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Submission + - Cell Broadband Engine IBM Challenge '07

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @08:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Participate in IBM's Cell Broadband Engine Challenge. Novice and expert university students can participate in a quiz and a coding contest for an exciting opportunity to learn, innovate, and contribute to the open source initiative.... And of course, win amazing cash prizes.

Submission + - Worlds Largest Wave Farm

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @06:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6377423.stm is reporting that the Scottish Executive has announced funding for a project to create what will be the worlds largest wave farm.
The location off Orkney has been used to test the Pelamis device in the past and is now to be the location for commercial testing. It is estimated that waters off Scotland could provide 25% of the wave power available to Europe

Submission + - Programming the SPE's of Sony PLAYSTATION 3

Submitted by IdaAshley on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @06:27PM

IdaAshley writes: Take even greater advantage of the synergistic processing elements (SPEs) of the Sony PS3 in this installment of Programming high-performance applications on the Cell BE processor. Part 2 looks in depth at the Cell Broadband Engine processor's SPEs and how they work at the lowest level, while Part 1 showed how to install Linux on the PS3 and explored a short example program.

Journal Journal: Drug patents threatening cheap drugs

Journal by GillBates0 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @04:05PM

This was a story I tried to submit but was rejected by Slashdot's editorial staff. Not grousing, saving my composition here for posterity, as I do with other of my rejected stories.

Submission + - vast water reservoir revealed

Submitted by

Agent Provocateur

on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @07:28AM

Agent Provocateur writes: "WUSTL has a news bulletin about research which has shown a hidden ocean the size of the Artic. A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean. It is the first evidence for water existing in the Earth's deep mantle. Full report here."

Submission + - Google building Artificial Intelligence

Submitted by kegger64 on Tuesday February 20, 2007 @12:51AM

kegger64 writes: Larry Page announced that Google is looking into building an AI system. "We have some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale," the Google co-founder declared. "It's not as far off as people think." http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/19/larry -page-google-look-into-ai

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