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We reported last week that Toyota was once again circling the drain, this time over braking issues with its Prius hybrids. The company had received a number of complaints about the loss of braking force in 2010 Prius hybrids when driving over bumpy or icy surfaces. At the time, Toyota acknowledged the reports and determined that it would investigate the matter ...

There are plenty of U.S. wind power success stories, but of late the pace of wind power adoption in the U.S. has slowed, even as it has soared in other nations like China.  Part of wind power's problem is the need for new high power transmission lines stretching to the remote stretches of land ideal for wind farms.  The nation's largest wind ...

ATI, the graphics division of AMD, launched the lowest priced DirectX 11 video card last week. The Radeon HD 5450 using the Cedar chip can be purchased starting at $50, while the Radeon HD 5670 using the Redwood XT chip starts just below $100.Most of ATI sales by quantity are in the sub-$100 market, so the company has to fill in ...

When it comes to electric vehicles, we have mostly covered the consumer side of things. General Motors is going full steam ahead with its Volt "extended range" electric vehicle, Nissan is developing its all-electric Leaf, and Tesla is hitting a higher price point with its Roadster and Model S all-electric vehicles. However, all-electric vehicles aren't just limited to the consumer market ...

Laptops now outnumber desktops in sales and that trend is only set to broaden in coming years. With the majority of customers now using laptops, anything on an operating system level that affects laptop users is becoming increasingly important. Thus, when reports popped up that Windows 7 was erroneously telling users to replace their batteries on perfectly healthy notebooks, many took note.Microsoft's Windows ...