Infográfico mostra a crescente produção de lixo eletrônico - e suas rotas ilegais no mundo

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Dica de Ângela Tijiwa, Confira o infográfico no orginal, clicando na figura.

Roundup: Six Sub-$40 Performance CPU Coolers Compared

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Remember when overclocking was all about getting more performance for less money? It's hard to do that when you're spending top dollar on premium heatsinks and fans. Today we round up six true value-oriented coolers that could help unleash hidden speed.

Scientists finally find a practical use for metamaterials: boosting antenna performance (video)

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Metamaterials can do all sorts of cool things in theory, like create invisibility cloaks or focus lasers. In practice, though, they're rather less useful. Or at least they were, before the team at Fractal Antenna figured out that a simple sleeve made out of fractal-based metamaterials triples the bandwidth of a simple monopole antenna and boosts its gain by 3dB. All you need to do is slip the fractal sleeve on and and, hey presto, instant super antenna. You can see it demonstrated in the video after the break before reading all the nitty, gritty, infinitely-repeating details in the PR, which is down there too.

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Intel Launches Atom CPU With Integrated FPGA

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An anonymous reader writes "Intel is quite clearly serious about offering competition to ARM in the embedded market, and has just announced a new Atom processor series that offers a unique selling point: an integral FPGA processor. Billed as 'the first configurable Intel Atom-based processor,' the Atom E600C series combines an Intel Atom 'Tunnel Creek' chip with an Altera Field Programmable Gate Array — offering, the company claims, significantly more flexibility for ODMs and OEMs."

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Memory Upgrade: Is It Time To Add More RAM?

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The price of memory upgrades is at an all-time low. And more memory is always better, right? We decided to analyze whether or not now could be the time for a fat memory upgrade. As it turns out, there are arguments for and against backing up the truck.

Radiação emitida pela rede Wi-Fi pode prejudicar as árvores - SRZD

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Radiação emitida pela rede Wi-Fi pode prejudicar as árvores SRZD Resultados preliminares de uma pesquisa de instituições da Holanda indica que a radiação emitida pela conexão Wi-Fi pode ser prejudicial a árvores. Segundo os pesquisadores, 70% das árvores de áreas urbanas mostram sinais de danos, esse número era de ... Sinal Wi-Fi pode deixar árvores doentes, indica estudoTerra Brasil Redes Wireless podem prejudicar as árvoresHypeScience - A ciência é a grande estrela do mundo real Conforme estudos, Wi-Fi é prejudicial às árvoresOficina da Net Diário Digital -Blue Bus -Info Online todos os 14 artigos »

Tiny module includes 1.2GHz CPU, Wi-Fi

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LinuxDevices: "Anders Electronics announced a diminutive COM (computer on module) featuring Marvell's 1.2GHz Armada 510 CPU. The Linux-ready CM-A510 offers functionality including 1GB of DDR3 memory, up to 512MB of flash storage, a camera interface, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, and onboard Wi-Fi, the company says."

PCI Express makes the 3.0 leap, doubles bandwidth over PCIe 2.0 spec

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/19/pci-express-makes-the-3-0-leap-doubles-bandwidth-over-pcie-2-0/

First Bluetooth, then USB and now PCI Express. It's clearly the era of version 3.0, and given that the PCI Express specification has been humming along at 2.0 speeds for over two years now, we'd say an update was definitely due. Thankfully, the PCI-SIG has announced the availability of the PCIe Base 3.0 specification to its members today, and the highlights are certainly notable. There's a new 128b/130b encoding scheme and a data rate of 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s), doubling the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe 2.0 specification. And since we're sure you're fretting it, we'll go ahead and affirm that it maintains backward compatibility with previous PCIe architectures. We're also told that based on this data rate expansion, "it is possible for products designed to the PCIe 3.0 architecture to achieve bandwidth near 1 gigabyte per second (GB/s) in one direction on a single-lane (x1) configuration and scale to an aggregate approaching 32 GB/s on a sixteen-lane (x16) configuration." A lot of technobabble, sure, but one thing's for sure: your next graphics card is bound to murder your current one if paired with a PCIe 3.0 motherboard.

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PCI Special Interest Group Publishes PCI Express 3.0 Standard

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PCI Express 3.0 Standard Finalized at Last

Antena Especial Melhora o Sinal da Rede Wi-Fi

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Eu precisava muito de um gadget como o WiFi Antenna Booster, que promete aumentar consideravelmente o sinal do roteador sem fio, melhorando muito a recepção.

O WiFi Antenna Booster permite que o sinal sem fio atravesse grossas paredes de concreto, melhora a velocidade de acesso e é perfeito para transmitir vídeos em HD pela sua rede. O booster se encaixa em qualquer roteador, substituindo a antena original.

O WiFi Antenna Booster custa US$59,95 na Hammacher Schlemmer.

Via Red Ferret Journal.

Hitachi Releases Its First Solid-State Drives

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Hitachi GST Launches Solid-State Drives for Enterprises

Elimine a poeira interna do seu computador com uma faxina; veja como

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Manter limpa a parte interna do computador é uma medida de manutenção preventiva, mas poucas pessoas sabem disso. O acúmulo de sujeira pode, por exemplo, superaquecer e até travar a máquina.O coordenador do curso de hardware da Impacta Nestor de Oliveira ensina, no vídeo abaixo da TV UOL, como limpar de maneira correta o interior do desktop.As dicas incluem tirar a poeira do cooler, com o uso de escova antiestática, e da memória RAM, com borracha escolar. A prática ajuda no bom funcionamento e durabilidade da máquina. Veja.Leia mais (16/11/2010 - 08h45)

Creative hits 1080p with its Live! Cam Socialize HD webcam, launches 720p models too

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Today, if your webcam can't do HD it might as well not even power up its sensor in the morning, and Creative is latest to join the full HD crowd with the $89 Live! Cam Socialize HD 1080 -- an excessive title for the latest 1080p webcam to grace your USB ports. It joins the Microsoft LifeCam Studio and Logitech C910 in terms of resolution, but adds some interesting features, perhaps most notably being a dual-microphone array that can be adjusted to provide a field of 20 to 180 degrees, allowing you to control the amount of environmental sound that gets through. Also interesting is a cradle that "scans" in business cards, though we're not sure you really need 1080p for that. Meanwhile, for those who don't necessarily live life 1,920 pixels at a time, there's the $69 Live! Cam Socialize HD AF model, which features a similar design but a 720p sensor, and the $39 Live! Cam Chat HD, which still does 720p but loses much of the other accoutrement. The 720p Socialize model looks to be available now, but no word on when the others will be perching themselves atop your display.

Gallery: Creative Live! webcams

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Petrobras tem 43 contratos com marido de ministeriável

Researcher Discovers Secret Password-Protected Debug Mode in AMD Microprocessors

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AMD Processors Have Secret Password-Protected Debug Mechanism

Despertador atinge 90 decibéis e é considerado o mais barulhento

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Despertador foi projetado para pessoas com dificuldades de audição.Ruído equivale a alguém soprando uma vuvuzela na cabeceira da cama.

Roundup: The Best SSDs For Enthusiasts

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The SSD market continues evolving. We got our hands on six drives we hadn't yet tested, including Samsung's 470-series, and ran them through our benchmark suite. All told, this roundup includes a total of 24 SSDs to compare. Which drive is right for you?