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Bit Tech user 'Saigon' has modified its motorbike into a fully working computer. It took him 12 days to complete the task. The project made use of a retired pocket bike, an Intel Core i7 920 processor, two hard drives totalling 1.5TB of storage, 6GB of DDR3 OCZ RAM, and lots of LED lighting.

According to the new study conducted by professors Jacob Vigdor and Helen Ladd of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy in North Carolina, giving children home computers and Internet access in a move to contract the gap between poor and wealthy in what relates to education and intellectual abilities leads to the opposite results. The researchers think that these efforts widen achievement gaps in maths and reading between rich and poor - and causes an overall skills decline across society to boot.

While some people may think that PCs have made typewriters obsolete and useless some ingenious intellects do not seem to think so as they have found new application for them.

Jack Zylkin, an enterprising tinkerer and the mind behind USB Typewriter, developed his typewriter conversion system at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Hive 76. He says: "We build things out of bits and atoms, and are a group of hackers/DIY/Makers that tear things apart, and put them together in new ways."

Last week a counterfeit version of Intel Core i7-920 processor appeared at the US markets. Intel confirmed the fact on Monday. Now the chip maker is trying to determine how many more are out there.

HardOCP hardware website reported on Friday that one of its forum members bought a fake processor from Newegg, an online seller of computers and components. The user reported that instead of a processor he had found a bogus processor and a plastic mold of a heat sink and fan.

According to the statistics given by IDC the SSD market grew 14% in 2009 with more than 11 million units shipped that year. Besides, it is expected to grow further through 2010 and by 2013, SSD's compound growth rate (CAGR) over 2008-2013 will reach 54%.

"Despite lingering uncertainties around the economy, IDC remains positive on the outlook for SSDs and believes the trajectories for shipment and revenue growth are a source of optimism moving forward," said Jeff Janukowicz, research manger, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Drives at IDC.

 One of the Internet founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee in an interview for the New York Times said that he regrets addition of slash characters to the web's URL address system. He stated that the use of slash characters in the URL was not compulsory and made the web addresses needlessly longer than they could be.

According to Berners-Lee the protocol names such as HTTP or FTP should be separated from the rest of the address but lately it turned out that only the colon was necessary.