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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 3-October-2008 13:24:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The wreckage of Steve Fossett's plane has been found, indicating he died instantly after crashing into a mountainside. An NTSB team arrived Thursday to investigate the crash. Rosenker said investigators, based on examinations of the debris, believe that the plane struck the mountain horizontally but not necessarily head-on.
Digit-Life checked out the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 in real-life apps, focussing on how memory speed affects performance. Adobe Photoshop takes advantage of faster memory more effectively with the QX9770 processor -- twice as efficiently as with Phenom X4 9850. Alas, "twice as efficiently" in this case means just 6% versus 3%, that is very little at best.
Here's an interesting dual mobile touchscreen prototype. First of all, I wasn't interested in an ebook reader. I wanted a device that was all about writing. Sure, reading and writing go hand in hand - you encounter cool ideas and search out reference material on the web-but what I wanted to build was a tool for thought.
NVIDIA and ATI are involved in a class-action lawsuit over GPU price fixing, thanks Loop Goose. The suit alleges that NVIDIA and ATI conspired to fix prices in the GPU segment in an effort to stabilize GPU prices resulting in buyers paying more for the companies' respective products.
Another laptop thief has been sprung by remote access, thanks Sniper. Jose Caceres said he used a remote access program to log on every day and watch his computer being used, and then tipped off police, leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old male suspect.
Google have made their 2001 index available, thanks Jesta. In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.
Quite a few people sent in this story about toxic fumes and Apple computers. Very interesting screenshot on that Mac. :)
HotHardware have a 9800GT face-off between Gigabyte and Palit. Both cards are clocked at the exact same level, but feature different coolers and different sized frame buffers.
Metku meanwhile have a 6-way DDR3 roundup. This time we are mainly going to concentrate on the performance of the kits, not the technology behind them. The people at CSX, Patriot, Crucial, G.Skill, Mushkin and Corsair were nice enough to join us.
If you're bored, you can put Steve Ballmer into a tutu.
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