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Sony To Expand Commercial Uses of PS3 68

Posted by Zonk from the more-folding-means-more-fun dept.
Sony is considering proposals from commercial distributed computing concerns, mulling over rolling out more Folding@Home-like clients to their PlayStation 3 consoles. Gamasutra reports on a Financial Times article, discussing the future of the system. Because they would be commercial and not charitable organizations, the company is considering some form of compensation for users who would participate. "Sony Computer Entertainment CTO Masa Chatani indicated in an interview that Sony had already received numerous inquiries. 'A start-up or a pharmaceutical company that lacks a super-computer could utilize this kind of infrastructure. We are discussing various options with companies and exploring commercial applications', he said."
Robotics

Submission + - Hobbyist One-Ups Sandia Labs

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A robotics hobbyist has created what he claims is the world's smallest autonomous robot. The robot is half the volume of the robots produced by Sandia National Labs in 2001, moves quite a bit faster, and was made using techniques and supplies accessible to anyone.

Feed Misclassified For Centuries, Medicinal Leeches Found To Be 3 Distinct Species (sciencedaily.com)

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Genetic research has revealed that commercially available medicinal leeches used around the world in biomedical research and postoperative care have been misclassified for centuries. Until now, the leeches were assumed to be the species Hirudo medicinalis, but new research reveals they are actually a closely related but genetically distinct species, Hirudo verbana.

Feed Rapid Oral HIV Test Shows Great Promise (sciencedaily.com)

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A convenient, easy to use, and rapid alternative to blood-based HIV testing may become the new standard for field testing according to a new study. The study shows that the oral fluid-based OraQuick HIV1/2 test is 100 per cent accurate and patients' preferred choice.

Feed MGM movies hit iTunes (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video

It's a little late to the party, but MGM has finally joined Paramount, Lionsgate, and others in offering a selection of its films for download in the iTunes Store. It's not the first time MGM has served up some of its movies in digital form though, with the studio already having inked a deal with Amazon's competing Unbox service. Those that prefer not to stray too far from iTunes, however, can now snag titles such as Ronin, Dances With Wolves, Mad Max, Rocky, Foxy Brown and, yes, Robocop at the usual "near-DVD quality" resolution for about ten bucks a pop.

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NASA

Submission + - Did NASA Accidentally "Nuke" Jupiter?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Title: Did NASA Accidentally "Nuke" Jupiter? Source: Enterprise URL Source: http://www.enterprisemission.com//NukingJupiter.ht ml Published: Apr 11, 2007 NASA's decision to finally terminate Galileo in September 2003 via a fiery plunge into Jupiter, was designed to prevent any possible biological contamination of Europa from a future random collision with the spacecraft, once its fuel was exhausted. An engineer named Jacco van der Worp claimed that, plunging into Jupiter's deep and increasingly dense atmosphere, the on-board Galileo electrical power supply — a set of 144 plutonium-238 fuel pellets — would ultimately "implode"; that the plutonium Galileo carried would ultimately collapse in upon itself under the enormous pressures of Jupiter's overwhelming atmosphere and go critical. Noone listened. One month later ... October 19, 2003 — an amateur astronomer in Belgium, Olivier Meeckers, secured a remarkable image, a dark black "splotch" showing up on the southern edge of Jupiter's well-known "North Equatorial Belt," trailing a fainter "tail" southwest (image center). Richard Hoagland http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?Art Num=183496 has now calculated that, given the slow fall through a highly pressurised atmosphere, it is possible that the splotch is the result of about 50lb of plutonium going critical 700 miles below. Way to go, NASA!
Google

Submission + - Google zooming in on Darfur

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twofish
twofish writes: "The Herald Sun is reporting:

In a project with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, inaugurated yesterday, Google has updated its Google Earth service with high resolution satellite images of the Darfur region in western Sudan to document destroyed villages, displaced people and refugee camps.
Zooming in on the region, users will see flame icons. Clicking on these icons will bring up information about that village.

Sara Bloomfield, the museum's director, said museum staff members had approached Google about the project as they sought ways to highlight what they believe is genocide.

In Google Earth, which the company says has been downloaded by 200 million people worldwide, they found an ideal medium. "This is like the world's biggest bulletin board," Ms Bloomfield said.
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Google

Submission + - Google technology highlights Darfur genocide

Submitted by
surfcuba
surfcuba writes: "http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/04/11/tech -google.html

Google Earth and the U.S. Holocaust Museum have teamed up to map out areas of the Darfur region of Sudan, where
200,00 people are estimated to have died in the carnage.

Google says detailed maps of the region will show villages and even individual buidlings that have been destroyed. The maps will link to eyewitness accounts, photos and relevant data about the crisis, provided by the UN and NGOs."
The Matrix

Submission + - 3D visualization of net traffic looks like Tron

Submitted by
boyko.at.netqos
boyko.at.netqos writes: "Behold the future of the 1980s today! Network Performance Daily shows a video on "Netcosm," a three dimensional visualization of live network traffic that looks like the love child of Max Headroom and the Last Starfighter. Despite its "retro" motif, the 3D environment provides network status at a glance with dropped packets that explode, and servers that first smoke, then burst into flame."
Privacy

What MSN, Google, Yahoo and AOL Know About You 169

Posted by CmdrTaco from the know-me-better-than-i-know-myself dept.
hotgist writes "America's top four Internet companies, Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft's MSN, promise they will protect the personal information of people who use their online services to search, shop and socialize. But a close read of their privacy policies reveals as much exposure as protection. The massive amounts of data these companies collect, which can include records of the searches you make, the health problems you research and the investments you monitor, can be requested by government investigators and subpoenaed by your legal adversaries. But this same information is generally not available to you."

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