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Submission + - Rethinking computer design for an optical world (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by holy_calamity on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @12:19PM

holy_calamity writes: Technology Review looks at how some traditions of computer architecture are up for grabs with the arrival of optical interconnects like Intel's 50Gbps link unveiled last week [slashdot.org]. The extra speed makes it possible to consider moving a server's RAM a few feet from its CPUs to aid cooling and moving memory and computational power to peripherals like laptop docks and monitors.

Comment Re:Mailing lists (Score 1) 565

by fernaus on Monday August 02, 2010 @05:45AM (#33108214) Attached to: How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops?

I thought I'd post a couple of links to some particularly well written code examples, just to save other people some time searching for them:

Android 2.1 Finally Makes It To Droid 132

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @02:30PM from the for-all-your-robot-needs dept.

MrSmith0011000100110 writes "The lovely people over at AndroidCentral have broken the announcement that Android 2.1 is finally coming to the Motorola Droid, with actual proof on Verizon's Droid support page (PDF). I don't know about my Droid brethren, but I'm pretty excited to see the new series of Android ROMs for the Droid phone that are based on a stock Android 2.1. As most of us know, the existing 2.1 ROMs can be buggy as hell and either running vanilla 2.1 or a custom ROM; but this phone is still a tinkerer's best friend."

iPhone-Controlled Helicopter With AR Games 51

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @04:37AM from the get-to-da-ichoppa dept.

andylim writes "Parrot has unveiled a remote-controlled helicopter that boasts augmented reality games. The helicopter is controlled using an iPhone or iPod Touch's accelerometer and touchscreen. There's a camera on the front of the helicopter, which you can use to navigate and to play augmented reality games, including a game that involves fighting a gigantic robot."

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