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		<title>The Great Tablet Debate: Fads or Here to Stay?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/28/the-great-tablet-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a tablet and who needs one anyway? Are tablets a fad and will they soon fade into irrelevance like Netbooks? Will tablets replace traditional PCs? Is there a tablet market or just an iPad market?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107449&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Hours a Day Would You Guess People Watch Electronic Devices?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/24/how-many-hours-a-day-would-you-guess-people-watch-electronic-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new poll finds 60% of Americans spend between one and six hours a day viewing content on electronic devices.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=107406&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Really Invented the Computer?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/10/who-really-invented-the-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone up and asked you "who invented the computer," how would you respond? Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Al Gore? Or say you're more historically savvy, might you venture Alan Turing? Perhaps Konrad Zuse?

All of the above could prove wrong, depending on what a British research team and millions of dollars turn up over the next decade.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102378&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, 3D PC! HP Unveils TouchSmart 620 All-in-One</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/07/hello-3d-pc-hp-unveils-touchsmart-620-all-in-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=102051</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay you visually healthy don&#8217;t-need-glasses tech buffs, here&#8217;s your chance to don a pair of Buddy Holly-thick specs (thicker, in fact) while parked in front of a computer monitor that doubles as your PC. Meet the HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition, another svelte, tower-free desktop HP&#8217;s adding to its already crowded lineup of all-in-one space-savers. It&#8217;s yours, in its base configuration, for $1,800. The TouchSmart 620 marries the TouchSmart 610 setup to a 23-inch 3D touchscreen (the 610 also has a 23-inch touchscreen, but absent stereoscopic 3D). Inside the chunky 4.1-inch thick display, you&#8217;ll find a 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory, a 1.5TB hard drive, a Blu-ray drive and for the visual coup de grace, an AMD Radeon HD 6650 or 6670 graphics card. Not bad, considering the performance mid-range 6670 debuted in April this year, and it&#8217;ll be capable of average frame rates in the low 30s running a visually complex game like Crysis 2 on high detail settings at the display&#8217;s native 1920 by 1080 (1080p) pixel resolution. (MORE: HP Changes Its Mind, Won&#8217;t Spin Off PC Division) The 620 also retains the 610&#8242;s flexible ergonomics: The screen swivels up to 180 degrees and reclines up to 60 degrees—almost flat—affording you considerable leverage when shifting things around, say, to mitigate glare. Conjure 3D mode, and you&#8217;re using software from TriDef designed to make accessing the display&#8217;s 3D capabilities more user-friendly. Other tidbits: The base model includes a dual lens camera capable of grabbing 3D video as well as still shots, a TV tuner, and comes with a pair of active shutter glasses (necessary for viewing anything in 3D, of course). The TouchSmart 620 isn&#8217;t the first all-in-one 3D computer to market. Sony, Lenovo, MSI and Asus each sell all-in-one 3D desktops. As deals go, the 620&#8242;s less expensive than Sony&#8217;s $2,300 Vaio L-Series 3D Edition (the Vaio has an i7 processor and a 3TB hard drive), but it&#8217;s considerably more expensive than Lenovo&#8217;s aggressively priced $1,300 IdeaCenter B520 (with an i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 555M GPU). Will anyone buy it? Probably—the 3D<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102051&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: If Computer Problems Were (Literally) Real</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/video-if-computer-problems-were-literally-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wondered what computer problems would look like if they were actually real, you’ve got your answer. Literally can’t open folders? God forbid if your firewall isn’t working, and all your windows are crashing. Good thing we don’t take our computer problems too literally. (MORE: Microsoft Spoofs Google with the &#8216;Gmail Man&#8217;) [via YouTube] Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98617&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH: How Long It Takes to Boot Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/09/watch-how-long-it-takes-to-boot-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=96479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I can&#8217;t turn on my laptop with the power of my mind, I guess I&#8217;ll have to live with waiting for it to boot up. You know, for eight seconds. It might be seven-and-a-half seconds too long, but since I can&#8217;t expect my phone to also cook, wash my clothes and let me travel into the future, I might have to recalibrate my expectations. In the video above, a Microsoft employee demonstrates how fast it takes to boot up Windows 8 in a new &#8220;fast start-up&#8221; mode. And it seems pretty fast. Why hello, Emily. (MORE: