WASHINGTON - A team of scientists led by an Indian-American has found out a new way of cooling microchips in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers and other devices by understanding how the fluid overheats in tiny microchannels.

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A VGA Connector is the most common port on any computer. It connects any standard monitor to the CPU or you can use this port on your laptop to connect an external monitor. It is also commonly known as RGB Connector, D Sub 15, mini sub D15 and mini D15 as it consist of a total of 15 pins in three rows. If you don’t know anything about this connector read our guide to know everything that you should know.
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Game over: Fla. cops caught playing Wii on the job

LAKELAND, Fla. — It’s game over for some police officers who played video games while they raided a convicted drug dealer’s home in central Florida.

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If you are new to the world of laptops and looking to buy a laptop with good feature sets you might have come across some terms like HDMI Port, eSATA Port, USB 2.0 Ports, FireWire Ports and Express Card Slot. While we have discussed the previous ports, it is time to discuss about the Express Card Slot assuming that you know nothing about it. It is basically an expansion slot replacing the good ol PC Cards which were also known as PCMCIA Cards. You can use this slot to add FireWire, External SATA diskdrives, SSD Drives, TV Tuner Cards, Wireless Network Adapter Cards, Sound Cards, Additional Memory Cards and memory card readers etc. They offer greater speeds and can provide better power to the devices and better heat dissipation at the same time compared to the older PCMCIA Standard. Here are some more points that you should know about Express Card Slot.
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Thin and light laptops are best known for their portability and good battery life which is ideal for businessmen or professionals on the go. The home laptops have a different playground with slightly heavier form factor, a good high resolution display, decent performing CPU and probably a bit higher capacity RAM. They are meant to be carried only from one room to the other and some occasional travel outside the home. However, choosing a perfect home laptop can be as difficult as choosing a home or a car or something like that. You have a plethora or different models from various manufacturers. They have different CPUs, different amount of RAM, HDD space and so on. Instead of going into more details and analyzing what will best suite you, here I will suggest you some model from reputed brands that will most likely fulfill your needs.
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GM investing $21 million in Flint Assembly plant

FLINT, Mich. — General Motors Co. says it plans to invest more than $21 million in its Flint Assembly plant to build the 2011 Chevrolet light-duty crew cab truck.

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Credit Suisse analyst upgrades shares of Novellus

SAN FRANCISCO — A Credit Suisse analyst upgraded Novellus Systems Inc. shares to “Outperform” Monday, citing several reasons including an expectation that Samsung Electronics Co. will raise its 2010 capital expenditures — something that could benefit Novellus.

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Everyone of us knows about Batman and those of you who read the comics know that Arkham Asylum is the iconic psychiatric hospital in the Gotham City. The Batman: Arkham Asylum is a new third person action game in which you not only get toe-to-toe with thugs in fast paced punch ups but you also employ satisfying stealth tactics with great gadgets. There are riddles to solve, detective works and lots of other things which will make you feel like batman. Take a look at the review to know more.
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Asus is known for its extensive netbook lineup and they seem to be strengthening that even more with a netbook having a 12 inch screen which might not seem to be that netbookish. It is build around NVIDIA’s Ion technology that is expected to boost the graphics performance of the netbook comparable to mainstream laptops. Here is its other specs.

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The prices of Camera Mobile Phones have dropped quite rapidly in the past few years. Mobile Phones with a camera are available at as low as Rs. 2,500 (About $50) but at that low price you’ll only get a camera of VGA 640 X 480 pixels resolution. In that resolution, you can be satisfied with the output at your small mobile display but you are sure to lose the satisfaction as soon as you transfer them to your computer. They don’t have a print quality photo from them. If you can afford a little higher money of about $100 (Rs. 5,000), you can get a megapixel resolution camera that can take pictures having print quality. Here we have listed the top camera phones that can take print quality photos and are also available under Rs. 5,000 in India.
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