NASA robot sends back evidence it's snowing on Mars
Forget trying to find evidence that there used to be water on Mars. Scientists from NASA said Monday that its instruments on the Red Planet have detected falling snow.
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NASA finds more evidence of historical Mars water flows
NASA got one more piece of the Martian puzzle this week.
Melted wires knock out Hadron collider for two months
Just days after a faulty transformer was repaired, an apparent melted electrical connection between two magnets has brought the Large Hadron Collider down for two months.
Cray takes supercomputers to the desktop
Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors.
Former Intel engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
A former Intel design engineer has been charged with theft of trade secrets from the chip maker while secretly working for rival Advanced Micro Devices.
More AMD chips
AMD has unveiled three triple-core processors, adding to several released earlier this year.
Collider test called a 'great milestone of mankind'
Wednesday's successful test run of a massive particle collider is being called "one of the great engineering milestones of mankind."
MIT physicist gets death threat over collider experiment
An MIT physics professor and Nobel laureate has received death threats because of his involvement with the Large Hadron Collider, which performed the world's biggest physics experiment Wednesday.
Analyst: AMD may spin off fab plants this month
A Wall Street analyst is predicting that Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to spin off its manufacturing operations into a separate company and may announce the plan as soon as September 15.
Intel to release six-core chip this month
The quad-core chips that have sat atop the microprocessor heap for the past two years are about to start being replaced by bigger, burlier six-core processor technology.
News anchor admits to hacking, leaking email's content
A Philadelphia TV news anchor pleaded guilty today to breaking into his co-anchor's email accounts more than 500 times and feeding information he found there to a local newspaper.
Strong Intel sales push global PC chip market to record Q2
Defying a bad economy and what is normally a bad season for computer chip sales, worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the second quarter of this year reached what IDC analysts called record levels.
Former prosecutor: UK hacker's extradition is inevitable
The former prosecutor of the Gary McKinnon hacking case said there's no reason to believe the European Court of Human Rights will ultimately block the alleged hacker's extradition to the United States.
Researcher: Intel fixed two critical flaws in its chips
A Russian researcher who plans to demonstrate this fall how he could take advantage of flaws in Intel's chips, said the chipmaker has told him it has fixed two critical bugs.
IBM project improves human memory
IBM researchers are working on software that may help jog users' memories.