admin @ August 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Many times the good things in life just don’t last. That may yet be the case with The Pirate Bay. For years internet users worldwide used the site to get their music, TV, and movie fix. Some of the torrents were legal, others were orphaned works (technically illegal to share), and still others were blatant [...]
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South Korea today launched its first rocket into orbit, carrying an observation satellite, raising hopes of becoming yet another powerful Asian space nation. However, the satellite launch failed, dampening hopes of South Korea entering the Asian space race.
The two-stage KSLV-I rocket was supposed to launch into orbit carrying a South Korean-made satellite that was [...]
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Computer users in china will have the final decision as to whether or not they install the controversial Green Dam-Youth Escort software on their PCs, but the filtering program will be installed on every PC in a public area.
The software was expected to be rolled out this spring, but was delayed for the first [...]
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IBM is synonymous with performance in the supercomputing world. In fact, the company’s hardware is inside five of the top ten supercomputers in the world. IBM and other CPU makers are always looking to improve the technology behind the construction of microprocessors.
The latest research breakthrough from IBM was made in conjunction with the California [...]
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Linux is fantastic, don’t get us wrong, but Apple’s kit can also be appealing – especially its range of Apple laptops. But if the thought of getting to know OS X puts you off, fear not: there’s a lot of common ground between Mac and Linux that isn’t immediately obvious.
For starters, you may already [...]
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Standmounts, especially large ones like these PMC IB2i’s, are certainly unfashionable these days, not to mention somewhat nostalgia-inducing: we’re reminded of 1970s milestones like the Spendor BC3 and Linn Isobarik.
Slim floorstanders might be today’s style icons, but the IB2i’s, like those earlier classics, has an attractively chunky purposefulness. It comes with a simple tubular [...]
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Music download service 7digital has announced it is branching away from the web with a new partnership with Imerge – the makers of luxury entertainment systems.
Owners of an Imerge system, which points to those with a lot of money to spend, will now be able to access 7digital through their setup without the need to [...]
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Apple’s OS X 10.6 may be just around the corner, but that isn’t stopping the folks from Cupertino from updating its current Leopard operating system to version 10.5.8. In what may be the last major update until Snow Leopard comes around, this latest service update corrects a number of outstanding issues with the operating system [...]
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Daniel Goncalves, 25, of Union, New Jersey, is one of the first people in the United States to be charged with the theft of an internet domain.
Goncalves has been charged with felony counts of theft by unlawful taking or deception, computer theft, and identity theft — each count carries a maximum sentence of 10 [...]
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The war to cure cancer is raging with billions of dollars in research funds being spent around the world to fight the disease. Scientists are using all sorts of processes to diagnose and treat cancer in an effort to improve the lives of those afflicted with the disease.
One of the most difficult types of [...]