Top 10 spots to ring in the New Year
From Brazil's famous Copacabana beach to olde-worlde Europe, this is where the parties are! Break out the party favours and the bubbly it's almost time to ring in the New Year. To avoid another night in with the television, the website AskMen.com offers its top 10 list of New Year's destinations for travellers keen to find fun out of town. 1. Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro As
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Hitachi develops new hard drive head technology that will increase storage capacity to 4TB by 2011 Hitachi recently announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in hard drive read-head design. This breakthrough has produced read-heads in the 30-50 nanometer range, approximately 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair. This new technology is called current
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