The USB Forum announced that a new specification for USB 3.0 to be announced in June would allow up to 10 Gbps native data rate (twice the current 5 Gbps data rate).

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Further loss of Arctic ice will see radiation absorbed by darker seawater and snow-free land, potentially warming the Earth's climate at an even faster rate than current observational data indicates.

BBC: Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk

Current data indicates all this ice is already thinning at a rapid rate.

BBC: Canadian glaciers face 'big losses'

U.S. market watchers of all stripes have grown increasingly alarmed by jobs data here, which seem to suggest that our current unemployment rate of 8.2% is either an illusion or unsustainably low.

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The current toggle DDR 1.0 specification applies a DDR interface to conventional single data rate (SDR) NAND architecture.

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