event models to determine what it is most likely that thing we’d want to do at a given time. The machine will then take a cue from that model and do in advance that thing of our modeled request. If we end up not using it, then nothing was really wasted as...

Microsoft Deems Xbox Live User's Gamertag Inappropriate, Gamertag Is User's Real Name. Gaywood Xbox Live. A little while ago, Micorsoft suspended an Xbox Live account with the gamer tag “TheGAYERgamer” claiming it violated the Xbox Live policy on sexual...

Do We Really Need Cinema 2.0?. AMD Cinema movie. Opinion - AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower hidden in the company's graphics card..   Opinion - AMD pitches an enticing idea that takes advantage of the massive horsepower...

Of course, hardware acceleration does not work without software and both ATI/AMD and Nvidia are relatively weak in this area. It is one side to demonstrate a cool technology, but you really want to have an actually retail/e-tail friendly product to create a...

Windows 3.11 To Disappear In November (really). Windows. Microsoft said that Windows for Workgroups 3.11 will officially be gone by November 1, 2008 and not longer be available in the embedded channel via OEM licenses. Windows 3.11, which was offered by Microsoft...

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Surprise, Surprise: U.S. Broadband Is Slow. Really Slow.. broadband Internet. Chicago (IL) - U.S. broadband speeds are the focus of a recently conducted study by Communications Workers of America (CWA) union and the results are not especially flattering for...

New iPod Shuffle Gets Really Tiny, Loses Control. apple ipod shuffle 3g third. How often does Apple launch a new product without making a big event out of it (with the media in tow)? Almost never. But that’s exactly what happened with today’s reveal of...

away that that. Still, the company is thrilled that the killer ray can be built, that it's just not figures on paper, that it really works. "This achievement is particularly important because the 100kW threshold has been viewed traditionally as a proof of principle...