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Apple's New MacBook Air: The End of the Conventional Hard Drive?

Apple introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air today, and it's a feat of miniaturization. Steve Jobs described it as "what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up." Perhaps most intriguingly, the new MacBook Air ...READ»

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Mac Rumor Roundup: Lion on the Prowl?

In advance of Apple's super-secret announcement in Cupertino tomorrow, we serve up the gossip and rate its likelihood.READ»

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Tools of My Trade: Shanghai Peace Hotel's Architect Ian Carr

From pencils to messenger bags, the things that inspire the architect behind the renovation of Shanghai's historic Peace Hotel.READ»

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PC Bling: Diamonds to Make Supercomputers Super Fast

Scientists say diamond-based circuits could exponentially increase speed and data storage. READ»

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Nokia's N9 Smartphone: Like an iPhone, but Less Brave

Data on Nokia's N9 smartphone, one great white hope to turn round its business, has leaked. And whaddyaknow? It's very Apple-esque. It's almost like the iPhone may have been, if Johnny Ive had smaller balls. READ»

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Russian President Medvedev to Tour Silicon Valley With Jobs as Tour Guide

So, Dmitry Medvedev has hit California for a three-day tour. He's safe, since Jack Bauer is probably holed up with a caipirinha (caipirosky?) on a South American beach. (I could tell you where, but then I'd have to go dark and, ...READ»

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Why You'll Lust for iPhone 4, Even Though You Don't Need One

Apple's iPhone 4 was officially announced today, will you be upgrading? After using the device for just a short while, our impression is that you certainly will want to.READ»

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International Supercomputing Conference

On the world's fastest supercomputer, named Jaguar, scientists are simulating the past 21,000 years of earth's climate history -- a feat that would take average desktop PCs centuries to complete. Or, in science-speak: "After theory ...READ»

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WANTED: Henge MacBook Dock

You dock your phone, MP3 player, and peripherals--why not your MacBook?READ»

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The Young App-rentices: Five App Developers Ages 16 and Under [UPDATE]

Meet four minor App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they're part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they're cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them.READ»

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Why Those iPhone 4 Leaked Photos Make Sense

A huge surge of excitement has surrounded pictures of what may, or may not be, the next-gen iPhone for 2010. The images surfaced at Engadget, sourced from someone who'd supposedly found the device dropped in a public place. The photos ...READ»

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iPad's First-Day Stutters: Problems Charging Over USB and iPhone App Upscaling

The overwhelming response to the iPad, both with words and with wallets, has been positive on its opening day. But it's not all perfect--here are the quirks new iPad owners have encountered.READ»

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Seton Hill University to Hand Out iPads, Sense of Superiority Starting This Year?

First year students at Seton Hill University will allegedly receive both a 13-inch MacBook Pro and an iPad starting in Fall 2010, thus becoming the most jealousy-inducing college in the country. Or this is a cruel April Fools joke.READ»

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Dimitri Medvedev Rocks Biggest Portable This Side of Gordon Gekko's Cell Phone

When it comes to laptops, Dimitri Medvedev doesn't exactly go for portability. The Russian president favors the Tandberg Tactical MXP, a beefy monster that boasts over thirteen types of embedded encryption, and is mainly used for ...READ»

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Apple’s iPad opens the door to Voltron-computing

By now, everyone has seen the iPad, the new device released from Apple in January. While many arguments have been made by prominent writers and technologists as to why the iPad is great (HTML5) or why the iPad is a dud (No Flash), I ...READ»

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Tech Life | Shervin Pishevar (Founder, SGN)

Tech Life follows the daily routines of the world's Fastest movers and shakers to find out what products make them click--and scroll and surf, too.READ»

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Bi-curious? Going Mac for the Holidays

My elusive quest for an operating system ended with AppleREAD»

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Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges

Facebook and Twitter offer businesses both opportunities and challenges around the world: About 60% of users are outside the United States.READ»

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Hey Apple, I'm Not Paying $200 for a Black Keyboard

In an inexplicably poor marketing decision, Apple's new economic Macbook has better specs than it’s ostensibly more powerful companion, the Macbook Pro. The 13" Macbook, retailing at $999, boasts 250 gigs of hard drive space and a ...READ»

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Will a $1.25B Antitrust Settlement From Intel and New Fusion Chips Save AMD?

In a culimation of talks that began in spring '08, Intel has just agreed to pay $1.25 billion (cash, due in 30 days) to its biggest rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and agreed to a set of "business practice ...READ»

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Apple Magic Mouse Hands On

Apple's Magic Mouse is an aluminum base topped off with a curvy, white multitouch surface. You point; you gesture with fingers. It's a little weird to use but leagues ahead of the mighty mouse. I may go back to mice. The ...READ»

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How can you give away free gadgets and make money?

It sounds like a crazy business plan: Make money by giving away free gadgets. Any prospective investor would surely run a mile on hearing such a line. However, delve a little deeper and all becomes clear.READ»

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Apple Tablet Rumor, for the Umpteenth Time--but Now With Details

You're going to keep hearing Apple Tablet rumors until the nice folks at Cupertino actually roll one off the production line, or point-blank rule out such a gizmo...but the latest batch have some very specific specs associated with ...READ»

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Apple's Snow Leopard Is an Unlikely Green Beast

Apple's Snow Leopard upgrade to OS X has many subtle behind the scenes powers that assure it'll remain cutting edge for a good while, but it also seems to have unexpected green skills: It could save the world 50GigaWatts of ...READ»