We know there are a lot of you out there, so we had to make sure you didn’t miss this. If you’re a Wii-loving Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock player, your disk might have a faulty audio mix. Activision is being cool about it, though, and offering to swap your defective disk for one […]

We know there are a lot of you out there, so we’d to make sure you didn’t miss this. If you’re a Wii-loving Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock player, your disk might have a faulty audio mix. Activision is being cool about it, though, and offering to swap your defective disk for one with remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 for free, or a refund.

Guitar Hero III refund [Activision]

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There are some shady rumors going around that SSD memory might be sketchy. The rumors say that after 100,000 writes, the RAM starts to fail. Not so, says Samsung’s Michael Yang. He wants you to know that it might start to fail after 100,000 writes to every single cell in the chip, something that would […]

There are some shady rumors going around that SSD memory might be sketchy. The rumors say that after 100,000 writes, the RAM starts to fail. Not so, says Samsung’s Michael Yang. He wants you to know that it might start to fail after 100,000 writes to every single cell in the chip, something that would be virtually impossible.

Truly, SSD is the memory format of the future. Less power hungry, lighter, and with no moving parts to break, it will be the hard drive for laptops of the future, with some, like a variant of the MacBook Air, already featuring the technology.

Samsung defends flash reliability in solid-state drives [C-Net Blogs]

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Researchers at Kansai University in Japan have developed a machine that has the capability to scientifically measure the quantity of a person’s laugh as well as the sincerity. The device works using a series of electrode sensors that monitor the amount of bioelectricity generated by various muscles involved in laughter. The data is then whisked away to a computer where it is analyzed an assigned a numerical score based on its quantity.

Furthermore, the difference between real and fake laughter is determined by monitoring the movement of the diaphragm. If the muscle vibrations are high, that would be an indicator of a genuine laugh. Interestingly enough, the researchers are looking to make a portable version for heath and entertainment devices—which means that Carrot Top’s performing days are numbered. [Pink Tentacle]

Via [Gizmodo]

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