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Qualcomm has announced a new series of their heralded �Snapdragon� mobile CPUs that more than doubles those currently seen in cellphones and tablets.

"Baba Yetu," the opening theme song from 'Civilization IV,' became the first song to be composed for a video game to win a Grammy at last night's Grammy Awards.

Following Matthew's last post, I'd like to thank him for his wonderful contribution to Gearfuse. The last three months have been an enchanted parenthesis. While it's been very refreshing working with Matthew, the kind of content that has been published here was too pointedly highbrow to attract new readers and to be a rapid grower. Yes, professional blogging is about money, too.

This is my last post for Gearfuse. What happens here next, I don't know; life on the Internet is flickering and glitchy, and I wouldn't have it any other way. In little more than two months, I've written nearly four hundred posts at Gearfuse, and I've been proud of them all (well, nearly all of them�it's just blogging, after all).

An atemporal history of puffed cereals suggests that the links between food and industry stretch back to the beginnings of civilization. The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.

Living amidst a cornucopia of products that aren't products, we're learning that cultivating our gardens means working together. The final post in a series of chats about the Chrome notebook, with blogger Adam Rothstein.

Ancient fissures left by long-absent water coursing over the Cydonian Plains of Mars? Dessicating petroglyph in Lascaux's trove of Paleolithic cave art? Or paint drying on an old board? Answer after the jump.

Google goes for quiet comprehensiveness; Apple chooses charisma. Which strategy ensures success?

Bill O'Reilly takes on all those pinheads who think that gravity is enuf. But in a fantasy smackdown with Richard Feynman, who fares better? Videos after the jump.

Robert Krulwich can't believe Kevin Kelly is correct about technologies never disappearing. But even if it's true, are past results a guarantee of future progress?