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iOS 5 and iCloud: Apple Ushers in Post-PC Utopia

One billion 3G users are connected, iPads and iPhones are flying off the shelves, and the PC market is shrinking. The post-PC world, whether you like it or not, will soon be upon us.

 
 

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Sigma's Foveon Sensor: What It Is and How It Makes Megapixels Obsolete

An exorbitantly-priced new camera from Sigma offers a brand new and unique kind of sensor that promises unrivaled sharpness and color accuracy. But is it worth $10,000?

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Structural Power Technology Turns Car Doors into Batteries

Using a special kind of carbon fiber, British and Swedish researchers have created a technology that can turn buildings, bodies, and casings into batteries.

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How to Secure Yourself from GPU Password Cracking

Using a $100 graphics card and a freeware utility, passwords can be cracked at a rate of 3.3 billion guesses per second. If you use a short password, you are not safe.

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10 Things Apple Should do With its Piles of Cash

Apple's success in recent years has led to the accumulation of massive cash reserves. Rather than letting it sit in a vault deep under Cupertino, Apple should put its money to work. Here are some ideas we came up with.

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UC San Diego Builds Phase-Change Solid-State Drive That's 2 to 7 Times Faster Than NAND

Using first-generation phase-change memory chips from Micron, engineers at UCSD have achieved a transfer rate of 1.1GB/sec. But can computer systems even cope with such transfer rates?

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Asus Shipping Ubuntu 10.10 on Three Eee PC Netbooks

At long last, Ubuntu is being offered as the pre-installed OS on a form factor that has never been Microsoft's strongest suit.

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Internet Explorer 10 to Power Windows 8 and Cross-Platform Apps

Microsoft has given us a tantalizing glimpse of its new touch-friendly UI, and what an HTML5-and-JavaScript multi-form-factor app ecosystem might look like.

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10 Things to Know About Windows 8

Microsoft might have shown us its new operating system, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

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What is NFC and What is it Good For, Anyway?

Google's newly launched payment and discount services, Wallet and Offers, both rely heavily on Near Field Communication (NFC) to work. If successful, NFC has the potential to replace access badges, transit tickets, credit cards, and more.