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Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA

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

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Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 Update 14

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to have a much richer experience online than simply interacting with static HTML pages. Java Plug-in technology, included as part of the Java 2 Runtime Environm

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Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome

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

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New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

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

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Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010

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

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New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density

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 (th

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Batteries That Last 10 Years Developed By Hitachi

Doubling the Li-Ion battery life from 5 years, Hitachi reckons its new technology which extends the life of batteries will also cost less too—thanks to reducing the amount of cobalt used. Hitachi hopes to get them onto the production line in the next year. [Akihabara News]

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How to Revive Dead Zunes 30s

Reader Neil has just told us a DIY solution to revive Zune 30s killed by the Zunepocalypse until gets back with an official fix. Update: The easy official fix here.

Follow Rapid Repair’s guide to taking your Zune apart to step 4, so

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Realtek High-Definition Audio Driver 2.13

This driver supports all Realtek High-Definition audio chipsets. It is used as onboard sound on many motherboards. Chips covered include ALC260, ALC262, ALC268, ALC662, ALC861, ALC861-VD-GR, ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC888S, ALC880T.

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Researchers Create Web Skeleton Key With 200 PS3s

Using a cluster of 200 PS3s, an international group of researchers have crafted a “skeleton key” digital certificate that can perfectly impersonate any website on the internet.

The weak point that allows the technique to work—which researchers will be detailing at the 25th Chaos

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Crayon Physics iPhone Game Looks Amazing

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We’ve shown you the amazing-looking game Crayon Physics before, but here’s a gameplay video. I, for one, cannot wait for this to hit the App Store. It looks like a top 10 contender. [Kotaku]

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Spied Asus S121 Joins The 12-Inch Netbook Crowd

Germany’s Eee PC News has spied what it believes is ’s new S121—der maxi S101, if you will—stuffing an Atom-powered platform into a 12-inch form factor.
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