Leaked logos: Intel's upcoming processors based on the Nehalem platform will reportedly be dubbed Core i7.

Intel has revealed some details about its next-generation processor platform, which it has developed under the code name Nehalem.

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Let’s quickly recap Intel’s tick-tock cadence model of shrinking the size of its chips with one release followed by the introduction [...]

However, Tyler Belong, founder of the Mortgage Accountability Association, argues that the measure will have little impact. “It is not going to stop borrowers from being duped into signing onto a loan (or loans) that they don’t understand,” he has said. “These practices will continue, in substantially the same volume, regardless of whether the FBI [...]

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Brooks, a leading authority in the field of robotics, was the director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1997 to 2007. He is still a professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at MIT.
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks is leaving his post [...]

On the policy front, he said that a national carbon tax and cap-and-trade system for stemming greenhouse gas emissions should be put in place.

“Everything we can do to reduce our carbon footprint and slow down climate change, which is upon us, is very important to energy security,” Clark said. “Energy security is crucial to [...]

Due to faulty searches, tens of thousands of CIA messages to the NCTC have not been properly processed or reviewed, or may not have even reached the TIDE database.

One of the country’s most important terrorism databases is on the verge of failure after suffering from gross mismanagement and technical design flaws that went ignored for [...]

What a perverse message to send to the movie studios: we love your product so much that we refuse to pay for it. How do we expect the industry to invest in more movies like The Dark Knight if we aren’t willing to fund that investment?
As consumers, whether of movies, software, or other digital goods, [...]

Hewlett-Packard is trying to loosen their grip on those clunky desktop space-hoggers by offering a liquid crystal display for visual artist types that boasts the ability to show 1 billion colors for “one quarter” of the cost of other LCD monitors in this category.

HP says it’s only a “preview” announcement, which means it’s not announcing [...]

“We believe the next evolution of data portability is about much more than data. It’s about giving users the ability to take their identity and friends with them around the Web, while being able to trust that their information is always up to date and always protected by their privacy settings.” –Dave Morin, Facebook [...]

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While Rogers, Canada’s largest wireless carrier, has made few friends with its iPhone 3G rate plans, it’s not the only foreign carrier that will have to go it alone with
iPhone sales on Friday.
If you want an iPhone 3G outside of the U.S., you won't find one at the Apple store.
Earlier in the week, [...]

The soon-to-be announced, first-ever
Google Android phone will be priced at $200 with a two-year contract, according to a blog post on TechCrunch.
The tech blog said an “insider” had confirmed the $200 price tag, which is reasonable considering that AT&T is selling the
iPhone 3G for the subsidized price of $199. That said, it’s still about $50 [...]