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1. Astronomers find most distant object yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   Astronomers have observed the oldest and most distant object yet, a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). Astronomers have observed the oldest and most distant object yet, a gigantic ...

2. Free Software Foundation goes mad

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... saying ‘wibble’, most normal people turn away in embarrassment. And that’s surely what all right-thinking people will be doing following an extraordinary outburst from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) ...

3. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Seagate had increased the XT's cache from 32MB to 64MB to exploit the newly designed SATA 6G interface. "The XT's 64MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks," said ...

4. New Hubble instruments take dramatic images

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... Hubble (10 pictures) A dramatic golden explosion shows a star bursting to life in the Carina nebula, while a dying star releases superheated gas in a butterfly-like formation. A densely ...

5. In July, chips bursting out all over

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Signs of a recovery in the important semiconductor market continued in July, with the WSTS reporting improvements on a number of chip fronts.Signs of a recovery in the important semiconductor market ...

6. Frenchman glassed by exploding iPhone

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... some concern about iPods bursting into flames. The problem is laid at the feet of lithium ion batteries - these, if not constructed properly can cause problems to computer companies such as Dell, which ...

7. Twitter makes it harder for users to get lost

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... won't be stored for any period of time. "However, if people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information," says Stone. The company ...

8. Diagnostic tool could save traders a packet

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... or reassign an offending application that is sending message bursts to another processing path.  “If implemented, this kind of approach should enable investment bankers to turn their attention ...

9. Twitter re-twitters the twitterati

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... short bursts.If you have a life, you probably don't have much time to waste it twittering away. It has to be one of the saddest things technology has brought to the world. The leader of the right wing ...

10. WiMax in Las Vegas now, coming to Macs on August 17

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... speeds of between 1.0 and 1.7 Mbps,” while Clearwire customers “can expect to see download speeds of 3 to 6 mbps with bursts over 10 Mbps.” We cannot confirm those claims published in a press release ...

11. IBM puts its business in the Cloud

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... people and a trillion connected devices. The IBM Smart Business portfolion includes standardized services on the IBM cloud, private cloud services behind an IBM firewall, and Cloudburst workload optimized ...

12. IBM teams with Swedes in 'space weather' study

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... on future science experiments in space and back on earth. With a unique ability to predict how plasma clouds travel in space, new efforts can be made to minimize damage caused by energy bursts or make ...

13. Intel vs. AMD 6-core CPUs: Speed vs. power?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... AMD is catching up, at least in some product segments. Let’s get this straight from the start. Like most of us geeks, I am still impressed how Intel has recovered from the Netburst architecture dilemma ...

14. Laser makes light bulbs super-bright

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... is an ultra-brief, ultra-intense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse. The laser burst lasts only a few quadrillionths of a second, but forces the surface of the metal to form nanostructures ...

15. Laser fusion plant delivers the power of the stars

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... fusion power stations - potentially providing clean, almost limitless energy. The NIF's laser - the most powerful in the world - will aim 192 beams of light at an area half a millimeter square in a burst ...

16. Steve Jobs' ego was bruised by Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the SEC for three hours and revealed in the 119 page filing that his peers didn't recognize the contribution he'd made to Apple. His stocks had suffered from the burst of the dot.com bubble, but it wasn't ...

17. Obama: 2009 will continue to be a difficult year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... total venture capital fund raising is at its worst level since the fourth quarter of 2003, when the tech bubble burst. Unfortunately, most successful tech entrepreneurs tend to be pasty white college ...

18. Intel shows off next-gen Atom processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... largely passed on it. The second new processor is the Z515, which includes the company’s new “Burst Performance Technology” and allows the processor to run at 1.2 GHz, instead of just 1.1 GHz. Don’t ...

19. Canon announces 15.1 MP, 1080p digital SLR camera

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... images or up to nine RAW images in a single burst is supported, as long as a class 6 or higher SD or SDHC memory card is used. The T1i is the first Rebel camera to offer HD video recording in 16:9 720p ...

20. Intel delays "Menlow" Atoms, mulls increasing prices in China

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... with a TDP of 2.4 watts and will operate on Intel's US15W chipset. The Z515 has an option of Intel's low-power UL11L chipset, and has Burst Performance Technology which automatically adjusts the core frequency ...

21. Apple tweaks MacBooks, Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme and keyboards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 1 MB per second. This compares to conventional hard drives which typically access data in excess of 10 MB per second on average, with bursts up to 40 MB per second or more. Hard drive access will also ...

22. PC sales tanking at unprecedented pace

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... was 3.2% in 2001, the year the dot-com bubble burst. And this year’s decline will be more than three times as strong, hitting 11.9% if Gartner is correct. “The PC industry is facing extraordinary ...

23. New reports concludes Columbia crew had no chance for survival

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the time they realized they were in trouble until they lost consciousness. Apparently, Husband attempted to save Columbia, but there was not enough time until the space shuttle burst into flames. It was ...

24. Solar flares observed to emit huge streams of hydrogen, a first

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... "broken atoms". Destruction is imminent The NASA now believes they've uncovered the mystery. The hydrogen atoms were actually destroyed when the solar flare burst forth. The eruption, equivalent ...

25. AMD expects big revenue decline in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... guidance into the neighborhood of the Q4 2000 result, which was also preceded by a profit warning – one of the first warnings that hinted to the burst of the dotcom bubble back then. AMD answered Intel’s ...

26. PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... dotcom bubble burst) and in 2002. Compared to 2000, PC sales declined by 5.1% in 2001, according to IDC. 2001 shipments in the U.S. even dropped by 12.2%. Recovering from one of the worst years in PC history ...