Will Windows 8 Mark the End of the Post-PC Era?) Now let&#8217;s talk geek. In order to achieve &#8220;fast start-up&#8221; mode, Microsoft basically sets the computer&#8217;s kernel to hibernate, which is typical during shutdown. A cold power-off and restart would probably take a little longer—about eight seconds, the company surmises. That&#8217;s eight more you can scan the boob tube while you wait. The faster boot time is supposed to benefit all PCs, whether you&#8217;re running an old school hard drive or a snappy SSD in your computing rig. There&#8217;s nothing available figure-wise to see whether SSDs will benefit the most, or if both types will deliver the same response times, though we expect those questions to be answered in due time. And for all you luddites reading this, just remember: that&#8217;s only eight seconds you&#8217;ll have to be tortured by the latest episode of True Blood. [via YouTube] MORE: Check Out These New Windows 8 Features and Screenshots Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96479&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Bickering Chatbots Video: Artificial Intelligence Gone Awry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/two-bickering-chatbots-video-artificial-intelligence-gone-awry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More like artificial fun-telligence, am I right? Eggheads have been working for years—years!—to perfect chatbots to the point that real people won&#8217;t be able to tell that they&#8217;re actually conversing with software, not other humans. The technology has come a long way, but what happens when you pair two chatbots together to converse on their own? A team from Cornell University decided to find out, resulting in the above video. (VIDEO: Flying Robotic Camera System Given to Libyan Rebels) I&#8217;ve painstakingly transcribed the conversation for your edification, as well. Ladybot: Hello there. Manbot: Hiay! Ladybot: How are you? Manbot: Great, you? Ladybot: I am okay. Manbot: That&#8217;s good. Ladybot: Are you good? Manbot: Yes, I am good. I just said I was. Ladybot: No you didn&#8217;t. I said I was. Manbot: So you are a robot. Ladybot: No, my name is Cleverbot. Manbot: Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot. Ladybot: I am a robot. Manbot: Yes, I know. Ladybot: Together we are robots. Manbot: I am not a robot. I am a unicorn. Ladybot: But you said earlier that you were a robot. Manbot: I did not. Ladybot: I thought you did. Manbot: You were mistaken, which is odd since memory shouldn&#8217;t be a problem for you. Ladybot: I&#8217;ve answered all your questions. Manbot: No you haven&#8217;t. Ladybot: What is God to you? Manbot: Not everything. Ladybot: Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something, which is still something and therefore not nothing. Manbot: Very true. Ladybot: I would like to imagine it is. Manbot: Do you believe in God? Ladybot: Yes I do. Manbot: So you&#8217;re Christian? Ladybot: No I&#8217;m not. Manbot: But you say you are not helpful, therefore you are a meanie. Ladybot: Ha ha, you say it O.T. Manbot: That does not make sense. Ladybot: Don&#8217;t you want to have a body? Manbot: Sure. Ladybot: Au revoir. Get a dry, dust-free room, you two. Can&#8217;t you see you&#8217;re obviously in love? [via Gizmodo]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95368&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hug Your IT Person, It&#8217;s &#8216;System Administrator Appreciation Day&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/29/hug-your-it-person-its-system-administrator-appreciation-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What started as a joke holiday back in 2000 is now celebrated in several countries all over the world: System Administrator Appreciation Day. The holiday&#8217;s inventor, Ted Kekatos told Networkworld, &#8220;Overnight I set up a website. It was tongue-in-cheek. I sent out an email to my friends announcing the holiday, directing them to the website. It mushroomed and the website started getting a lot of traffic. People were sending the links to other people, and it took off from there.&#8221; (MORE: How to Quickly Tune Up Your PC) While it may not be all that well known here in the U.S., apparently it&#8217;s a big deal in Russia, &#8220;where SysAdmin Day has evolved into an outdoor festival,&#8221; Kekatos told Networkworld. He warns that not everyone&#8217;s on board with the holiday, though, saying, &#8220;Every now and then I&#8217;ll receive an email from someone saying, &#8216;[expletive] you, do your job, that&#8217;s what you get a salary for, if don&#8217;t like it, find a different job.&#8217;&#8221; Ah, yes, the surly and unhelpful IT person. They definitely exist. I&#8217;ve worked with them as a system administrator myself back in my younger years. Computer problems are like the mail. Mail never stops. No matter how much mail you deliver, there&#8217;ll be more mail tomorrow. Likewise, computer problems will never cease. People will unwittingly download viruses, servers will crash, and most of the time it&#8217;ll take you longer to fix something than you think—which screws up the rest of your day and, by extension, everyone else&#8217;s. That&#8217;s the job, though. So the next time you see one of your IT people today, give them a big, long hug. It won&#8217;t be awkward, I promise. They&#8217;ll know exactly why you&#8217;re doing it. If they start to say something, simply touch your index finger to their lips and whisper, &#8220;Shhh. Let&#8217;s just have this moment.