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(link) Friday, 16-April-2010 13:05:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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This seems like quite a sudden turnaround, but President Obama has set the USA's sights on Mars. He was laying out the details of his new policy for the US space agency. Mr Obama said he was giving Nasa challenging goals and the funding needed to achieve them, including an extra $6bn over the next five years. Hooray! Discussion here.
There are some new MacBook Pros, but if you had your heart set on an iPad, you're going to have to wait. Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. More info here.
Seagate is partnering with movie studios to preload HDDs with unlockable movies. Seagate and Paramount’s digital entertainment division will announce on Monday that some of Seagate’s pocket-sized 500-gigabyte FreeAgent Go portable hard drives sold in the US will be preloaded with 20 popular movies including contemporary movies such as GI Joe and The Love Guru, which will cost from $9.99 each to unlock.
It seems most piracy estimates are bogus according to a US Government study. In a new report out yesterday, the government's own internal watchdog took a close look at "efforts to quantify the economic effects of counterfeit and pirated goods." After examining all the data and consulting with numerous experts inside and outside of government, the Government Accountability Office concluded that it is "difficult, if not impossible, to quantify the economy-wide impacts."
Tech Report have a SSD roundup. SSDs are finally cheap enough to be tempting for use in high-performance desktops. The market is teeming with new entrants, too. But which one is best? We look at new drives from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD to find out. Meanwhile PC Perspective respond to BenchmarkReviews' earlier article about AHCI or IDE mode for SSD performance.
Bjorn3D take us through flashing a GPU BIOS. Having had to do that today it struck me that other people might want easy access to a 'How to make a USB drive windows 98 bootable' for flashing their boards. Hours later here I sit with pictures in hand, bootable USB drive flashing my GPU BIOS and half wondering how I got here.
There's some concerns about slave labour like conditions in Chinese factories that produce many of our techno goodies, thanks Rory. Recent reports reveal our insatiable lust for the latest gadgets is having a shocking impact on workers in countries such as China, who are being made to work more than 80 hours a week in sweatshop conditions for as little as 52 cents an hour.
GoN report on the continuing Ubisoft DRM nightmare, thanks Mockier. It's now been three DRM-plagued weeks since the launch of The Settlers 7. Two facts rear their unsightly heads from the public relations nightmare of the last twenty-one days: that some unhappy gamers are still unable to play the game they paid for, and that Ubisoft have failed to make any statement on the problems.
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