a DC telecom law firm claims, as many other recent reports have, that the US is falling behind when it comes to broadband deployment, and it says that aggressive action is needed to keep the country competitive.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: united states broadband