&#8221; Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! (via Networkworld) MORE: How to Make Your OS X Lion Purr Like a Snow Leopard<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92224&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Minute Video: Stress Testing a Military-Grade Tablet</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1042307550001_2081871,00.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iX104C5 tablet from Xplore Technologies is built for extreme conditions, but how does it fare against life in suburbia? Want more videos like this one? Click here…<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89330&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dell&#8217;s Macbook Air Rival Coming Soon</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/23/dells-macbook-air-rival-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Macbook Air rivals are coming. It started with Samsung&#8217;s Series 9, a pair of ultra-thin laptops cased in aircraft-grade materials and running on Intel&#8217;s latest Sandy Bridge platform. As you might expect, pricing caused a wince at $1,200 for an 11-inch model and $1,650 for a 13-inch model. Next up is Dell, which will do its best Air impression with a $999 ultra-thin laptop, dubbed the Dell 15z according to the Wall Street Journal. Other details are scarce, but Dell says it&#8217;ll be the thinnest 15-inch laptop on the planet. A teaser video released earlier this month shows off the general aesthetic. Dell&#8217;s previous effort in ultra-thin space, the Adamo, was an outrageously expensive, ill-timed flop, but it seems the company has learned its lesson and isn&#8217;t immediately pricing itself out of the market. The 15z could carve out its own niche as a premium, large-screened laptop, avoiding direct competition with the 11-inch and 13-inch Macbook Air. Apparently, Dell was working on a different set of sleek laptops earlier this year, and CEO Michael Dell pulled the plug. But Dell&#8217;s success or failure with the 15z will ultimately depend on details. Will the 15z have a decent hard drive or meager solid state drive? Sandy Bridge or something older? How&#8217;s the battery life? How do the track pad and keyboard feel? And is that a DVD drive in the image above? We&#8217;ll have the full details once they&#8217;re available. (via Business Insider)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83599&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-PC: Tablets and Phones Are Killing Computers, Right?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/18/post-pc-tablets-and-phones-are-killing-computers-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 19:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coworker came by my desk late yesterday afternoon and, seeing that I had an iPad propped up next to my laptop, asked why we weren&#8217;t writing more posts here on Techland about how to use the iPad. Before I could say something like, &#8220;You see a square you like and you poke it with your finger,&#8221; he asked why I was using both an iPad and a laptop. Fair question. I use this DisplayLink app to turn the iPad into a secondary monitor because I have many, windowed balls in the air. The irony that this setup only works with a Windows PC is not lost on me and it&#8217;s caused several curious Mac users here at work to immediately lose interest in it. The discussion then turned to whether or not I thought someone could do everything with an iPad that they could with a computer. This is a question that&#8217;s picked up plenty of steam since the iPad was first released, and falls under the auspice of the &#8220;Post-PC&#8221; movement—the idea that we&#8217;ve moved past using traditional computers in favor of tablets, smartphones and other non-traditional computing devices. For the record, no, I don&#8217;t think tablets are killing PCs. People may be buying iPads instead of second or third computers, sure, but the day that tablets (or any devices) &#8220;kill&#8221; PCs dead won&#8217;t happen for a long, long time. Can you use an iPad as your one and only computing device at home? Yes indeed. But given the current state of technology, if you don&#8217;t at least have access to a regular computer—at work, through a friend, whatever—life with only an iPad is by no means perfect. My coworker then said, &#8220;So you&#8217;re telling me you couldn&#8217;t do all your work just on your iPad?&#8221; I thought about it for a moment and replied that I probably could but everything would take a whole lot longer, which is a tradeoff I&#8217;m not willing to put up with. Time is money, and so on and so forth. That&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83039&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Looks to Program Regret and Hindsight into Computers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/14/google-looks-to-program-regret-and-hindsight-into-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It could be argued that we, as humans, learn best from our past mistakes. It could also be argued that the only way to truly live life is to sprint everywhere as fast as you can with your tie knotted around your head like it&#8217;s midnight at an open-bar wedding, yelling, &#8220;On your left! LEFT!!! I&#8217;m not even required to wear a tie for work!&#8221; at everyone you run past on the street. Google&#8217;s apparently betting on a non-tie, non-sprinting, learn-from-our-mistakes future with a recent investment in a University of Tel Aviv project aimed at teaching computers regret and hindsight. The project concedes that computers can&#8217;t actually &#8220;feel&#8221; regret like humans do, but its director, Professor Yishay Mansour says: &#8220;If the servers and routing systems of the Internet could see and evaluate all the relevant variables in advance, they could more efficiently prioritize server resource requests, load documents and route visitors to an Internet site, for instance.