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Cloud

Submission + - 15-yr-old sells startup to ActiveState (geekwire.com)

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jcasman
jcasman writes: "Some entrepreneurs wait a lifetime to experience the thrill of selling their startup companies. Danill Kulchenko, a Seattle area high school student, accomplished that milestone at the age of 15. Kulchenko today announced that he’s sold his startup, a cloud-based computing company known as Phenona, to Vancouver, B.C.-based ActiveState in a deal of undisclosed size."
Open Source

Submission + - ActivePython Updated for Finance, Scientific Users (pcworld.com)

Submitted by
jcasman
jcasman writes: "From PCWorld article ActivePython Updated for Finance, Scientific Users:
ActiveState has added three open source mathematics libraries to its ActivePython Python distribution that might interest financial and scientific computing markets, the company announced Thursday.
The packages are being added, in part, to anticipate the demand that may arise from new proposed rules for the U.S. financial community brought about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the company.
In April, the government agency posted a set of proposed rules for handling asset-backed securities that called for financial firms to disclose, along with their prospectus filings, the source code of the programs that generated the filings, as rendered in Python. The government agency will be accepting input about the proposed rule until August 2.
The three libraries that are being added to the ActivePython package are NumPy, SciPy and matplotlib."
Internet Explorer

Submission + - Japanese Triple-Engine Browser Released (lunascape.tv)

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jcasman
jcasman writes: "Japanese browser company Lunascape is releasing its first english version of its Lunascape 5 triple-engine browser. Several different pubs covering the news. CNET, OStatic (quoted below), and Lifehacker.

How many web browsers do you run? If you're like me, you regularly use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari. Each of those browsers, of course, has its own underlying rendering engine: Gecko (in Firefox), Trident (in Internet Explorer), and Webkit (in Chrome and Safari). Today, a Japanese startup called Lunascape has released an alpha version of its Lunascape browser, downloadable here, that allows you to switch between all three of these prominent rendering engines. The company says that the Japanese version of Lunascape has been downloaded 10 million times and touts it as the fastest browser available. Is it?

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Announcements

Submission + - Extreme Linux: 624-day 122 degree F endurance test (cnet.com)

Submitted by jcasman
jcasman writes: C|Net is covering an announcement from Japanese Linux provider Plat'Home on a low-cost, super tough Linux-based server, now available in the US, that can handle extreme heat and cold. From the article: 'The OpenMicroServer is kind of an "extreme" use server pushing the boundaries for normal, low-cost hardware. In a 624-day endurance test, the OpenMicroServer performed normally under 122 degree F conditions. The unit also employs a power efficient AMD Alchemy (MIPS) CPU and precise part placement based on thermo-fluid analysis to achieve semi-hermetic construction.'
Robotics

Submission + - Grasping at straws, with a robotic hand (wired.com)

Submitted by jcasman
jcasman writes: Wired's got a piece on building a better robotic hand at Standford. The current robot is called "Stair 1.0." If you reach and grab at something, you need to understand if you've succeeded. If not, try again. If still unsuccessful, trying a new approach. "The trick is to build robots that act more like children than machines." Wonder how you build in "giving up"?

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