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Wednesday, 23-February-2011 02:37:47 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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All the best to the folks caught up in the New Zealand Earthquake. Paul sent in this interactive map showing the recent quakes.
Google is backing a contest to make a Moon rover. The final line-up of teams competing for the $30 million (£18.5m) robotic Moon-explorer prize has been confirmed. The prize will go to the builders of the first robot to send back video as it travels over 500 metres of the Moon's surface.
HWSecrets have a thermal paste comparo. The thermal compound, also known as thermal grease, is a key component to get the best cooling performance for your CPU. But are certain products better than others? In order to check this out, we tested thermal compounds from five different brands: Zalman, Prolimatech, Cooler Master, Evercool, and Spire. Let's see what we've learned from this round-up.
A Net Neutrality bill has been rejected in the USA. House Republicans have managed to pull off a high profile rejection of a key tech-related component of the Obama administration's initiatives. In control of the House for the first time in four years, Republicans have voted to overturn so-called "net neutrality" rules proposed earlier this year by the Obama administration.
CRN have an interview with Stephen Conroy. CRN: What's been the most important development in IT/communications in the past decade? SC: The iPod, iPhone, iPad and iTunes store have proved you can monetise online commerce.
Mpot spotted this neat SSD tablet conversion. But simply dropping in an SSD isn’t going to make things faster. That’s because the stock drive uses a PATA interface. After a bit of snooping [Marek] discovered that the motherboard has a SATA interface that has a bridge connecting to the PATA plug. By removing the bridge and soldering a SATA cable to the board he was able to improve performance while increasing storage capacity at the same time.
Today's timewaster is Blocks, but I can't see how to turn the music off.
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