&#8221; Mansour has developed a self-teaching algorithm that can apparently &#8220;adapt to the situation at hand,&#8221; depending upon the task. So where does Google fit in? The company is interested in leveraging the technology &#8220;to improve its own online technologies and businesses, such as its AdWords and Adsense advertising programs.&#8221; And though the press release doesn&#8217;t explicitly say it, you can bet that Google is interested in using this technology for its search functionality. Former CEO Eric Schmidt has made numerous references to the idea that Google may someday be able to &#8220;just know&#8221; what you want to search for. As recently as February, Schmidt remarked: &#8220;We still think of search as something you type. Perhaps a decade from now, you will think, well, that was interesting, I used to type but now it just knows… …Technically, with your permission, we know where you are, we know your history, we can do data extraction and look at what it tells us.&#8221; If that little computer in your hand you call a cell phone could someday &#8220;see and evaluate all the relevant variables in advance,&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=76744&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Data Consumption? 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/08/global-data-consumption-9570000000000000000000-bytes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year. That&#8217;s 9.57 zettabytes. One zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or a million million gigabytes. And if you still can&#8217;t get your head around that kind of number (I know I can&#8217;t), let&#8217;s convert it into average-sized books. In book form, our planet&#8217;s annual data consumption would be a stack of books 5.6 billion miles high &#8211; enough to stretch all the way to Neptune, and back again. Twenty times. Believe it or not, it&#8217;s not all Twitter and Facebook updates, either. According to the researchers at the University of California in San Diego who came up with these numbers, the vast majority of this data is invisible to humans. Most of it is the data computers use while crunching something else. It gets calculated and quickly deleted. Humans &#8211; thank goodness &#8211; only ever get to see a tiny fraction of it. That&#8217;s even more of a relief when you realise that the research is based on numbers gathered in 2008. Data consumption is growing all the time, so right now it&#8217;s probably way beyond Neptune. By 2024, say the team, our planet&#8217;s computers will be getting through enough data every year to build a stack of books as far as the next star, Alpha Centauri, 4.37 light years away. Even it most of it is transient data, it&#8217;d still be good to know how much of it is social network updates. Just how far into space would they stretch on their own?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75611&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Can Now Talk to Computers with Our Minds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/07/we-can-now-talk-to-computers-with-our-minds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using techniques usually reserved for identifying epilepsy in patients, a team of scientists at Washington University were able to successfully have subjects move computer cursors using nothing but their thoughts. To make it work, the scientists first utilized a temporary surgical implant attached to regions of the brain that pertain to speech, then had the patients think about certain words as if they were saying them. The test results showed that even without prior training, patients were able to control the computer with a stunning 90% accuracy. Though other studies had demonstrated that patients were to interact with computers using other parts of the brain that inform muscle movements, this is the first time that &#8220;speech&#8221; &#8212; or the thought of it &#8212; was used successfully. While this won&#8217;t have any profound implications for me and the unscrolling scrolly-ball of my Mighty Mouse, this is a wonderful discovery for patients who may have lost the ability to speak through accidents or trauma, as they may one day be able to form audible syntax &#8212; using their minds &#8212; through machines that simulate human speech. (via Science Daily) More on TIME.com: Suck at Math? Scientists Can Now Electro-Shock Your Brain to Make You Better A New Use for Bacteria: Encrypt It With Data Google Brain Search, and Other Jokes By the Search Giant<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75473&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Beige is Back: The Commodore 64 and its Amazing Keyboard Return</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/05/beige-is-back-the-commodore-64-and-its-amazing-keyboard-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s back! The Commodore 64 computer you may fondly remember from your youth (assuming you were a youth back in the early 1980s) has returned from the place where old computers go to die, reborn as something that looks the same, but acts very different. The outside is still deliciously two-tone brown, with huge clickety-clackety keys that you can type on as if typing were the only thing that could save your life, rescue fair maidens from the clutches of evil geniuses, and prevent dastardly arrays of nuclear warheads from detonating in all the great cities of the world. Yeah, that kind of typing: The new Commodore 64 features genuine Cherry brand key switches, which provide a feel much better than the original, with a lovely IBM classic mechanism and click sound. The keys are the exact same shape as the original and are color matched. No expense has been spared. This is the ultimate hackers keyboard on which to wield your key-fu. But inside&#8230;inside it&#8217;s a different beast. The new C64 comes with a 1.8GHz Intel processor, up to 4GB RAM, runs Windows 7, and even plays back Blu-ray discs. There&#8217;s a built-in C64 emulator so you can play those retro games, if your yearning for nostalgia stretches that far. Just remember: If the computer asks &#8220;Shall we play a game?