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21 Nov 08
Online Activities Help Teens’ Development
[H]ardOCP: How long have we been saying that a daily dose of the [H] is good for you? Apparently it took 28 researchers more than three years and $50 million dollars to find out that online gaming, forums and social networking sites help teens development.
Online games, social-networking Web sites, and ...

21 Nov 08
Thief Demanding PC Gets Pummeled Instead
[H]ardOCP: A word of warning to anyone considering robbing a geek...dont take his computer, he might just kick your ass. The funny thing is that the victim had no problem coughing up the wallet but when it came to his laptop, he gave the robber stitches in the head instead. Thanks to Tytalus for the feel ...

21 Nov 08
Funny Friday Tech Story
[H]ardOCP: Can you actually e-mail a drawing of a spider to a company to pay off your past due bills? No, but it is still pretty damn funny. Blame [H] forum member MrAgmoore for this one.
Dear David, Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains ...

21 Nov 08
Thieves Made Millions On eBay
[H]ardOCP: A group of thieves got away with selling millions of dollars worth of computers and electronics on eBay before they were finally brought down by the cops. Credit also has to be given to the Best Buy security team that had their own investigation going and helped cops catch the crooks. The bad news is, ...

21 Nov 08
Movie Studios Sue ISP Over BitTorrent Piracy
[H]ardOCP: I am not sure how an ISP that offers high speed internet is failing to take reasonable steps to prevent piracy but that is exactly what the movie studios are claiming. I just love this quote from the article:
The problem is clearly not lost on Michael Malone: I think they genuinely ...

21 Nov 08
Apple Releases iPhone 2.2 Update
[H]ardOCP: All you iPhone owners should head on over to Apple and snag the new iPhone 2.2 update. Aside from bug fixes, this update brings the ability to download podcasts straight to the iPhone, GPS and Google Maps enhancements and, most importantly, Apple has finally addressed the dropped call issue.
Some ...

21 Nov 08
VIA Collaborates on Open Source Video Driver
[H]ardOCP: VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the next step in its ongoing cooperation with the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community. Building on the recent release of the VIA graphics driver available on the VIA Linux Portal (http://linux.via.com.tw), ...

21 Nov 08
Wrath of Lich King Breaks 24-hour Sales Record
DailyTech: Wrath of the Lich King breaks day one sales records...

21 Nov 08
IBM and US Government Seek to Build Computer Brain as Smart as a Cat
DailyTech: IBM is trying to develop circuits that mimic the human brain...

21 Nov 08
5 GHZ+ Phenom II Overclock on LN2
PC Perspective: Today AMD was showing off its upcoming desktop Phenom II processor to a handful of journalists, and one of the main topics of the presentation is the "headroom" that AMD is building into the Phenom II processor.
The die shot of the 45 nm Phenom II. 2 MB of L2 (512 KB per core) and 6 MB of L3 ...
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