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1. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... exceptional generation of games such as Quake (OpenGL) and Unreal. My Windows experience was also much improved by a virtual smorgasbord of Open Source Software - such as Open Office - which offered ...

2. How to save journalism

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... online. I got Tuesday's news about the Samoan earthquake and tsunami via BreakingNews on Twitter, a full 15 minutes before CNN.com even had a news flash, nearly an hour before the New York Times website ...

3. Intel accidentally previews Larrabee, Gulftown

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... Quake Wars: Enemy Territory. Meanwhile, Larrabee has shipped in small numbers to developers, while the multi-core x86 device has been "firmly" positioned as a next-generation graphics chip. Maloney is ...

4. Corning says glass shortage not as bad as it thought

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The earthquake that affected Corning's substrate glass factory in Japan hasn't affected output as badly as expected, the company said today.The earthquake that affected Corning's substrate glass factory ...

5. In July, chips bursting out all over

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... US' rapid move to digitalization and the rural stimulus program in China. Glass substrates continue to be in short supply, due to earthquake damage to a Corning plant in Japan. Here's how microprocessor ...

6. Large TFT LCD growth continues, prices rise

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... believes that shipments will increase again in August, a shortage of glass substrate will limit production. That follows an earthquake in Japan which badly affected Corning's total production. ...

7. Twitter makes it harder for users to get lost

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... or even something more dramatic like an earthquake," chirps founder Biz Stone on his blog.  Other applications would include the sort of restaurant-finding service available on smartphones - and ...

8. Glass shortage steadies prices on LCD screens

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The earthquake that broke Cornings substrate plant in Japan earlier this week is, as expected, a boon for TFT LCD manufacturers who faced a glass glut otherwise.The earthquake that broke Cornings substrate ...

9. Japanese earthquake stops supply of glass to LCD makers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Glass firm Corning said that the 6.5 earthquake that hit Tokyo yesterday has caused it to adjust its expectations for the quarter because LCD manufacturing will stop for some time.Glass firm Corning ...

10. Intel sees "one billion" connected mobile devices by 2015

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... prototype mobile device powered by a Moorestown chip that streamed HD video, ran Quake Open Arena and multi-tasked without any discernable lag. Chandrasekher also claimed that Moorestown devices would ...

11. San Andreas Fault may be due for big quake

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Mysterious underground tremors on the San Andreas fault could mean a big quake is on the way, according to University of California seismologists. Berkeley, CA - Mysterious underground tremors on the ...

12. iPhone shakes up mobile games industry

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... in." Carmack also noted that he hoped to bring the entire "classic" Id Software game line, including Quake 3 and Orcs & Elves, to the iPhone and iPod touch.  ...

13. ZeniMax creates FPS empire with id Software acquisition

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... shooter) titles, including Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein. San Francisco (CA)- ZeniMax Media - the parent company of Bethesda Softworks - has bought id Software for an undisclosed amount. "The acquisition ...

14. Intel targets future MID market with power-conscious Moorestown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... conditions and cloud cover. Ray Tracing The updated version of Quake Wars: Ray Traced features enhanced support for dynamic objects, polygonal water simulation and over 500 "monsters." The demo ...

15. Escalation Studios resurrects Doom for the iPhone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Quake 3 and Orcs & Elves - to the iPhone and iPod touch.  ...

16. THQ demos Darksiders, showcases MX vs. ATV

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  Darksiders, described by THQ as an "epic quest," is nicely rendered and rather reminiscent of Unreal or Quake from the days of yore. Of course, the graphics are light years ahead of those early games, ...

17. E3 attempts to resurrect the glory days of gaming

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Ditto for the vertigo caused by navigating the confusing and nausea-inducing Descent universe. And what about the OpenGL version of Quake, the subsequent introduction of bots with improved AI and Unreal ...

18. The Twitter pandemic: Swine flu defines social media’s new age

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... major breaking news stories. Following the earthquake that devastated the Sichuan region of China in May, tweets from the disaster zone gave the rest of the world its first glimpse of the scope of the ...

19. Dinosaurs didn't die from asteroid strike

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... this interval" said Keller. Advocates of the Chicxulub impact theory suggest that the impact crater and the mass extinction event only appear far apart in the sedimentary record because of earthquake ...

20. Cyberthreats: U.S. under attack every day, virtually

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... A.D.," but Brenner is sounding the alarm with her book. "I may be wrong, but I suspect the challenges emerging in this area are analogous to pre-shocks that signal an impending earthquake," she said.  ...

21. Google begins searching for the next big thing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Defense, Secret Exit Collaboration, the pet simulator Touch Pet Dogs and a Quake-based first-person shooter called LiveFire. Ngmoco executives demonstrated the latter two games on-stage during Apple's ...

22. UPDATED: Sharp introduces outdoor-use LED lighting, solar powered

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... with energy-saving mode)". It also includes a seismic detector which switches the light on automatically when any Magnitude 5 or greater quake is registered (on Japanese seismic scale). The battery pack ...

23. Mount Redoubt erupts four times in three hours

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... at any point in time. A steam plume was ejected nearly 1,000 feet into the air on Saturday. In the past 48 hours, there has also been increased earthquake activity, which has prompted scientists to ...

24. Google shakes things up with "earthquakes" search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Yesterday, Google announced a slick new feature that is sure to rattle your mind. When searching for the keyword "earthquakes" (plural), users will be given relevant information about recent earthquakes. ...

25. Report: World of Warcraft is as addictive as cocaine

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... late 1990s I went to several Quake LAN parties, but that was more for the social aspects than raw game playing alone as I never really cared how well I played, but enjoyed the company. Also, as a software ...

