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Jobs from 1947 up now

2012-01-27T16:00:00.003+01:00

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Ooooops, Nikola Tesla patented my car entry remote !

2012-01-27T14:26:00.002+01:00

Nikola Tesla, the prolific Serbian-American inventor and radio pioneer, filed a U.S. patent, granted on March 17, 1903 which doesn’t mention the phrase “frequency hopping” directly, but certainly alludes to it. Entitled “Method of Signaling,” the patent describes a system that would enable radio communication “without any danger of the signals or messages begin disturbed, intercepted, interfered with in any way”.
But, there is more.
Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil’s patent describes a mechanical system for frequency hopping spread spectrum technology to remotely control torpedoes. Year 1942.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Well, who would know. And who would now say women can not be clever AND beautiful?

Look ma no hands: Volvo Tests Almost-Autonomous ‘Road Train’

2012-01-27T12:34:00.001+01:00

The coffee-drinking driver of the Volvo S60 in the left photo has his foot nowhere near the brake, and he isn’t even steering with his knees. He’s not, however, about to become a statistic about tailgating and distracted driving. He’s part of the world’s first successful “road train,” a setup in which cars are programmed to automatically follow professionally-driven lead cars to reduce accidents and congestion
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US launched cyber attacks on other nations

2012-01-27T12:24:00.001+01:00

Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence at the National Security Agency under George W Bush, tells Reuters this week that cyber war is more than a distant possibility. According to the current vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, the US has already launched attacks on the computer networks of other nations.
Thousands of Infrastructure Computer Systems are Online, Unprotected
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F35 wins in the end in Japan and Korea

2012-01-27T10:25:00.000+01:00

Detractors say the F-35 stealth fighter, the costliest military plane ever, is destined to go down as one of the biggest follies in aviation history. But it may have found a savior: deep-pocketed U.S. allies hungry to add its super high-tech capabilities to their arsenal.
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Flash revenue expected to overtake DRAM in 2012

2012-01-27T09:04:00.000+01:00

Flash revenue expected to overtake DRAM in 2012
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The Bumpy Road to Exascale: A Q&A with Thomas Sterling

2012-01-27T09:03:00.000+01:00

The Bumpy Road to Exascale: A Q&A with Thomas Sterling
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Internet protocol myth buster

2012-01-27T09:02:00.001+01:00

There's a common wrong perception that IPv6 is natively more secure than IPv4 because IPSec support is mandatory in IPv6. "This is a myth that needs to be debunked," Vyncke says.
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Satellite images of Earth show roads, air traffic, cities at night and internet cables

2012-01-27T09:02:00.000+01:00

Here.

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2012: Processor architecture now matters, not supreme manufacturing

2012-01-27T09:01:00.000+01:00

Here
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Air-fueled lithium batteries offer ten-fold storage capacity

2012-01-27T09:00:00.000+01:00

Here and here.
Background: Everything I need to know about lithium-air batteries
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First 3-D IC spec set for release

2012-01-27T08:59:00.001+01:00

First 3-D IC spec set for release
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Intel to unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on April 8

2012-01-27T08:59:00.000+01:00

Not an April fools, say Taiwan sources.
Intel plans to release a total of 25 models of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, including 17 CPUs for desktops and eight for notebooks and ultrabooks on or around April 8, 2012.
Ivy Bridge processors will be backwards-compatible with the Sandy Bridge platform, but require a BIOS/firmware update.
Intel's performance targets (compared to Sandy Bridge):

Up to 20% increase in CPU performance.
Up to 30% increase in integrated GPU performance.

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Raspberry Pi , An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25.

2012-01-27T08:58:00.002+01:00

An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25.
From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant now had experience only with web design, and sometimes not even with that. Fewer people were applying to the course every year. Something had changed the way kids were interacting with computers.
Credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer will handle 1080p video next month.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Production starting soon.

USA Congress Funds Exascale Computing

2012-01-27T08:58:00.001+01:00

Last week, House and Senate conferees agreed on full funding for the Department of Energy's effort to move toward exascale computing by providing $442 million for advanced scientific computing research, $126 million of which will go toward exascale computing, according to the president's budget proposal.
Congress is addressing those concerns by requiring the Department of Energy to submit a "joint, integrated" exascale strategy by February 10 of next year that will include target dates, interim milestones, minimum requirements for an exascale system, multi-year budget estimates, breakdowns of each office and lab involved in exascale research, and a more granular budget request for 2013.

