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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Chris Hardwick and Wil Wheaton, internet gentlemen extraordinaire, just saw The Watchmen. They say it was awesome. This gives us hope. Read a spoiler-free summary on Nerdist. [Nerdist]
PC Perspective’s review of Intel’s X25-M SSD, a custom-designed solid state drive, showed that the manufacturer’s sector remapping actually lowered overall performance dramatically over time as the drive became irreparably fragmented.
Oh, Woz. I want to tease you, but deep down I’ve got to respect you for doing whatever the hell you want and not caring what anybody thinks. Dance your heart out, Woz.
Kotaku notes that a NZ Halo Wars press release makes mention of an EB exclusive Red Xbox 360 Elite. [Kotaku]
The Skylon reusable space plane takes off from an airport runway, burns atmospheric oxygen, switching to liquid oxygen and hydrogen to hit escape velocity and attain orbit. At least, it will in 10 years.
I can’t imagine there would be too many people left who would buy a new 360 just to get a free Halo game (most of you would already own a 360 by now, surely), which is probably why Microsoft didn’t go with the official bundle option. But as David over at Kotaku has informed us, Microsoft is giving away a copy of the Halo RTS (which is all kinds of enjoyable, btw) with every purchase of a 360 console between Feb 26 and March 26 (or until stocks run out).
Either the New Yorker has access to super-classified government intel (Seymour Hersh FTW!), or they just possess a healthy enough imagination to have come up with this approximate sketch of Obama’s new and improved Blackberry.
Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won’t be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit.
A new report commissioned by the Office of Naval Research makes a grim statement about the increasing danger of combat-trained robots in the 21st century: “We are going to need a warrior code.”
