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Submission + - FSF may sue Microsoft over GPLv3 (groklaw.net)

Submitted by

mjasay

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @01:30PM

mjasay writes: "As Groklaw reports, the Free Software Foundation has issued a press release decrying Microsoft's attempts to distance itself from its obligations to abide by GPL Version 3. Citing Microsoft's earlier refusal to abide by GPLv3, the Free Software Foundation declared, "Microsoft cannot by any act of anticipatory repudiation divest itself of its obligation to respect others' copyrights." The press release goes on to imply that the Free Software Foundation may sue Microsoft over the issue."

Submission + - Zap2It Replacement Scheduling Service Goes Online

Submitted by

Krondor

on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @10:36AM

Krondor writes: "Schedules Direct, the TV listing service created to replace the soon to be discontinued Zap2It Labs free listings, is now accepting registrations. This comes in advance of the pending Zap2It TV Listing shutdown and is obviously excellent news for many open source projects, such as MythTV. The service, though no longer free, does intend to reduce pricing as demand increases and exists as a non-profit specifically for the purpose of providing TV listing data to "Free and Open Source Applications". Slashdot has previously covered the Zap2It Labs TV Listing Discontinuation as well as the pricing expectations for Schedules Direct."

Hitachi Develops New Visual Search 166

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:28PM from the which-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other dept.

Tech.Luver writes to tell us that Hitachi has developed a new visual search engine that can supposedly find similar images from within millions of video and picture data entries in around 1 second. "The technology assesses the similarity of images based on image characteristics presented as high-dimensional numeric information. The information is acquired by automatically detecting information regarding the images, such as color distribution and shapes."

Submission + - Yahoo building open source Map/Reduce and GFS (yahoo.net)

Submitted by

owenomalley

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:21PM

owenomalley writes: "Yahoo is developing Hadoop, which is an open source implementation of key pieces of Google's infrastructure (namely, Map/Reduce and GFS). Hadoop's framework allows you to write applications that reliably process very large datasets (100's of terabytes) efficiently on large (1000+) clusters of computers. Without a framework like Hadoop, writing applications on large clusters requires a lot of duplicated effort as each application deals with distribution, reliability, and reporting. Hadoop handles those parts for you and just requires you to write your application logic.

Hadoop is managed under Apache."

Submission + - Hitachi develops 'brain-machine interface' (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by

Frosty Piss

on Friday June 22, 2007 @10:56AM

Frosty Piss writes: "A new technology from Hitachi could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity. Underlying Hitachi's brain-machine interface is a technology called optical topography, which sends a small amount of infrared light through the brain's surface to map out changes in blood flow. Hitachi's scientists are set to develop a brain TV remote controller letting users turn a TV on and off or switch channels by only thinking. A key advantage to Hitachi's technology is that sensors don't have to physically enter the brain."

Submission + - Hitachi develops brain-machine interface

Submitted by

Gary

on Friday June 22, 2007 @10:28AM

Gary writes: "Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity. The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals. Underlying Hitachi's brain-machine interface is a technology called optical topography, which sends a small amount of infrared light through the brain's surface to map out changes in blood flow."

Submission + - Manhunt 2 banned in Ireland, too (www.rte.ie)

Submitted by Sternocera on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @08:34AM

Sternocera writes: The video game Manhunt 2 has become the first game to be banned in Ireland.

Submission + - Blockbuster Chooses Blu-Ray

Submitted by coop247 on Monday June 18, 2007 @09:42AM

coop247 writes: In what has to be the worst news yet for HDDVD, Blockbuster will only rent Blu-Ray disks for stores nationwide. FTFA, "Blockbuster has been renting both Blu-ray and HD DVD titles in 250 stores since late last year and found that consumers were choosing Blu-ray titles more than 70 percent of the time."

Submission + - Giant Squid Caught

Submitted by BravoFourEcho on Friday December 22, 2006 @11:03AM

BravoFourEcho writes: A giant squid has been captured by Japanese scientists.
"Nobody has ever seen a live giant squid except fishermen," team leader Tsunemi Kubodera of the museum's zoology department said in an interview on Friday. "We believe these are the first ever moving pictures of a giant squid." Little was known until recently about the creature thought to have inspired the myth of the "kraken", a tentacled monster that was blamed by sailors for sinking ships off Norway in the 18th century.

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