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1.

Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs (www.extremetech.com)

748 points by lelf 2014-12-27 | 400 comments

2.

Kingston and PNY using cheaper components after good reviews (www.extremetech.com)

581 points by nkurz 2014-06-14 | 158 comments

3.

Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade (www.extremetech.com)

497 points by be5invis 2016-06-27 | 443 comments

4.

AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 (www.extremetech.com)

497 points by artsandsci 2018-01-31 | 238 comments

5.

Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels (www.extremetech.com)

464 points by mrsebastian 2012-03-13 | 156 comments

6.

Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway (www.extremetech.com)

419 points by sasoon 2013-07-05 | 137 comments

7.

Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager (www.extremetech.com)

417 points by Systemic33 2014-10-29 | 337 comments

8.

15-year-old girl invents flashlight powered by the heat of your hand (www.extremetech.com)

386 points by evo_9 2013-06-29 | 121 comments

9.

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram (www.extremetech.com)

346 points by evo_9 2012-08-17 | 129 comments

10.

MIT discovers the location of memories: Individual neurons (www.extremetech.com)

341 points by mrsebastian 2012-03-23 | 120 comments

11.

Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014 (www.extremetech.com)

324 points by lispython 2013-02-07 | 204 comments

12.

Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches (www.extremetech.com)

319 points by mepian 2019-05-20 | 106 comments

13.

Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon (www.extremetech.com)

315 points by artsandsci 2018-04-13 | 137 comments

14.

SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket (www.extremetech.com)

314 points by ramshanker 2017-06-24 | 121 comments

15.

MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism (www.extremetech.com)

309 points by memoryfailure 2012-12-20 | 51 comments

16.

The fanless spinning heatsink: more efficient, and immune to dust and detritus (www.extremetech.com)

299 points by lmathews 2011-07-12 | 63 comments

17.

US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified (www.extremetech.com)

291 points by Hellcat 2012-10-08 | 83 comments

18.

Google is FUBAR (www.extremetech.com)

282 points by llambda 2012-01-25 | 268 comments

19.

Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7 (www.extremetech.com)

274 points by evo_9 2012-10-23 | 179 comments

20.

Just how big are porn sites? (www.extremetech.com)

251 points by mrsebastian 2012-04-04 | 105 comments

21.

Vortex radio waves could boost wireless capacity “infinitely” (www.extremetech.com)

244 points by ukdm 2012-03-02 | 75 comments

22.

Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu? (www.extremetech.com)

238 points by mrsebastian 2011-11-11 | 186 comments

23.

The fanless heatsink: Silent, dust-immune, and almost ready for prime time (www.extremetech.com)

220 points by mrsebastian 2012-06-25 | 105 comments

24.

Unbreakable crypto: Store a 30-character password in your subconscious memory (www.extremetech.com)

208 points by mrsebastian 2012-07-19 | 84 comments

25.

Graphene: The perfect water filter (www.extremetech.com)

204 points by ukdm 2012-01-27 | 40 comments

26.

Full disk encryption is too good? (www.extremetech.com)

201 points by mrsebastian 2011-11-18 | 193 comments

27.

The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin (www.extremetech.com)

192 points by SkippyZA 2012-03-28 | 91 comments

28.

Seagate hits 1 terabit per square inch, 60TB hard drives on their way (www.extremetech.com)

191 points by mrsebastian 2012-03-20 | 79 comments

29.

Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak (www.extremetech.com)

188 points by mrsebastian 2012-08-28 | 183 comments

30.

Zeolite retains heat indefinitely, absorbs 4x more heat than water (www.extremetech.com)

178 points by ukdm 2012-06-06 | 77 comments

31.

IBM creates breathing, high-density, light-weight lithium-air battery (www.extremetech.com)

176 points by palmar 2012-04-20 | 81 comments

32.

Microsoft, Sony, and others still use illegal warranty-void-if-removed stickers (www.extremetech.com)

175 points by doener 2016-08-07 | 55 comments

33.

RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases (www.extremetech.com)

168 points by mrsebastian 2011-11-16 | 76 comments

34.

Graphene supercapacitors are 20x as powerful, can be made with a DVD burner (www.extremetech.com)

162 points by evo_9 2012-03-19 | 70 comments

35.

Isostick: the USB memory stick that thinks it’s an optical drive (www.extremetech.com)

161 points by ukdm 2011-07-28 | 68 comments

36.

