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Submission + - Boot Linux in your browser

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in Javascript. You can now boot Linux in your browser provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work).

Submission + - BitCoin, The Most Dangerous Project Ever?

Submitted by

CmdrTaco

on Monday May 16, 2011 @09:15AM

CmdrTaco writes: "Jamie found a followup to the bitcoin story we've been following awhile. The article talks about the untracable, un-hackable nature of BitCoin. They can't be locked down like PayPal, and the article predicts that governments will start banning them in the next 18 months."

Submission + - New Pi Computation Record using a Desktop PC (bellard.org)

Submitted by hint3 on Monday January 04, 2010 @07:33PM

hint3 writes: Fabrice Bellard has calculated Pi to about 2.7 trillion decimal digits increasing the previous record by over 120 billion digits. While the improvement seems small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC costing less than 3000 dollars was used instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records.

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