27. Analysts cut target for Intel stock, 2009 revenue

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... down 12% sequentially, “would be the worst QoQ change since Q1 2006 [when Intel was exposed to the success of AMD’s processors] and the second worst since Q1 2001 [when the dotcom bubble began to burst].” ...

28. Windows 7: Will it be good enough?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... from what it was promised to be. It is probably the first Windows that does not seem to be ahead of its time, but behind. At the same time, Apple is bursting with confidence about its operating system ...

29. Canon signals DSLR smackdown with 21.1-megapixel EOS 5D

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... capacity of the memory card or up to 14 RAW images in a single burst when using a UDMA CF card." What else do we have? Canon says the EOS 5D includes "a 15-point Autofocus (AF) sensor with nine selectable ...

30. Taking Core to the Edge: Intel unveils 6-core Xeon CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  It is unusual for Intel to provide max power consumption ratings for its products. For example, the company’s Netburst-based Xeon MP processors with Tulsa core are listed with the generic TDP rating of ...

31. Intel ships first halogen-free Xeon CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 65 nm Presler dual-core processors (released in late 2005 as Pentium D 900-series and based on the firm's Netburst architecture) that was rated at 130 watts at 3.4 GHz. The progress in power-efficiency ...

32. Canon EOS 50D digital camera shoots pictures in 15.1 megapixels

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... noise and expand sensitivity up to ISO 12800." This sensor, in conjunction with the image processor, reportedly will net you 6.3 frame-per-second (fps) continuous shooting capability (for bursts of up ...

33. TDK launches 1.8” microSATA solid state disk drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the HS1 series achieves a 100 MB/s burst read and 50 MB/s burst write performance. Samsung recently announced SSDs that offer more than twice the speed. However, TDK claims that its drives are extremely ...

34. Global server revenue hits dotcom bubble levels

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... of the dotcom bubble and the time frame in which we saw first clear signs that the bubble would burst – which may be an indication just how inflated the server market was seven years ago. IDC said that, ...

35. Computex organizers try to relieve dislocation fears, offer WiMAX connection in shuttles

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    In June, Taipei bursts to life with more than 100.000 westerners coming to Computex Taipei, the seocnd largest ITC trade show in the world. The overall number of visitors trounces CES in Las Vegas. As ...

36. Star wars: Hubble’s galaxy collision pictures

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... through the interstellar clouds. Gas and dust are siphoned into the active central regions, fuelling bursts of star formation that appear as characteristic blue knots of young stars. As the clouds of dust ...

37. Rumblepack returns to the Playstation next week

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... 4, Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit and Turok. The following games will need a patch that will be offered for download next week: Formula One Championship Edition, MotorStorm,  Resistance: Fall of Man, ...

38. Apple sued over alleged iTunes patent infringement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... of 2007, Apple settled a lawsuit launched by Burst.com against iTunes. Burst.com had filed suit in filed suit against Apple in 2004 saying that the iTunes and Quicktime software infringed on its patents.  ...

39. Laser alters color of metals, creates gold aluminum

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... it. We worked in the lab until midnight trying to figure out what other colors we could make." Guo and Vorobeyv said they use an “incredibly brief but incredibly intense laser burst” ...

40. Guitar Hero becomes a billion-dollar franchise

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Hero burst onto the scene with the inaugural Playstation 2 game in 2005.  Since then three other Guitar Hero titles have been released and the series has spread to the PC, Wii, DS, Xbox 360, Playstation ...

41. Electric Vehicle combusts on UC Riverside campus

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... accidentally caught fire in the past several years.  On December 2005, one car caught on fire after being plugged in on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco.  Another GEM also burst into flames at ...

42. Apple, Burst.com patch up patent infringement suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Apple will pay Burst.com $10 million as part of a legal settlement between the two corporations. Cupertino (CA) - Apple will pay Burst.com $10 million as part of a legal settlement between the two corporations. ...

43. Xbox games to be available through Xbox Live Marketplace

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... users to download to their hard drive. Xbox Live first burst onto the scene in 2002, a year or so after the release of the original Xbox console.  Since then it has gained around eight million users, ...

44. ESA releases Cassini images of Titan’s lakes and seas

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new images of the lake and seas of Saturn’s moon and may provide new insight in the history of Earth and a time before life arose. Paris (France) – ...

45. Personal safety a problem in ‘lifecasting’ – iJustine interview

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... as people read off phone numbers, pin numbers or email addresses in Justine’s presence.  In mid-sentence, she’ll burst out and yell for people to stop, worried that the information will ...

46. IDF Day 1: Penryn showcased, Nehalem revealed

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... has delivered on many products since those years with Netburst, the now famous micro-architecture of the Pentium 4 which nearly brought the company down to its knees. Extreme to mainstream The central ...

47. Intel announces Tigerton Xeon MP processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... performance and up to 3X the performance-per-watt when compared to a preceding 4-socket Xeon 7100 platform, which is based on the Netburst architecture. Customers will be able to fine-tune a Caneland ...

48. High-end Voodoo PC catches fire at PC Mags labs

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    San Francisco (CA) – The editors at PC Magazine’s labs got a good dose of second hand smoke when a very expensive Voodoo computer they were testing burst into flames.  Brian Neal says ...

49. Canon introduces EOS 40D digital SLR

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... rendering. Additionally, the 40D maintains image quality of up to ISO 1600 and a burst rate of 6.5 frames per second.  According to Canon, the camera can handle up to 75 large JPEGs without pause. ...

50. Lacie announces 5 TB SATA RAID

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Lacie is offering a 5-disk RAID with a capacity of 5 TB (5 x 1 TB). The "S2S" uses a 3 Gb/s SATA interface and is promised to achieve burst data transfer rates of more than 200 MB/s. Lacie said ...