Nvidia Trumpets Death of the CPU
	The recent conflict between Intel and Nvidia moved from the market to the personal arena, where the two competitors are throwing offenses at will. The latest hit comes from one of Nvidia's vice-presidents, in a private e-mail message claiming that the CPU is dead and has long since run out of steam. The private mail message was intercepted by tech website Inquirer, and holds Roy Tayler's opinions regarding Intel' ... [read more >>]
	26 April 2008, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

War Robots Should Be Banned
	Landmines are banned from use in more than 150 countries around the world, however the Landmine Action believes that autonomous robots capable of killing people should also be banned because they fall under the same treaty that had outlawed the landmines. The US Army is currently the proud owner of a few thousand military robots, carrying machine-guns, going about killing people throughout countries such as Iraq and Afganistan. Althou ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 12:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Assyrians, the Lords of the Massacres
	Assyrians were one of the most warlike people in history, lovers of the violence of the war and hunt. Amongst the people of the ancient Middle East, they were famous for their cruelty. At the peak of its power, Assyria stretched from Egypt to Persian Gulf. Their aggressiveness was partially attributed to their location: Assyria was in northern Mesopotamia, north of Babylon. As no natural bounders like shores or mountains were found there, ... [read more >>]
	26 January 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TASER Saucers Attack - French Reveal Plans for Flying Saucer!
	Boy, are the French pissed off or what? Danger Room reports the incredible case of a French businessman whose company is currently working on installing TASER stun guns on a high tech flying saucer. The pimped UFO is going to be used to put down all sorts of riots, to take action to protect the official missions, as well as to destroy evil doers and trouble makers. What's next, an alien army to destroy the homeless? Acco ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 11:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First Biological Warfare: 3,300 Years Old
	Probably the Americans were looking for these biological weapons in Iraq: 3,300 years old tularemia. A new research suggests that ancient texts coming from the Middle East could describe a biological warfare which happened more than three millennia ago. The Hittites, whose empire dominated Asia Minor (current Turkey) and northern Syria, used diseased rams to spread tularemia amongst their enemies. Tularemia is caused by the b ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

When War Goes Techno! Brits Deploy "Hunter Killers" in Afghanistan!
	So, this is how Britain's most sophisticated unmanned surveillance system looks like. The mighty Reaper UAV has been deployed into active service in Afghanistan. So, what initially was designed for surveillance now is being used exclusively for military reconnaissance and ground-attack missions, working even on unarmed aircraft. According to Gizmag, the first of the RAF's high-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft ha ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Were the Aztecs?
	"The enormous market swarmed of people; some buying, some selling...Amongst us were soldiers which had traveled in many parts of the world, from Constantinople to Italy and Rome, yet they said they had never seen a market of such proportions so harmonious and balanced, harboring so much people", wrote Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a soldier from the army of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, about Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital ... [read more >>]
	03 November 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hereditary Communist Dictatorship and the Cult of Personality
	Korea is an ancient nation, a unification of the limits of the peninsula bearing the same name during the 7th century and inhabited by an ethnic group that linguists tend to say is Tungus (thus is somehow related to Mongols). As an unified kingdom, it always had to face the Chinese domination, but developed a rich culture and its own pacific politics till the 10th century, when a continuous state of war and invasions began to dominate the ... [read more >>]
	06 October 2007, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacked and Bombed!
	The Israelis have bombed the Syrians, but that’s not something out of the ordinary, as these countries have been at war since 1967. Now, what is somewhat weird is that they managed to bypass every defense system, reaching their target, just south of the Turkish border. They used F-15 and F-16 planes to get there and bomb the target. These planes aren’t what you’d call state of the art and they have no stealth technology. Flyin ... [read more >>]
	05 October 2007, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First African World War: Main Menu, Pygmy Meat
	After finding Livingstone in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley continued his exploration of the Congo basin and tried to convince the British government to turn Congo into a British colony. This, however, proved not interested, and Belgian king was eventually faster. Leopold II turned the river's banks into a huge graveyard for 5 million victims. The genocide perpetrator with a white beard and looking like Santa Claus was a kind of precursor ... [read more >>]
	15 September 2007, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Who Are the Chechens?
	"Theater of a continuous war". This is how an English historian described the Caucasus region two hundred years ago. In 1832, the Russian poet wrote about the Chechens: "Their most priced right is their freedom; their law and the war". The will of breaking off any yoke and the readiness for combat helped the Chechens fight against any foreign occupant. "Mother Russia is big because there is always somebody ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Gets Charged in Europe
	The war between Intel and AMD is taking a new turn as the European Commission pressed formal charges against the chip maker Intel for using illegal tactics in an attempt to gain more market shares and consolidate is position as market leader. Ton Van Lierop, a spokesman for the European Commission – cited by the news site ZDNet – said "I can confirm the statement of objections has been sent", so the Commission acting as the [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Virtualizes Everything
	AMD is going to support and encourage the extensive use of virtualization technologies on the small businesses servers and as the company declared, they hope to gain access in the SMBs space in the next 18 months. Barcelona will arrive on the market in the same general period, so AMD's declarations may indicate the fact that they are confident enough in its abilities to push it to the virtualization market. In order to un ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 07:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Plays a Dangerous Game
	AMD tries hard to keep its remaining market shares intact and this job is much harder than you may think because Intel is going for an "all out" price and products war. On one side, there is AMD, desperate to keep from falling too much behind Intel in terms of market share, which has no processor directly comparable to the Core 2 Duo from Intel. The only logical move from AMD is to combat Intel's more pricey products with a ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 03:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Cores for Everybody
	The less time until the much anticipated and waited for arrival of AMD Barcelona quad core processors in the following months, the more pressure Intel applies on the market and on AMD. After a price cut not even weeks old, a new one is coming up, together with some new processors from the Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo families. In order to get rid of the lower end processors and free its inventory for the next chapte ... [read more >>]
	24 July 2007, 07:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Slows Down The PC Sales
	The world's largest chip maker, Intel, is expected to post a new list of price cuts in a few days that will mainly be aimed at the low and middle end desktop PC market. An Intel spokesman cited by the news Web site InfoWorld said that his company regularly updates processor prices, but doesn't disclose when ... [read more >>]
	19 July 2007, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

