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Wednesday, 8-April-2009 15:57:37 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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HotHardware have a sneak peek at a new SSD from Corsair. The drive we received is branded as a Corsair S256, but we've been told that when the drive hits store shelved the official product name will be P256--the "S" is changing to a "P". We set it up for a quick round of HD-Tach and this SSD could actually give Intel something to think about.
I missed this when it first came out (check the date) but drayzen sent in this video of a new Opera feature, "Face Gestures. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. By using an internal technology dubbed Face Observation Opera Language, we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser. Funny stuff.
Internode are gobsmacked, in a good way, about the Government's post-NBN plan. In these challenging economic times, such nation-building investment is exactly the right response to the telecommunications challenges Australia faces for the next decade.
A few people sent in this rack of 23 GeForce GTX295's. The article makes it sound like it's all in one PC, but it seems to be several motherboards in a rackmount setup. Still, plenty of grunt, I wonder if he's folding on it? Update: seems he is! more info here, thanks DM.
General Motors and Segway have combined forces to make a Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility vehicle for zipping around the city. Ideally, the vehicles would also be part of a communications network that through the use of transponder and GPS technology would allow them to drive themselves. The vehicles would automatically avoid obstacles such as pedestrians and other cars and therefore never crash, Burns said.
That passing comment I noticed the other day about the UK storing internet information seems to be true. Details of every email sent and website visited by people in Britain are to be stored for use by the state from tomorrow as part of what campaigners claim is a massive assault on privacy.
iXBT keep looking into CPUs and GPUs. We proceed with a series of practical articles, in which we analyze sufficiency of various CPU+GPU combinations for games, trying to keep our test conditions as close to popular realia as possible. We hope that such articles will come in handy to readers willing to reasonably distribute their budget between a graphics card and a processor.
TweakGuides have an update: The new versions of the TweakGuides Tweaking Companions (TGTC) for both XP and Vista are now available. All versions of the TGTC, both the Regular and Deluxe Editions, e-book and hardcopy, have been updated. This is a reasonably major update given the last time the Companions were revised was over 6 months ago.
I4U have info about upgrading a laptop with a SSD. I4U News published a report on upgrading the classic IBM Thinkpad X40 with the new KingSpec SSD that works as drop-in replacement of the noisy and slow 20GB 1.8 inch HDD.
GoN have a WoW interview. While recently in the US for GDC San Francisco, we dropped in on Blizzard HQ to see what they were up to - and ran into Tom Chilton, World of Warcraft lead game designer, who was more than happy to have a bit of a chat about the impending 3.1 content patch.
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