Category: Technology news
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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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The ONLY Black iPhone in the World!
Dutch hacker Mark Hoekstra (of Slurpr & iNoPhone fame) takes a cracked iPhone and painstakingly reassembles it into a Black iPhone with a full color (old Apple Newton) Apple logo. The only one of its kind, a work of art! I want one too! read more | digg story
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Steve Jobs keen on a world where people share WiFi
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly “very interested” in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker. read more | digg story
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Google Reveals “Open Social”: APIs to Create Aps for Any Social Network
Details emerged today on Google ’s broad social networking ambitions. The new project, called OpenSocial, goes well beyond what we’ve previously reported. It is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications for any social network. read more | digg story