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Early Agricultural Methods May Have Affected Global Temperatures According to a new scientific study, it may be that the earliest forms of agriculture may have had a significant impact on the overall climate and temperatures on a global scale, mostly on account of the fact that massive numbers of trees were burnt to give way to crop fields. As the trees burned, they also released ... 17 August 2009 15:51 GMT Nvidia Can't Afford 55nm Just Yet If anyone questions why things are this way, the answer is quite simple. The NVIDIA G200 core consists of one point four billion transistors. And that is quite a great number when it comes to putting all those transistors on a chip manufactured using the 65nm lane process, mainly because the number of faulty chips pe... 28 June 2008 05:04 GMT University Researchers Unveil New Method for Healing Chips Miniature processors may hold more transistors working at reduced power requirements, but their manufacturing process is extremely intricate, and many of the produced semiconductors end up as trash because of tiny flaws in their surface.However, the Princeton University researchers came up with an innovative method t... 6 May 2008 06:25 GMT