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Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:12 am PST
Examiner.com BMW announces the MINI E electric Examiner.com - 43 minutes ago by Rick Trawick, DC Auto Industry Examiner BMW, the parent company of MINI, introduced the MINI...
Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 5:12 am PST
IHateEverybody writes "Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The c...
IHateEverybody writes "Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The chunks are being ripped up along 'magnetic umbrellas,' which are bubbles of magnetic fields which rise from the ground and extend above the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising because scientists previously thought that these magnetic umbrellas protected the Martian atmosphere. Now it looks like exactly the opposite might be true."

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Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:11 am PST
PC World Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records ZDNet - 45 minutes ago Red-faced Verizon Wireless has fired an undisclosed number of employees who couldn’t...
Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:11 am PST
New York Times iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws InfoWorld - 45 minutes ago By Galen Gruman The iPhone 3G and its iPhone 2 OS propelled Apple's lead...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Nov 23, 2008 | 5:00 am PST
Filed under: Portables, Macbook Pro, MacBook Here's a curious thing. Gearlog is reporting that in testing a MacBook Pro, they found substantially lower performance while running on AC power...
Filed under: Portables, Macbook Pro, MacBook

Here's a curious thing. Gearlog is
reporting that in testing a MacBook Pro, they found substantially lower performance while running on AC power alone, with the battery removed. Apparently, Apple doesn't hide this quirk; there's a
Support Document claiming that this is done to prevent "the computer from shutting down if it demands more power than the A/C adapter alone can provide."
On their new unibody MacBook Pro, Gearlog noted a 36% lower processor benchmark without the battery. The upshot is simple: leave the battery in, even if you use your MacBook (Pro) at your desk. Interestingly, at the same time Apple does
recommend allowing the battery to discharge at least once per month.
[via
Engadget]
TUAWMacBooks take performance nosedive on AC power alone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:50 am PST
On the eve of its next major release, the distro produces new figures showing that it's ahead of rivals in total users.
On the eve of its next major release, the distro produces new figures showing that it's ahead of rivals in total users.

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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:30 am PST
Do You Hate Google's New SearchWiki that tried to copy and make a Digg like Interface? Google currently provides NO option to Disable it from your account! Use this quick hack to Turn off SearchWiki f...
Do You Hate Google's New SearchWiki that tried to copy and make a Digg like Interface? Google currently provides NO option to Disable it from your account! Use this quick hack to Turn off SearchWiki from your Firefox & Opera browser! Works like a charm...

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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:10 am PST
Balancing your work and personal life on social networking tools such as Facebook has become more complex than ever -- and the dangers go beyond the well-publicized examples of posting party pictures...
Balancing your work and personal life on social networking tools such as Facebook has become more complex than ever -- and the dangers go beyond the well-publicized examples of posting party pictures to your profile.

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Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 4:02 am PST
Telegraph.co.uk 4 fancy phones are here, but ... Bend Bulletin - 1 hour ago The Apple iPhone relies on roaming to work in Central Oregon - what about its touch-screen competi...
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:00 am PST
Time-based usplash package that makes the bootup bar go smoothly instead of jumping about. Makes the boot process look nicer and gives a more accurate time prediction :)
Time-based usplash package that makes the bootup bar go smoothly instead of jumping about. Makes the boot process look nicer and gives a more accurate time prediction :)

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Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 3:51 am PST
Barence writes "Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the ra...
Barence writes "Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the rankings, or even add their own choice of site to the top of the search results. Google claims that any changes a user makes will only affect their results, and not those of fellow surfers, although it's difficult to believe that some of the feedback generated from the SearchWiki won't be used to fine tune the Google search algorithm. Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"

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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 3:30 am PST
Making a torrent properly is one of the most overlooked aspects in torrenting. Most users of bittorrent only create the .torrent files occasionally, if at all, and others make bad choices and mistakes...
Making a torrent properly is one of the most overlooked aspects in torrenting. Most users of bittorrent only create the .torrent files occasionally, if at all, and others make bad choices and mistakes, which can antagonise people, or make torrents slow to propagate, and lead to an early death.

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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 3:20 am PST
Somebody explain this witchcraft!
Somebody explain this witchcraft!

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Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 2:56 am PST
DailyTech Scientists reconstruct genome of extinct woolly mammoth Business Mirror - 2 hours ago An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the...
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 2:30 am PST
A flaw in Vista's networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack.
A flaw in Vista's networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack.

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Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 1:25 am PST
gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 c...
gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out and are used only for computing. Each Tesla GPU has 240 cores and delivers about 1 TeraFLOPS single precision and about 80 GigaFLOPS double-precision floating point performance. The CPU + GPU is programmed using C with added keywords using a parallel programming model called CUDA. The CUDA C compiler/development toolchain is free to download. There are tons of applications ported to CUDA including Mathematica, LabView, ANSYS Mechanical, and tons of scientific codes from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and electromagnetics; they're listed on CUDA Zone."

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Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 12:11 am PST
guardian.co.uk The Bay Area in pictures for the week of November 16 — November 22 San Francisco Chronicle - 5 hours ago Pacific Union College senior Desiree Quijano grieves...
Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 22, 2008 | 11:27 pm PST
ABC News Astronauts Wrap Up Spacewalk for Repairs Washington Post - 6 hours ago CAPE CANAVERAL -- Spacewalking astronauts completed almost all of the greasy repairs on a gumm...
Slashdot Nov 22, 2008 | 10:31 pm PST
tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released i...
tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released in part to fix some security issues), doesn't bother validating the SSL certificate on the other side before sending along the username and password, making it vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. This is certainly a step up from transmitting the information in the clear, since the attacker must switch from being passive to active, but with all of the DNS security problems, it would be fairly trivial for a malicious attacker to grab a large number of Yahoo! accounts (be it for phishing or spaming). Hopefully this issue will get fixed shortly, but for now Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop users may wish to use the webmail interface."

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digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 22, 2008 | 10:10 pm PST
I'm live from Virgin America's Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes,...
I'm live from Virgin America's Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes, I posted this live, 15k feet over the Pacific Ocean.

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