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Submission + - Conway Conjecture Settled after 29-years (hatsya.com)

Submitted by joshuark on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:56AM

joshuark writes: Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway’s Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe at time T, it must have existed in that same position at time T1 (and therefore, by induction, at time 0).

Comment Hypocrites (Score 3, Insightful) 76

by Brusco on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @04:47AM (#43912415) Attached to: EU Wants To Enshrine Network Neutrality In Law

Let them first stop censoring the internet.

Comment Re:I had anticipated this a long time ago (Score 1) 601

by Brusco on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:02PM (#41994271) Attached to: Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market

My first mobile product was a bicycle. I was still developing at that time.

Submission + - Funky Flying Wing Rotates 90degrees to go Supersonic (space.com)

Submitted by

Big Hairy Ian

on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:38AM

Big Hairy Ian writes: "An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair. The unusual "flying wing" concept has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel.

The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing idea comes from a team headed by Ge-Chen Zha, an aerospace engineer at Florida State University. He said the fuel-efficient aircraft could reach supersonic speeds without the thunderclap sound produced by a sonic boom — a major factor that previously limited where the supersonic Concorde passenger jet could fly over populated land masses."

Submission + - Tokyo court deals win for Samsung (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

AmiMoJo

on Friday August 31, 2012 @03:33AM

" rel="nofollow">AmiMoJo writes: "A court in Tokyo has ruled that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on a patent was related to transferring media content between devices. Tokyo District Judge Tamotsu Shoji dismissed the case filed by Apple in August, finding that Samsung was not in violation of Apple patents related to synchronising music and video data between devices and servers."

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