“I mean, it was five minutes and (the computer) was in flames,” Cindy Brown said. “The computer burst into flames. It doesn’t seem real that you would have a fire in a computer. We all could have died, and the house could have burned down.”
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Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 maker of microchips for personal computers, said on Monday it will spend an additional $2.5 billion to upgrade and expand its two factories in Germany.
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The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is done! 16.4 Feet long. 200,000 Bricks, movable elevators and radar dishes, electric lights on the flight deck, in the hangar, and inside the aircraft, motorized catapult!!! Cost in the 5 Digits.
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\”Developing Made for AdSense Web Sites for Dummies\” tutorial as an attempt to create a vaccine against Made for AdSense web sites.
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The Ford Nucleon was a nuclear-powered concept car developed by Ford Motor Company in 1958. The car did not have an internal-combustion engine, rather, it was powered by a small nuclear reactor in the trunk of the car.
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Elephant Drive, in association with Amazon is creating a service similar to that of Xdrive. However, they offer unlimited offsite backup free of charge if you sign up as a beta tester!
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Mach-Lorentz thrusters could provide a new source of propulsion that “puts out thrust without blowing stuff out the tailpipe”. MLTs are based on Mach’s principle (suggests that all particles in the universe have an effect on each other).
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In a world of Google Earth, Blogger, Writely, Picasa, Hello, Gmail, and Google Talk, it’s easy to forget that Google is ultimately a search engine. Today Google announced 4 products to try and remind the world “Yes, we are still all about search.”
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A Class action has started in the USA alleging that ATI graphics cards don’t support HDCP although it claims they do. The plaintiffs allege that since “at least 2003″,ATI said many of its graphics cards support HDCP. That spec is part of Vista.
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Perhaps lost among other announcements and Sony’s keynote is a rumor about the Nintendo Wii. Based on the latest issue of Electronics Gaming Monthly (EGM) w/ Zelda on the cover, the Nintendo Wii will launch of $250. This is yet unconfirmed but very interesting.
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