Dressed in white, the traditional color of mourning in China, the father of 19-year-old Ma Xiangqian weeps outside the gates of a sprawling electronics complex. His wife and daughter kneel alongside. Ma is one of Continue reading “Foxconn Suicides Finally Make Mainstream World News Headlines”.
Computer virus in a human? No, it doesn’t cause a runny nose and a fever but rather the body acts as a host that allows the virus to spread to nearby connected systems. A British Continue reading “First Human ‘Infected with Computer Virus’”.
VIA Labs, Inc., a leading supplier of USB 3.0 integrated chip controllers, today announced the VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 Host Controller. Adding to the industry’s leading line-up of USB 3.0 products, the VL800 is Continue reading “VIA Labs VL800 USB 3.0 4-Port Host Controller Announced”.
Media Temple, Web hosting provider for Adobe, ABC, Sony, NBC, Time, Volkswagen, and Starbucks, was hit with a sophisticated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Tuesday. The outage began about 3:50 p.m. PDT, when Media Temple’s domain Continue reading “Web Host Media Temple Shut Down By Attack”.
A group of amateur astronomers claim they have found the US Air Force’s “top secret” space shuttle, the X37-B. The minature space shuttle was launched from Florida last month amid speculation that it was to Continue reading “Astronomers Unravel X37-B Orbit, Say Likely Used For Deploying Spy Satellites”.
Audi has announced that its upcoming 2011 Audi A8 will be released with the option of a factory-installed wireless Internet hotspot inside the car. The A8 will be the first car worldwide to offer the Continue reading “Audi to Offer Internet Access in 2011 A8 Sedan”.
BP had agreed to provide a live video feed of the spill at the bottom of the ocean but Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts said Tuesday that BP said it will terminate the Continue reading “BP Will Kill Live Video Feed Of Oil Spill During Top Kill Attempt”.
Straight on the heels of Intels announcement of six new Mobile Processors, Intels Director of Product & Technology PR, Bill Kircos posted an update on their GPU programs. One of the biggest pieces of news Continue reading “Intel Kills Larrabee Discrete GPU Program”.
Antec just announced that the LanBoy Air chassis has been awarded the prestigious COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 Design & Innovation prize for excellence in design quality in the Components and Parts category. Check out some pictures Continue reading “Antecs LanBoy Air Open Case Wins Award Prior To Computex!”.
Today NVIDIA put up a blog post that introduced the GeForce GTX 480M GPU, the worlds fastest notebook GPU. This is a big deal as it is the companies first DirectX 11 graphics processing unit Continue reading “NVIDIA Realesed The World’s Fastest Notebook GPU – GeForce GTX 480M”.
Today Kingston is releasing HyperX Blu, an entry level offering to the HyperX family of memory products. The HyperX blu memory modules have a new look, run at standard JEDEC speeds and timings, and have Continue reading “Kingston Technology Releases HyperX Blu”.
We had previously reported that Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man by embedding a mini game which incorporated the Google name. The not unexpected side effect is that employers paid an estimate 4.8 million Continue reading “Google’s Pac-Man Tribute: Bad for Business?”.
Remember a couple weeks back that we informed you that the eighth and ninth employee committed suicide at Foxconn China plant in just 3 months? Well, one more employee just jumped from the roof of Continue reading “Tenth Death Reported at Foxconn China Plant”.
Lexar Media today announced that it is shipping Lexar Professional 133x Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards in 16GB and 32GB capacities to retail outlets. With the 16GB and 32GB capacities of the Lexar Continue reading “Lexar Now Shipping 16GB and 32GB 133x SDHC Cards”.
G.Skill Phoenix 100GB SandForce SF-1200 Solid State Drive @ TweakTown and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! “When the G.Skill Phoenix 100GB drive arrived I was a bit Continue reading “May 25 News from Around the Web”.
