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Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Nanowires, nanoribbons and 'graphane' among materials that'll revolutionize computers

Architects of the next generation of computers are developing a variety of nanostructures to meet the demand for increasingly smaller features for semiconductors, microprocessors, and other components. These tiny building blocks are quite extraordinary-some even self-assemble. And they’ll help ov

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Mighty Mouse Has One Less Gene, Lives 20% Longer

Mighty Mouse Has One Less Gene, Lives 20% Longer

Researchers have created a mightier mouse: By deleting a single gene from a mouse's genetic makeup, they've enabled it to suffer fewer age related ailments and live 20% longer. On humans, that'd be about 16 bonus years. So what exactly did those crazy scientists do? They bred mice with the "gene t

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Solar Sail Proves Photon Acceleration Works, as it Twists and Turns Under the Sun

Solar Sail Proves Photon Acceleration Works, as it Twists and Turns Under the Sun

Less than two months after being unfurled in space, Japan's IKAROS solar sail accomplished its ambitious aim—becoming the first spacecraft to travel in space, powered by the sun. Now, it's demonstrated its fine steering ability. Measuring 20m diagonally, the solar sail is made from aluminized

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Microsoft EMG Research Would Let Users Strong-Arm Gadgets Into Submission

Microsoft EMG Research Would Let Users Strong-Arm Gadgets Into Submission

Mind control is one way to control tomorrow's gadgets. Here's another equally cool, equally complex way: Controllers that involve nothing but the electrical impulses taking place everyday in our muscle tissue. [HTML1] The system, developed as part of a patent filed by Microsoft, uses a series

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How to make your website really, really fast

How to make your website really, really fast

Steve Souders knows how to make a website speed through a web browser. And he works at Google, one of the fastest websites around. Web performace is a two-pronged beast: efficiency and response time. Efficiency deals with the scalability challenges of building a top 100 global website. You have

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Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'

Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder. By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it wit

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Scientists Successfully Embed Silicon Chips Inside Human Cells

Scientists Successfully Embed Silicon Chips Inside Human Cells

Scientists have already created mini-cyborgs out of living cells and semiconductor materials, but now biological cells can also contain tiny silicon chips, which could become sensors that monitor microscopic activities, deliver drugs to target cells or even repair cell structures. According to

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Windows XP Mode No Longer Requires Virtualization Hardware

Windows XP Mode No Longer Requires Virtualization Hardware

Windows XP Mode is a pre-configured solution for Windows 7 users needing support for older software, and, until recently, it required AMD-V or VT processor hardware. An update released today should make XP Mode far more accessible to more Windows 7 users. If you're a 7 user who's been trappe

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LifeHacker’s This Week’s Top Downloads

HTC Home Brings the HTC Weather Widget to Windows 7 (Windows) If you're sporting an HTC phone with the HTC user interface you may have grown fond of the combination clock and weather forecasting widget. HTC Home ports the HTC interface from your phone to your Windows desktop, complete with animati

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G2Peer Shares Your Files Through Gmail

G2Peer Shares Your Files Through Gmail

Windows only: Free application g2Peer shares files with friends by using your Gmail account as a virtual "IP address." Once installed, you need to log into g2Peer with your Gmail account information. Then it's as easy as adding Gmail addresses of people you wish to share with and the folders

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Marvell’s 1.5GHz, Triple Core ARM Processor Can Handle 140 Hours of Music on One Charge

Marvell's 1.5GHz, Triple Core ARM Processor Can Handle 140 Hours of Music on One Charge

The smartphone guts race just got a bit more interesting—dark horse Marvell has just outed the first ever 1.5GHz ARM tri-core mobile processor. The Armada 628 pairs two high-performance cores with one optimized for low-. Take that, Snapdragon.

The Armada 628 also supports 1080p 3D video, 3.0, and memory, and can project images to two displays at the same time.

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This Is Sony’s $1399 Google TV-Powered Internet TV & Sony’s Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

Sony's Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

We’re live at ’s TV press conference, where we’re seeing the “world’s first HDTV powered by TV” (and its gnarly remote). Not bad at all, $1400 for the 46-inch model, available this weekend. Updated.

Check out our first impressions. We like!

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HTCSense.com is Live

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HTC’s companion site for all of their new Sense devices – currently the Desire and the HTC Desire Z on the front – has gone live and is waiting for new and excited Sense users to join up.

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Sony Intros 16.41MP Camera Capable of 1080p HD Video, Showing Up in Phones Next Year

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If you thought the 14MP found in the Altek Leo was impressive, wait until you get a load of this 16.41MP bad boy just dropped. The Exmore R-based CMOS sensor will be hitting handsets starting next year and will be sure to do its part in the continual ante-upping of the smartphone wars.

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Is This the New Palm Pre II?

Is This the New Palm Pre II?
HP New WebOS 2.0 Phones In Early 2011
French site MobiFrance claims that this is the new Pre II. It looks almost the same as the previous model but, according to them, the renewed WebOS 2.0 smartphone will come with a 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM.

If this is true, I’m underwhelmed.

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