Researchers say crab-based computing possible, lobsters throw up claws in disbelief

IBM’s Holey Optochip ? Yawn

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Mac shipments rise 21% as PCs decline in the US

Gartner has released its preliminary data on PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2011. Worldwide PC shipments declined 1.4 percent from the year before while US PC shipments declined by 5.9 percent with most vendors experiencing a downward slide except for Apple

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MAINGEAR outs AMD HD 7970 toting gaming PCs

AMD has launched a new video card, the AMD Radeon HD 7970, and performance PC specialist MAINGEAR has wasted no time in slotting it inside another beastly desktop. The MAINGEAR SHIFT and F131  each offer the new 28nm Radeon as an option, pairing it with up to Intel hexacore Core i7 3.3GHz processors and up to 32GB of DDR3 memory. There’s also liquid cooling, and if you’re feeling particularly flush you can pair up the Radeon HD 7970 with up to three of its friends, since quad CrossFireX setups are supported

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AMD Radeon HD 7970: world’s first 28nm GPU

AMD  has revealed its newest video card at CES 2012 , the AMD Radeon HD 7970, using the the world’s first 28nm GPU and Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. Packing 3GB of DDR5 video memory, two DVI outputs, two Mini-DisplayPorts and a single HDMI, the Radeon HD 7970 can be combined in up to quad-card CrossFireX setups for frankly ridiculous gaming performance. Alternatively you can just use AMD Eyefinity and string a number of displays off of a single card

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The Facebook Messenger desktop app is here

Facebook quietly (unknowingly?) unveils its desktop chatting client.

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Are more than half some countries’ populations on Facebook?

According to site monitoring service Pingdom, Facebook is so pervasive that over over half the population of some countries are on the service. And would you believe Cyprus is leading the way?

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Researcher reveals flaw in Wi-Fi Protected Setup

Security researcher Stefan Viehbock has found a major flaw in Wi-Fi Protected Setup that can enable access to PIN-protected networks in just a few hours.

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Yellow slime mold may hold the key to bio-computers

A Japanese scientist named Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at the Future University Hakodate, is working with amoeboid yellow slime mold.

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Some Intel Ivy Bridge processors to debut on April 8 say sources

We already know that the Intel Ivy Bridge processors are coming and that they are the follow-ups to the Sandy Bridge units already available. Not too long ago some pricing details on the Ivy Bridge parts leaked for us to look at.

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