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A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118

Posted by timothy from the from-the-research-group-that-brought-you-donvier dept.
Roland Piquepaille writes "University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at the South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it is completed in 2011, the telescope array will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica. One of the lead researchers said that 'IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos.' The UD team has even opened a blog to cover this expedition. It will be opened up to December 22, 2008. I guess they want to be back in Delaware for Christmas, but read more for additional details and references, including a diagram of this telescope array built inside ice."
AMD

Submission + - AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series (xuecast.com)

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XueCast
XueCast writes: "Today, AMD has just announced the release and the immediate availability of it's new 55nm ATI Radeon HD 3800 series. AMD said that these new Radeon HD 3800 series will get extra power and efficiency if paired with AMD's newest K10 processors, Phenom, the Next Gen quad core processors which AMD is set to release next week."
Intel

Submission + - Intel Launches Mobile Linux Project

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. The Moblin project comprises a Linux kernel, UI framework, browser, multimedia framework, and embedded Linux image creation tools, along with developer resources such as documentation, mailing lists, and an IRC channel. Intel says it hopes Moblin will serve as a 'point of integration' for multiple sub-projects, and appears eager to see devices such as its Mobile Internet Device design, and chipsets such as its Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 platform be thoroughly supported by Linux. Although all of the projects currently focus on the Intel architecture, the project says it is open to hosting support for other processor architectures.
The Internet

Submission + - Search results without the search (thoof.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Ian Clarke, founder of the Freenet anonymous P2P network, has a new project called Thoof. Its like a search engine which uses an Bayesian AI algorithm to anticipate what you want based on a variety of information available to it, including your past usage of the site. Most notably, its a search engine that doesn't require any search terms, it just shows you what it thinks you will like. Thoof also has shades of Wikipedia in that users can edit any descriptions they don't agree with. In a recent article in the International Herald Tribune, Clarke explained that while Freenet might make information available to people, the goal of Thoof is to make it easily accessible.
Security

Submission + - ChicagoCon 2007 (chicagocon.com)

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ddonzal
ddonzal writes: "ChicagoCon 2007 is where "White Hats Come Together in Defense of the Digital Frontier" for a professional security conference, certification training and hacker con all rolled into a single, unique event on September 17 — 23, 2007. We're bringing together the biggest security names under one roof for a week of training like no other. Not just another boot camp or hacker con, ChicagoCon adds value to your training dollars by also providing top instructors (most of whom are published), well known certifications, keynotes, evening presentations, hacking demos & contests as well as gift bags for all. 11 courses including CISSP, CEH, CHFI, Advanced Hacking, Cisco, SOX/COBIT, Security+, Linux+ and more. From the novice, to the ultimate techie, to the CISO chair... everyone interested in a career in security will find something at ChicagoCon, your one-stop shop for security training and certification. Keynotes: John C. Dvorak, Steve Hunt, Lance Spitzner, Symantec, DoD. http://www.chicagocon.com/"
Intel

Submission + - Intel shows off 2 TFLOPS processor (onthecosta.com)

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costabunny
costabunny writes: "NTEL'S ANNUAL Research@Intel Day here in Santa Clara kicked off in high gear, with Chipzilla letting out boffins from the lab to see the light of day. Intel has its fair share of "Blue Sky" projects but probably the most impressive is from its Tera Scale Computing group of projects. After demonstrating 80-core silicon in Beijing, brave researchers have now polished the cooling component and tweaked the silicon, so now the performance reaches two TeraFLOPS when these 80 floating-point mini-cores are working at no less than 6.26GHz. The Interesting thing about this demo was the fact that these cores achieve 1TFLOPS at 3.13GHz and at that clock, power consumption is only 24 Watts, while for double more, 6.26GHz eats up more th157 Watts. Original Story: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40 469"
Microsoft

Submission + - Windows Server woos Linux customers (eweek.com)

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AlexGr
AlexGr writes: "This is a thought-provoking article by Peter Galli (eWeek): Wooed by compelling application ecosystems, performance and cost, several large enterprise Linux customers have begun slowly migrating back to Windows Server, eWEEK reporting has found. The migrations come after a quarter in which Windows Server revenue grew faster than Linux revenue — the first time that has happened since research company IDC started tracking Linux server spending in 1998. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2149300,00.as p"
Patents

Submission + - New Lightbulb 50% Efficient...Never Burns Out. (ecogeek.org) 1

Submitted by
hankmt
hankmt writes: "Ceravision has just been awarded a patent for a new kind of light. The system is four times more efficient than Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs and it contains now hazardous materials. It basically works by using a microwave emitter to create a high intensity electric field inside a chamber filled with gas. The gas quickly converts to plasma, an the plasma releases more than 50% of it's energy as light.

The device uses components that are all already in mass production, so it could be available relatively quickly. The high directionality of the light makes it perfect for rear projection screens and medical applications, but it could be entering the mass consumer market as a "edison-type" bulb in the next five years."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - What to do with lots of old computers? 3

Submitted by talentless geek
talentless geek writes: I recently started a new Network Admin job and came to discover that I have no fewer than 60 old Pentium 2s and Pentium 3s that are doing nothing. It seems to me there has to be something better than filling up land (i.e. take them to the dump) that all these machines can do. I looked into a few donations sites, but I'm not even sure they would take computers this old. I've thought about building a cluster or 2, but I can't come up with any reason why i would want to do that other than the coolness factor (although, the coolness factor is a pretty good reason...). So, i guess my question is, what would you do with 60 really old computers?
Space

Submission + - Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending (nasa.gov)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last weeks House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science FY08 budget markup would prevent work on programs devoted to human missions to Mars. According to a House Appropriations Committee press release, the markup language states that NASA cannot pursue "development or demonstration activity related exclusively to Human Exploration of Mars. NASA has too much on its plate already, and the President is welcome to include adequate funding for the Human Mars Initiative in a budget amendment or subsequent year funding requests." The Mars Society is already leading an effort to get the language removed.
Supercomputing

Submission + - Folding@home killing the planet

Submitted by
Drakaal
Drakaal writes: "Folding@Home is Killing the planet

Folding@Home costs nearly $70million, uses 584gigawatt hours of power, and produces 730 kilotons of Carbon dioxide. Is fighting mad cow worth it? This article weighs the cost benefit of donating electricity and CPU Cycles, VS. the Real Cost of the project."
Space

Submission + - Is the Big Bang Black Body a Fraud?

Submitted by pln2bz
pln2bz writes: The Winston Cone device used to measure the cosmic microwave background, which is in turn used to support the Big Bang Theory, is not a conventional electromagnetic horn antenna. Bibhas De investigates the problems with this measuring device and demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate the data so that it produces a perfect black body spectrum.
Censorship

Submission + - Grand Canyon Age Discussion Verboten for NPS

Submitted by
DG
DG writes: "According to this Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility News Release, National Park Service employees are no longer allowed to comment on the age of the Grand Canyon:

Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. [... ...] "In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology," stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. "It is disconcerting that the official position of a national park as to the geologic age of the Grand Canyon is 'no comment.'""

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