Monthly Archives: April 2009

Mazda, which has been fiddling with hydrogen cars for a long time, is sending some hydrogen-fueled RX-8 sports cars to Norway. Norway? Yep. Norway loves the stuff enough to build a hydrogen highway, and Mazda is more than happy to … Continue reading →

A bizarre spoke-like pattern of troughs and ridges has been found on the surface of Mercury by NASA’s Messenger spacecraft. The feature is unlike any to be found in basins on Mercury or elsewhere in the solar system. The feature … Continue reading →

The French movie site Allocine has posted the first look at the trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which you can watch after the jump. Who?

If you are not not already sitting down, do so now, because this news is not for the weak or easily scared. That said, the new graphics in Intel’s upcoming CPUs are not going to suck. You may be familiar … Continue reading →

Congress agreed April 29 to continue flying the space shuttle until 2011. Originally scheduled for a 2010 retirement, lawmakers approved the extension along with an additional $2.5 billion in operational funding as part of the House and Senate conference agreement … Continue reading →

Microsoft Corp. will let users run Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for more than a year, giving them free use of the new operating system for a significantly longer time than it did Vista’s previews. Windows 7 RC, slated for … Continue reading →

Drivers trained in mileage-maximizing techniques such as smooth acceleration and coasting to red lights were able to get an extraordinary 1,445.7 miles out of a single tank of gas during a fund-raising effort in Washington, D.C. that concluded today. They … Continue reading →

Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most … Continue reading →

From The Inquirer: AMD CELEBRATED its Opteron chip’s sixth birthday in a fitting way by accelerating the six-core Istanbul release to June, and by announcing the 12-core total of two Istanbul dies in one Magny-Cours package to come out half … Continue reading →

The Samsung Story is here looking more like a high-end home stereo component than a desktop peripheral. Don’t let its rigid looks fool you it’s actually meant to be a very user friendly 1.5TB backup device for all your favorite … Continue reading →

Although Microsoft Corp. today said it had delivered Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) to subscribers of the company’s developer and IT services, the download sites for those services were offline as of noon ET. Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) and TechNet … Continue reading →

Apparently, not that many. There are 8 confirmed deaths from Swine Flu in Mexico (there have been 160 deaths but only 8 confirmed from H1N1) and 1 in the United States. So that would be what, 9? That would be … Continue reading →

Just a few months after releasing a solid Windows 7 beta, Microsoft has today made the release candidate of its new operating system available for download, and confirmed that boxed copies will be in the shops in January 2010. MSDN … Continue reading →

This gentleman is extremely upset about his MacBook Air’s damaged hinge, so what does he do? He stabs it in the face, obviously. More

A 1/10th-scale model of a NASA Saturn V rocket launched successfully on Saturday, becoming what is thought to be the largest amateur rocket ever to take off and be safely recovered. The feat could herald the arrival of the first … Continue reading →