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How to choose a surge protector

Question: The consensus is that it's proper to insert surge protectors between the power source and the computer. The question is, how big? How many joules? Is it true that they "wear out" in a year or so?

Technology / Other

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2




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Mobile devices star in prime time at home

His kids might commandeer the TV before bedtime, but online game designer John Comes still gets his prime-time fix. Just on a smaller screen.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Netflix tops Apple in booming US online movies

The US online movie business more than doubled in 2011 to rake in $992 million and will almost double again this year, a research report showed Friday.

Technology / Business

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Like a jet through solid rock': Volcanic arc fed by rapid fluid pulses

In the depths of the earth, it is anything but peaceful: large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. A research team led by the University of Münster, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Facebook deflates any thought of new tech bubble

The horrendous stock market debut for Facebook suggests investors are not ready to jump in and create another tech bubble despite big expectations for social media, analysts say.

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created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A way to reduce the Internet's energy drain

(Phys.org) -- Swiss researchers at EPFL have developed a device intended for monitoring and saving the energy consumed by large data centers. It was developed in collaboration with Credit Suisse, which has ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA sees Hurricane Bud threaten western Mexico's coast

NASA satellites are providing rainfall, temperature, pressure, visible and infrared data to forecasters as Hurricane Bud is expected to make a quick landfall in western Mexico this weekend before turning back ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook IPO debacle raises investor dander

The spate of complaints and investigations over the Facebook stock offering suggests big institutions had an edge over small investors, raising questions about the process.

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Alaskan ecologists see surge in Japan tsunami debris

An "unprecedented" surge in debris from last year's Japanese tsunami is washing up on Alaska's coastline, environmentalists about to embark on a major cleanup operation said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An introduced bird competitor tips the balance against Hawaiian species

Biologists Leonard Freed and Rebecca Cann from the University of Hawaii at Manoa have been studying birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge for 20 years. Located on an old cattle ranch on the windward ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP's missteps culminate in loss of 27,000 jobs (Update)

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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