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An ethical hacker named Chris Paget demonstrated live interception of GSM cell phones from AT&T and T-Mobile at Defcon Hacking Conference on Saturday. Despite concerns that he could be arrested or fined for illegally intercepting cell phone calls, he went ahead with the demonstration.

Intel announced on Tuesday, that Intel's research division has developed a new microprocessor chip to showcase the technology of Photon and Laser driven chips that surpass the physical limits of electric wires. In the future, microprocessors will be developed using lasers to convert light into electrical data. The limitations of memory however, may still pose a serious problem.

If you ever wondered where all your windows error reports go after that nasty system fail. Well now you know.

However, Windows 7 doesn't crash as much as Vista and previous versions. Maybe the bug is working hard after all.

In Windows, using Firefox (for me it was 3.6.3), I use to get an error whenever I download a large file (over 200 MB), Firefox launches an warning error saying "file could not be saved, because the source file could not be read." This is quite an annoying bug for Firefox, and I've seen it on many computers. Perhaps it's not something Firefox can easily fix, because it might be specific to each user's situation (regardless, I still think Firefox should look into it).

Apple just revealed the new Apple iPad Tablet that will probably make it one of the first failures by Apple's latest line of products. Apple revealed this new Tablet PC as a challenger to netbooks. However, it's already been labeled a "less powerful, but more expensive netbook." Here are 10 problems that made this Apple iPad an iDisappointment.