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Fly me to the moon

Look where I've gone at home…

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If you’re a serious airline geek like me, you’ve saved every airline boarding pass you’ve ever used. No, it doesn’t make sense but you do it anyway. But until recently, my boarding passes sat in …

Kent German | July 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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Has your Nvidia GPU melted down?

Nvidia’s second quarter financial results, released yesterday, were mostly bad news for the company. But there’s potentially bad news for consumers, too: Nvidia revealed plans to take a $150 million to $200 million charge to cover anticipated repair and return costs arising from a “weak die/packaging material …

Michelle Thatcher | July 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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Apple cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is now cheaper if you want the flash-memory hard drive option.

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Apple has quietly reduced the price of the flash-memory version of the MacBook Air by $500.

Appleinsider tipped us to the new price, which can be found at the online Apple Store. Before today, …

Tom Krazit | July 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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Motorola ZN5 clears FCC

We’ve told you already about the Motorola ZN5, but today we learned that it has been cleared by the FCC. Only the most passionate cell phone geeks know that the Federal Communications Commission holds a treasure trove of information on upcoming handsets. Because the FCC has to certify every …

Kent German | July 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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Flat-screen TVs worse than coal power?

A chemical used to make LCD televisions and semiconductors could cause more global warming than coal-fired power plants, a report warns.

Nitrogen trifluoride is a “missing greenhouse gas,” according to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters on June 26. It’s used in chemical vapor deposition for …

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The pointless USB paper clip dispenser

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No sooner did we post an item about an ill-advised promotional tchotchke that another one has popped up on the radar. But unlike the previous gadget, this one isn’t of dubious value because of anachronistic timing; rather, it would be questionable no matter when it came …

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USB Web ‘Button’ takes a step back in time

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It’s hard to imagine someone using an item like this more than once, but the “Push Button USB Webkey” apparently isn’t intended for everyday use. It’s basically a keychain-giveaway type of promotional tchotchke that has just one purpose, to open up a specific Web page …

3Jul2008 | Mike Yamamoto | 0 comments | Continued
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Garmin navigation devices run Linux

LinuxDevices has uncovered an impressive fact about Garmin’s Nuvi (8xx and 5xxx series) GPS devices:

They’re running Linux.

A quick look at the Nuvi 8xx source code indicates that the devices run a 2.6.17.7 Linux kernel on a Marvell “Monahans” processor, likely either the Marvell

3Jul2008 | Matt Asay | 0 comments | Continued
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An alarm clock that should never be built

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Crave has seen all manner of sadistic alarm clocks, from models that emit sonic booms and electrical shocks to those that fly and roll away. But the appropriately named “Tyrant” from Taiwanese designer Alice Wang takes sleep disruption to a disturbing new level.

If you don’t turn …

3Jul2008 | Mike Yamamoto | 0 comments | Continued