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Submission + - Sun's Schwartz finally confirms ZFS in Leopard

Submitted by

slashthedot

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @09:55AM

slashthedot writes: "Confirming the months long rumor of ZFS from Solaris being ported to Leopard, Schwartz said Apple will announce it in its forthcoming world wide developer conference on the 11th of June. Mac OS X would thus become the second Operating system to port the ZFS filesystem that has been touted as "the last name in filesystems" by Sun. The first one to port it was FreeBSD.
ZFS is a 128-bit filesystem + volume manager that makes an admin's life easier by combining the best of Volume Manager and Filesystem.
"In fact, this week you'll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10," Schwartz said.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/apple_usin g_zfs_in_leopard/"

Submission + - Official Google AdSense Blog promotes AdultContent

Submitted by

Rado-Vleugel

on Thursday June 07, 2007 @09:49AM

Rado-Vleugel writes: "Google has clear guidelines as it comes to adult content and AdSense, but the article An effective pairing of AdSense and e-commerce on the Official Google AdSense Blog showcases the French video-on-demand site Imineo that clearly violates Google’s AdSense Program Policies by displaying AdSense near explicit Adult Content.

See the proof in a video of the screenshots of Imineo.com and the Official Google AdSense Blog & read the article: Official Google AdSense Blog showcases Website that displays AdSense near explicit Adult Content on RadoVleugel.com about Google"

Submission + - Ubuntu for Mobile Internet Devices

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07, 2007 @09:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced more details on Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition at Computex 2007 in Taipei. Following discussions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Seville Spain and a great response from the developer community generally, the target specifications and technical milestones for the project have been agreed.

Submission + - Moore's Law for Motherboards

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07, 2007 @09:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: VIA CEO Wenchi Chen revealed a business card-sized motherboard billed as the 'world's first industry-standard form-factor for PC/phone convergence,' at Computex this week. The mobile-ITX" board measures 3 x 1.8 inches. It's half the size of pico-ITX, which was half the size of nano-ITX, which, in turn, was half-the size of mini-ITX — which was already small. It's not clear whether VIA will make these tiny motherboards available to end users, or if they will only be sold directly to device makers, but generally all of VIA's tiny motherboard formats have spread around to other suppliers and become widely available. This is clearly 'Moore's Law' for motherboards... what'll they do for an encore next year, I wonder?

Chairbot Walks You Around While You Sit 241

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @08:19PM from the stop-using-your-legs-like-a-sucker dept.

Gary writes "What do you get when you combine a robot and a chair? The Hubo FX-1 chairbot, of course. In what is perhaps my favorite robot design yet, this giant chair with legs looks like it came out of some ridiculous 80's sci-fi movie or something, but it's very, very real. HUBO FX-1 is two meters in height, and weighs 150 kg. The person sitting can control the robot easily using the built in joystick. Each ankle has a 3-axis force/torque sensor which measures the normal force and 2 moments. Each foot has an inclination sensor which measures the angle of the slope. Also, the rate gyro and the inclination sensor of the body allow the device to stabilize itself."

Skin Cells Turned Embryonic 261

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @06:12PM from the awaiting-new-objections dept.

anik315 writes "Nature is reporting a major breakthrough in embryonic stem cell research. A straightforward procedure using mouse fibroblasts harvested from the skin can be used to produce pluripotent stem cells that can potentially become any other cell in the body. Not only can Yamanaka's method use the most basic cells, it can be accomplished with simple lab techniques. Possible applications of this breakthrough are to check molecular changes in cells as certain conditions develop. Stem cells produced using this procedure, however, can not be used safely to make genetically matched cells for transplant."

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