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Submission + - Halo Wars footage finally unveiled (canada.com)

Submitted by warpwhistle on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @04:01AM

warpwhistle writes: Not content with what they showed in their E3 press conference this year, Microsoft released the trailer for the Halo-themed real-time strategy game Halo Wars. The game, being developed by Ensemble studios who is responsible for the the Age of Empires series features classic Halo units such as the Ghost, Warthog and Master Chief.

Submission + - Getting Firefox to plug those leaks

Submitted by PrashantP on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @03:31AM

PrashantP writes: I have a question for Ask Slashdot...
Why isn't there more negative publicity for Firefox's memory leaks?
Firefox is my preferred browser, but I can't help thinking that if IE regularly had memory leaks/bloats people would make some real noise.
Last night firefox was hogging 433MB of memory and growing before I killed the process. (And yes, I have tried all the memory optimisation changes in config)

Submission + - Belgian court orders ISP to filter illegal content (euobserver.com)

Submitted by

guzi

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @03:01AM

guzi writes: "A Belgian court has ruled that one of its national internet service providers must install a filter to prevent its internet users from illegally downloading music. http://euobserver.com/9/24451"

Submission + - Hybrid mesh replaces polygons to display 3D/CAD (diginfo.tv)

Submitted by

dk3nn3dy

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @02:00AM

dk3nn3dy writes: "Japanese company Digital Process, have developed VridgeR, software which uses DVX, a special rendering technique that doesn't use polygons, and can display massive, highly complex models (for example whole cars or planes which would normally require millions of polygons to be displayed with precision) using standard hardware. 20GB of aircraft CAD data can be loaded onto less than 1GB RAM with complete mathematical precision. English video news story here."

Submission + - The Brain Maps API (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

jpurkinje

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @01:34AM

jpurkinje writes: "BrainMaps.org has recently implemented a new AJAX-enabled multiresolution image viewer. Though a bit skimpy on functionality compared to the heavy-weight Flash viewers, it is snappy fast, uses very little memory, and in principle, allows for better integration with other HTML entities through DOM. An example is at http://brainmaps.org/ajax-viewer.php?datid=95&snam e=123

What's more, the multiresolution viewer has been released as the Brain Maps API. The following is from the Brain Maps API page at http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=brain-maps-api:

"The Brain Maps API lets you embed Brain Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. Future versions will enable you to add overlays to brain maps (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed "info windows". The Brain Maps API is a free service, available for any web site that is free to consumers."

Google Maps for the Brain?"

Submission + - New FICO Rules May Affect Millions (aaacreditguide.com)

Submitted by

crazychane

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @12:30AM

crazychane writes: "About 60 million consumers are authorized users on someone else's credit card. But, that's all about to change...In September, the FICO credit-scoring system is set to undergo a major overhaul. Fair Isaac Corp., the Minneapolis company that creates the formula used to calculate the score, is downplaying the change, saying it won't have much of an effect."

Submission + - July 11th, Fairuse Day is here (fairuseday.com)

Submitted by ezelkow1 on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @12:22AM

ezelkow1 writes: Today is International Fairuse Day. The official story here gives a brief mention of some of the big hitting fairuse topics that have come about this year. A more in depth article at Ars Technica has interviews with the movements founder as well as information from the founder of the United States Pirate Party which is also supporting the event.
From the interview:
As for how to make the best of Fair Use Day, founder Eric Clifford told Ars that users should "enjoy fair use in any way that you can," but he added that "the problem is that the legal ways to exercise fair use is diminishing."

Submission + - Mobile Web Server in your cellphone (mymobilesite.net)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday June 21, 2007 @06:11AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Snakes in the phone. Nokia has released Mobile Web Server service. One can run Apache+Python based web pages in the mobile phone, including content and location information from the mobile phone itself. The default installation comes with blog, gallery, contacts, calender, etc. sharing. Since its Python based, the platform in open for hacking. Surf into my pocket!"

