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Submission + - Official NVIDIA PhysX Rocket Sled Demo Trailer VID (gamephys.com)

mark076h writes: NVIDIA has uploaded an official video trailer for the PhysX Rocket Sled Demo to YouTube.In the video Alex Sakhartchouck an “NVIDIA Demo Engineer” explains how the demo was built for the next generation of NVIDIA video cards to show off the latest and greatest technology NVIDIA has such as CUDA and PhysX along with DirectX 11 Tessellation.

Submission + - Movie Star's airport body scan already leaked (gizmodo.com)

jeko writes: Far faster than anticipated, Bollywood movie star Shah Rukh Khan full-body scan has already been leaked to the public. Contrary to previous assurances, the actor's scans were not kept anonymous, were not destroyed, and were released into the hands of fans before he even got out of the airport. The actor, somewhat shocked when presented with naked pictures of himself by a couple of girls, remained in remarkably good humor and even autographed the printouts.

"'Then I saw these girls — they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' — and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them.' said Khan.

Comment 'Problem' of more complexity? (Score 1) 568

"The history of evolutionary studies has been dogged by the almost irresistible idea that evolution leads to greater complexity, to animals that are more advanced than their predecessor, yet the existence of the Boskops argues otherwise" Doesn't this assume the questionable idea that being smarter is somehow more 'evolutionarily complex'?
IT

Submission + - Worldwide cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion (20adoptioncommunity.com)

blognoggle writes: Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled, The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year.
Space

Submission + - Fifth anniversary of a cosmic onslaught (discovermagazine.com)

The Bad Astronomer writes: "Five years ago today (December 27, 2004), a vast wave of high-energy gamma and X-rays washed over the Earth, blinding satellites and partially ionizing the Earth's atmosphere. The culprit was a superflare from the magnetar SGR 1806-20, located 50,000 light years away. The energy released was mind-numbing: in one-fifth of a second, this supercharged magnetic neutron star blasted out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years!"

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