Nvidia is working on Tegra – a tiny motherboard – to provide enough power to netbooks to run videos. Devices based on Tegra are expected to be available late this year.

Falling in the category of “don’t try this at home”, Wired Science asked a real house mover about floating a house with helium balloons. Is it possible? Yes. Is it a good idea? Probably not.

More mal-ware is being tweeted to lure victims into visiting infected web sites. This one uses a YouTube video to mask installation of a fake anti-virus program called “System Security”.

The Touch Pro2 smartphone offers a full QWERTY keyboard, a 3.6-inch tiltable, WVGA screen, G-sensor and more. There are links to three “parts” of a review covering two days of use and experimentation from this page.

WiFi may have been designed to connect people to the internet from their local coffee shop but it’s turning into the backbone for the smart grid. Cities and utilities are developing wireless technologies that need high-capacity WiFi.

If performance isn’t an issue, this $589 touch-screen all-in-one desktop has a number of nice features. And. It looks good sitting on your table.

We wanted to bring you up-to-date on some of David’s latest postings on the CNN Anderson Cooper 360 site. In the past two weeks, he’s published the following fun articles:

Protect yourself: Make sure check scams don’t scam you!

Four unconventional picks for Supreme Court nominee

What if someone stole the Library of Congress?

Attack of the zombie computers

While Palm’s Pre won’t run iPhone applications, apparently, it will be able to sync with iTunes unless Apple changes their end of the game before June 6.

This page has a nine minute video with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the last day of D7 where they discuss the new Palm Pre and demo the new smartphone.

E-reader devices may be a fading fad already. Netbooks may soon offer an e-reader application. This would allow you to read book, surf the web, and write documents all from one device.