I Want to Upgrade My Processor
	Intel and AMD, the two major players on the processor market, have been rivals for what seems like forever. Because of this "war", we, customers, saw a number of things quickly change. First of all, prices dropped like crazy all over the globe (long gone are the days when you had to spend all your paycheck for a low-end processor) then, maybe even more importantly, their competition pushed the technology further. Let's see, ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Chinese Woman Lived for 64 Years with a Bullet in Her Brain!
	Have you ever experienced a persistent headache? Yours was nothing compared to that of a 77-year-old Chinese grandmother, which shocked the doctors when they found why: a bullet located in her brain! Jin Guangying, a 77-year-old Chinese woman, living in Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, received the bullet when she was shot by Japanese army troops in 1943, during the Second World War, and now, 64 years later, she has finally had ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2007, 11:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New "Robocar" Could Be Used in Urban Wars
	Cars that can drive themselves have been a dream for motorists around the world since the 1950s, when the idea became popular. Such cars could save the driver from the effort of cruising through crowded cities, congested highways, impossible parking spots, being able to react much faster than a human. The latest robotic car, developed by MIT, with funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), just passed ... [read more >>]
	29 June 2007, 09:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Where Are the Robots?
	Robots have been part of human imagination for longer than you think. Though the modern science-fiction literary genre has made them so famous that they've become universal brands, like "Robocop", "Terminator", "Data", "R2-D2" or "iRobot", they have been present in mythology long before. You have probably seen, or at least heard of some movies that depict the never-ending theme of ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2007, 12:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Screens from Carriers at War and new AAR
	Matrix Games and Strategic Studies Group have just released new screenshots for their highly anticipated real time naval ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2007, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The 'Gulf War Syndrome' Is Caused by Gas Sarin
	Gulf War Syndrome characterizes a complex of physical and mental symptoms affecting150,000 Gulf War veterans. The syndrome was largely dismissed by doctors but now it appears increasingly evident that it could have been provoked by low-level exposure to the poisonous gas sarin, famous due to its employment by the Aum Shinrykio member in the subway of Tokyo in 1995. The government researchers discovered changes in the brain’s white ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2007, 07:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Liquid Armor
	The basic idea behind body armor hasn't changed very much for the past few thousands years. The main purpose of the armor is to stop weapons or projectiles from penetrating a person's body and to diffuse the weapon's impulse energy, so that the final impact causes little or no damage at all. Although not effective in absolutely every situation, armor can generally help protect people from serious injuries or death, bei ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

War Front: Turning Point
	The developing team at Digital Reality stood out over the last ten years in the world of RTS games with titles such as Imperium Galactica, Haegemonia, Platoon or Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps. They have always kept the traditional style that we’re all familiar with from Warcraft an ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2007, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia