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How fast is your flash?

Lori Grunin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PDT

Rob Galbraith's ultra-useful CF/SD performance test database is back online.

Originally posted at Crave

Baseball 2008: Parsing prof's pennant picks

Tito Estrada — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:20:00 PDT

So how do you think your favorite baseball team will fare in 2008? New Jersey Institute of Technology's Bruce Bukiet has some fodder for the baseball buffs among us.

High hopes for China's 'eco-city'

Tito Estrada — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:07:00 PDT

Shanghai developers plan to begin construction next year on what they say will be the world's first sustainable "eco-city" on a plot almost the size of Manhattan.

The $350,000 big-screen, 3D 'VisWall'

Jonathan Skillings — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PDT

At Tufts University, the VisWall that casts molecules and more into eye-popping 3D relief on an 8-by-14-foot screen

How we hear one voice amid many

Tito Estrada — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:00 PDT

Scientists believe they have discovered how humans are able to filter out unimportant noise in order to zoom in on that single voice you want to hear.

The most prescient sci-fi movies ever

Tito Estrada — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:47:00 PDT

Popular Mechanics' Erik Sofge examines ten futuristic movies that "got the science right, or will sometime soon."

Sound recording predates Edison's phonograph

Jonathan Skillings — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:01:00 PDT

The newly discovered phonoautograph of the folk song "Au Clair de la Lune," made in 1860, is now considered the earliest known sound recording.

A low-tech 2010 census?

Michelle Meyers — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:33:00 PDT

What was to be the first truly high-tech headcount, with workers going door-to-door with handheld computers, might now be done with pen and pencil.

School fundraisers a la eBay

Jonathan Skillings — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:28:00 PDT

Booster groups are turning to online auctions, with the potential to rake in more than ever before and to avoid too-blatant competition among neighbors.

'Star Wars' merchandise flops

Tito Estrada — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:30:00 PDT

What do Princess Leia headphones, a Darth Vader gumball machine, and a Jabba the Hutt beanbag chair have in common? They're merchandise rejects you won't find on eBay anytime soon.