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Debian Wheezy Code Costed At $19 billion-> 0

Submitted by aesoteric on Monday February 13, @09:44PM

aesoteric writes "An Australian developer has estimated the commercial cost to build the forthcoming release of the Debian operating system, codenamed Wheezy, would be over $19 billion. The valuation is created using a tool called sloccount, which has previously been used to cost Fedora 9 and the Linux kernel."
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London Gets Massive Free Wi-Fi Zone-> 0

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aesoteric

on Monday January 09, @07:01PM

aesoteric writes "London's Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea districts will be delivered the largest free wi-fi zone in Europe. The plan is to provide the service in time for the 2012 London Olympics, which start in late July, to allow visitors and residents to get more out of their stay."
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How litigation only spurred on P2P file sharing-> 0

Submitted by littlekorea on Thursday November 10, @09:01PM

littlekorea writes "The growth in peer-to-peer file sharing surged in response to efforts by the content industry to litigate over the past decade, according to a new study by a researcher at Melbourne's Monash University. Dr Rebecca Giblin explains why 'physical world' assumptions don't apply to the online world."
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Bell Labs builds telepresence 'robots'-> 0

Submitted by schliz on Sunday November 06, @07:39PM

schliz writes "Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, Bell Labs, is building low-cost robots that represent remote participants in meeting rooms. Researchers hope it will address the issue of the natural, non-verbal "voting mechanism", by which people determine who should speak based on who most people are looking at. The technology will likely be priced in the "hundreds of dollars" rather than the tens of thousands that the likes of Cisco and Polycom charge for high-end telepresence rooms."
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Khan Academy Receives $5M to Expand, Create Physic-> 0

Submitted by mayberry42 on Sunday November 06, @06:52AM

mayberry42 writes "
Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s learning analytics system, and building an actual brick-and-mortar school, beginning with a summer camp program.

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Australian stock exchange suffers three-hour outag-> 0

Submitted by schliz on Wednesday October 26, @11:33PM

schliz writes "The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) was closed for business for most of this morning, after a "connectivity issue" affected some brokers but not others. Trading was suspended from 10.05am to about 2pm. The issue was resolved with the exchange's software vendor, NASDAQ OMX."
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Dennis Ritchie, Co-Creator of Unix and Founder of -> 0

Submitted by El_Oscuro on Thursday October 13, @07:22PM

El_Oscuro writes "In less than a week, the world has lost two tech pioneers. Last week, we mourned the passing of Steve Jobs, and now we say goodbye to computer scientist Dennis Ritchie who also recently died.

Ritchie, or dmr as he was called in programming circles, worked most of his life at Bell Laboratories where he helped create the C programming language and worked extensively on the Unix operating system."
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IBM eyes brain-like computing-> 0

Submitted by schliz on Thursday October 13, @05:22PM

schliz writes "IBM's research director John E Kelly III has delivered an academic lecture in Australia, outlining its 'cognitive computing' aims and efforts as the 70-year 'programmable computing' era comes to a close. He spoke about Watson — the 'glimpse' of cognitive computing that beat humans at Jeopardy! in Feb — and efforts to mimic biological neurons and synapses on 'multi-state' chips. Computers that function like brains, he said, are needed to make sense of exascale data centres of the future.

computing’ to make sense of unprecedented amounts of noisy, unstructured data in various industry sectors today.
IBM has set its sights on a new era of ‘cognitive computing’ to make sense of unprecedented amounts of noisy, unstructured data in various industry sectors today."
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Australian court blocks sales of Samsung Galaxy Ta-> 2

Submitted by jimboh2k on Wednesday October 12, @08:46PM

jimboh2k writes "Apple has succeeded in blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia until a final hearing can be heard in the case down under. The judgment on Thursday could effectively kill chances of the tablet ever launching properly in Australia after Samsung claimed further delays to the product would threaten hopes of gaining traction."
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Homesick Dog Takes Metro Home Alone-> 0

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jones_supa

on Saturday October 01, @01:57AM

jones_supa writes "A Swedish four year old Labrador Eira was left at her new day kennel in Stockholm but, struck with home sickness she decided take the matter in her own paws and head out for the metro station. The dog stood patiently among the morning passengers and waited in the six stops before arriving to her home station. In accordance with routine, the staff called the police and handed Eira over. "If she hadn't been detained she would probably have been waiting for me by the door," her owner Caroline said."
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