Davey Winder explores the moves that brought artificial intelligence out of the labs and into the black and white world of popular science.

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

The Hercules name is synonymous with quality and reliability, as well as blue-coloured graphics cards. Based around NVIDIA's new budget graphics chipset, the GeForce2 Titanium, the Hercules 3D Prophet II Titanium is Guillemot's latest offering, and it too is blue in colour.

There are many ways of altering the colour in an image and you can change colours across the whole image or in selected areas. Corel Photo-Paint colour tools accessible from the Image | Adjust menu in

By now, its probably becoming clear that the question of just what intelligence is, and what Artificial Intelligence might be, is pretty complicated. All of the three concepts outlined above - origina

By now, its probably becoming clear that the question of just what intelligence is, and what Artificial Intelligence might be, is pretty complicated. All of the three concepts outlined above - origina

Apple computers from the sweetest to the rottenest

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

The Web Powers attempt to look futuristic, with its silver and pastel-blue colour scheme doesnt quite pay off, and it ends up looking a little tacky and cheap instead.

The Todaytech M120W, even though it's based on an OEM housing, is all style with its glossy royal blue top, and the silver surrounds on the palm rest and screen.

If the CCD is the brain of a digital video camera it is logical that three should be better than one. A single CCD has to deal with all colours together while a 3-CCD system divides the primary red, green and blue (RGB) colours to individual CCDs to give a much more precise and accurate picture. The result is a high quality image that is as good as any of the cameras tested - including the Sony DVD201E, which provided the benchmark for most of the others.

The Toshiba Satellite 5100 attracted by far the most attention around the PC Authority office this month

A bold drive whose attraction proves more than skin deep with great performance and a generous software suite.

100 virtual layers on a single optical disc.

The first Blu-ray drive to actually BE available in Australia. The massive price should fall quickly.

When you load trueSpace for the first time, youll be presented with a window containing a perspective view of your main work area, and several rows of tool icons. Youll notice that trueSpace is unusua

The fastest card we’ve seen, but the performance boost doesn’t justify the price.

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