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Hexus have a sneak peek at IWill's ZMAXd2. Two dual-core Opterons and SLI video cards.. in an SFF mini-PC.
Some Australian star-gazers have found a new planet with the easy-to-remember name of OB-05-071. It is believed to be around 3 times the weight of Jupiter, and to orbit a star similar to our sun.
TechPowerUp toured the Sapphire Factory in China.
TheReg report on gummi bears being used to defeat fingerprint scanners. Well, not really, but the same gelatine goop. Talking to a guy at the PC Show about this yesterday, their system checks the finger for a pulse while scanning the print. This fixes the gelatine-model problem and also stops someone chopping off your finger to get access to your office. Of course, now they'll just point a gun at your head and make you open the door instead.
Fwoar spotted that Australia has joined Operation Spam Zombies to help stem the ever-growing tide of spam from hijacked PC's.
Remember kids, playing with lightsabres is dangerous. Especially if you make your lightsaber by filling a flouro light tube with petrol, thanks Daniel.
PCPerspective have a preview of AGEIA's PhysX "Physics Processor". In this preview we look at the hardware specifications as they are known today as well as what kind of work AGEIA has gone through thus far to get their software implemented in game engines.
Bit-Tech report on AMD's involvement with the making of Star Wars Episode III.
TrustedReviews have a DDR2 Memory Roundup. As all the modules were rated at least PC4300, 266MHz speeds and, because this is available using either Intel’s 925X or 925XE chipsets, this was the speed at which default testing was carried out.
NYT reckon the Joke is dead, thanks to the Internet.. thanks Te_kin.
Dave spotted this Sci-Fi Casemod Contest, which annoyingly is only open to residents of the USA. They're just afraid of BlueSmurf entering his The Imperator project, I bet.
Poida sent in this little downloadable game for Windows, Linux and Mac. There's a thread discussing it here.
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