Comment Zen Coding? (Score 2, Informative) 175
In my case, Bluefish or Quanta Plus are more than enough, don't need to learn another syntax.
Submission + - Google and NSA teaming up (washingtonpost.com) 1
i_frame writes: The Washington Post reports that "Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google — and its users — from future attack."
Submission + - MIT Researchers Develop Indoor Robocopter (mit.edu)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at MIT's Robust Robotics Group have developed a robotic helicopter capable of flying inside buildings, or other GPS-Denied environments. While the video talks about search and rescue or civil engineering applications, the brings somewhat scary reminders of Minory Report to my head. How long till I see one of these chasing me down a dark alley??
Submission + - Dow to sell Solar Shingles (reuters.com)
CyberDong writes: Dow Chemical Co said on Monday it would begin selling a new rooftop shingle next year that converts sunlight into electricity. The new solar shingles can be integrated into rooftops with standard asphalt shingles, Dow said, and will be introduced in 2010 before a wider roll-out in 2011.
Submission + - NETGEAR WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced (myopenrouter.com)
MyOpenRouter writes: NETGEAR has announced the WNR3500L, a brand new, open source, wireless-N gigabit router which is customizable with third party firmwares.
MyOpenRouter is the dedicated source for NETGEAR open source routers, with the full scoop including a review with screenshots, how-to's, tutorials, firmware downloads, and more.
Announcement:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/blog/entry/13896/NETGEAR-Announces-WNR3500L-Open-Source-Gigabit-Router-Development-Partner-Program/
Review:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/12912/
Downloads:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/list?sort=date
MyOpenRouter is the dedicated source for NETGEAR open source routers, with the full scoop including a review with screenshots, how-to's, tutorials, firmware downloads, and more.
Announcement:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/blog/entry/13896/NETGEAR-Announces-WNR3500L-Open-Source-Gigabit-Router-Development-Partner-Program/
Review:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/12912/
Downloads:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/download/list?sort=date
Submission + - WARF and Intel settle patent suit over Core 2 Duo (google.com)
reebmmm writes: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Intel have settled their patent suit over technology developed by Gurindar Sohi, a computer science professor at the University of Wisconsin — Madison.
Professor Sohi developed technology that was ultimately patented by WARF using money he received from Intel. Last month, Judge Barbara Crabb found that the funding agreement was ambiguous, but that e-mails revealed that the money was an unrestricted gift and carried with it no obligation to license or assign any inventions to Intel.
Trial was scheduled to begin today. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
At issue is the 5,781,752. A copy of WARF's original complaint is here.
Professor Sohi developed technology that was ultimately patented by WARF using money he received from Intel. Last month, Judge Barbara Crabb found that the funding agreement was ambiguous, but that e-mails revealed that the money was an unrestricted gift and carried with it no obligation to license or assign any inventions to Intel.
Trial was scheduled to begin today. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
At issue is the 5,781,752. A copy of WARF's original complaint is here.
Comment Is this the end of humankind? (Score 1) 557
Yup ..., oh well maybe, but I'm realy sure Conficker is to be held resposible for the pandemic. If only we could detect where it downloaded the swine virus from?....
Another Step Towards the Driverless Car 224
jtogel writes "At Essex, we have for some time been working on automatically learning how to race cars in simulation. It turns out that a combination of evolutionary algorithms and neural networks can learn how to beat all humans in racing games, and also come up with some quite interesting, novel behaviours, which might one day make their way into commercial racing games. While this is simulation, the race is now on for the real thing — we are setting up a competition for AI developers, where the goal is to win a race between model cars on real tracks. As the cars will be around half a meter long, the cost of participating will be a fraction of that for the famous DARPA Grand Challenge, whereas the challenges will be similar in terms of computer vision and AI."
Submission + - Researchers spin out smaller electronics than ever
schliz writes: Scientists have found a more efficient way to harness the spin of an electron to store and process information. The new technology, dubbed 'spintronics', has potentials in the development of nanoscale devices that are much more energy efficient than current charge-based electronic devices. Researchers expect the new technology to be incorporated in computing circuitry within the next decade. Computerworld reports.
Submission + - Astronomers Explode Virtual Supernova
DynaSoar writes: "Scientists at the University of Chicago's Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes have created a simulation of a white dwarf exploding into a type 1a supernova http://space.com/scienceastronomy/070322_stellar_e xplosion.html. Using 700 processors and 58,000 hours, they produced a three second movie showing the initial burst that is thought to be the source of much of the iron in the universe. Understanding these supernova is also important to testing current cosmological theories regarding dark matter and dark energy, as their brightness is used as a measurement of distance, and discrepancies found in the brightness of very distant supernovae consistently seem to indicate a change in the speed of expansion of the universe over time."
