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Submission + - Google tightens control on Android (businessweek.com)

Submitted by MadeInUSA on Thursday March 31, 2011 @06:30AM

MadeInUSA writes: BusinessWeek reports that Google will start giving preferential treatment to some partners over others, who will have to wait longer to receive recent versions of the Android Operating System. Android was once touted as the free-as-in-Freedom, Open Source alternative to a sea of closed competitors such as RIM's Blackberry, Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Windows Phone. But is Google actually using tricks from the Playbook of these companies? Will Android be, in fact, a closed system due to Google's policy of witholding the latest and greatest source from the public?

Submission + - Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics (technologyreview.com)

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Frans Faase

on Thursday March 31, 2011 @05:45AM

Frans Faase writes: "A new computer model of the way heat is emitted by various parts of the Pioneer spacecraft, and reflected off others, finally solves one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. Previous calculations have only estimated the effect of reflections. A computer modeling technique called Phong shading was used to work out exactly how the the emitted heat is reflected and in which direction it ends up travelling. Taking into account the reflections on the antenna seem to make the anomaly disappear."

Comment Congratulations! (Score -1, Troll) 274

by MadeInUSA on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @08:32PM (#35661052) Attached to: Browser Power Consumption Compared

Let me be the contrarian here on Slashdot: Congratulations Microsoft! It's great to see that MS is keeping the competitors honest by improving battery power among the other huge improvements they added to IE9. FF4 and C10 are great browsers, and I used Chrome for the past 2 years until I decided to switch to IE9. I'm not looking back...

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