The reason is the IPS display panel - the liquid crystals in the panel move in a different way compared to regular TN panels, allowing for better color representation, but are more expensive. Very few 22" displays have IPS panels. Thus this display is considered "best" not because of the feature set but the quality of the images displayed on the monitor.

It is real, right?

(Engadget reports on fakes quite often) =D

The trailer is huge! How many staff/ how much equipment did you all bring?

I'm very curious to find out how much they spent just to make the fake news bit... possibly a lot! See the software, the banners, etc.

The HUGE click wheel looks like it had been put on top of a MacBook Air's keyboard.

For all those who are unfamiliar with The Onion, Wikipedia says this:

The Onion is an American "fake news" organization. It publishes satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news through an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 690,000and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old.

The Onion's articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy items, and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline "Drugs Win Drug War."

Couldn't you just buy one of the cheap multi-function devices (look for one with a sheet feeder though)...

Anyway any of these devices can actually connect to the computer to forward faxes from the device to the computer electronically, and send faxes from the computer through the device's phone connection. It may cost more than a fax... but it can print, copy, scan and fax!

According to the "Read" link:

Our attack scenario basically is as follows. We request a legitimate website certificate from a commercial Certification Authority trusted by all common browsers. Since the request is legitimate, the CA signs our certificate and returns it to us. We have picked a CA that uses the MD5 hash function to generate the signature of the certificate, which is important because our certificate request has been crafted to result in an MD5 collision with a second certificate. This second certificate is not a website certificate, but an intermediary CA certificate that can be used to sign arbitrary other website certificates we want to issue. Since the MD5 hashes of both the legitimate and the rogue certificates are the same, the digital signature obtained from the commercial CA can simply be copied into our rogue CA certificate and it will remain valid.

So basically, they got a regular website certificate. But by using the PS3s they created a certificate that can sign other certificates (the regular certificate is not allowed to do this!), and because the created certificate and the regular certificate have the same hash it is accepted. They need the PS3s to calculate a certificate that would have the same MD5 hash.

To use handwriting recognition to input Chinese characters...

The Celeron is obviously not the 10-year-old model. Intel seems to be reusing their old names (Celeron and Pentium) for their lowest end Intel-core architecture processors. Which is to say, it probably is just a very, very low end Core 2 Duo like model.

Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_microarchitecture it seems the Celeron here is the E1400 "Allendale", with 512 KiB L2 cache. And according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#Dual-Core_Desktop_Processors the E1400 was released on April 20, 2008. Definitely not 10 years old =D

but... you could have done those gestures with your finger on Winmo and Palm devices too! (at least I did, sometimes)

Nettop now refers to those cheap desktops meant for surfing the Internet. Even Intel says so on their Atom website.