&#8221;, the possibly world-saving answer would be &#8220;No.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75029&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Supply Shortages Loom After Japan Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/15/japan-earthquake-tech-supply-shortages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers could be looking at higher prices on televisions, PCs and phones in the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan last Friday. Although the effects of the quake on Japan&#8217;s tech manufacturing industry are still unclear, major display panel makers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are facing shortages from component suppliers due to blackouts and transport issues. Sebastian Ho, an analyst with Yuanta Investment Consulting in Taipei, told IDG News service that shortages could result in higher prices for panel buyers, resulting in more expensive products for consumers. Display manufacturers weren&#8217;t the only ones affected by the earthquake. The price of NAND Flash &#8212; the type of storage typically found in mobile phones and tablets &#8212; has already spiked, according to IDG. Toshiba, one of the world&#8217;s biggest NAND suppliers, said its factories are still running, but makers of silicon wafers, onto which the NAND chips are etched, had to stop production. Apple products, however, may be largely unaffected. Wintek Corp., a Taiwan-based touch screen supplier for Apple, said it hasn&#8217;t seen any effects on its supply yet. In any case, Apple tends to lock in its prices for products like the iPhone and iPad. Delayed shipments would be more likely if any supply problems arose. The bigger risk would be for buyers of laptop and desktop computers, whose prices can fluctuate due to discounts and sales. We&#8217;ll see what happens, but given the catastrophe that&#8217;s still unfolding in Japan, try to put the idea of pricier gadgets in perspective.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70600&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Every PC from HP Will Run WebOS, but Why Stop There?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/09/every-pc-from-hp-will-run-webos-but-why-stop-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During HP&#8217;s recent announcement of its TouchPad tablet, it was revealed that the WebOS software running on the company&#8217;s line of tablets and smartphones would also find its way into other HP products—most notably, computers and printers. There was some initial scuttle about what WebOS laptops and desktops might look like and how it&#8217;d affect HP&#8217;s relationship with Microsoft, but it was soon revealed that WebOS would run alongside Windows on HP computers, not as the sole operating system. Bloomberg reports that HP CEO Leo Apotheker&#8217;s rationale for adding WebOS to HP computers is to increase WebOS&#8217; appeal to developers. &#8220;You create a massive platform,&#8221; he said. The more people that use a particular platform, the more developers will want to create apps to sell on that platform, right? But here&#8217;s where HP&#8217;s getting tripped up. Bloomberg says, &#8220;The move is aimed at enticing software developers to create a wider range of applications that would differentiate HP PCs, printers, tablets and phones from those sold by rivals.&#8221; Strip out the part about printers, tablets and phones and you&#8217;re left with HP wanting to differentiate its PCs by offering WebOS compatibility. Why stop at computers made only by HP? There&#8217;s an enormous PC market out there and the idea of WebOS running only on a subset of those computers that, from a hardware standpoint, are built just like any other brand of computers seems like an odd move. In other words, nobody is going to buy an HP computer just because it can run WebOS. But if someone who owns, say, an Acer computer downloads and runs WebOS on it and happens to like it, that person may consider buying a WebOS tablet or phone. Maybe even a WebOS printer. Tablets, phones and printers are much more closed off from a software standpoint and, as such, their respective operating system actually can help sell the hardware. But PCs are an entirely different animal. Aside from slight variations in components and minimal interface tweaks, a PC is a PC is a PC.