Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA
After much leaking of information, Nokia's N96 slider cellphone is now official. It's a quad-band, US 3G-enabled (WCDMA) phone with a 2.8-inch screen, 16GB of built-in memory, a 5-megapixel Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens, A-GPS and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi. The media-player functions of the phone get their own dedi
Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome
Windows only: Mozilla released their version 3.7 theme mockups only a few days ago, but you don't have to wait for the 3.7 release to enjoy them—a motivated user already created a lookalike theme that you can install now. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Installing this theme isn't q
New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet
This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it's very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood. In lab tests, Ingber's team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common cause of sepsis, and added plast
Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010
At today's San Francisco event, Intel mostly discussed what we know about the upcoming Westmere processor, but revealed they're scrapping the next dual-core 45nm processors, in favor of 32nm Westmere chips in early 2010. The first Westmere chips will be the dual-core Clarkdale and Annendale pr
New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density
Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. A new paper in the journal Nature Photonics outlines the process, which combines TAR (thATI’s Latest Radeon Graphics Card (HD 4850) Benchmarked: Mid-Range, As Expected [Ati]
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ATI’s next line of Radeon graphics cards—the RV770-based 4800 series—doesn’t officially launch until June 25, but Hot Hardware’s got benchmarks already on the first shot, the mid-range $199 Radeon HD 4850. It’s prompted a response from Nvidia in the form of the $229 GeForce 9800 GTX+, a speedier version of the 9800 GTX on a smaller manufacturing process. But that’s just jibber jabber—the benchmarks show it’s a pretty decent mid-range card, for now.
The performance is pretty on par with the pricepoint—it edges out the currently more expensive GTX 9800 (the revamped plus version wasn’t available yet, so that’ll be interesting) though it struggles against the 3870 X2 (which is two cards in one) and Nvidia’s fresh-off-the-boat and doubly expensive GTX 260. If you’re in the market for a mid-range ATI card, this might be it, but I’d wait for a showdown against the similarly priced 9800 GTX+ if possible. [Hot Hardware]
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