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Submission + - Bletchley Park Hut Threat Triggers Everest Trek (thinq.co.uk) 4

Blacklaw writes: Information management consultant and ACCU member Astrid Byro has taken on a challenge that takes her well out of her comfort zone: an expedition to Everest's base camp to help save a piece of history at the UK's Bletchley Park. The campaign sees Byro looking for sponsorship for a trek that will take her above 5,360M over a period of about two weeks, risking ice, crevasses, avalanches, and a landing at what has been called the world's most dangerous airport at Lukla. The payoff: to have helped save Hut 6, a historical building in dire need of repair before it is lost to the world.
Intel

Submission + - Intel Pushes For HPC Space With Knights Corner (thinq.co.uk)

Stoobalou writes: Intel has officially announced its next-generation product for the high performance computing crowd: Knights Corner, the latest implementation of the company's 'Many Integrated Cores' architecture. Thinq_ caught up with Intel at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg to find out what's going on.

Intel is justifiably proud of its presence in the small yet lucrative HPC market: back at ISC 2010 Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel's Data Centre Group boasted that 82 per cent of the TOP500 list of supercomputers were based around Intel processors. It was an impressive figure, but one that masks a worrying trend: Intel's chips aren't always doing the heavy lifting.

Hardware

Submission + - Samsung unveils Origen Exynos board (thinq.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Samsung has announced its first low-cost ARM development board to feature a dual-core Exynos processor, in partnership with open source development collaborative Linaro — and it's due to hit the market at just $199. Dubbed Origen, it's Samsung's answer to the Texas Instrument Beagleboard — and will hopefully convince developers to look at the company's SoC offerings.
Hardware

Submission + - Epiphany Architecture Promises 4,000-Core Chips (thinq.co.uk)

Blacklaw writes: While chip giants ARM, Intel, and AMD battle for control of your smartphones and PCs, a small company in Massachusetts called Adapteva is starting a revolution: many-core processors using a new architecture called Epiphany that offer a significant performance boost over anything currently on the market. Company foundwe Andreas Olofsson explains just what's going on — and promises 4,000-core low-power co-processors are just around the corner.
Businesses

Submission + - Nike Seeks Fellow to Embrace Open Data (thinq.co.uk)

Stoobalou writes: Nike is looking for a Code for a Better World Fellow, an ill-defined role that demonstrates a surprising commitment to the cause of open software and data from one of the world's largest sporting goods brands — but why?

The company has certainly been making moves into the software market: its launch of Nike+, a GPS-powered fitness package that tracks your daily runs, in partnership with Apple came as a surprise to many — but this latest job opening aims a little higher than allowing users to see how far they've travelled in their trainers.

GNOME

Submission + - GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell Officially Launched (thinq.co.uk)

Blacklaw writes: The GNOME Desktop team has sent its latest creation into the wild, officially launching GNOME 3.0 — the biggest redesign the project has enjoyed in around nine years. "We've taken a pretty different approach in the GNOME 3 design that focuses on the desired experience and lets the interface design follow from that," designer Jon McCann explained during the launch. "With any luck you will feel more focused, aware, effective, capable, respected, delighted, and at ease."
Privacy

Submission + - Creepy Stalking App Explained by Author (thinq.co.uk) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Creepy, a package described as a 'geolocation information aggregator,' is turning heads in privacy circles, but should people be worried? Yiannis Kakavas explains why he developed his scary stalking application.

Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows — with a Mac OS X port in the works — that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It's remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.

Networking

Submission + - Open Networking Foundation Pushes OpenFlow SDN (thinq.co.uk)

Blacklaw writes: A group of telecommunications giants have formed a consortium which aims to promote software-defined networking, a new approach that the Open Networking Foundation claims can increase network functionality while lowering operating costs. The Foundation claims to be attempting to popularise a form of software-defined networking originally proposed in an academic white paper from 2008 entitled OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks, based on work from universities across the US.

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