Anyone can take a hammer and rib-spreader to a new piece of hardware. But it takes someone like Anand Shimpi , the man behind Anandtech who has personally suffered through four out-of-warranty Xbox 360 failures, to bring sage analysis to a teardown of the new Xbox 360 . His reluctant sixth Xbox 360 is the new slimster (codename Valhalla ) which, for the first time, combines the CPU, GPU, and eDRAM onto a single chip — previous Xbox 360 motherboards featured two discrete packages that split the CPU from the ATI designed Xenos GPU and eDRAM

You still using (and paying $99 a year) MobileMe? So you haven’t been lured away by Google’s or Microsoft’s free offerings then?

Was it really only last June that Apple introduced the Find My iPhon e feature? Since then it’s stopped thieves and more than paid for itself.

We were promised cloud gaming nirvana on June 17 , and OnLive has indeed kept to its self-imposed schedule. The new service that allows you to play resource-hungry games via only your browser window has taken its first steps into the real (non-beta) world with an initial catalog of 23 games. It’ll be free for the first year for those who showed faith early on and pre-registered , or $15 per month for new bandwagon riders. Do let us know your thoughts if you’ve gotten onboard at this nascent stage: does it play fantastically well, is it close to spectacular, or is it just a pedestrian effort aiming to capitalize on geeks’ lust for unbound gaming?

More used to seeing rocks covered in grime after billions of years of floating around space, a team of astronomers at MIT are scratching their heads over a surprisingly pristine rock in Kuiper Belt, near Neptune. More?? Kuiper Belt – Solar System – Astronomy – Space – Technology