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Mozilla

Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora 309

Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the Mozilla Foundation has quietly released the first beta version of the revised Eudora email application. This is the first development Eudora has seen since Qualcomm stopped development and turned it over to the open source community in 2006. "Eudora first appeared in 1988 and quickly became one of the first popular email applications, enjoying its heyday in the early 1990s as it developed over the early days of the internet. Use of Eudora began to wane in the mid-1990s as the third-party application was muscled out of the market by web-based services such as Hotmail and bundled applications such as Outlook." Linux.com has a bit more explanation about why many may not consider this simply a new release of Eudora. According to the release page the new Eudora application is not intended to compete with Thunderbird, but instead to complement it.
Space

Submission + - Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid (physorg.com)

eldavojohn writes: "Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system. From the article, "A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon.""

Comment Glad this is public now (Score 1) 166

I got a chance to see this software in Japan the last time I visited Hitachi's Central Research Labs. It was impressive. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell anyone about it because it was still under wraps. Now that it's out in the open, here's a post with some details. Briefly, it does rely on pre-indexing of the images, it doesn't rely on any text tagging, and it's not intended to compete with Google Image Search et. al. It is intended as an Enterprise application. It is remarkably good at finding faces, even when you don't tell it you're looking for faces. And it even works on video clips. Unfortunately, they didn't give me a copy to take home.

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