Microsoft has said it is investigating an issue nicknamed the "black screen of death", which has affected users following a security update

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NASA scientists hope that a chemical sensor for smartphones might one day form the backbone of sophisticated chemical detection network

Linux developer Mandriva has updated its operating-system-on-a-stick with the release of Mandriva Flash 2010, which includes a bootable version of the software on a USB Flash drive.

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Acer brings 3D to the masses with a 3D screen on a mainstream laptop

The m15x is another out-of-this-world laptop design from Alienware. Is it onto something, or just on another planet?

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MSI’s Wind Top AE1900 takes on the touchscreen nettop competition, but singularly fails to excite.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has put together a supercomputer that's based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs)

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Forget the corporate tie, BlackBerry has teamed up with Boost to aim the smartphone at celebrity-mad teens with a pre-paid offer