HP has thought up some cool tricks to help reduce power usage in laptops. The technology allows a laptop to only brighten the part of the screen that is being used, and apparently this can increase battery life by up to 11 times...check it out.

Hmm...looks like Microsoft really is ready to embrace Sun. Sun seems to have contributed some of their latest AMD Opteron servers and workstations to Microsoft, and at least one of the Microsoft employees was excited enough about them to spill the news on his blog. Check out the Register article here.

Hmmm...AMD or Intel chips on the same motherboard? Interesting...hopefully anandtech or Tom's Hardware will follow this up with a review. Thanks to mcmullet for the heads up!