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Feed Human error to blame for demise of Mars orbiter (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @05:52AM

So says NASA's report

Human error was the most likely cause of the loss of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. That is the conclusion of NASA's preliminary investigation into the disappearance of the craft, which lapsed into radio silence late in 2006.

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by mrsnowden on Monday April 16, 2007 @04:53AM

Feed Oz teen copyright vigilante dupes YouTube (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @04:52AM

ABC clips pulled following letter from 'employee'

A 15-year-old Perth teenager persuaded YouTube to pull hundreds of clips by masquerading as an employee of state broadcasting outfit the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Reuters reports.

Submission + - Intel reveals single-thread acceleration

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SlinkySausage

on Monday April 16, 2007 @04:30AM

SlinkySausage writes: "Even though Intel is probably the industry's biggest proponent of multi-core computing and threaded programming, it today announced a single thread acceleration technology at IDF Beijing. Mobility chief Mooly Eden revealed a type of single-core overclocking built in to its upcoming Santa Rosa platform. It seems like a tacit admission from Intel that multi-threaded apps haven't caught up with the availability of multi-core CPUs. Intel also foreshadowed a major announcement tomorrow around Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) — the replacement for BIOS that has so far only been used in Intel Macs. "We have been working with Microsoft," Intel hinted."

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