You just can't keep a good army of Terminators down. Apple may have had an ulterior motive in the deal it struck with the Liquidmetal folks; HTC has struck back at Apple's patent infringement suits; and the EFF thinks Steve Jobs is a cackling, diabolical mastermind. The bad kind. If you can stomach that, you can handle the remainders for Wednesday, August 25, 2010.

IBM is developing a new deep-sleep mode for its Power processors that will allow them to draw almost no power when they are idle, an IBM engineer said at the Hot Chips conference on Monday.

Electronics component suppliers that allegedly paid kickbacks to gain business from Apple declined to comment on the allegations when contacted on Monday.

Intel on Tuesday announced it had developed a prototype interconnect that uses light to speed up data transmission inside computers at the speed of 50 gigabits per second.