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Nokia Receives $1.35 Billion Grant to Develop the “Strongest Material Ever Tested”
— Graphene is a class 2D structure measuring just one atom thick. — Nokia has received a $1.35 billion grant to develop the strongest material to ever. — Graphene is a class 2D structure measuring just one atom thick.
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Hands-on with Kingston's 1TB USB Stick
— We get up close and personal with Kingston's new baby. — While CES is known for bringing a storm of new gadgets, just a few products really stand out each year. On Monday, Kingston announced one such device. In Las Vegas this week, the company unveiled the world's first 1TB USB stick.
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For The First Time Ever, iPhone Owner Loyalty Declines
— Loyalty of iPhone owners in both the United States and Europe experiences first ever decline. — For the first time since the iPhone's inception, the percentage of the smartphone's owners who say they will definitely or probably buy another Apple handset has declined.
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Toshiba's First Hybrid Drives Are Now Shipping
— Toshiba's first line of hybrid drives will first launch in notebooks later this year. — Toshiba said on Tuesday (pdf) that it has shipped its very first line of 2.5-inch hybrid drives, the MQ01ABDH series.
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Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode
— The battle of the browsers reaches critical mass. — The writing is on the wall. While Mozilla and its Firefox browser appear to be a very solid institution in the browser market, it is the weakest link with an extremely attractive portion of the browser user base as well.
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Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked
— Table of contents — “The fastest browser on Earth.” — That's what the Opera homepage has said since Tuesday. After five release candidates and two betas, the boys from Oslo just recently launched the final build of Opera 10.50.
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Nvidia's GF100: Graphics Architecture Previewed, Still No Benchmarks
— Table of contents — ATI is currently rocking a substantial lead in the DirectX 11 space—it's blazing a trail where it has, in the past, often followed suit. “But Chris, ATI gave us DirectX 10.1!”
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Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel's Mainstream Magnum Opus
— Table of contents — Intel's emphasis right now is on Clarkdale, the Nehalem-based mainstream lineup centering on a 32nm process shrink. Clarkdale will be the foundation on which upcoming Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs are based.
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).