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Kick-off for the European exascale project DEEP

2012-01-27T08:58:00.000+01:00

Here
The scientists expect a first prototype as early as 2014/2015 that will have a capacity of 100 petaflop/s
Russia too "is committed to having exascale computation capabilities by 2018-2020 and is prepared to make the investments to make that happen,"

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IBM Patent Application #20110219208: 100 PFlops Supercomputer

2012-01-27T08:57:00.000+01:00

A 649-page document filed in January provides an outlook on how the company will achieve 100 Petaflops, which translates to (100 quadrillion) operations per second.

From the patent: “A Multi-Petascale Highly Efficient Parallel Supercomputer of 100 petaOPS-scale computing, at decreased cost, power and footprint, and that allows for a maximum packaging density of processing nodes from an interconnect point of view. The Supercomputer exploits technological advances in VLSI that enables a computing model where many processors can be integrated into a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Each ASIC computing node comprises a system-on-chip ASIC utilizing four or more processors integrated into one die, with each having full access to all system resources and enabling adaptive partitioning of the processors to functions such as compute or messaging I/O on an application by application basis, and preferably, enable adaptive partitioning of functions in accordance with various algorithmic phases within an application, or if I/O or other processors are underutilized, then can participate in computation or communication nodes are interconnected by a five dimensional torus network with DMA that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes and minimize latency.”
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Top Ten Memresistor Patent Holders

2012-01-27T08:56:00.001+01:00

1) Samsung (387 US patents, phase change)
2) Micron (371 US patents, solid electrolyte)
3) Macronix (171 US patents, phase change)
4) Ovonyx (165 US patents, phase change)
5) IBM (126 US patents phase change)
6) HP (108 US patents, molecular)
7) Toshiba (108 US patents, metal oxide)
8) Sharp (107 US patents, metal oxide)
9) Intel (89 US patents, phase change)
10) Qimonda (88 US patents, phase change)
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Fujifilm X-Pro1: Radical new sensor layout smashes sharpness limits

2012-01-27T08:56:00.000+01:00

However, the 16 megapixel X-Pro1 won’t be for everyone. Its estimated $1700 price for the body, and $600 per lens — when they ship in February — will put it out of reach of all but the most serious photographers.
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Intel's well kept future processor design secrets

2012-01-27T08:55:00.000+01:00

That is just the beginning though. Haswell will utilize new mobile (947 pin) and desktop sockets (1150 pin), which will stay the same through Broadwell "tick".

Debuting in 2014, Broadwell will be the first part manufactured in brand new 14nm technology and represents a further optimization of the Haswell design. According to our sources, Broadwell brings the first true System-on-Chip design, integrating features such as Ethernet, Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 - all inside one single package. This part is already being widely discussed by Far Eastern motherboard vendors as a margin killer, since unless something changes, there won't be room to earn money off building parts for that platform.

Skylake Architecture: 14nm Skylake Tock and 11nm Skymont Tick
There isn't a lot of information available on the 14nm Skylake CPU architecture (2015), sans the completely new CPU core and GPU core, which will work as one. What Larrabee architecture failed to do, Skylake intends to fix, bringing DirectX 12(?) support straight through the CPU pipeline. There is no doubt that Intel will be first to 14nm process, just like the company was with practically every manufacturing process out there. Skymont will be a 11nm "Tock", a die-shrink and a component refresh coming out in mid-2016.
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William Hyde Wollaston

2012-01-27T08:54:00.001+01:00

William Hyde Wollaston proves in 1801 that the electricity from friction was identical to that produced by voltaic piles. Thus, there is only one cause of electric force. In 1821 he failed to design first direct current electrical motor. Magnetic induction dicovered Faradey in 1831. Nikola Tesla invented alternating current motor in 1888.
Experiments by J.J. Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter. The electron. Carrier of the mysterious electric force.
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Google claims 90 million Google+ users

2012-01-27T08:54:00.000+01:00

Google claims 90 million Google+ users
but still lagging behind Facebook's 800 million active users and Twitter's 100 million active users. And 90m users doesn't mean they are all active.

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Not All MLC SSDs are created equal

2012-01-27T08:53:00.001+01:00

Not All MLC SSDs are created equal
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Apple largest computer maker, sold more iPads alone than HP sold PCs

2012-01-27T08:53:00.000+01:00

iPad eating up PC sales, not hurting Mac sales

"Apple's $13 billion quarterly profit is second-biggest in U.S. history. Only topped by Exxon's $14.8 billion in 2008," tweeted CNNMoneyTech.
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Super-MicroDX, world smallest PC. In sale.

2012-01-27T08:52:00.000+01:00

This product has a cigarette box-sized enclosure , 512MB of memory and CPU Vortex with 800Mhz clock, GPU (Volari Z9s / Memory 8MB), VGA, and LAN. XP is the OS.

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Canon's new 5D Mark II and 7D crossbreed ?

