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Here’s why Obama is visiting Intel
Artist’s rendering of the $5 billion new chip manufacturing facility and support buildings to be built at Intel’s site in Chandler, Ariz. President Obama will visit the site on Wednesday. (Credit: Intel) On Wednesday,
Read More »New Xbox coming in fall 2013?
The next generation of Xbox is expected to have six times the power as its predecessor. The next iteration of Microsoft’s Xbox could hit retailer shelves as early as fall 2013. The new Xbox
Read More »Innovation brought the rise of the Glock handgun
The type of gun responsible for severely injuring former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, killing 32 people in the Virginia Tech massacre, and murdering rapper Tupac Shakur was a Glock pistol. Now, these pistols are
Read More »Anti-gay Twitter hashtag hijacked by wit
Twitter encourages self-expression and prides itself on not censoring that self-expression. There are many sorts of selves in the world. So who would be surprised that there appeared a Twitter feed called @LBGTfacts, whose
Read More »PS3 hacker Geohot moves from Facebook to…
Just over six months ago, well-known hacker George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, joined the straight and narrow and got a day-job at Facebook. George Hotz tells Sony how he feels in a YouTube video. (Credit:
Read More »Antique IBM memory box + math = mind-blowing
This piece of computer history launched 1,500 tweets. The man in the photo (my husband, Tim) is holding an IBM Type 706 Williams-Kilburn Tube Electrostatic Memory drawer that we found in my grandfather’s pole
Read More »Solar storm could bring bright skies tonight
The aurora borealis over the northern tip of Norway this weekend. (Credit: Flickr user LarsT) A solar radiation storm raining down on the Earth right now could bring a treat to stargazers in the
Read More »Skitch and Evernote, now in Dolphin
Skitch is now available as an add-on to the Dolphin HD browser. (Credit: Dolphin) As the mobile Web matures with phenomenal user growth, the Dolphin HD browser introduced today two add-ons that bring the
Read More »Bail denied for MegaUpload’s Kim DotCom
Kim DotCom (far right) will appeal a decision by a New Zealand court to deny him bail while he fights an attempt by the U.S. government to extradite him. (Credit: 3News.co.nz/Screenshot by Jonathan Skillings/CNET)
Read More »More than half of Verizon smartphone sales in Q4 were iPhones
Holiday earnings reports are being posted, and Verizon’s indicates that more than half of its smartphone sales were iPhones. This resulted in a revenue surge for its wireless division, but because of heavy subsidies,
Read More »Smash Cops for iOS: A law-enforcement demolition derby
Is there anything more viscerally satisfying than a car chase? Especially a cops-and-robbers chase that ends with the bad guys getting rammed into a concrete median? That’s the premise of Smash Cops (iTunes link),
Read More »Google’s biggest AdWords customers might surprise you
Finance people love to spend their dough on Google ads. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) In case you hadn’t noticed, Google makes a lot of money in advertising. But would you guess that one
Read More »Nvidia cuts revenue outlook, citing hard disk shortage
Nvidia has lowered revenue expectations for the period ending January 29, citing the hard disk drive shortage in Thailand. Revenue for the fourth quarter is expected to be lower than the company’s previous outlook
Read More »Crave 73: Let’s not turn this into a Warcraft thing (podcast)
This week, we have a giant NES controller perfect for Donald’s purely hypothetical furry party. Plus, the creepiest robot baby yet, a turntable that plays trees, and a uncut “Star Wars” along with a
Read More »Magnetic soap could lift oil spill woes
(Credit: U.S. Coast Guard) Scientists at the U.K.’s University of Bristol have created what they say is the world’s first magnetic soap, and it’s gaining attention as a potential method for cleaning up oil
Read More »Rumor Has It, Ep. 17: Instagram helps us care about Windows Phone
So you mean to tell me, Casio makes things other than this SA-35 keyboard? (Credit: Flickr user cmatsuoka) It’s Tuesday again, and this time we are prepared. On today’s show, code in iBooks 2
Read More »Cook on Apple TV: The ‘hobby’ is selling well
While dodging a question about Apple’s plans to get into the TV business, the company’s chief executive pointed out that its more than year-old set-top box is doing just fine. Answering a question about
Read More »Hacked PS3 gives Vita stunning remote play functionality
A hacked PlayStation 3 enables epic remote play for the Vita. (Credit: Photo by Sarah Tew/CNET) A hacker has figured out a way to play PlayStation 3 games such as Battlefield 3, Red Dead
Read More »Mozy blends file sync into its backup service
Mozy Stash files can be accessed from a Web interface, just like backed-up files. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Online storage is becoming a commodity offering. So you’d think that it’d be simple to
Read More »Here’s why Obama is visiting Intel tomorrow
Artist’s rendering of the $5 billion new chip manufacturing facility and support buildings to be built at Intel’s site in Chandler, Ariz. President Obama will visit the site on Wednesday. (Credit: Intel) Tomorrow, President
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