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• Goodbye to friends …

  My son had an end of summer cookout and bonfire (sorry for the lack of focus above) this week for he and his good friends head off to college this fall; most will be parting ways and heading in different directions. As a parent, its been great to know my ...

• Racing around the world in an Eggbeater

  Another circumnavigation record falls ... this time its a trip around the world in a "whirlybird." Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik set a new world record for the fastest trip around the world in a helicopter. They circumnavigated the globe from LaGuardia Airport crossing the Atlantic, traversing 20 ...

• Lots of “8s” for the 8.8.08 Olympics and Phelp ...

  Once again TV in our house was tuned in to watch the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Saturday night. We were anxious to see Michael Phelps swim again -- and swim he did. This time Phelps did it with his American teammates -- Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak -- ...

• Gold Metal 10 & 11: Michael Phelps is impressive

  Aquaman Michael Phelps is now greatest Olympic gold metal winner of all times -- 11 Golds with 3 more swimming events to go in Being. It is hard to believe that at age 23, he is only 3 victories from breaking Mark Spitz's single-Games record of seven golds, set in ...

• Mouthy French swimmers ‘eat crow’

  We have once again spent our evening watching NBC's coverage of the Olympics from Beijing China. For a second night we've watch the impressive Michael Phelps swim, although this time as a team of four U.S. men battled the favored French 4x 100M relay swimmers. The American team had a ...

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  Sunday techPowerUp! has AMD Radeon HD 4830 512MB BIOS that fixes the missing shaders on press sample cards Donanim Haber posts slides that show GeForce 9800 GT outperforming Radeon HD 4830 on graphics...

• The TR Podcast 22: A product opportunity, speedy v ...

  Join us this week as we discuss the latest system guide, AMD's new budget Radeon, new goodies for GeForce users, and a couple of new games.

• Whoops: Some Radeon HD 4830 cards are gimpy

  The Radeon HD 4830 looked pretty good upon its release, but some cards that made it into the hands of reviews and retailers are, in fact, not what they should be.  AMD has just released a statement about the matter, which says: AMD has identified that, in addition to reference samples...

• Saturday science subject: Brain hunger

  Do you ever feel hungry after solving a difficult mental problem, writing a long paper, or perfecting a piece of code? Evidence shows our brains don't consume much energy regardless of how hard we think, so that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. However, Steve Mirsky over at Scientific...

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  Saturday Fudzilla reports Nvidia's special six will get royal treatment and AMD to launch Shanghai within weeks Hardware-Infos reports Core i7 listed: 320, 610, and 1090 Euro (write-up in German) VR-Zone posts Intel desktop, mobile & server CPU EOL roadmap ATi-Forum posts new info on AMD RV870...