Graphene improves lithium-ion battery capacity and recharge rate by 10x (www.extremetech.com)

158 points by mrsebastian 2011-11-16 | 71 comments

37.

$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms (www.extremetech.com)

156 points by evo_9 2012-03-20 | 66 comments

38.

Google and OpenDNS made the web faster for everyone today (www.extremetech.com)

154 points by ukdm 2011-08-30 | 62 comments

39.

Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra (www.extremetech.com)

153 points by o1iver 2012-10-23 | 42 comments

40.

Bill Gates funds creation of graphene condoms (www.extremetech.com)

153 points by robabbott 2013-11-22 | 127 comments

41.

Programmer creates 800,000 books algorithmically, starts selling them on Amazon (www.extremetech.com)

151 points by Libertatea 2012-12-14 | 138 comments

42.

FBI argues it can force Apple to turn over iPhone source code (www.extremetech.com)

150 points by nreece 2016-03-15 | 158 comments

43.

Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 (www.extremetech.com)

150 points by ukdm 2011-07-11 | 119 comments

44.

Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially worthless (www.extremetech.com)

149 points by evo_9 2012-03-23 | 76 comments

45.

New lithium-ion battery design – 2,000x more powerful, recharges 1,000x faster (www.extremetech.com)

148 points by derpenxyne 2013-04-17 | 86 comments

46.

Stanford computer diagnoses breast cancer more accurately than human doctor (www.extremetech.com)

146 points by mrsebastian 2011-11-10 | 49 comments

47.

CERN to announce Higgs boson observation at LHC (www.extremetech.com)

145 points by mrsebastian 2011-12-12 | 31 comments

48.

SpaceX CEO claims he can send you on a round-trip to Mars for $500K (www.extremetech.com)

141 points by evo_9 2012-03-20 | 86 comments

49.

2 billion-year-old African nuclear reactor (www.extremetech.com)

141 points by givan 2014-05-12 | 38 comments

50.

Microsoft Closes US Surface Factory, Moves Production to China (www.extremetech.com)

138 points by duykhoa12t 2018-08-17 | 42 comments

51.

Stingray, the fake cell phone tower (www.extremetech.com)

137 points by jonbaer 2014-07-27 | 85 comments

52.

Cray Announces New, AI-Focused Supercomputers (www.extremetech.com)

136 points by artsandsci 2017-05-11 | 62 comments

53.

The world’s first entirely 3D-printed gun has been made (www.extremetech.com)

135 points by marshc1 2013-05-03 | 159 comments

54.

Laser-powered bionic eye gives vision to the blind (www.extremetech.com)

135 points by doc4t 2012-07-17 | 33 comments

55.

The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science (www.extremetech.com)

129 points by eaxitect 2013-10-26 | 115 comments

56.

Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths (www.extremetech.com)

129 points by evo_9 2012-06-27 | 42 comments

57.

Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Windows (www.extremetech.com)

127 points by mrsebastian 2012-08-02 | 69 comments

58.

Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice (www.extremetech.com)

126 points by mrsebastian 2012-03-12 | 33 comments

59.

Canonical reveals Ubuntu for Android (www.extremetech.com)

124 points by mrsebastian 2012-02-21 | 61 comments

60.

GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit (www.extremetech.com)

124 points by ukdm 2012-03-09 | 88 comments

61.

Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold (www.extremetech.com)

124 points by 11031a 2012-11-02 | 179 comments

62.

DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot (www.extremetech.com)

123 points by Dj_Anthony2013 2013-07-12 | 89 comments

63.

Firefox 9 uses type inference to improve JavaScript performance by 20-30% (www.extremetech.com)

123 points by 11031a 2011-08-31 | 46 comments

64.

AMD Threadripper Delidded, with a Multi-Core Surprise Under the Hood (www.extremetech.com)

119 points by pantalaimon 2017-07-28 | 53 comments

65.

Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots (www.extremetech.com)

119 points by jrochkind1 2014-06-15 | 137 comments

66.

Mozilla to remove Firefox version numbers (www.extremetech.com)

117 points by lmathews 2011-08-15 | 67 comments

67.

Darpa shows off 1.8-gigapixel drone, can spot a person from 20K feet (www.extremetech.com)

117 points by Libertatea 2013-01-28 | 106 comments

68.

