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Well, that didn’t take long. Merely hours after LG’s Prada II was treated to a dedicated microsite, along comes the hands-on photographs we’ve been expecting. CNET’s UK branch was able to wrangle one in, and as predicted, the mobile didn’t hesitate to pose for a few nice snapshots. Eagle-eyed readers will notice that it certainly [...]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

DARPA’s been running a blood pharming program for quite awhile now, but it’s gotten a real kick start this week with the announcement of a partnership with Cleveland-based biotech company Arteriocyte. Arteriocyte, it seems, has developed a Nanofiber Based System, or NANEX, a technology that enables the production of red blood cells [...]

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Sling Media no longer wants to be put into a box–the theoretical kind, anyway.

Previously just a maker of hardware like the Slingbox, and related software, the company is now thinking bigger. With the official launch of Sling.com fast approaching, the small Silicon Valley company–bought last year by EchoStar–is making a bid to be taken seriously [...]

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Advanced Micro Devices’ first 45-nanometer chip, the Shanghai quad-core Opteron, has made its debut at resellers.

The officially unannounced Opteron 837X and 838X series processors are not cheap. Online reseller PC Connection lists the Opteron QC (quad-core) 8384 at ,509. Another reseller, Buy.com lists the same processor at $…
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Window Snyder, Mozilla’s chief security something-or-other (her official title), wants to bring open source practices to the security community.
“At a lot of companies,” she told me recently, “there’s fear around security: you don’t want to talk about what you’re doing around security because one might
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Filed under: Laptops

We were certainly suitably impressed by HP’s new Mini 1000 netbook when we got our hands on it earlier this week, and it looks like that may be the common sentiment about the device, at least if this first batch of reviews is any indication. Like us, other folks were especially impressed by [...]

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‘Prototype This’ invents the future New Discovery Channel show tries out new tech
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Nintendo DS-i: The wait begins Americans won’t get handheld ’til 2009
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No hands on the wheel Automated bus steers itself
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NASA has issued a preliminary report confirming environmentalists’ fears of disappearing sea ice at the Arctic.
Sea ice is the thick permanent ice formed by frozen ocean water that remains even as seasonal ice melts away in the summer. In the past, it has covered about 60 percent of the …
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