Submission + - OSI to crack down on "open source" abusers (businessreviewonline.com)

Submitted by munchola on Thursday June 21, 2007 @06:08AM

munchola writes: According to CBRonline the Open Source Initiative is going to "open a can of whup ass on any vendors that claim to be open source despite not actually using a license approved by the OSI". In a blog post OSI president Michael Tiemann wrote: "Enough is enough. Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label."

Submission + - Hospitals Vulnerable to IT Security Threats (advanceweb.com)

Submitted by MickBrew on Thursday June 21, 2007 @06:01AM

MickBrew writes: http://health-information.advanceweb.com/common/Ed itorialSearch/AViewer.aspx?AN=HI_07jun18_hip16.htm l&AD=06-18-2007 Is your hospital vulnerable to IT security threats? How you can prevent it ? Some companies, like Scriptlogic, offer software solutions for securing environment and audit sensitive information access.

Submission + - Toshiba breakthrough to yield smaller mobiles

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday June 21, 2007 @05:51AM

Anonymous writes: Toshiba announced that with its latest memory-chip architecture, phone designers can now produced a mobile phones with more compact designs and even more memory for file storage. The breakthrough came when Toshiba's engineers managed to house two types of flash memory in a single chip. One for storing programs and the other, a multi-level cell (MLC) memory used for holding data used by stored programs. MLC is said to be generally cheaper and has much higher storage-physical space ratio, making it more ideal for storing video clips, images and music.

Submission + - Nvidia Launches GP-GPU Products: Tesla

Submitted by unts on Thursday June 21, 2007 @05:47AM

unts writes: Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia has launched a new range of products aimed squarely at using the massively parallelised architecture of GPUs for non-graphical computing tasks. Beyond3D takes a look at Tesla, and has interviews with Dave Kirk and Andy Keane who have been working on the project. From the article: 'The basic unit of the current Tesla line, the Tesla C870, should be very familiar to anyone who's seen the GeForce 8800. It's essentially an 8800 GTX — a 575MHz core clock and 128 SPs at 1.35GHz — with 1.5GiB of GDDR3 RAM. Of course, it's not quite an 8800 GTX — there are no display outputs at all on the card'

Submission + - iTunes store DRM free music sells well says EMI

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:40AM

An anonymous reader writes: "The initial results of DRM-free music are good" said Lauren Berkowitz, a senior vice president of EMI, at a music industry conference in New York. Berkowitz said the early results from iTunes indicate that DRM-free offerings may boost revenue from digital albums as well as individual songs. No surprise!

Submission + - A new layout for internal combustion engines

Submitted by zero_offset on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @02:14PM

zero_offset writes: A certain sector of the geek world is into cars and motorcycles, and what could be more newsworthy and exciting than a whole new layout for the internal combustion engine? The NEVIS Engine Company has taken on a task that The Red Herring describes as downright Sisyphean: reinventing the venerable internal combustion engine to dramatically improve efficiency and reduce emissions. We've heard that claim before, but this engine, using the new "Bortone cycle," is a complete re-think of the typical four-stroke piston-in-cylinder internal combustion process. They are claiming twice the efficiency of a standard Otto cycle engine. Their prototype is producing 250 HP at 2000 RPM from a 1 liter 2-cylinder setup, so yes, it runs. A detailed description is available on the Technology Overview page, but be sure to hit their images page and step through the pictures in order: watching the person assemble the engine step-by-step helps clarify how it works.

Submission + - Keylogger Hardware Embedded in New Dell Laptop (virus.org.ua)

Submitted by

kendbluze

on Tuesday June 19, 2007 @02:39AM

kendbluze writes: "Here's an EE who was doing a simple repair to a nearly-new Dell 600m laptop when he noticed something a bit curious. Turns out he found a hardware keylogger sitting between the keyboard and ethernet controllers! See what Homeland Security didn't have to say about it."

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