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Submission + - New Amiga With Programmable Co-Processor (a-eon.com)

Submitted by GuerillaRadio on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @11:22AM

GuerillaRadio writes: A new Amiga — the AmigaOne X1000 has been announced by A-Eon and contains the interesting addition of an onboard XMOS "Software Defined Silicon" chip onboard and the Xorro interface. Amiga fans have been waiting some time for new interesting Amiga hardware and this might be it. More details at OSNews

Submission + - How to photograph the Earth from Space for $150 (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by Oddscurity on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @10:24AM

Oddscurity writes: An interesting hardhack found on MIT's Technology Review which details how two students built a cheap vehicle to take photographs of our planet from low orbit. It includes an illustration of the components used and a video of the construction and launch.

Submission + - Air Strike Tracker, visual record of US airstrikes (ourbombs.com)

Submitted by

Neil Halloran

on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @05:53PM

Neil Halloran writes: "The Air Strike Tracker chronicles every reported U.S. air strike that has affected civilians since September 11, 2001. The visual interface (using Flash 10's 3D functionality) makes information about each incident from numerous sources highly accessible, often providing the ability to view online videos and other relevant media. You can browse incidents by location, date, or tags (e.g. unmanned drones, official investigations, local protest). Note that he Air Strike Tracker is an ongoing project, and we will continue to update the underlying data as new information is obtained."

Submission + - RIM BLackberry service fails in Europe (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @05:41PM

judgecorp writes: "RIM's Blackberry service failed for many thousands of users in Europe this afternoon. We don't yet have an explanation from RIM, but a mobile device monitoring company got a good look and it seems this was about an hour's outage, caused when one IP address went down, the network failed over to another one, and the DNS changes had to propagate. Earlier this month, many consumer customers had an outage — this time it was the business users' turn."

Submission + - Mozilla Delivers A Faster Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

CWmike

on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @05:13PM

CWmike writes: "Mozilla late yesterday fired the latest shot in the browser wars by releasing Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, the newest development preview of the company's next-gen browser, which has been delayed several times and now is tentatively slated to ship before the end of June. Computerworld's tests showed that Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is about 19% faster than Beta 4 in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark; both betas were considerably faster than the production browser, Firefox 3.0.10, which was also released yesterday."

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