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Submission + - BBC news looks back at the history of online news

Submitted by

IngramJames

on Thursday March 29, 2007 @11:08AM

IngramJames writes: "This article at BBC news is written by a chap retiring from the online news service after 13 years. An interesting read about the development of the "deluxe computer messaging system accessible via the telephone network" (that's "Internet" to you and me) news services down the years."

Submission + - Portugal Celebrates Massive Solar Plant

Submitted by SolarPower on Thursday March 29, 2007 @10:28AM

SolarPower writes: A project slated to become the world's largest-producing solar power plant was inaugurated Wednesday in Portugal, though construction actually began last summer. The 11-megawatt 61 million euro ($78.5 million) plant, a joint project of U.S. and Portuguese energy companies, spreads across a 150-acre hillside in Serpa, 124 miles southeast of Lisbon.

Journal Journal: Argonne Hydrogen Catalyst Tools For Desalination

Journal by cakilmer on Friday March 09, 2007 @03:51PM

Argonne Labratories has just announced some advances in catalysts for fuel cells. They have developed some cool tools for catalytic research in doing so -- which I think might be applicable to desalination research as well. The idea would be to have a catalyst settle Na & Cl out of solution and skim off the fresh water. This would be an extremely cheap process. So cheap it would make it

Submission + - A decade-long mystery has been solved

Submitted by

justelite

on Friday March 09, 2007 @03:41PM

justelite writes: "A decade-long mystery has been solved using data from ESA's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton. The brightest member of the so-called 'magnificent seven' has been found to pulsate with a period of seven seconds. The discovery casts some doubt on the recent interpretation that this object is a highly exotic celestial object known as a quark star."

Submission + - First Dynamically Balancing Biped Robot

Submitted by damg on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @01:28PM

damg writes: Anybots has developed the first robot which walks like we do, by dynamically balancing itself rather than being pre-programmed for walking like Asimo. The video shows the robot walking and being pushed by another "bully" robot to demonstrate that he can't easily be pushed over.

Submission + - MAME 10th anniversary

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 09, 2007 @03:24PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The 10th anniversary of MAME came and went without a mention on slashdot! http://mamedev.org/"

Submission + - Computing Pioneer Ken Kennedy Passes Away

Submitted by

biggerboy

on Friday February 09, 2007 @03:07PM

biggerboy writes: "From Rice University Press Release: "Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing, died Feb. 7 at a Houston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 61.""

Submission + - Skype BIOS Access due to DRM, Stops Doing It

Submitted by

ghoti

on Friday February 09, 2007 @09:36AM

ghoti writes: "As reported on /., Skype was recently found to read the BIOS, and there was much speculation as to the reasons. It turns out that it's due to DRM, and Skype blames a their new "Extras Gallery" plug-in manager. They have since upgraded that one to at least not access the BIOS anymore. The bad aftertaste of DRM and big-brothering remains, though."

Submission + - New Personal Mini-sub announced

Submitted by

Shimes

on Friday February 09, 2007 @09:17AM

Shimes writes: "A new personal mini-sub has just been announced. U-Boat Worx have announced 1-man and 2-man models, which according to The Times will be available at a cost from £65,0000.

With a maximum depth of 50m, a dry 1 atm cabin and in-built safety features, could this be the first affordable personal sub?"

Submission + - AMD plans an absolute GPGPU monster

Submitted by socram on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:39AM

socram writes: ATI is preparing something really, really special. If it manages to pull it off, it will be a breakthrough even Captain Hook couldn't have dreamt of. We are talking about a GPGPU product, the FireStream/Stream Processor board with no less than four (4) Gigabytes of local video memory. Did we mention real purpose of GPGPU? — annihilating the importance of CPU and server CPU margins, which cannot compare with R600 or G80 in terms of pure processing power. Of course, this comparison is valid only in GPGPU-friendly case scenarios, so we're talking about streamlined computing only. Engineers at PeakStream and Stanford Uni are already having wet-dreams about the possibilities that a single-GPU configuration will do, yet alone multi-GPU one. www.GPGPU.org

Submission + - Intel Discrete GPUs Overview

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @10:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: VR-Zone has a very interesting article on Intel's discrete graphics plans. According to them, Intel's Visual Computing Group (VCG) gave an interesting overview of the discrete graphics plans this week. There seems to be a few interesting developments down the pipeline that could prove quite a challenge to NVIDIA and AMD in 2 years time. Their first flagship product for games and graphics intensive applications is likely to happen in late 2008-09 timeframe and the GPU is based on multi-core architecture. There could be as many as 16 graphics cores packed into a single die.

Submission + - Wireless portable cell phone drive unveiled

Submitted by on Friday February 02, 2007 @08:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: According to CNET, Seagate has unveiled a new portable drive that fits in the palm of your hand and has a 20GB capacity, but most importantly features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. It's called DAVE, which stands for Digital Audio Video Experience and it lets you 'stream music, videos and other data to your mobile. It can also interact with a variety of other devices, such as PDAs, laptops, PCs and cameras, making it perfect for transferring data from your phone to another device or vice versa.'

Submission + - Father impressed with ubuntu, thinks it's Vista

Submitted by skzo on Friday February 02, 2007 @07:40AM

skzo writes: A fun story , this guy asks for vista, gets ubuntu and is very happy about it because he does not realise he didn't get what he asked for.

Dreamworks Dumps Wallace and Gromit 189

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 02, 2007 @04:11AM from the just-need-some-space dept.

Tiger4 writes "Aardman Animation and Dreamworks are splitting their relationship. Apparently Dreamworks feels they lost money on 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit' and 'Flushed Away.' So off to their separate ways they go. Aardman is going back to stop motion and clay, Dreamworks will be staying with their CGI ways." In addition, Aardman Animation announced that a new Wallace and Gromit film is in the works.

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