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HD is our decade’s extreme. People know the two letters well—and they like them!—because of HDTV. That’s fine, because HDTV actually means something: certain, set lines of resolution. But “Swiffer HD Clean”? I feel like screaming blood. More »

To make his contraption, modder removes the parts from both an Xbox 360 Slim and an older-generation PlayStation 3 and places them inside a PC tower case.

AMD’s Interlagos, its server-styled Bulldozer chip — Mr. Opteron 6200 to you and me — is being pushed out to retailers and OEMs ready for an October launch. AMD is calling it the first 16-core x86 processor, although as we know from the required reading, it has eight two-core shared modules rather than 16 independent ones. The chips are compatible with Socket G34 motherboards, but most of this first production run will go straight into supercomputer projects. AMD remains mute on progress of the consumer-level Zambezi, but rumors are that the company can’t clock it fast enough to compete with Intel’s Core i7 — the very class that Bulldozer was designed to bury.

[Thanks, Sebastian]

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You’re not just looking at a photo of a firefighter standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center, looking up at the sky while the world burns around him. You’re looking at the limits of digital imaging technology in September 2001. More »

This unassuming plate of sushi appears to have been captured at Apple HQ with an iPhone 5. Image: PocketNow

This isn’t just any photo of a plate of sushi.

Although the EXIF data for this photo says it was shot with an iPhone 4, the rest of the data says otherwise. According to the data, it was shot with an 8-megapixel camera, as it originally had a resolution of 3264 x 2448 before being cropped to a 5.12-megapixel size of 2235 x 2291. It’s also fishy that the photo was taken at 4.3mm f/2.4, which is decidedly more point-and-shoot-like than the 3.85mm f/2.8 lens setting of the iPhone 4.

The last bit of proof that this shot wasn’t actually taken with an iPhone 4? It’s geotagged location is none other than the first building at 1 Infinite Loop, Apple’s headquarters.

You know the rumors. The iPhone 5 is expected to have an 8-megapixel camera, an A5 processor and a slightly larger, flatter form factor . Previous guesstimates had the newest iPhone coming this month, but it looks like we’ll see the iPhone 5 in October, and it’ll be available on Sprint in addition to Verizon and AT&T.

Caveats: It is possible the EXIF data isn’t entirely truthful. The photo also could have been taken with just about any prototype Apple device — like that iPhone 4S also rumored to debut at the same time as the iPhone 5.

Regardless, the photo looks great. So does that uni.