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Submission + - Snow Leopard arriving early (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Slatterz on Thursday December 18, 2008 @05:41PM

Slatterz writes: Even without Steve Jobs at the helm, it looks like next month's Macworld keynote could announce good news for Macolytes, if the current round of rumours is to be believed. Apple insiders and third party developers have been dropping hints that the next iteration of OSX, currently codenamed Snow Leopard, will be released into the wild at the eagerly-anticipated annual shindig. And apart from the widely-predicted slimming down of the OS, pundits are predicting major changes to the way the operating system crunches numbers. Grand Central is a new technology designed to better use the Intel processors inside all modern Macs. But OpenCL promises to make even the lowliest Mac into a speed demon by passing chunks of complex calculations onto unused graphics card processing power. And with Windows 7 looming on the horizon, Apple's got good reason to want to get Snow Leopard out the door sooner rather than later.

School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous 238

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @09:34AM from the wiping-sweat-off-brow dept.

destinyland writes "Good news. The National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, just released a report declaring fears of the internet are overblown. In fact, after surveying 1,277 students, "the researchers found exactly one student who reported they'd actually met a stranger from the internet without their parents' permission. (They described this as "0.08 percent of all students.") The report reminds educators that schools initially banned internet use before they'd realized how educational it was. Now instead they're urging schools to include social networks in their curriculum!"

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