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Submission + - Recovered Bill Gates Talk

Submitted by D-K on Monday March 12, 2007 @09:49AM

D-K writes: Back in 1989 (the Windows 2.0 days), Bill Gates came to talk to the students of the University of Waterloo on the early days of Microsoft, and the future of computing. It's an interesting blast to the past, as he touches on topics such as the VGA graphics, OS/2 and software piracy, as well as the now infamous 640K of memory. Lost for nearly two decades, the tapes of the talk recently surfaced and is now available in a number of audio formats from the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.

Palm Responds to the iPhone 205

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 12, 2007 @09:20AM from the trying-to-come-back dept.

Several people noted a NYT piece about Palm's response to the iPhone. Essentially, their response appears to be to hire a former Apple engineer and a couple other folks -- while also pursuing plans to perhaps sell the company. Nothing like a dual approach to the problem.

NASA's Instrument For Detecting Life On Mars 88

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @10:03PM from the knock-knock dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It should also be able to determine if traces of life's molecular building blocks have been produced by anything that was once alive. The device has been tested in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It should be part of the science payload for the ExoMars rover planned for launch in 2013."

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