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1. Steve Jobs determines smoking is injurious to your Mac

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... Applecare warranty in place and was told that his broken computer couldn't be fixed because it was contaminated. But, as the Consumerist points out, Applecare warranties don't appear to mention that cigarette ...

2. Nvidia accelerates GPU pixel processing

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... into four instructions. Doing this means that other circuits keep processing instructions – no more waiting," said Marinez. "Kilgariff and Bastos [also] discovered they could reorder instructions for ...

3. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... Strangely, this seems to calm the ranter down. It's as if by being gently reminded that shit is the natural state of things and that it couldn't be otherwise, anger is deflected and a more philosophical ...

4. Steam bans Modern Warfare "grey market" keys

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... consider the controversial keys as having been obtained from "illegitimate sellers." 

 "[This] is a half truth, at best. The keys in question are purchased legally in Asia and other territories, where ...

5. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   Phenom II overclocking and Fermi Tesla GPUs We covered a number of hardware-related topics this past week at TG Daily, including Lucid's Hydra SoC, shattering the Phenom II 7GHz barrier, the debut of ...

6. ATI reveals Radeon 5970 overlocking details

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... we had the potential to fill a 400W power budget with performance, so we were considering using two 8-pin connectors and pushing this thing to its limits." Ultimately, the team chose a hybrid approach ...

7. Mutant Koobface worm attacks Skype accounts

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... some Asian languages." Huq explained that the worm's "lexical" abilities were limited to spewing arbitrary "conversation pieces" into chat windows. "This will be because the worm supports conversation ...

8. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... to make rotis from scratch but while there are frozen rotis in the supermarket, this unit is about the size of a microwave oven and it kneads, flattens and then roasts the roti. It can make one every two ...

9. Nokia trims research and development division

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   It says streamline Finnish phone giant Nokia said that it is to reduce the number of people that work in its R&D division - with 330 people affected in Denmark and Finland. Nokia said that this number ...

10. Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 November 2009

    ... to the same period last year, Dell's sales to this sector fell by 23 percent. Even its consumer sales fell 10 percent compared to last year - Dell's rivals have depended on this sector for sales in the ...

11. Xbox modders unite in class action suit

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 20 November 2009

    ... and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game," says the firm. This "convenient" timing may have resulted in more Xbox Live subscription revenues for Microsoft than ...

12. Mammoths weren't killed off by meteor

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 20 November 2009

    ... eliminate several possible reasons for the mass extinction. The first is the spread of trees caused by a changing climate. But according to Gill, the die-off of the big mammals predated this change - ...

13. Modern Warfare scriptwriter defends airport "massacre" scene

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... something people relate to," Stern told GamePro. "People want to know. As terrifying as it is, you want to know. And there's a part of you that wants to know what it's like to be there because this ...

14. Hacker restores Atom support for Snow Leopard netbooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... Many users are reporting success with this patch, so if you [are] an Atom user looking to update to 10.6.2, give it a try, and let's not forget to give 'teateam' a round of applause for saving all our ...

15. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... drops trou so easily? I guess, the rage these days is for no boundary between personal and work space. It can't be a good thing and this crowd of exhibitionists may have finally jumped the shark. Yup, ...

16. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... people who spend "most of their time" on the web. "Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are ...

17. AOL will axe 2,500 jobs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Volunteer or you're for the chop A third of the workforce at AOL will lose their jobs before the company spins off from Time Warner. The process will work like this, according to a memo written by CEO ...

18. Rumor: Sony planning Firefox PS3 port

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... were unsure if any deal had actually been reached at this point, but it is great news none the less considering the complaints Sony has been getting about the lack of reliability with their current built ...

19. Space walkers will drink their own urine, dammit

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... They're expected to go for a walk, a space walk, at least three times during their 11 day stay. But, it isn't all fun and strolls up in space. This is the last hurrah for the Shuttle program which is ...

20. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Outlook is up, up up A report said that PC gaming hardware will increase by $1.2 billion this year to $21.26 billion, and the outlook is better for next year too. Jon Peddie Research (JPR) predicted ...

21. Chinese court halts Microsoft OS sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... ironically, this is largely because, thanks to piracy, its legitimate sales in the country are tiny. Microsoft says it is appealing the ruling. It says it "respects intellectual property rights" and believes ...

22. ZTE to make its own LTE 4G chips

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    But will stay happy with Qualcomm In something of a shock admission, ZTE's VP for wireless technology & strategy, Donglin Shen, admitted that his company has well developed plans to produce its own ...

23. AMD in Xbox, Wii giveaway

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Forty years after Chip company Advanced Micro Devices is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and no doubt Jerry Sanders III, the founder of the company, is popping many a bottle of Cristal. But ...

24. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... contains the antibodies for a different disease; where the disease is present, the antibody binds to it and emits light which is detected by a fluorescence reader. "This point of care test has achieved ...

