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snowdon writes:
The World Solar Challenge started today, and the top teams are now camped in the Australian outback more than 600km south of Darwin. You can follow the event live in real-time using satellite tracking at http://www.worldsolarchallenge.org.
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snowdon writes:
The race for low-latency in finance and HPC has taken a major turn. A bunch of engineers from Australia have "thrown away the air conditioning" in a traditional switch, to get a 10G fibre-to-fibre latency of less than 130ns! Way faster than more traditional offerings. This lady would tell you that it's equivalent to just 26m of optic fibre. Does that mean we just lose money faster?
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snowdon writes:
A record which has stood for 22 years, set by General Motors, has been broken by a university team. The land speed record for a solar powered car was 78km/h and now stands at 88km/h despite the cloudy conditions... If only Doc Brown had used the metric system!
