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While many of the domestic automakers offered steep price cuts on top of “Cash for Clunkers”, many buyers chose to purchase vehicles from foreign manufacturers instead.  Leading the pack was Toyota, whose Corolla was the leading vehicle purchased under the program by the first week of August.  Even recently retired Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) traded [...]

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Each year at Stanford University the giants of the microprocessor industry come to the Hot Chips conference to showcase their newest and most powerful processors. During the conference the chips are run through benchmarks and one will walk away with bragging rights of the fastest processor available.
At this year’s conference, IBM is tossing its [...]

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Cloaking objects is a big area of research for many scientists. Much of the research is focusing more on cloaking objects from certain types of waves like sound and vibration more than it is focusing on making things invisible to the naked eye.
A researcher for the University of Utah named Graeme Milton has developed [...]

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One of the features common to most smartphones today is GPS. Using GPS, the devices can detect the user’s current location to help them do all sorts of things from finding local restaurants and friends to getting driving and walking directions.
TomTom has announced that its iPhone GPS navigation app is now available in the [...]

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The Navigon 4350 Max is a smart little device. It packs all the latest must-haves, including text-to-speech navigation and a clear 3D display. The system also boasts text-to-speech traffic congestion instructions.
The system uses the Traffic Message Channel data broadcast system to pick up data about jams, and though gathering the TMC data was slow, [...]

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The Freeloader Pro solar charger comes with two solar panels, making it larger than some of the competition, but at 174g it’s still a comfortable fit in most pockets.
To charge the unit, just unclip one panel, flip it over and reconnect it to the other, then place in direct sunlight.
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Just a couple weeks ago the suicide of a young employee at iPhone-manufacturer Foxconn, reportedly after being beaten and interrogated by his employer, shocked the tech community.  Now another incident of alarming brutality in China has reached the public eye.
The life of 16-year-old Deng Senshan was cut tragically short when several counselors at a [...]

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For those people proficient enough to install their own satellite dish – Metronic are now offering the first DIY Freesat kit.
On sale at retailer Maplin, for £180, you can now get your mitts on a high-definition enabled Metronics set-top box, a 48cm Freesat mesh antenna and various accoutrements.
As WotSat points out – you [...]

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One of Windows 7’s most interesting features is going to be the Windows XP mode, available on Professional and Ultimate edition licenses.  Typically, virtual machines are only supported via separately purchase software from vendors such as VMWare and Microsoft.  This limits its audience and appeal to many everyday users.  So Microsoft decided to do something [...]

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For the most part, we think you’d agree, walls are good things.
They do all kinds of useful little jobs. Like holding up your roof, keeping the wind out and dulling the noise from your bickering neighbours and their ASBO-generating kids. But did you know that CPUs also have walls?
OK, we’re only talking metaphorically. But a [...]

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