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2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh (1,368 diggs) Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

Don't buy Nvidia's GTX 200 cards now! Price cut on the way! (847 diggs) It's getting better and better. Loosk like ATI's Radeon 4800 is much better than Nvidia expected.

NVIDIA - "significant quantities" of laptop GPUs defective (563 diggs) informed investors that "significant quantities" of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at "higher than normal rates," and that it's lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.

HOW TO: Build Your own Homemade Flame Thrower (1,768 diggs) Homemade flame thrower using PVC pipe, a lighter and a backpack, It's made entirely of parts you can get at your average hardware store.

Solid State Drives Don't Extend Battery Life - Shorten's It (1,356 diggs) Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom's Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible?

Not just for Games Anymore, The Present and Future of GP-GPU (570 diggs) It wasn't so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of "GP-GPU," general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it's about ready for the mainstream. Here's some of what you can look forward to.

Intel says to prepare for 'thousands of cores' in processors (1,056 diggs) Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server."The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device."

ATI readies OEM special: SuperRV770 to challenge GeForce GTX (503 diggs) AMD ’s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia's very best.

Cooling Data Centers Could Prevent Massive Electrical Waste (702 diggs) It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation ’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow.

The 13 Best Movie Robots (812 diggs) With Wall-E dropping nationwide today, we've been thinking about the best robots to ever pour out their mechanical hearts on the big screen. We put together this list, which is only as good as our frail human bodies allowed it to be.

VelociRaptors In RAID 5, A Case Study In Speed (546 diggs) The team at HotHardware decided to RAID up not two but three WD VelociRaptor drives in a RAID 5 configuration with an Areca PCIe X8 hardware RAID card, to see what the numbers looked like. This is only a quick-take on read performance but it certainly gives you a sense of scale and what these drives are capable of in the right environment.

Nvidia PhysX runs on AMD Radeon 3870, scores 22,000 CPU mark (948 diggs) Haifa (Israel) – This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com told us that he has done it already and was able to get the Nvidia PhysX layer to run on ATI Radeon cards.

Your Server Room is officially in the crapper, almost (2,323 diggs) The access to the server room is now via the women ’s bathroom. There will be a sign on the woman’s door that can be changed from OPEN to CLOSED and vice versa. Should you need to enter the server room, please change the sign to CLOSED. Once you are done, please change it back to OPEN.

Ultra HD Video Means 10 Million Pixels (972 diggs) Love 'em or hate 'em, Comcast sure knows how to throw together a 10 million pixel video display. The one seen here is available for ogling at the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, and covers over 2,100 square feet of wall space with four-millimeter LED lights.

nVidia turning it's GPU's into "PhysX Physics Processors" (1,019 diggs) You may not know somebody that bought a PhysX card, but if you're a PC gamer with a relatively recent NVIDIA card, you've already got one. Or, at least, you will soon.A proportion of the 3D card's power can be given over to running physics, giving those fancy PhysX-style interactions without actually having a specific card for it.

Dell Offers Out Of Warranty Sex Chat (2,920 diggs) Has your out of warranty Dell computer crashed? Are you feeling down in the dumps? Cheer up …Dell Chat offers free phone sex referrals! Oops.

New technique to optimize computer speed (856 diggs) This new patented measurement device overcomes nearly all the limitations of current methods. It should enable manufacturers to improve microprocessor production methods and to optimize future computers.

Building a Refrigerator For Your Laptop (601 diggs) Researchers from Purdue University claim they are getting closer to develop a much more efficient cooling system that the traditional heatsink-fan design used in many computers today. Suresh Garimella and Eckhard Groll say they can miniaturize traditional refrigerator designs to become small enough to fit in desktop computers or even notebooks.

$500 for 5 feet of Ethernet cable? (3,733 diggs) Parts of the blogosphere have been buzzing over the discovery of a 1.5-meter Ethernet cable that is being sold for the insane price of $499. The cable would cost you $4 elsewhere. The manufacturer is Denon, and the target customer is the "audio enthusiast." Apparently "audio enthusiast" is Denonese for "sucker."

How a forgotten Intel invention could revolutionize the CPU (1,428 diggs) The next stage for Intel processors? - Integrated DRAM.

10 Awesome Steampunk Designs and Mods [PICS] (1,314 diggs) What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction to the art of Steampunk, with everything from awesomely altered retrofuturistic guitars to a Steampunked iPod.

Fascinating Video Tour of an Equinix Data Center (483 diggs) Equinix is responsible for holding massive amounts of data, including storage for popular sites like MySpace.com. Take a tour of the facilities, and see how much energy it takes to keep the Web alive. CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari reports.

2nd Gen Tesla: More Memory, Bandwidth, Processing Power (550 diggs) Nvidia today announced its second generation of Tesla floating point accelerators based on the GT200 series of graphics processors. It is the first big upgrade for the company ’s supercomputing product portfolio – streamlining the offering and introducing double precision support.

4 ATI GPUs = 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs (901 diggs) Ok, now this one is highly theoretical. But it is simple stunning how much performance is stuck within graphics cards these days. AMD says its new ATI GPUs have a number crunching capability of almost 5 TFlops - which is the equivalent delivered by about 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs back in 1996. Amazing.

NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing (813 diggs) Did you wonder why your GeForce purchasing experience may have changed? Have you wondered why you might have seen all cards priced the same or not priced at all? We have some answers for you on that front and it is called "UMAP."