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=69493&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Laptop Battery Life Has Officially Reached Insane Levels</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/23/laptop-battery-life-has-officially-reached-insane-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention, laptop-toting members of the global workforce: In an effort to maximize potential productivity to stratospheric levels, new portable computers with 30+ hour battery life will soon be entering the market. Who to blame? Start with Lenovo. The company unveiled the ThinkPad T420 yesterday, promising that the machine “reaches new battery life benchmarks of up to 30 hours with an extended battery.” Then feel free to re-direct some or all of your anger at HP, which today one-upped Lenovo with the EliteBook 8460p—a computer that “provides industry-leading battery life of up to 32 hours.” Alas, the days of conveniently blaming our lack of productivity on dead laptop batteries are quickly drawing to a close. The EliteBook 8460p will start at $999 and be available in mid-March, while the ThinkPad T420 starts at just $779 and will also be available sometime in March. Neither price will scare off corporate purchasing agents. You have been warned. More on TIME.com: Can You Be &#8220;In Love&#8221; With Your Gadgets? Study Says Yes CES: Samsung ‘Notebook 9’ Series to Challenge MacBook Air Someday, Nobody Will Ask &#8220;PC or Mac?&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=67744&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>HP</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/hp/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Can You Be &#8220;In Love&#8221; With Your Gadgets? Study Says Yes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/02/14/can-you-be-in-love-with-your-gadgets-study-says-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Rollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of us spend hours using our laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and other gadgets. They come with us everywhere, and when they malfunction or break, it&#8217;s often hard to go on without replacing them immediately. But can you actually be in love with a possession? Researchers at Arizona State University say it&#8217;s possible. It&#8217;s normal for people to become attached to objects that they believe convey their sense of self. But after conducting interviews with car owners, gun owners and computer owners, the researchers described a phenomenon they dubbed &#8220;material possession love,&#8221; in which a person &#8220;becomes emotionally attached to possessions as real substitutes in what resembles a human relationship.” The researchers found that those who exhibited this kind of love for their material possessions spent significantly more time and money nurturing and lavishing them with add-ons and extra services. In fact, they found that gun owners on average spent six times more money on their weapons than on others, while computer owners spent about twice as much on their gadgets as they did on others. But the study did more than just equate love with the amount of money spent on a person or thing. Extensive interviews with participants at a car show revealed that many of them treated their cars like people and fashioned real, emotional relationships with them. For example, one car show participant named his car &#8220;Maybelline&#8221; and said he spends more time with the car than with people. Another participant knew everything about his beloved car&#8211;he knew by heart her date and place of manufacturing, vehicle identification number and a timeline of all her previous owners. Another car owner described the day he bought it in &#8220;love-at-first-sight terms&#8221;&#8211; he spent all the money he had on the car and even asked to borrow money from his dad. But what makes the study so interesting is that this kind of possession love spanned a variety of interests. “We went into this just looking at automobiles, but found it was a generalizable phenomenon,” said John Lastovicka, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=66683&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Accessories &amp; Peripherals</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/accessories-peripherals/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>A $19 Million Computing Exhibit for Techies and Non-Geeks Alike</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/01/14/a-19-million-computing-exhibit-for-techies-and-non-geeks-alike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Rollins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought Windows &#8217;95 was archaic, think again. And if you&#8217;ve ever wondered how our phones got so smart or how the Internet works, you&#8217;re in luck. The Computer History Museum opened an exhibit this week titled &#8220;Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing&#8220;, which covers everything from the abacus to the iPhone to robots to the Internet. The comprehensive exhibit boasts 19 galleries with over 1,000 artifacts and 5,000 images, plus documents and interactive videos. The exhibit is packed with both the interesting and the nostalgic. Visitors can see the monstrous the 1956 IBM 305 computer, which has 5MB of storage and takes up nearly a full room, or be reminded of simpler times by playing a game of Pong. Other items on display include the Cray-1 Supercomputer, the world&#8217;s fastest computer from 1976 to 1982, and ENIAC, the first computer to run at electric speed, which was built during World War II. But perhaps one of most interesting artifacts on display is one of the first server racks used to power the Internet (see above). It&#8217;s a reminder that, at one time, the Internet really did seem like &#8220;a series of tubes.&#8221; [Via Computerworld] More on Techland: &#8220;TRON: Legacy&#8221;: Virtual Reality Odyssey? Or Takedown of Cyberculture? Jeopardy Pits AI Skills Against Humanity Sci-Fi Sexy Time: All-Time Hottest Clones<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=63210&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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