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Scientists discover new state of matter

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on Thursday March 15 2007, @09:58PM

NSIM writes "Fascinating story about Scientists who think they've discovered a new state of matter with seriously weird properties possibly as the result of quantum entanglement. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070315-rese archers-find-what-may-be-a-new-state-of-matter.htm l"

What Content Will Be Crippled When Output in Vista

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NSIM

on Friday January 26 2007, @11:04AM

NSIM writes "Given all the badly informed speculation/FUD that's been on Slashdot about DRM in Windows VISTA, I though the following QnA from Chris Lanier at Microsoft might be of interest as it covers exactly is and is not supported and contrasts it with the way XP works today.

The article can be found at:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/01/25/ 519180.aspx"

The universe gives up its deepest secret

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on Sunday January 07 2007, @11:00PM

NSIM writes "It is the invisible material that makes up most of the cosmos. Now, scientists have created the first image of dark matter

One of the greatest mysteries of the universe is about to be unravelled with the first detailed, three-dimensional map of dark matter — the invisible material that makes up most of the cosmos.

Astronomers announced yesterday that they have achieved the apparently impossible task of creating a picture of something that has defied every attempt to detect it since its existence was first postulated in 1933...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_techno logy/article2134891.ece"

Next generation architectures

Submitted by on Wednesday August 23 2006, @09:08AM

NSIM writes "The article talks about a session given at Hot Chips by David Patterson and discusses work to make an affordable 1000CPU test bet for working OS and application designs that will work well on a new generation of CPUs with 100s of cores."