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Submission + - YEurope: YCombinator Clone launches in Austria

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: YCombinator clone YEurope, a venture firm investing in extremely early-stage european ICT-Startups has just opened their call for applications. From July to September the founders of up to 8 startups will have the chance to come to Vienna and work on their startups. They'll be accepting and fund teams of 1-3 people working on technology startups.
Communications

gTalk To Get Video Boost? 89

Posted by CmdrTaco from the still-no-mac-audio-blah dept.
lotusleaf writes "According to an article at PCWorld, "Google Inc. has bought video conferencing software from Marratech AB", "The client software runs on Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4, or versions of Linux". Could this provide a cross-platform video conferencing boost to gTalk?"
Security

Submission + - Stolen Nuclear Training Software at Palo Verde

Submitted by SixFactor
SixFactor writes: From here, it was revealed that software used for training at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station was illegally downloaded by a former PVNGS engineer while he was visiting in Iran. He allegedly took the software from the software vendor, which is based in Maryland. The software contained details of the site, and how it operates. There are a couple of obvious possibilities on why he did this: to provide an example of the training used at US plants, to further the nascent Iranian nuclear program; or, for more nefarious purposes. What is troubling is that this person's ability to access the software remained viable after his employment at the site.
Linux

The Completely Fair Scheduler 292

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i'm-always-late dept.
hichetu writes "Kernel trap has a nice summary of what is going on behind the scenes to change the Linux Scheduler. The O(1) Linux scheduler is going to be changed so that it is fair to interactive tasks. You will be surprised to know that O(1) is really too good not to have any side-effects on fairness to all tasks."

Feed Seat Belt Intervention Shows Many Lives Can Be Saved On China's Roads (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed
A novel road safety intervention in Guangzhou, China, has shown the potential for significantly increasing the use of seat belts among drivers and front seat passengers in motor vehicles. "The China Seat Belt Intervention" has demonstrated how simple, cost-effective strategies can save lives in highly populous regions.
Power

Submission + - Sun converts carbon dioxide into fuel

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "We all know that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a major impact on the Earth climate. But now, chemists at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have developed "a device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and split carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen." As carbon monoxide can easily be converted to liquid fuel, this prototype device kills two birds with one stone: it helps saving fuel while reducing the concentration of a greenhouse gas. Still, this device needs some improvements before an industrial deployment. Read more for additional references and a picture of the prototype device."
Handhelds

Submission + - Does it signal the death of the Ringtone industry?

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An anonymous reader writes: The iPhone like most phones in the future will store your music albums, any song can be used as a ringtone. Why then would you want to pay $1.99 for a low-quality re-sampling of a song? My bet is you won't, similarly any photo from your photo albums stored on the iPhone can be used as wallpaper. So does it mean the death of paid ringtone services? More...

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