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From the page: "Earlier today in a San Francisco press briefing Intel Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner took the wraps off a proof of concept and experimental product that Intel dubbed a "Single-Chip Cloud Computer". The objective this chip was designed to address is the huge opportunity that exists to reduce power consumption and space in the data center, a very real place, rather than mythical, where "the cloud" really exists and increasing user demand for online services continues to chew up bandwidth, processing resources and storage like there is no tomorrow. "

From the page: "Federal agents have seized six computers, two cameras, two cell phones and hundreds of files from a Los Alamos, N.M., physicist who for two decades has criticized the government's nuclear agenda as misguided."

How to build a killer workstation for $6k

From the page: "We've complained about the state of American broadband before, we think in general most data transfers are faster than this. In a race run in South Africa, a company proved it was faster to transmit data by carrier pigeon than to send it via the country's leading ISP."

The drive's faster cache has gone a long way to increasing performance. If you look at the original Vertex drive's performance in HD Tach, you'll see that not only are write speeds significantly improved on the Turbo Edition drive shown here, but the consistency of write speed at various positions across the drive is smoother as well.