* Sony show off hybrid Playstation gaming system and entertainment system - it includes 160gb hd, dvd recorder, and TV tuner, as well as game system.
* napster relaunches with pay service.
* 4 die in a car crash in Liverpool city centre bbc news.
* win a years subscription to Custom PC at hexus.net
* Eolas want MS to stop distributing IE untill MS have removed the Eolas stuff.
* "Magnatune" have a clever idea for how to share / sell music on-line based on the shareware model, where you get to "try-before-you-buy".
* Seroxat the anti-depressant, is being blamed for causing voilence, suicide and self-harm and is being used as a defence for voilent crime.

* "Cool'n'Quiet is the new developed technology of AMD PowerNow!, embedded in the AMD Athlon�64 processor." read all about it "Cool'n'Quiet appears to be a modified version of AMD's PowerNow! technology that throttles the Athlon 64 3200+'s clock speed all the way down to 800MHz at idle. As processor loads increase, Cool'n'Quiet ramps the Athlon 64's clock speed back up to 2GHz in 200MHz increments. Apparently, Cool'n'Quiet also lowers the processor's core voltage as its clock speed drops.
When paired with a temperature-controlled processor fan, Cool'n'Quiet could significantly reduce noise levels for idling Athlon 64 systems. Of course, the feature relies on BIOS-level support from motherboard manufacturers."

* another article here about the "pentium-m" which will have 2mb L2 cache and is planned for release Jan-04.