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First person shooter mimics sensation of getting shot in battle
The US Army has teamed up with a motion gaming company to create a highly realistic style of gameplay that can actually paralyse muscles during gameplay
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Kraken is the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world
NICS, the US National Institute for Computational Sciences has just upgraded its Cray XT5 supercomputer called Kraken. It's so powerful, it puts out petaFLOPS of peak power
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French President Sarkozy caught with 400 pirated DVDs
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught out with 400 illegally copied DVDs - of a documentary about himself.
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Top 10 technologies in graphics
Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals
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Hadron scientist held on terrorism charges
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Hadron Collider for six years.
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The multitouch mouse: is this the future of mice?
The future of multitouch applications might rest on the surface of your mouse, rather than the pixels on your screen. We examine how futuristic mice could fundamentally change the way we double click.
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REVIEWS
CyberLink captures movie magic with PowerDirect 8, rivals top editing suites
Packed with features and closer to Adobe Premiere Elements, CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is close, but still not close enough.
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REVIEWS
Olympus's PEN E-P1 might be the retro camera king, but it's riddled with modern flaws
The Olympus PEN E-P1 may look like a throwback to retro photography, but it's expensive and flawed. However, it's beautiful image quality renders almost impossible to dislike.
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REVIEWS
Kogan's Agora netbook lacks real innovation - but at least there's Linux
As one of Australia's few locally designed netbooks, the Kogan Agora lives up to some lofty netbook ideals, but it's sadly ho-hum in too many aspects to be seen as a real netbook contender.
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HP's Mini 5101 is another stylish netbook let down by poor battery life
Sleek and professional, the Hp Mini 5101 is another attractively pitched netbook that can't shake its very poor battery life. When will manufactuers learn that battery life is all-important to netbook success?
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PHOTO GALLERY
Crime tech: Inside Holden's future police car
Oct 8, 2009
The police car of the future might actually be a Holden. Redbadged as an GM-branded Chevrolet Caprice, these Robocop-styled police vehicles contain a number of technological advances under the hood, including a boot-mounted battery ...
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PHOTO GALLERY
Vaio X unboxing: Sony's ultra thin and ultra sexy notebook
Oct 8, 2009
The Sony Vaio X measures just 13.5mm, 11.1" screen size, and weighs only 655g. This is among the world's lightest and best looking notebooks. Best of all it uses the new Z550 2.0Ghz Atom chip.
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PHOTO GALLERY
Apartment tech: residents get their very own cinema rooms
Oct 1, 2009
Frasers Property's Lumiere Residences in Sydney is an apartment block with a difference. There are two cinema rooms, exclusively for residents and can be booked out to watch Foxtel, Blu-Ray and video games. Is this the apartment block ...
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