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Former planet gets new label
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Nvidia has posted a video that involves the new GTX 280 chip, overclocking, lots of liquid nitrogen, and the Nvidia labs. Oh, and no quad-core processor. Get the point?

Nvidia NForce 790i Ultra SLI motherboard
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“A lot of people believe you need an Intel quad-core or Intel quad-core …
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Disappearance of mystery chunks hints at evaporation, and thus presence of ice
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Bad news if you’re the sort of person who starts feeling guilty at having recorded dozens of shows but not actually watched any of them: Cannon PC have just released a demo video of their latest Windows Media Center mod, simultaneously recording six high-definition programs via six separate CableCARDs.  If you’re not familiar with Media [...]

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It’s been a year and a half since we first saw a TV using Luminus Devices’ PhlatLight LED back-lighting system, and it’s taken that long for the technology to reach brightness levels sufficient for a big-screen picture.  Now, courtesy of some collaboration with Texas Instruments, PhlatLight technology is set for inclusion in a number of [...]

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To grasp the power of Toshiba’s new Aquilion ONE computed-tomography (CT) scanner, imagine facing a picturesque beach. Your camera doesn’t have a panoramic function, so you take snapshots pointing to the left, the center, and the right. You tape the photographs together and it looks gorgeous, sure, but you’re missing the action of the waves [...]

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Laser trap acts as a one-way gate to collect atoms
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It’s not all mini PCs and budget notebooks from ASUS - though you’d be excused for thinking it.  The company has just announced a new gaming PC, the ARES CG6155, and while it may not have a killer-name it does have all the usual hyperbole manufacturers seem to lapse into when launching these sort of [...]

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Bizarrely, despite “officially launching” the Eee Box PC at Computex 2008 back at the beginning of the month, ASUS have now officially launched it again via a press release on their site.  Thing is, the latest B202 release actually contains less detail than the first time around; for some reason they’ve not repeated their original [...]

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Goku and Raditz exchange blows in this match from Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit.
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