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45 years of PC mice - an illustrated retrospective

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Did you know that the buddy you use on a daily basis on the PC is 45 years old now? If not, German site PCGH.de gathered a lot of old and current mice, weird ones and well-known ones, and put them together in a retrospective. Nice read.

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Weird Tech: Magnetic boy freezes Xbox 360

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A 12-year-old-boy whose inability to touch a PC without it crashing nearly caused him to fail his social studies class, has been diagnosed as having a "static problem". Dubbed 'Magneto Man', Joe Falciatano repeatedly disrupted slide show presentations and caused his Xbox to inexplicably freeze, before a teacher finally suggested he wear a grounded, anti-static wrist strap.

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XDR rambus on the PS3: faster is better

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Many argue over the relative power put into the Playstation 3 entertainment system with out fully grasping the technology that has gone into this monumental hardware giant. The most common issue that people take into account with the system is the seemingly small 256MB of dedicated video and 256MB of system memory. Click the link for more the jump on what it all really means. (video is quite long,

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iPhone and Blackberry on collision course

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So the iPhone is headed for the boardroom while the Blackberry begins to court consumers where they spend most of their non-email online time. Will one of them eventually rule both worlds or are they destined to coexist for the foreseeable future?

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PS3 Hands-On BD-Live Blu-ray Impressions With Walk Hard

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TMR gets ahold of Walk Hard with BD-Live and puts the new Blu-ray technology through the paces, comparing it against online gaming networks.

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Wii Homebrew Channel Beta Trial now available

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A custom Wii channel created by Team Twiizers, the same people responsible for the Twilight Hack. It allows homebrew to be run from the SD card in a similar fashion to the Twilight Hack, but from the Wii menu, so is more convenient. Currently the Wii Homebrew Channel available for public release is a beta. Currently it allows ten minutes of usage before expiring. Once the channel has expired, it c

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Linux or open source?

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Dana Blankenhorn from Znet writes:"The name of this blog is ?Linux and open source? but the question Microsoft wants you to ask yourself is, simply, Linux or open source? While Linux is an open source operating system, it?s not always free. There is a lot of free open source for Windows. It?s quite easy to have both open source and Windows. I do. You probably do, too. In such an environment,

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Mozilla launches Firefox 3.0 RC1 early

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Mozilla Corp. on Friday rolled out the release candidate for Firefox 3.0, bringing the open-source browser one step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months. The appearance of Firefox Release Candidate 1 (RC1) came earlier than expected. As recently as last Saturday, Mozilla's chief engineer said that although the company had locked down RC1's code, it was planning to publicly launch

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150-Inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV at CES

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Japanese paper Yomiuri is reporting that Panasonic will unveil a 150-inch plasma at CES to show the world who has the biggest flatscreen manufacturing capability. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. has developed a 150-inch plasma display TV panel--the world's largest, according to sources. Matsushita, which is best known for its Panasonic brand, will introduce a prototype model of the television a

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New Line Details Transition to Blu-ray

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Confirming earlier reports that it would follow Warner to Blu-ray exclusivity, New Line says its first HD DVD title ('Pan's Labryinth') will also be its last. As for 'Pan's Labryinth,' which hit stores late last year as the first (and only) New Line HD DVD release, the studio says that once current retail supplies are depleted, the title will be discontinued - making it an instant collector's item

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