Barge-scale cleanup in California waterways (photos)
A handful of oversize photos from a tour CNET took of a large-scale effort to pull polluting boats, barges, and buildings out of a San Francisco Bay Area delta.Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the X-Mini Happy Speaker MP3 player, LG BD590 Blu-ray player, and the Origin Genesis gaming PC.Engineering a massive cleanup of toxic waterways (photos)
Boats, barges, and buildings dumped in a San Francisco Bay Area delta are leaching toxic chemicals into local drinking water, but a huge effort to clean it up is under way.The Early Stats on IE9
In the first series of comprehensive performance tests comparing Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 technical preview, released last week, to stable Web browsers in current use today, Betanews confirmed superb speed gains by the IE9 chassis in specific categories. Not everything in the new IE9 was faster than IE8, but in the computational department, the development team's Chakra JavaScript engine shows much-needed gains. In anticipation of IE9, Betanews has been developing a radically improved set of performance tests to complement those we've used in recent months.