2012-01-27T08:51:00.000+01:00

Tested for April release ? However, 22M pixel sensor points to 7D II model. 18 Mpixel sensors are for 5D class.
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Tablet computers can replace laptops

2012-01-27T08:50:00.001+01:00

Tablet computers can do almost everything laptops can, but they're more fun to use and more portable than any laptop could hope to be. Over the next few years, I fully expect tablets to replace their larger brethren. Here is why.
Samsung's 10-inch Galaxy Tab tablet with a case containing a wireless keyboard was my main computer during the North American International Auto Show this year. In six weeks of testing, I have found that the tablet performs as well as a laptop for the vast majority of computing tasks.
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Thomas Edison greatest inventor ever, Steven Jobs second ?

2012-01-27T08:50:00.000+01:00

Possible managers. Greatest inventor is however Nikola Tesla. How do I know? Switch off your bulb light or Ipad, and try to survive without them. You will not die for sure, and if afraid of darkness, you can still switch on your LCD TV or computer monitor. Then, pull out Tesla's AC power plug everywhere, and think again. Who is really the greatest. Yeah, you can switch on Ipad and tweet the problem but no working cell towers.Your water pipes will dry out soon. No more showering if no waterfall close. Fridge will melt. Your fresh food will be rotten. Micro oven will be dead. Metro is stopped, however your DC current car is still working, provided world is not without oil for a long time. In south, your house is pretty hot. No more clean dresses. Dust and bad smells everywhere, no ventilation. Elevators stuck. Banks are closed. However, there is a benefit: No nuke power plant because you can't deliver the power. Is that the end of civilization we know? Well, the end of big cities definitely yes.
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Rapid Storage Technology software suite 11.5 and 11.6

2012-01-27T08:42:00.000+01:00

We have already disclosed that RST 11.5 is bringing what we believe to be the key feature for adoption of Solid Storage Drives (SSDs) into enterprise, and that is TRIM and Garbage Collection when SSDs are inside a RAID array. We know today that the supported RAID arrays modes are 0 (stripping), 1 (mirror), 1+0 and 5 (min three drive stripe with redundancy).
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World's first XERA X-Emission-Rays-Amplification created

2012-01-26T13:10:00.000+01:00

This sets off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the world's first atomic X-ray laser - and temperatures of two million degrees.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: X-ray and visible light are not the same frequency. Even close.

Lexar's 256GB Flash card

2012-01-26T12:39:00.013+01:00

UDMA 7 166MB/s 68 pins , SATA1 150MB/s, 10% slower
CF 6.0 ( Nov.2010): UDMA Mode 7 (167MB / serial speed 1113) . Added sanitize command.

Year 2000: 8MB
Year 2000: 16MB
Year 2000: 32MB
Year 2000: 64MB
Year 2000: 128MB
Year 2000: 256MB
Year 2001: 512MB
Year 2002: 1GB
Year 2004: 2GB
Year 2006: 4GB
Year 2006: 8GB
Year 2007: 16GB

Year 2008: 32GB
Year 2009: 64GB
Year 2010: 128GB
Year 2012: 256GB

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Who cares for SSD anymore? This is quite enough FAT32 CF + storage for your next tablet. 2014 512GB, 2016 1TB !

Inconvenient truth : Lytro meeting suggests Apple looking beyond conventional photography

2012-01-25T14:31:00.003+01:00

Jobs asked Ng to prepare a list of three things he'd like Lytro to do with Apple. If nothing else, the story is interesting as it suggests Jobs was as excited by the Lytro and its effect on photography as the rest of the tech community has been. It also suggests Apple's approach to mobile photography might overlap with Lytro's aim of creating something fun, shareable and engaging, rather than attempting to replace conventional photography. Such an approach would certainly be in keeping with Apple's 'disruptive' approach to technology.

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Something is wrong with conventional photography?

Trust me: Microsoft names ex-antivirus employee as botnet 'suspect'

2012-01-25T07:50:00.004+01:00

Microsoft names ex-antivirus employee as botnet 'suspect'
In a blog posting, the Microsoft's lead attorney warned that thousands of PCs remain infected with Kelihos' software.
At Kelihos' peak, it was said to have been in control of 41,000 infected machines and able to send over 3.8 billion spam emails in a day.
In October last year, a Czech hosting company, Dotfree Group SRO, settled with Microsoft after it was found to be hosting domains responsible for Kelihos' spam malware distribution.

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Trust my proprietary software :)

The Pirate Bay now lets you download physical objects !

2012-01-24T16:21:00.000+01:00

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
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200 world's GDP highest and lowest metropolitan economies in 2011

2012-01-24T16:09:00.003+01:00

The victims of the euro zone crisis dominate the end of the list. Athens, Lisbon, and Dublin, the capitals of the three most endangered nations in Europe's sovereign debt crisis, made up the bottom three.
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HP to replace flash and SSD in 2013 ??

