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Seagate offers refunds on 6.2 million hard drives
Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to settle a lawsuit by offering customers who purchased a hard drive from the company during the last 6 years a cash refund or free backup and recovery software because it allegedly mislead customers on the amount of capacity the drives contained. read more | digg story
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DARPA Grand Challenge: A Battle of Wits (Robot Cars)
[Jalopnik’s desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We’ll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as soon as he can type them into his digital audio-visual receipt and transmission unit. –…
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Intel releases first 45nm processor – Core 2 Extreme QX9650
This article covers everything you would ever want to know about Intel’s new Penryn architecture and goes into detail on the kind of performance you can expect from it. Lots of technical information, lots of benchmarks, a stable 30%+ overclock and power consumption in line with 65nm dual core processors! read more | digg story
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Faster USB 3.0 Is Coming
USB 3.0 should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard. read more | digg story
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Messenger 9: GTalk Integration, Messenger API, New Client for Mac OS X
“In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech graduate Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store” read more | digg story
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The State of Office 2.0 and its Future
Over the past 10 years, Corel, Sun, IBM and others have tried to compete with Microsoft in the office software business, but thus far none of them have been able to take a significant chunk of Microsoft’s large market share, which generates revenues exceeding $15 billion each year. read more | digg story
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510HP Roush P-51A Mustang Revealed at SEMA [Pics]
The Roush P-51A Mustang sports 510HP and 510TQ and pays tribute to the WWII fighter plane where the Ford Mustang received it’s name. read more | digg story
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EFTel to roll out VDSL2 to Australian Market
EFTel Limited (ASX Code: EFT) became the first Internet provider to announce the planned rollout of nationwide VDSL2, the next generation in high-speed broadband delivery. More info on this can also be found here: http://www.vdsl2.com.au/ read more | digg story
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BREAKING: MGS4 delay causes massive decline in Konami stock price!
Although we’d like to believe that us consumers are the most important people to be affected by the delay of MGS4 to Q2 08, that simply isn’t the case. Konami’s investors definitely take the cake this time, as they witnessed the company’s shares fall 6.8% today, their biggest drop in four years. read more |…
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Call of Duty 4 gets 10/10 from the Official Playstation Magazine
The single-player campaign or the multiplayer options alone would make this essential. It’s a game where stunning set pieces are linked together by other ever more dazzling set pieces, while the depth and customization potential of the online component promise months of play. Too early for game of the year? Trust us, you’ll see…. read…
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