Earthquake detection software gains foothold in California
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Retro Mega Man 10 commercial – complete with V-Hold issues
The whole time I was watching this Mega Man 10 fauxmercial, I was thinking “something about this is wrong.” And yes, it’s all wrong, of course, but specifically… it’s 16:9. Man, there ain’t no NES commercials in 16:9!
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Microsoft’s Game Room for Xbox ‘rewinds’ the hits in our hands-on demo
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Permalink | | Email this | CommentsKingston’s new “fastest memory ever” probably is, but won’t be next month

I haven’t been keeping up with the hardware. Last year I was all set because I’d recently built my PC, but all this dag-nabbed Macintosh-using has made me lazy. So when Kingston says their new HyperX 2400MHz DDR3 RAM is the fastest in the world and is timed at 9-11-9-27-2, all I can do is nod my head, open a new tab, and hit “New Post.” The result… is what you see.
The fact is that it’s a full-time job to keep up with enthusiast hardware. I skimmed this great roundup of processor features recently and it let me know how much I’d missed out on — and of course there’s memory and motherboards to think of as well.
I’m planning on putting together a new PC sometime in the next six months or so, at which time I’ll check in with all my favorite hardware sites and get a digest of what’s been happening, what’s a gyp, what’s on the horizon, and so on. But in the meantime, just check out the fins on these babies! This isn’t only the fastest RAM in the world, it’s also the first RAM you can simultaneously burn and stab yourself with!
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Bunker buster robot will be like an underground missile

Well, there goes Zion. That rave-lovin’ excuse for a remnant of humanity would have been taken out in a trice by these Robotic Underground Munitions. And so it will be once the Robocalypse hits. Why are we doing the machines’ job for them? Here, I’ve got a better name for these bunker-busting subterranean missiles: Drill-based Earth-Asploding Terrifying Horrorbots.
I guess it’s worth nothing that pretty much every missile fired is at this point a robot, what with the GPS navigation, on-board cameras and all that. But somehow when they’re in the air they aren’t quite as scary. Under the ground, though — remember Tremors? And Screamers? And Gremlins? Well, that last one not so much, but still worth thinking about.
Note: the above illustration is not an accurate representation of this nightmare technology. It is Drill Man.
Comcast will broadcast the Masters Tournament in 3D April 7-11, beat DirecTV to the punch
Very cagey way to play it Comcast. While DirecTV, ESPN and Discovery were first to say they would have 3DTV broadcasts back at CES, the cable company will actually be the first to deliver it, starting with the Masters Tournament (but why not the 3D broadcast of the Final Four?) April 7-11. That's right, the first "live next-generation 3D broadcast of a major sporting event on TV, the first live simulcast of a next-gen 3D event online, and the industry's first live multi-camera next-gen 3D production" will be on cable (& internet), not satellite or telco. Again, that's right, if you don't have a 3D television set up yet, it will also be streamed at Masters.com (no word whether this is a Comcast only or if it will be open to all) for those with a 3D setup on their PC. We'll temper our expectations until we see what kind of quality is able to squeeze through Comcast's fiber backbone and down our neighborhood coax wires, but this should certainly blow away the anaglyph stuff currently offered on VOD. Of course, the old school HD streams will still be broadcast on ESPN and CBS, but if Tiger really does make his comeback at Augusta this should give us a better view of the course (and any residual damage from that "car accident") than ever before.[Thanks, Simon]
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Three Windows Phone 7 Series devices, all in a row
Three Windows Phone 7 Series devices, all in a row originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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