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Higher-Than-Average Temperatures Up Forest Fire Risk in the Amazon

A new report pieced together by scientists working with NASA and NOAA warns that the Amazon rainforest risks being devastated by wildfires this dry season. The specialists explain that, according to the fire prediction system they have rolled out, higher-than-average temperatures in the high Atlantic are the ones t...

10 June 2013
16:41 GMT

Australian Observatory Saved After Wildfires, Police Uncover Drug Lab

Two drug labs have burnt down in the Blue Mountains National Park in Australia, prompting the police to arrest two men in connection to the labs. Wildfires were being reported on Wednesday morning, January 9, when officials were called in to assess the damage. The fire put the nearby Siding Springs observatory in da...

14 January 2013
03:00 GMT

Google Buys Facebook Ad Firm Wildfire

Google's business, contrary to appearances, is advertising. Everything else just rides on top of it but generates very little money. Having a single revenue source is not an enviable position, especially when other big players and, more importantly, shifting web habits are involved. Google is doing something to...

1 August 2012
10:11 GMT

Scientists Analyze the Link Between Wildfires and Global Warming

Burning biomasses are now proven to be partly responsible for global warming, although up until recently it was believed that lighter particles released by forest fires might in fact have a cooling effect. Given the fact that during the past few months several parts of the world have been destroyed by massive wildf...

6 July 2012
10:36 GMT

Major Wildfires Take Over Parts of Colorado and New Mexico

Early Saturday, a lightning ignited an area of land near Fort Collins, northwest of Denver. Ever since, firefighters have been battling the flames, but the fire somehow continues to spread. Recent reports classify it as Colorado's third largest wildfire, with 43,000 acres of land being severely affected by it....

13 June 2012
08:33 GMT

Patriot Memory Releases Wildfire Pro and Wildfire SE SSDs

We are long past the point where we feel surprise at another SSD line using SandForce controllers, so Patriot Memory's Wildfire Pro and Wildfire SE lines didn't catch us off guard. The actual controller used is the SandForce SF-2281, which lets storage devices make full use of the SATA III interface. To ...

5 March 2012
11:07 GMT

HTC Unlocks the Bootloaders of Wildfire, Salsa, Merge, and Desire

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just announced that the owners of more of its Android-based devices have now the possibility to unlock the bootloaders inside them.The owners of HTC Wildfire S, Wildfire, Salsa, Merge, and Desire can now take advantage of this option via the special website that HTC ha...

7 January 2012
08:16 GMT

Wildfire Distribution Patterns Can Now Be Predicted

A group of investigators from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) announces the development of a prediction tool that is capable of indicating wildfire severity and distribution patterns throughout South America months in advance. The tool can also be applied to the Amazon rainforest. Using NASA funding, t...

11 November 2011
04:25 GMT

Unknown Malware Represents a Constant Threat to Organizations

Researchers revealed that a large number of previously unidentified pieces of malware are constantly targeting enterprise networks. Palo Alto Network security experts conducted a study in which they used their WildFire malware analysis engine to show how hundreds of samples that are undetected by most security solut...

9 November 2011
13:31 GMT

Patriot Memory Uses SandForce Controllers in Wildfire SSDs

The SandForce series of solid state drive controller processors has shown up in many an SSD over the past couple of years and has now landed inside the newest such devices from Patriot. When the new generation of SandForce controllers came, the one with support for the SATA 6.0 Gbps interface standard, it was to...

28 June 2011
10:00 GMT

HTC Desire II, 7 Pro and Wildfire S at Cellular South Soon

Mobile phone carrier Cellular South is reportedly gearing up for the launch of some highly appealing new devices in the not too far future, including both Android and Windows Phone-based smartphones, and some info on possible forthcoming additions to the carrier's lineup emerged. Among these handsets, we can co...

8 April 2011
03:44 GMT

Patriot Wildfire Hops on SATA 6.0 Gbps SSD Bandwagon

It appears that the 2011 CeBIT expo currently taking place is much poorer in terms of new announcements than one may have hoped, but this doesn't mean there is no activity, and Patriot proved this with its new storage devices. Each year, there are several occasions when companies from around the world conven...

2 March 2011
02:46 GMT

Patriot Announces SandForce-Based SSD Capable of Reaching 500MB/s Sequential Writes

Patriot Memory has just announced that the company is planning to release a new series of solid state disks, known as Wildfire, which are based on the SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller and can reach read and write speeds in excess of 500MB/s. This makes them one of the fastest SSDs announced until now, in line with...

24 February 2011
09:46 GMT

New SATA 6.0 Gbps Patriot SSDs Use SandForce and Marvell Controllers

Patriot Memory did not limit itself to just RAM memory, having used CES 2011 as an opportunity to also deliver a certain series of solid state drives, called Wildfire and powered by next-generation controller chips. Solid State Drives have been getting faster and more capacious with each passing month, even as their...

7 January 2011
07:37 GMT

Android 2.3 Custom ROMs Already Cooking

That didn't take long. Google announced the release of its new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on Monday, and the first custom cooked ROMs for various mobile phones out there already started to emerge. For the time being, however, things are only in their very early stages, and the ports do not offer t...

7 December 2010
05:35 GMT

HTC Announces HTC Sync 3.0

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just announced the release of a new version of its HTC Sync software solution, namely HTC Sync 3.0. The new release comes with support for Android 2.1 or later, and brings forth a nice range of new features that were not available with previous flavors of the desktop ...

3 August 2010
06:15 GMT

Jagged Alliance 3 Rights Secured, Game Coming in 2011

A company known as bitComposer Games, headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, has announced having taken over the license for the Jagged Alliance series from Strategy First and that it will aim to launch the third game in the classic franchise at some point during 2011.bitComposer might be interested in taking the series...

10 March 2010
14:41 GMT

Humans to Burn Down the Amazon

A new computer model shows that droughts triggered by global warming will in the future affect the Amazon so hard, that it could cause a widespread drought, which will in turn have devastating consequences on the world. If the rain forest in the Amazon region burns, then the rain patterns throughout the globe will ch...

10 February 2009
06:55 GMT


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