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Submission + - XFX factory broken into ?

Submitted by AllyGreen
AllyGreen writes: An email sent out to XFX customers ...

Dear XFX Customers,

In light of recent events, we suspect that one of our HD 5970 Black Edition Limited graphics cards may have been compromised. In our current inventory check of this limited run of 1,000 individually serialised pieces, #68 is unaccounted for. We have evidence of a security breach in our facility, thus we believe #68 has been illegally obtained as the product has yet to be released. Please be aware that the person responsible will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If any news can be provided to lead us to the apprehension of a suspect, or if you can provide us with any information, please report it to security@xfxforce.com. XFX will reward any information leading to the return of #68. Please do not attempt to buy, trade, or barter for this unit. We thank you for your cooperation and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Sincerely,
XFX

Comment Re:A super calculator (Score 1) 269

by AllyGreen (#31197208) Attached to: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
It was definitely an amazing time. TV programmes like "Tomorrows World" promised us a future digital world of CD-players, lasers and computers like the morrow-morrow-land story of Mad Max. Now we are there in the digital city, with laptops, wi-fi base stations, stereographic 3D TV, gigahertz PC's, satellite phones, GPS navigators, Internet, on-demand video and mobile phones with animated 3D visuals. When you put it like that, today really is quite spectacular. However I would have killed to be around in the 80's/ very early 90's for how exciting the tech was then.
Moon

Submission + - Is there a lava tube on the moon? (agu.org)

Submitted by tenco
tenco writes: J. Haruyama and coworkers discovered on pictures from JAXA's moon orbiter SELENE what may be a lava tube. It's about 65 m in diameter and it's 80 to 88 m deep. It's surroundings are covered by a thin lava sheet which is 20 to 25 m thick. Due to the protection astronauts staying on the moon would need, a lava tube like this would be a good spot to build a moon station. Since it's still uncertain if this is really a lava tube, the researchers hope for sharper pictures from NASA's LRO.
Hardware

Submission + - CubeSpawn - OpenSource Manufacturing at Home (cubespawn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ever wanted to mass produce little series of industrial grade stuff at home? Wanted to create a run of SMD soldered electronic devices at home? Sell a hundred? Or more? Want to drill your comuter cases yourself? Go full DIY? Along with hundreds of thousands of others? Soon you may...

Open Source Hardware steps into fully automated fabrication at home.

By using simple building blocks James Jones will build a toolchain of small scale industrial machines, that anyone could have in his basement. The first building block will reproduce itself several times. And then you have the base for the next step. Equip it with tools, Arduino type microcontrollers, get some open source software from the web, install it and there you go. Automatic SMD soldering, CNC drilling and so much more may soon happen in your basement. Check out the main website and also the project over at Kickstart

Submission + - SPAM: MSI Ready to Launch iPad Alternative 1

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don't give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad's most noted shortcomings. 'The iPad runs iPhone OS while the MSI runs Android,' writes Smith. 'That means the MSI will multitask of course, and Flash support in Android should be a given by launch time (though that isn't certain). It has a camera. It's running on an Nvidia Tegra2 chip which Ars Technica suggests puts it on par with the iPad's A4 as far as computing horsepower. And of course Android doesn't live in a walled garden.'
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