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Submission + - Japan Earthquake Causes Apple iPad 2 Shortages (smartertechnology.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you think that the iPad-2 is in short supply now, wait for the effects of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake, which has put vital components in jeopardy:

'The recent earthquake in Japan has shuttered its manufacturing plants, putting on hold the fabrication of critical components for Apple's iPad 2, potentially creating shortages worldwide...'

Apparently there are five key components in the iPad that will be running out soon, causing Apple to scramble for second sources, and perhaps boosting Android tablets.
Science

Submission + - Sludge in Flask Gives Clues to Origin of Life (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: In the 1950s, scientist Stanley Miller conducted a series of experiments in which he zapped gas-filled flasks with electricity. The most famous of these, published in 1952, showed that such a process could give rise to amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. But a later experiment, conducted in 1958, sat on the shelf--never analyzed by Miller. Now, scientists have gone back and analyzed the sludge at the bottom of this flask and found even more amino acids than before--and better evidence that lightning and volcanic gasses may have helped create life on Earth.
Android

Submission + - Linus on Android headers claims (h-online.com)

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the100rabh
the100rabh writes: "So finally Linus Travolds has cleared the FUD being generated by so called expert Mr Florian Meuller. He also pointed out that he has said making use of the kernel's system call interfaces, as described in the headers, does not "in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL". Torvalds said he wished "those people would release their own sex tapes or something, rather than drag the Linux kernel into their sordid world"."

Submission + - Happy 80th Birthday, William Shatner! (wired.com)

Submitted by gregg
gregg writes: Today another geek legend celebrates a birthday. Best known for portraying Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner has cemented himself into geek science fiction lore forever. Today he begins his ninth decade on this planet — yes, Captain Kirk is now 80 years old.

Comment Re:No RSS/Quick download? (Score 1) 13

by SBJ95 (#24551757) Attached to: Audio From the Last HOPE Released
Awesome, thanks a bunch! I tried using wget and recursive download, but I got a 403 error. I tried using the talks download page as a referrer, but it still gave me the 403. (And yes, I remembered the different spelling of referrer in the HTML standards.) I saw nothing in the source of the page, and I'm pretty sure I've got all the options and URL's right. Any insights?
Hardware Hacking

Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon 321

Posted by CmdrTaco from the yeah-good-luck-with-that dept.
grease_boy writes "A UK company will start selling server racks submerged in oil baths within a year. Very-PC is working on prototypes and says that because oil transfers heat more efficiently, power usage can be cut by fifty percent."
Intel

Submission + - Q&A with Intel's vp of global marketing

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bizwriter
bizwriter writes: "It's a bit self-serving, but I have a Q&A with Intel's vice president of global marketing on how consumer acceptance of technology is forcing the company to change how it markets and sells."
Debian

Submission + - Ubuntu in 2007: To the server side and beyond?

Submitted by OSS_ilation
OSS_ilation writes: As the launch of Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 draws near, proponents of the Linux operating system are predicting much wider adoption of it in server environments. The target appears to be Redmond. Enterprise adoption has been a long term goal of Mark Shuttleworth and company at Canonical Ltd., but until this latest release Ubuntu was content as one the most popular Linux desktop distributions out there. That could change however, as a perfect storm of sorts lines up for Ubuntu over the course of the year. Fawn boasts new virtualization support, LTSP (thin client support added in Edgy Eft), and a renewed effort from corporate maintainer Canonical to get the OS into developing countries and governments that desire a free and open infrastructure for their constituencies. It's a more robust OS than it once was, but will that be enough to take market share from Microsoft?

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