26. UPDATED: Google Ocean watchers may have found Atlantis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... -- the Straits of Gibraltar. He said Atlantis was a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty destroyed by earthquakes and floods 9,000 years earlier." Some other interesting ...

27. IBM to build massive 20 Petaflop supercomputer for NNSA

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... to achieve what Sequoia can do in just one hour.In theory the projected 20 PFlops will offer a 50x improvement in predicting earthquakes and a 40x improvement in predicting weather - allowing forecasters ...

28. MIT rolls out emergency text message service with AT&T

    (Security/Security Brief)

    ... a national alert from the president of the United States." 2) "Imminent or ongoing threats such as hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes." 3) "Child abductions or Amber alerts." The new MIT system ...

29. Intel honored by China Corporate Citizenship Forum

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Beijing (China) - Intel has been honored by the China Corporate Citizenship Forum, who recently presented two awards to Intel China Ltd. for "outstanding contributions toward the country's earthquake relief ...

30. Valve selling Half-Life for 98 cents

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... The company claims that the Half-Life franchise so far sold 20 million units. Half-Life was first released by Sierra Games on November 19, 1998. The game was developed on top of a modified Quake engine ...

31. Microsoft aims for clouds with Azure's programming model

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... five 9s). Azure gives developers abilities like these without any complex or custom coding. It's all handled for you, compliments of Azure. Conclusion Impervious to earthquakes, power outages, ...

32. U.S. Intelligence labels Twitter as a tool for terrorists

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... focusing on the earthquake that occurred in Los Angeles on July 29 of this year. It goes on to describe Twitter’s users as being “socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious ...

33. AMD rolls out sub-$150 Radeon HD 4830

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... performance in Call of Duty, Devil May Cry 4, ET: Quake Wars, Crysis, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Company of Heroes, all in 1920 x 1200 high quality mode with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled. ...

34. Skype claims no knowledge of privacy breach

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to China’s Communist Party. Additionally there were even messages flagged due to the discussion of China’s handling of the earthquake aftermath. Apparently, the computers are also logging details of voice ...

35. Skype Messaging Surveillance found in China

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... words related to the religious group Falun Gong, Taiwan independence, and also the Chinese Communist Party. Among the words are milk powder, earthquake, and democracy. Currently Chinese officials are getting ...

36. Apple may sell up to 11 million iPods and 8 million iPhone 3Gs this quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Apple apparently can withstand the earthquakes that are rocking the financial world these days as analysts expect the company to once again turn in record sales for the quarter. Market watchers ...

37. NVISION LAN party sets world record

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... all, 203 people played games for 36 hours starting at 11PM Monday August 25th till 11AM Wednesday August 27th.  Most of the players battled it out on traditional LAN party games like Quake, Unreal ...

38. Intel graphics update: Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... uses a HLSL-like syntax that allows you also to shoot new rays within a shader. With that capability, special effects like glass and mirrors become very easy tasks. Everything you see in the Quake Wars: ...

39. OCZ to challenge gamers’ brains, promises rich awards

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... dollars in prizes.  The inaugural tournaments will be held at this week’s QuakeCon (Dallas, TX), Digital Storm (Vancouver, BC) and CmaxX Enlarged in Germany. Sunnyvale (CA) - OCZ is promoting its ...

40. Undersea volcanic rocks offer storage for greenhouse gases

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of specific sites that are isolated from earthquakes, hydrothermal vents, or other factors that might upset the system. Ongoing experiments that have been conducted by Lamont scientists on land have shown ...

41. SimCity for Big Boys: Preparing for the Katrina of earthquakes

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... could have been saved? Where do you put your money to build up a region’s defense against the next natural disaster? These are the questions scientists from the Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE) are ...

42. First ATI Radeon HD 4850 reviews surface

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... the 9800 GTX in Crysis, ET: Quake Wars, Stalker, Ghost Recon and Grid. Some may consider Nvidia as keeping the lead and even extending it with the release of the 9800 GTX+ GPU for $229 graphics cards. ...

43. Nvidia releases 9800GTX+ graphics processor for the mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... six times the performance of AMD’s Radeon 4850.   The company also claims to have an advantage in overall gaming performance in Crysis, Call of Duty 4, world in Conflict, ET: Quake Wars, Oblivion, ...

44. Intel converts ET: Quake Wars to ray-tracing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Up until yesterday, Intel was showcasing its ray-tracing research using Quake 3 and Quake 4, which were nice demos, but did not exactly reflect fresh software. Over past several months, the company ...

45. Three Intel chipsets to see price increase due to Sichuan quake

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Three of Intel's chipsets, the G31, G33 and 945GC, are seeing an increase in price following the earthquake in Sichuan, China last week, according to sources at motherboard makers. Although Intel's ...

46. AMD’s best idea in years: Want to play?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... according to the company, makes up about 20% of the overall gaming market and describes  people who don’t to use their PC exclusively for gaming, but only for an occasional game of Quake Wars, Command&Conquer ...

47. Amazon spin-off brings rare music to consumers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ...  Some of the vintage albums coming back for digital distribution include Joe Strummer's "Earthquake Weather," Grant Green's "Carryin' On," and Henry Mancini's "Hatari Soundtrack." Another interesting ...

48. Psystar shows off video of Mac Clone (sort of)

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Pro, on an Open Computer,” Psystar says. The video shows its computers running various operating systems and Quake 4 (supposedly with all the settings turned up).  Psystar has been advertising a ...

49. What if … you had to play a simulation game before you could run for office?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... have forest fires, earthquakes, floods, and massive storms. It would have crops and transportation issues, water usage disputes, and demands from the federal government for the National Guard. Schools ...

50. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... engines. We had a chance to talk to Intel’s Daniel Pohl, a young German engineer who first got our attention when he rewrote the rasterization engines of Quake III Arena and Quake IV into full-blown ...