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China's space attempt may be fueled by the newly-emerging technology that the majority of scientists are now contesting. Chinese researchers are currently trying to build the "Emdrive" (electromagnetic drive), which would change all space propulsion systems in case it becomes functional. Basically, the tech... |
25 September 2008
10:30 GMT |
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Online storage is news long expired, but I bet that if I throw in "free" and "5GB of space" chances are that interest will rise. Let's do that. So we have 5GB of free online storage. If that's still trivial and you think of Gmail's capacity which is continuously growing, ponder some more on the amount ... |
28 July 2008
11:30 GMT |
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Do you use a lot of external drives? Do you have some internal ones connected to your Mac as well? How about eliminating the fuss of having to open new windows in order to unmount them, and just do it with a single click? I'm not even going to ask if you like what you're hearing, especially when the softwar... |
11 April 2008
07:03 GMT |
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We've often heard of blokes in uniforms becoming highly suspicious when encountering new tech. It is the case of one guy who missed his flight for carrying an Apple MacBook Air. What the TSA found particularly strange when he rolled it on the conveyor belt was that the laptop featured no drive and no visible por... |
10 March 2008
11:58 GMT |
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It seems that today we're traveling back in time not once, not twice, but thrice with the latest invention from jeffkobi, who turned a 5.25" Apple floppy drive into a stereo amplifier. Jeff used a Tupperware container to place the inner-workings of a Sonic Impact 5066 T-amp into the floppy drive case and attache... |
4 March 2008
07:10 GMT |
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It's official! Apple's latest laptop, the MacBook Air dubbed "The World's Thinnest Notebook," has started shipping. The same report mentioning the availability of the super slim notebook also informs of a delay for the new AppleTV update. It's "not quite finished", according to the Cupertino-based... |
31 January 2008
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Viagra boosted sex and life quality. But in men the main issue is impotence and Viagra is an anti-impotence drug. Instead, the main sexual issue for women is the lack of sex drive. This could be solved by a new drug currently in trial at the University of Virginia. Other 99 medical institutions are involved in the tr... |
4 January 2008
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Well, the inevitable finally happened, and we can all finally sleep a little more peacefully now. I mean, sleep is never an easy affair if Brit is on the loose, but nevertheless, the streets of Los Angeles are a little safer now, if not for all of us then at least for the popwreck's two boys. Britney Spears, eve... |
18 November 2007
15:31 GMT |
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A new worm discovered by security company Trend Micro aims to install on any removable drive connected to the computer and copy itself on another system's physical drives. According to the advisory published by the security firm, WORM_VB.GAW affects most Windows platforms including Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP a... |
9 November 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Google increased the Gmail storage counter speed and its mail technology is now offering more capacity than we ever dreamed of. At the time of writing this article, Gmail provides no less than 4466.953323 megabytes and counting. Since the storage size is getting larger, more and more consumers use the Gmail account i... |
29 October 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Breastfeeding seems to be orientated just towards the baby, but a team at the University of Chicago has found that pheromones related to breastfeeding boost sexual drive by almost 50 % in... other women! It's like pheromones would signal to other women it's their turn to procreate. When detected, the chemic... |
24 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Sony and NEC formed sometime ago a joint venture company named Optiarc that is aimed at designing and manufacturing optical drives and this new company just announced the launch of a Blu-ray drive that is aimed at the mobile computing systems. The manufacturing company claims that this new optical drive unit will all... |
11 October 2007
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Samsung just announced the launch of an entire new line of optical disc drives that are able to read and write various disc formats starting with the old and venerable CD-ROM and finishing with the latest DVD formats that are so popular nowadays. Among the newly launched drives there are both desktop and mobile compu... |
2 October 2007
06:44 GMT |
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While the floppy disk drive is now considered a legacy device with few or no modern day applications, which are not even included on most high performance computer systems built by the major system integrating companies, there are some people out there that may yet find the old storage option a valuable addition to t... |
26 September 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Aopen, a company that focuses on optical disc drive manufacture, announced today the official launch of a new optical drive that reaches speeds up to 20x while offering support for several of the most popular disc formats that are in use now. Coming as an internal DVD RW drive, the new Aopen product is also featuring... |
12 September 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Seagate Technology announced the launch of a new hardware based data back up and protection solution using the well known and liked Maxtor OneTouch products line. The new Maxtor storage solutions come in the form of simple and robust devices that combines experience with tradition and offer increased protection and s... |
7 September 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Apacer announced the launch of yet another flash drive called the Handy Steno AH421 and according to the manufacturing company this new flash memory stick is ReadyBoost compatible and it also comes with a design which should make it easier to use on a day to day basis. One of the most encountered problems with differ... |
6 September 2007
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At the IFA trade show from Berlin Toshiba presented a new HD DVD-Writer which also integrates support for the most popular optical disc formats out there. Coming as a combo drive and featuring HD DVD-Writer and HD DVD Super-Multi properties the latest Toshiba optical drive unit is personal computer compatible.The new... |
3 September 2007
11:07 GMT |
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Plextor announced that it officially transferred its optical drives manufacturing business to its parent company, the Japanese industrial group Shinano Kenshi and while the sales of Plextor branded products and devices will continue for the time being, the looming reorganization is expected to pose a series of delays... |
1 September 2007
07:10 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation announced the release of a cheap solid state drive, SSD for short, as the company joins the efforts of bringing personal computers to the developing nations and emerging markets. The uSSD 5000 is a small capacity solid state drive which is intended to replace a more expensive storage unit like a t... |
31 August 2007
05:28 GMT |
