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The HTC Wildfire the upcoming Android 2.1 smartphone with HTC Sense will be coming to the US this year. Confirmed by HTC, we will be seeing this compact smartphone this quarter on regional carriers. The fact that this is coming to regional carriers is not surprising, the big 4 already have enough high profile HTC devices and the smaller wireless [...]

Why swallow your vitamins when you can huff them? That's the general thinking behind the world's first breathable vitamin, called LeWhif Vitamin, which launched in the UK earlier this month and is expected to hit the US market this week. The creation of Harvard biomedical engineer David Edwards, inventor of inhalable insulin, inhalable chocolate and inhalable coffee, LeWhif Vitamin is [...]

Earlier this week China unveiled the world's fastest bullet train, and today it boasts the world's fastest supercomputer. Unveiled earlier today, the Tianhe-1A supercomputer has set a new performance record at 2.507 petaflops via 7,168 NVIDIA GPUs and 14,336 CPUs, unseating the Cray XT5 Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Labs as the world record holder. Tianhe-1A was designed by the [...]

O2 UK has announced pricing for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and as expected it's not going to be a cheap slate.  In fact, O2 aren't subsidizing the 7-inch Tab at all: it will be £599 on the carrier's pay-and-go mobile broadband tariffs. There'll also be a choice of pre-pay and monthly voice & data plans on offer, for those who [...]

Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester professor has developed a portable, radio frequency-based scanner that is able to show the presence of breast tumors, both malignant and benign, in real time. The portable unit, which packs all the necessary electronic components into a package the size of a lunchbox, allows [...]

U.S. Cellular has become the latest North American carrier to promise to offer the Samsung Galaxy Tab, following in the footsteps of Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T.  The carrier is yet to announce pricing or availability, but we're guessing it'll drop sometime in November 2010. Otherwise this is the same Tab we've seen before, with a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel [...]