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Get your Sony laptops Hot Hot Hot! Sony recalling 500,000+ Vaio laptops for “thermal defect”
by Mike
Posted June 30th, 2010 at 10:06 am

Recalls. Don't ya love 'em? Today's featured recall is rather large, affecting up to 500,000 Sony Vaio F and C series laptops sold since January 2010. Apparently a "thermal defect" is preventing the laptops in question from being unable to properly cool themselves, resulting in warped laptops and burned appendages. According to Sony, downloading a simple patch can make random melting issues cease to exist. Or, you can have Sony come pick up the laptop and do it themselves. (Weird) If...

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Yet another reason to drop any and all type of DRM: Ubisoft’s draconian DRM servers crash, Assassins Creed 2 and the likes go silent.
by Mike
Posted March 7th, 2010 at 6:09 pm

To many people, bitching about a video game's DRM that resorts to requiring a constant internet connection seems stupid and like a waste of time. In the grander scheme of things -- it is. But, if you focus on the core technological aspect of it, DRM is not a solution but a "fuel" to the piracy fire, only driving scores more towards paying less and less for products and services. Ubisoft as of late has found out just how much the tech crowd hates DRM with extremely vocal outcries thanks to the...

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LED shortcoming: Traffic lights in Chicago not hot enough to melt snow build up. Accidents on the rise.
by Mike
Posted December 16th, 2009 at 8:52 am

Energy efficient traffic lights seem like one of the best ways to save local governments significant amounts of money of the course of 5, 10, or more years. The lights which often use LED technology are much less demanding on the power grid which in turn means more money for other things. But there's one side effect many have overlooked. Heat output. Remember, the higher the heat output of a light, the more energy is being wasted. That's all fie and dandy for indoor lighting or lighting ...

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