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Asus announced the launch of a new line of high performance optical drives which features the DRW-2014 L1T internal DVD and CD rewriter. This new internal disc burner computer hardware part also is fully compliant with the latest specifications of the LightScribe technology allowing users to select and draw their own... |
30 August 2007
11:19 GMT |
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Atmel Corporation, a hardware manufacturing company that is specialized in microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components, announced the launch of two new front monitoring diode integrated circuits for use in slim and ultra slim HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives that are typ... |
29 August 2007
10:12 GMT |
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Buffalo Japan announced the launch of an external optical drive that can play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs as well as other older formats. The external version of the multi format reader drive from Buffalo is connectible to a host computer system via a high speed USB version 2.0 port and the unit is able to burn BD-... |
27 August 2007
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Portable hard disk drives, HDDs for short, are having a field day as the cost per gigabyte decreased a lot and the need to carry larger and larger amounts of data around are just getting higher. Very useful for notebook or laptop owners that are having trouble keeping all the data on the traditionally smaller hard di... |
22 August 2007
06:56 GMT |
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It's a fact that men are so horny because of testosterone. Now, women could benefit from this, too. A new study shows that women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), characterized by persistent or recurrent deficiency and/or lack of sexual fantasies/thoughts/desire or absence of sexual receptivity) sho... |
15 August 2007
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After the NAND memory crash down from Samsung, when the manufacturer ceased production for a few hours because of a power leakage at one of its production facilities in Korea, it looks as if the hard disk drive market is next on the list of disasters just waiting to happen. Hard disk drives inventories are running lo... |
14 August 2007
03:14 GMT |
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TwinMOS announced its latest line of USB version 2.0 compliant flash memories, that according to the producer are built specifically for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating environment. The new line of flash drives, called USB2.0 Mobile Disk B1, feature unique design and convenience alongside ease of use. The Mobil... |
8 August 2007
11:29 GMT |
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The computer hardware industry's current trend is to make everything faster, better and more energy efficient. Cheaper, no, in fact yes, after a period of high and average selling prices. There are a few hardware parts inside a computer that are getting bigger and bigger, in relative terms of performance, every ... |
3 August 2007
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Usually, hard disk drives are pretty silent hardware components. I mean, of course you can hear them, but the normal sounds they make are not too powerful and they appear under heavy workloads. Or so it is supposed to be, as there are some older drives that make a lot of noise when running at full capacity.Sometimes,... |
3 August 2007
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USB flash drives are becoming a more popular short term storage solution by the day, mainly because they are versatile, ultra portable and shock, water and dust resistant. As their popularity grows, so does the offering from several hardware manufacturers, and the product offering is very diverse, both in terms of st... |
26 July 2007
10:32 GMT |
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Japanese peripheral manufacturer Buffalo recently came up with a nice storage solution for users who like having their data close to them even when on the move. If you are thinking about a laptop or a notebook computer system, then you are sadly mistaken, as we are talking here about a SSD (Solid State Drive - for th... |
23 July 2007
09:51 GMT |
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Kingston Technology Company announced the release of its latest flash drive, named Kingston DataTraveler 100. It comes with a capless design, the USB connector is housed inside the flash stick's casing to keep it secure from dust, dirt and accidental bending. To extend or retract the USB connector, a new "thumb-... |
17 July 2007
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There are a lot, and I really mean a LOT, of myths concerning hardware components, but nothing has attracted more guesses and myths turned into popular knowledge also known as "urban legends" than the hard disk drive did. I mean, how many "did you know..." have you ever heard about USBs? While some of these urban leg... |
17 July 2007
03:31 GMT |
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Too much imagination is not only the "fuel" of human technological and scientific development, but also of the human sex life. This is the conclusion reached by researchers at the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada), after investigati... |
28 June 2007
16:41 GMT |
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The UK authorities are now investigating a man who posted a clip on YouTube showing him speeding with approximately 150mph with a Vauxhall VX220 sports car. Anthony Coyne, 27-year-old, uploaded a video recorded by one of his passengers, showing him and his 28.000 pounds car near Harrietsham, close to Maidstone. Accor... |
8 June 2007
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Do you think humans are made for monogamy?Well, they may try to stay monogamous, but their genetic background says otherwise. A recent study in sexual adaptation reveals that male sexual behavior is built for "sperm competition", something not found in the strictly monogamous species. The review points out the fact ... |
9 May 2007
05:16 GMT |
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The SSD market is one of the fastest growing businesses in the computer industry and this type of growth hasn't been seen since the Serial ATA interface or the PCI-Express interface first appeared. And since companies such as Intel, SanDisk, Transcend and others have announced 64, 128, even 160GB SSD drives, the... |
19 April 2007
10:11 GMT |
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Communication is the basis of our development. Even before man could speak or write, he was able to communicate with his tribe when it came to hunting or dominating. But along with the world's development, communication between human beings has reached a higher level too. The most important feature of our long d... |
11 April 2007
06:37 GMT |
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It's hard to tell the difference nowadays between "the real driving simulator" and the arcade we love to play if we're in the mood for purposeless racing. In my personal gaming universe there are two titles that shine the most when it comes to racing games: Need for Speed and Gran Turismo. Test Drive joins ... |
30 March 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Loss is something that makes us all suffer. When loss occurs, one feels empty, powerless, disappointed. There are so few things that could make up for one's loss, and there is nothing that can bring one relief when something dear or very important is lost. While you can't recover the steak your dog ate or y... |
17 March 2007
05:26 GMT |
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