Robots to swarm English village in military contest

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Robots to swarm English village in military contest--U.K. Ministry of Defense is sponsoring its version of the DARPA Challenge this summer, with robot teams scouting out potential dangers.

Latest quad-cores creep into consumer desktops--Latest chips from Intel and AMD are finding a home in consumer desktops from HP and Gateway.

Microsoft opens up to Linux for System Center, but on a very short leash--Company is supporting Linux as a target OS in its System Center product, but only Linux that it controls.

dBpoweramp for music file format conversion--I had a problem: a library of WMA files that my new iPod Shuffle couldn't play. dBpoweramp is the solution.