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Ars Technica's John Siracusa Snow Leopard-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2009, @10:40AM

An anonymous reader writes "Not so much a scoop, but an interesting and fairly in-depth look at the new version of OSX from Apple. Includes some nice descriptions and examples of the parallel additions to the underlying libraries and compilers."
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Comment: Re:Same sort of retards who (Score 1) 512

by casper75 on Friday March 06 2009, @09:17AM (#27090867) Attached to: Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet

Too funny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

2009

2007

Gaim threatened by AOL, changes name to Pidgin

Submitted by

Vorratt

on Saturday April 07 2007, @06:04PM

Vorratt writes "Under threat of legal action by AOL, the instant messaging client Gaim is now ... Pidgin. This is also why there haven't been any non-beta releases in a while, apparently, and they "hope to have the final Pidgin 2.0.0 release late this week or early next." It's good to see that open-source projects and big, mean ol' corporations can still come to (reasonably) civil agreements with each other."

Scientists Assemble Single Atoms Into Predefined Nanostructures->

From feed by sdfeed on Saturday April 07 2007, @04:12PM

Scientists have assembled single atoms of different elements, thus forming nanostructures of predefined size and composition. The nanostructures engineered and characterized constitute a promising model for future investigations in order to gain insight into the magnetism of the smallest structures.
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MIT shows how to shut down brain with light

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2007, @09:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "The MIT home-page story today is about a way to use light to shut down brain activity. "Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease." Read more at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/brain-block.htm l (home page image at http://www.mit.edu/)"

Intel Details New Chip Technology

Submitted by BOOM on Wednesday March 28 2007, @08:58PM

BOOM writes "Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Wednesday unveiled details of a new lineup of processors slated for production later this year that promise a performance boost and energy savings because of the transition to a new manufacturing technology."

computer geeks are the new schoolyard bullies

Submitted by

vaporland

on Wednesday March 28 2007, @08:54PM

vaporland writes "This story from Reuters states that computer geeks are the new schoolyard bullies. To quote the article:

'Bullies are no longer content to taunt their victims in the playground but are turning to cyberspace, according to Canadian researchers.
They are using e-mail, text messaging and social networking sites in new forms of victimization.
Cyber bullies are even forcing their girlfriends to undress in front of webcams and then sharing the images with others online.'

I for one welcome our new geek overlords — now if I could only find a way to get even with that towel-popping guy from my eighth grade gym class . . ."

Intel Releases Information on Penryn, Nehalem

Submitted by

Justin Wheeler

on Wednesday March 28 2007, @08:02PM

Justin Wheeler writes "Intel has been slowly trickling information on their new Penryn cores (the next release after Merom/Conroe), as well as their upcoming Nehalem cores. From the articles: "At a press meeting today, Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, "we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture." What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments.""

Level 1 Web Browsers...

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2007, @04:07PM

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Microsoft are defining Browsers as either Level 1 or 2 with Level 1 being the superior browser consisting of guess which browsers...! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sha repoint/techinfo/sysreqs.mspx"

XM And SIRIUS Radio Merging 301

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19 2007, @04:07PM
from the monopoly-is-such-a-fun-game dept.

lenny6998 writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that XM and Sirius Radio, the only two major players in the relatively new market of subscription satellite radio have announced a merger. "The two companies said in a statement that Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius, would become chief executive of the new company while Gary Parsons, the chairman of XM, would remain in that role."