Monthly Archives: March 2008

Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

The Onion News Network program “In The Know” discusses an important question that is on everbody’s minds these days, “Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?”.

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FCC releases 700MHz auction details, Verizon, AT&T big winners

After yesterday’s wrap-up of the gargantuan Auction 73 to offload the newly-freed 700MHz spectrum, it looks like the two champions to emerge are Verizon and AT&T. Big Red has emerged with virtually all of the highly coveted C Block save for Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Gulf of Mexico, a logical move considering its recent [...]

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Build your own street-legal solar-powered electric car

Almost every solar-powered car we’ve seen has been incredibly goofy-looking, but we’d bet we could learn to overlook external appearances if we had a sunshine whip to call our own – especially if we had to build it ourselves as well. That’s the promise behind Art Haines’ SUNN solar car kit, which will let you [...]

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Vista SP1 officially released

Looks like all those rumors yesterday were true – Microsoft has just posted up the official standalone version of Vista SP1. Sure, you’ve been able to get it in one way or another for a while now, but if you’re into silly things like “legit OS updates,” the wow factor is now out. I hope! [...]

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Home Server fix delayed until June

Those of you running Windows Home Server will be disappointed to hear that a bug first discovered in December is still on Microsoft’s “To Do” list. To recap, the flaw results in files edited directly on the server – as opposed to being edited on a desktop and then manually copied to the server – [...]

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Intel roadmap reveals 1.87GHz, dual-core Atom processors

Intel certainly hasn’t been holding back on its near term plans for its MID-powering Atom processors, but the company has been a considerably more coy about anything beyond the initial 1.6GHz Atom 230 series processor. We now have a slightly better idea of what to expect from future MIDs, however, thanks to one of those [...]

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