Humphrey Cheung

Hong Kong - Palit has announced an updated Nvidia 9600 GT card with 1 GB of video memory.

(Waltham, MA) - A new robot may soon be taking a lot of weight off of our soldiers' backs.

Herat (Afghanistan) - The United States Army is dazzling Afghani drivers with laser light in a bid to prevent accidents with its convoys.

Gainesville (FL) - The infamous video of a University of Florida student being tasered is a nominee for the 2007 YouTube Video Awards.

Los Angeles (CA) - With all the expensive products we see and review, it's pretty refreshing to play with something that doesn't suck.

Cambridge (MA) - The servers of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard were hacked last month and the intruder appears to have placed the data on Torrent sites.

London (England) - Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (sorry Al Gore fans), claims next generation web technology companies could surpass Google.

Miami (FL) - A University Of South Florida College Of Public Health study says red light cameras actually increase the number and severity of crashes.

Santa Clara (CA) - Computerworld is reporting that Intel will unveil new solid-state drives with capacities of up to 160 GB.

Washington DC - After a 27-year run, the Air Force is retired the F-117 Stealth Fighter.

San Jose (CA) - Beginning LAN party organizers often struggle with mind-numbing business details, but that's about to change with Palit's launch of what it calls the "ultimate LAN party resource".

Beverly Hills (CA) - Sure the RED-ONE camera isn't new, but this didn't stop hundreds of videographers from drooling at last week's HD Expo in Beverly Hills.

Google has been banned from surveying US military bases after it took street-level photographs of a Texas army base. The Department of Defense believes the photographs could compromise security and has ordered base commanders to prohibit Google Earth teams from driving their picture taking vehicles onto military property.

A first-year Ryerson University student faces expulsion after running an online Facebook study group that swapped homework tips. 18-year-old Chris Avenir has been hit with 147 counts - one for each student who used the group - of academic misconduct and will now go in front of the engineering department for an expulsion hearing.

An anti-shark device became shark food after it failed spectacularly in the waters near South Africa. This shocking (ok maybe not so shocking) information came to light during an inquest held in South Australia over the death of a swimmer who was wearing the same device.

In preparation for this summer's Olympics, China has just opened the world's largest airport terminal in Beijing. More than 50 million people will scamper through this terminal which is nearly two miles long and has 120 gates along with 73 aircraft parking spots.

For the past few weeks, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Army have been running the 'Crusher' six-wheeled robot through torturous recon and cave-clearing missions. By early reports, the robot has performed well and Army personnel have even adapted two popular gadgets to control the bot.

Sony's robotic Aibo dog is just as effective as a real dog in curing loneliness. According to a study conducted by the St. Louis University, elderly patients in a nursing home became attached to the dog after several weeks of playing with the non-pooping plastic pet.

People in southern Florida were hit with a massive power outage after two nuclear reactors spontaneously shut down. The outage centered on the Miami-Dade area, but also extended to some parts of Broward County. Nuclear Regulatory Commission reps say the reactors were probably responding to a weird reading in the power grid and add that everything should be back to normal shortly.

Redmond (WA) - Microsoft's servers are experiencing technical problems today and millions of Hotmail and Xbox Live servers were unable to log in as of 12 noon today.

Here at TG Daily we really don't play many games (although Humphrey Cheung was addicted to World of Warcraft for 2 ½ years), but we do render a lot of video. So just how good is an eight-core monster platform for video editing and rendering? Well Intel gave us a Skulltrail system to find out.

At this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we interviewed Intel's Senior Performance Analyst Francois Piednoel about their dual processor Skulltrail platform. He told us the monstrous systems aren't just for extreme gaming, but also easily handle rendering and video production tasks.

NASA and Speedo have teamed up to develop the world's fastest swimsuit.

Retired Air Force pilot John Wojnaroski can't seem to get away from flying and he's been constructing the "ultimate" flight simulator with authentic screens, switches and even throttle controls.

The United States military wants to reach out and touch someone - fast. According to an article in the Dallas Star-Telegram, Air Force researchers are developing bombers and cruise missiles capable of flying Mach 6 or 4,000 miles-per-hour and faster.