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You want to know a fast way to cool down a computer? Dunk it in a big tank of mineral oil. That's a technique that Intel has been testing out over the past year, running servers in little oil-filled boxes built by an Austin, Texas, company called Green Revolution Cooling.

Hardware errors are more common than you think!

Built by a startup company called Pwnie Express, the PwnPlug is pretty much the last thing you ever want to find on your network -- unless you've hired somebody to put it there. It's a tiny computer that comes preloaded with an arsenal of hacking tools.

Google wants to change the way the world writes software. In recent years, the search giant has unveiled two new programming languages that seek to imp

Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations choked on the "leap second" that was added to the world's atomic clocks.

Objective-C - the programming language used to build applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad - is now the third most popular language on Earth. Objective-C has surpassed C++.

Today Apple was granted a patent for a possibly lucrative addition to its IP arsenal: a patent for its method of displaying documents, lists, and a whole manner of other things on a portable electronic device.

If you think it's tough to keep your computer or smartphone's software updated, try keeping a space robot updated from about 160 million miles away. Last Tuesday the team at NASA's Mars Science Laboratory finished what amounted to a complete overhaul of the Curiosity Rover's software.

An interesting article on how professionals recover lost data from HDD and SSD - might be handy leading into U4O2