25. British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... transfer money to other accounts. If they break into your Facebook page they could use that to spread spam and phishing messages to the compromised account's online buddies," said Cluley. 

 "Typical ...

26. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... Asa Dotzler, who offered his personal "encouragement" to the IE team. "When any browser improves, the Web improves," Dotzler wrote in an official blog post. "It looks to me like Microsoft is getting ...

27. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ...  "It's no longer a myth, it's real," claimed Arrington. "The next 'super' Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that's much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The Dragon/Passion. This ...

28. Nvidia and Asus tout 3D Vision notebook

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ...  An Nvidia spokesperson told TG Daily that his company has worked "closely" with a number of prominent manufacturers - such as CPT, LG, CMO, and Samsung - to integrate 120Hz 3D Vision-capable panels ...

29. Call of Duty grosses half a billion dollars in five days

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Shoot em up Activision Blizzard said that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold $550 million worth in five days. It didn't say how many units this represented and the figure is an internal estimate, ...

30. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... diffusion weighted imaging. Not only will this help to explain the computational dynamics of the human brain, it will also advance a bid to create a small, low power synaptronic chip using nanotech, phase ...

31. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... to make a proper note of a meeting with Dell during the investigation. The Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, published his ruling on the complaint alleging procedural errors by the Commission during ...

32. Be a Martian, says NASA

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    And make some coffee while you're at it NASA and Microsoft are roping in the public to 'be a Martian', helping improve Martian maps and take part in research tasks. "We're at a point in history where ...

33. Thieves scrump thousands of Apple iPhones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... satisfy demand over the holiday period. Mobistar says it's blacklisted the serial numbers of the stolen phones, so that they can't be used on its network. But this won't stop them being used: iPhones ...

34. Mouse sniffs out counterfeit euros

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... time, with a minimum resolution of 15x15 pixels. It's also better to use an LED- or infrared-based sensor. The results of the study show that this system allows for the detection of counterfeit coins ...

35. Tiny brain is no bar to intelligence, say scientists

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ...  This raises the question: what are big brains for? While some increases in brain size do affect an animal's capability for intelligent behaviour, many size differences only exist in a specific brain ...

36. Phuggers are like chuggers

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... "please don't call me again," "I feel harassed," and "phug this, I quit." Charities are being offered free trials over the Christmas season as Veritape reckons cheeky little phuggers are going to be trying ...

37. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Depends on How Smart YOU Are Sometimes I wonder about new companies.   Apple and Google both have this way of bewitching people so that, no matter what they come out with, folks drool and say that’s wonderful.  ...

38. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... gamers to easily unlock the card's full overclocking potential.   "The number one important aspect of this card is the raw performance it offers," Nekechuk told TG Daily. "The 5970 will crush anything ...

39. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... were let go, including former CEO Andrew Goldman, Josh Resnick and Greg Borrud. "I want to make it clear that the Pandemic brand and franchises will live on," Nick Earl, EA Games Label Senior Vice ...

40. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... report then goes on to mention a couple of incidents that have already happened including Georgia, South Korea and the United States. It drags in Carl von Clausewitz and his book On War. It points out ...

41. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... called the AIM Problem Lists. This coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Riemann Hypothesis. Here. The Daily Express, out of the UK, wants you to sleep happier in your beds tonight as it says millions ...

42. 'Unfriend' is Word of the Year

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year." She's ...

43. YouTube launches tool for 'citizen journalists'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... videos about your brand," said the company. Of course, there's plenty of this sort of thing on YouTube already. But with as much as 20 hours of video posted to the site every minute, the company believes ...

44. Analyst offers Apple tablet sneak peek

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... bends his mind to Apple Tablet  ...

45. Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Microsoft explained in an official advisory. "[We are] not currently aware of active attacks that use this exploit code or of customer impact at this time. [Nevertheless, we are] actively monitoring this ...

46. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Heroes of the HPC world AMD has released an HD video chronicling the exploits of Phenom II overclockers who managed to shatter the infamous 7GHz clock barrier. "This video depicts the herculean efforts ...

47. Semiconductors to bound back next year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Chips with everything Two things aren't going to go away unless there's a world wide catastrophe - semiconductors and the internet. Gartner has started to believe this too. According to a report it issued ...

48. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... it has always behaved within the law. AMD has had great success with its ATI product family but now has to execute on its Fusion strategy too. It insists this is an entirely new direction it is taking ...

49. Leonid meteors promise great display tonight

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... as long as there isn't too much cloud cover. This year, says Cooke, the meteors will appear to be shooting almost directly out of the planet Mars, making for an even more dramatic spectacle. The Leonids ...

50. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... has fired out a statement claiming that 402 systems on the Top 500 list use Intel microprocessors. And, it said, three of those are in the top 10 systems. It's using this call to announce a High Performance ...