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Google and Intel are widely expected to announce a new "smart TV" initiative this week. The new platform will see the chip maker's Atom processor (normally found in netbooks) paired up with the Android OS (normally found in cell phones). The combined technology will be finding its way into set-top boxes and TVs, bringing Web connectivity and applications to the boob tube. To date, efforts to ...

Part of being a good user and consumer is understanding how technology works, why we use it the way we do, and what the barrage of acronyms and PR jargon means. We're here to help you make sense of it all and give you a better appreciation for how that pile of transistors, pixels, and antennas works together to deliver the conveniences of the modern world to your living room or office. What ...

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips Comedian Andy Dick is great at making people uncomfortable, intentionally or not, and that's what he'll be doing on his new online show, 'House Arrest with Andy Dick.' The Atom.com "talk show" makes light of Dick's legal trouble, which has him wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet after pleading guilty to misdemeanor drug and battery ...

Last year at CES, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) were all the rage. It seemed like nobody could get enough of these tiny PC wonders, even if most weren't functioning devices yet. Then CES ended and the MID essentially disappeared. Instead, consumers and industry folks went back to caring about more traditional laptop form factors, and the netbook exploded. But Intel hasn't given up on pushing ...

While the OLPC crew is cutting staff and pay, and ASUS has decided to target higher end markets, the folks at Intel are cornering the market on cheap education focused PC's with their Classmate line of machines. We got a quick smattering of information on the new machine during the Kids@Play summit yesterday at CES. While full details will be disclosed later, we do know that the new Classmate ...

With Intel's tiny, low powered Atom turning out to be a smash hit in bargain-priced, small-sized netbooks, and even upstart Via getting in on the netbook/low power with the Nano, it was a matter of when, not if, chip maker AMD would release its own competing part. And low-and-behold, the struggling processor manufacturer chose CES to unveil the Athlon Neo, a low power, low cost part aimed at ...

Those crazy scientists are at it again, trying to shrink electronics down to impossible sizes. A group called the Pico-Inside Project have made great advances towards making molecular computing a reality. The group has developed a simple circuit that consists of 30 atoms, performing the same function as 14 transistors, which are about 1,000 times larger than an atom. The goal of the team is ...

No clue if HP will be sticking with the Digital Clutch moniker (wouldn't be a bad choice, actually), but one's thing for certain: The computer manufacturer is teaming up with designer Vivienne Tam for a highly decorated netbook. The shot you're looking at above is just about all we have to go on, but obviously this one won't appeal to those who aren't into vivaciousness, vividness and, um, ...

What, you're not in Taipei? No problem, Engadget Chinese is at the WiMax Expo with the first WiMax-enabled Eee PC 901 pictures. Showing off a funky, cutaway hinge (likely due to missing battery), the Eee PC 901 features Intel's Atom processor as expected, Bluetooth, 802.11b/g, and now 802.11n too (hoozah!). The card reader supports MMC/SD/SDHC cards and the WiMax chipset is Intel's Link 5150. ...

Intel is prepping to take over the low cost laptop and PC market with its newly unveiled Atom line of processors, which joins Core 2, Pentium, and Celeron in the chipmaker's lineup. Formerly codenamed Diamondville and Silverthorne, Atom is an ultra-low power, low cost chip that is aimed at machines like the ASUS Eee, UMPC's, MID's, and may have had a spot in the next version of the OLPC had ...