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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:38:39 GMT

A lab in the US called Regenerative Sciences is offering stem cell treatments. Discussed here on Slashdot.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:31:33 GMT

Lenovo is entering the netbook market with their IdeaPad S10 which will have a 10-inch screen and are talking about a $399 starting price. CNet Taiwan gets their hands on one, just views of the exterior since the device would not boot. A 45 minute long hands-on session left this reviewer happy with the S10. There will also be a smaller version called the S9, priced around $370 (in Dec'08 this became available in the US for about $350). The S10 gets reviewed here. Another review of it is here. Another version of this is the IdeaPad S10-3t that converts into a tablet.
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:25:45 GMT

Will 2010 be the year of the tablet? At CeBIT low end tablets are appearing aimed at a price point of about $100. Apparently more than 50 ARM-based tablets are currently in preparation, so the later parts of 2010 could see a lot of activity in this market sector. I'm guessing that manufacturers are looking at this "new" segment and thinking they had better not miss it like the early days of the netbook segment which allowed ASUS to run away with that market.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:12:52 GMT

Addonics makes an internal USB adapter which you can plug into a standard motherboard 10-pin header to convert it into two type-A female sockets, you can then attach standard thumb drives to these to add internally-attached USB flash storage. Still it would make sense for motherboards to include a couple of these type-A sockets for this sort of thing. StarTech makes a similar adapter, in this one the two drives are mounted vertically.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:18:22 GMT

Apparently HIV can hide in a victim's bone marrow waiting to re-emerge once the patient stops taking his drugs. One more interesting twist for the virus, one that's sure to make the drug companies dance for joy.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:16:05 GMT

Popular Science has placed their entire 137-year archive of back issues online for free browsing, neato!
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:11:18 GMT

Phoronix.com has a lot of Linux CPU and GPU related benchmarking information.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:54:38 GMT

Slashdot discusses the difficulty of selecting CPUs and GPUs due to the strange naming and numbering systems that are used these days. For comparison purposes the site: CPUBenchmark.net has a number of good performance charts that span a wide range of CPUs, as well the companion site VideoCardBenchmark.net compares GPUs.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:07:13 GMT

Finding Installed Software using Python (on Windows of course).
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:05:59 GMT

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Packaging - all it needs is a Don't Panic icon.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:04:10 GMT

How to find the commit charge values in Windows from Python.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:53:37 GMT

The CipherChain series of products allows one to add full disk encryption in hardware to any PC using standard SATA disks.
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:52:26 GMT

Gas and electric utilities are starting to get worried about the amount of wind power that is coming on line in the USA.
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