Security expert, Andrew Goodwill, from the Third Man group, said this was the first evidence of a breach of the chip-and-pin system, with the encryption of the chip having been broken.

BBC: Device 'steals chip-and-pin data'

Much of the criticism was reserved for Samsung's (broken?) Blu-ray player, which due to a bad chip, bad transfers, too much compression or whatever the case may be, did not ship with movies that fulfilled the HD promise and didn't match the quality of the demos.

ENGADGET: High-def DVD sales slower than expected; HD DVD sells more units but Blu-ray makes more money

AMD, the computer-chip maker, announced on Tuesday that its processor called "Bulldozer" had broken the Guinness World Record for processing at a frequency of 8.429 gigahertz, which is about three times as fast as the processors you'd find in a speedy laptop.

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