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GNOME 3 Released 353

Posted by samzenpus from the check-it-out dept.
Blacklaw writes "The GNOME Desktop team has sent its latest creation into the wild, officially launching GNOME 3.0 — the biggest redesign the project has enjoyed in around nine years. 'We've taken a pretty different approach in the GNOME 3 design that focuses on the desired experience and lets the interface design follow from that,' designer Jon McCann explained during the launch. 'With any luck you will feel more focused, aware, effective, capable, respected, delighted, and at ease.'"
Biotech

Gamers Beat Algorithms At Finding Protein Structures 80

Posted by samzenpus from the tetris-trained dept.
jamie writes "Researchers have turned the biochemical challenge of figuring out protein folding structures into a computer game. The best players can beat a computerized algorithm by rapidly recognizing problems that the computer can't fix. From the article: 'By tracing the actions of the best players, the authors were able to figure out how the humans' excellent pattern recognition abilities gave them an edge over the computer. For example, people were very good about detecting a hydrophobic amino acid when it stuck out from the protein's surface, instead of being buried internally, and they were willing to rearrange the structure's internals in order to tuck the offending amino acid back inside. Those sorts of extensive rearrangements were beyond Rosetta's abilities, since the energy changes involved in the transitions are so large.'"

Comment Re:How come... (Score 1) 680

by Liquidape (#32500308) Attached to: Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain

If your grandmother was nearly killed making a left hand turn - that is her fault not the traffic's that she was pulling out into. Old people making left hand turns into traffic kill far more people than speeders. The person making the left into traffic is responsible for doing so safely. Sounds like grandma didn't. She shouldn't have been cutting it so close that a 15 mph delta could make the difference between life and death.
Government

1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List 168

Posted by Soulskill from the by-reading-this-article-you-have-been-added dept.
schwit1 writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post: "During a 12-month period ended in March this year... the US intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a 'reasonable suspicion,' according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week. ... The ever-churning list is said to contain more than 400,000 unique names and over 1 million entries. The committee was told that over that same period, officials asked each day that 600 names be removed and 4,800 records be modified. Fewer than 5 percent of the people on the list are US citizens or legal permanent residents. Nine percent of those on the terrorism list, the FBI said, are also on the government's 'no fly' list."
Power

Sony Prototype Sends Electricity Through the Air 240

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the efficiency-is-overrated dept.
itwbennett writes "Sony announced Friday that it has developed a prototype power system based on magnetic resonance that can send 'a conventional 100 volt electricity supply over a distance of 50 centimeters to power a 22-inch LCD television.' Unfortunately, Sony's prototype wasted 1/5 of the power fed into it and additional losses 'occurred in circuitry connected to the secondary coil so the original 80 watts of power was cut by roughly a quarter to 60 watts once it had made its way through the system.'"
Operating Systems

Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50

Posted by kdawson from the get-your-mobility-on dept.
superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

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