CORK, Ireland–Researchers for years have devised cooling systems that sit next to or on top of chips and other hot components. Now, researchers in Ireland are trying to make one for inside these components.

The University of Limerick in Ireland, in conjunction with Cork’s Tyndall Institute and other research …

Gary Gygax at Gen Con 2007

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Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the fathers of tabletop role playing games, died on Tuesday at the age of 69. He had suffered from heart problems.

The news was first announced on the message board of Troll Lord Games, …

Aptina Imaging now can assemble image sensors, lenses, and other components into a camera phone package. The integration happens earlier in the manufacturing process, when the sensors are still part of their silicon wafer, than is typical today.

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Memory chipmaker Micron Technology has launched its image-sensor business as …

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No quirky intro for you today: Along with the B&W Zeppelin, Tannoy’s i30 is the best iPod speaker system Crave UK has ever heard.

From the minute we opened the beautifully packaged i30 we knew we were in for a treat. The system itself …

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Imagine (pun intended) there’s a race. In one lane is the late, great John Lennon. In the other, James Blunt. The starting gun fires, and somehow Lennon, who has been dead for 27 years now, beats Blunt to the finish line. Well, that’s exactly what’…

Google is bringing Google Gears to mobile phones so that people on the go can access Web-based applications even when they’re not connected to the mobile Net.

Smartphones and 3G data services are changing the way some people work, allowing them to access documents and applications from anywhere. But …

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It is difficult to find some of the tested laptops with the lowest noise level. Any suggesting how to find them?

The noisiest parts of a laptop are likely to be its internal fans, the hard disk drive, and the optical drive. The hotter a …

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Well that was a yawn. Here we got all excited over that teaser page for a new mouse from Razer, mostly because we’ve seen it come up with some pretty neat stuff in the past. This time, not so much.

First of all, its name–”Salmosa“–sounds …

On Steven Spielberg's rumored social network, maybe you can discuss whether that ghost was really a ghost or just the creepy old caretaker from the abandoned amusement park.

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Who wants to believe? TechCrunch reported Monday night that Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where …

Do you sometimes feel that the convenience of having hundreds of songs and other digital files loaded onto your iPod is offset by the inconvenience of having to manually navigate through the file list? OK, well maybe not. But still, you should know that a researcher at Osaka University has …