So long, silicon: Researchers create solar panels from cheap copper oxide (www.extremetech.com)

117 points by maxko87 2012-08-10 | 40 comments

69.

Symantec caught once again improperly issuing illegitimate HTTPS certificates (www.extremetech.com)

114 points by ghosh 2017-01-23 | 28 comments

70.

Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 (www.extremetech.com)

114 points by walterbell 2019-05-10 | 100 comments

71.

LG begins mass production of first flexible e-ink displays (www.extremetech.com)

113 points by mrsebastian 2012-03-29 | 45 comments

72.

F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device (www.extremetech.com)

110 points by artsandsci 2018-04-26 | 51 comments

73.

Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data (www.extremetech.com)

110 points by adamwintle 2013-08-15 | 68 comments

74.

Felix Baumgartner: The best photos and videos from the edge of space (www.extremetech.com)

110 points by ulrichkautz 2012-10-15 | 51 comments

75.

How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips (www.extremetech.com)

108 points by nkurz 2014-10-31 | 32 comments

76.

Google's playing the closed-open game again, this time with HTML5 (www.extremetech.com)

107 points by mrsebastian 2011-07-27 | 62 comments

77.

Dell unveils 8K 32-inch monitor at CES 2017 (www.extremetech.com)

106 points by dmmalam 2017-01-08 | 79 comments

78.

Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion (www.extremetech.com)

106 points by adeelarshad82 2012-07-02 | 34 comments

79.

Authors destroy legal e-book lending site thanks to Authors Guild, publisher FUD (www.extremetech.com)

103 points by evo_9 2012-08-14 | 87 comments

80.

The world's slowest Linux PC (www.extremetech.com)

102 points by kudu 2015-02-15 | 30 comments

81.

Intel’s erratic Core M performance leaves an opening for AMD (www.extremetech.com)

102 points by nkurz 2015-04-10 | 81 comments

82.

MS-DOS is 30 years old today (www.extremetech.com)

102 points by ukdm 2011-07-27 | 27 comments

83.

PC obsolescence is obsolete (www.extremetech.com)

101 points by evo_9 2012-08-21 | 121 comments

84.

Manufacturing bombshell: AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC (www.extremetech.com)

100 points by DigiHound 2011-11-22 | 24 comments

85.

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop speaker & microphone (www.extremetech.com)

99 points by ukdm 2012-05-07 | 28 comments

86.

Microsoft Research shows off see-through 3D display (www.extremetech.com)

99 points by evo_9 2012-02-28 | 20 comments

87.

BitTorrent usage increases in Europe, following the blockade of The Pirate Bay (www.extremetech.com)

97 points by mrsebastian 2012-07-05 | 16 comments

88.

MIT can now see through concrete walls (www.extremetech.com)

96 points by lmathews 2011-10-18 | 37 comments

89.

IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical qubit computers close (www.extremetech.com)

96 points by ukdm 2012-02-28 | 30 comments

90.

Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the manual (www.extremetech.com)

95 points by thomas 2011-07-14 | 15 comments

91.

Aerographite: six times lighter than air, conductive, and super-strong (www.extremetech.com)

95 points by razzaj 2012-11-02 | 35 comments

92.

Engineers boost AMD CPU by 20% with software alone; no overclocking (www.extremetech.com)

94 points by 11031a 2012-02-07 | 17 comments

93.

Black Hat hacker details lethal wireless attack on insulin pumps (www.extremetech.com)

94 points by mrsebastian 2011-08-05 | 40 comments

94.

Intel becomes a foundry, offers up its 22nm process (www.extremetech.com)

93 points by Flemlord 2012-02-22 | 18 comments

95.

'Twisted' wireless OAM beams carry 2.5 terabits per second (www.extremetech.com)

92 points by ukdm 2012-06-25 | 38 comments

96.

New multiferroic alloy turns waste heat into green electricity for free (www.extremetech.com)

92 points by mrseb 2011-06-23 | 48 comments

97.

Graphene creates electricity when struck by light (www.extremetech.com)

91 points by kennjason 2011-10-07 | 16 comments

98.

$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s new solar panel (www.extremetech.com)

89 points by ck2 2015-10-04 | 36 comments

99.

Berkeley creates the first graphene earphones (www.extremetech.com)

89 points by false 2013-03-13 | 20 comments

100.

IPv6 now deployed across entire T-Mobile US network (www.extremetech.com)

86 points by ukdm 2012-04-24 | 11 comments

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