2012-01-24T13:07:00.002+01:00

"In 2014 possibly, or certainly by 2015, we will have a competitor for DRAM and then we’ll replace SRAM."
Currently, Elpida demos only 64Mbit chip in 50nm. 8MB. Beside, a significant hurdle to realizing the potential of ReRAM is the sneak path problem which occurs in larger passive arrays.
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Julian Assange to host own TV show

2012-01-24T12:19:00.000+01:00

WikiLeaks founder says he will interview 'iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders' and 'explore possibilities for our future'
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Is Ultrabook not needed without 3D display standard ?

2012-01-24T11:18:00.000+01:00

Hmmm
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A Must-Watch Video On How Military Drones Are Changing War

2012-01-24T11:04:00.002+01:00

A Must-Watch Video On How Military Drones Are Changing War
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Sony's true LED 55inch 6M LED display

2012-01-24T10:57:00.002+01:00

Much faster response for computer monitor use.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Price is the only limiting factor. :(

The flagship LED-LCD Backlit 55 inch TV from Sony costs 4000$. IMO this should cost about 4500$-5500$ for the 55 inch version. BTW that 4000$ TV has Full Array LEDs with Local Dimming.

Electron freedom could spark new computing

2012-01-24T10:22:00.005+01:00

Most importantly, the researchers used a commonly-available silicon-based transistor, which suggests any quantum based computer using orbital degrees of freedom will be commercially viable.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: At what working temperature? Silicon stops working with ordinary electronics principle even above 77K. Thus, this is not even a spintronics example. Kind of magnetronics with single atom transistor based on SU(4) to SU(2) transition.

Massive rise in ownership of tablet computers and e-book readers

2012-01-23T10:54:00.000+01:00

Massive rise in ownership of tablet computers and e-book readers Pew Research Center released a research report today based on a survey completed mid-December and two surveys conducted early January that show a major increase in ownership of tablet computers and e-book readers.
Pew Research Center announced that surveys of 1000’s of US adults between mid-December and early January, show that ownership of tablet computers and E-book readers leapt from 10% to 19%.
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Making the mirror for the world's biggest telescope

2012-01-23T09:47:00.006+01:00

With a total optical area of 24.5 metres, the GMT promises images 10 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope, but don't hold your breath: the telescope is scheduled to be finished in "about 10 years"
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Thus, after 10 year peek into the extrasolar planets?

Google Cools Off, and Stock Drops

2012-01-20T09:33:00.001+01:00

Google Inc.'s revenue machine cooled off after four straight quarters of accelerating growth, while the Internet giant spent heavily as it tries to push beyond its core search-advertising business.
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Quantum leap in the works for super-secure cloud computing

2012-01-20T09:19:00.002+01:00

If the future is heading toward "cloud computing," where most of your data lives on someone else's server, can you trust the cloud to keep a secret? Researchers say they've found a way to guarantee that your information will be secure in the cloud, using quantum entanglement."A key challenge in using such central quantum computers is enabling a quantum computation on a remote server while keeping the client's data hidden from the server," they write.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: No Big brother in the end? I doubt.

The men who decided to live without e-mail

2012-01-20T09:12:00.009+01:00

IBM Gives Birth to Amazing E-mail-less Man
He was bombarded daily with around 40 e-mail messages. More than he wanted to answer.
So four years into his brave experiment, Suarez is looking less like a crazy man on an island. (He literally lives on an island: Grand Canary Island, which he moved to a few years ago. He loves the “beaches, sun, and mountains.”) He’s looking more like a visionary. So far, he's shrunk his inbox by 98 percent
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Here is the solution for him (recently acquired by Twitter): In March 2011 Summify launched email summary product and we've been blown away by the response ever since. Many of our users tell us we found a magical solution to a truly unsolved problem," said the blog.

Eastman Kodak on the verge of bankruptcy, The stock tumbled 54 %

2012-01-19T12:16:00.001+01:00

Eastman Kodak on the verge of bankruptcy,
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Malware ‘Sleeps’ on Computer for Average of 8 Months, Collecting Data

2012-01-18T15:38:00.000+01:00

Malware ‘Sleeps’ on Computer for Average of 8 Months, Collecting Data
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Microsoft lays out Window 8 tablet hardware requirements

2012-01-18T09:29:00.005+01:00

Microsoft lays out Window 8 tablet hardware requirements

Storage: At least 10gb free space "after the out-of-box experience completes"
Graphics: Direct3D 10 device w/ WDDM 1.2 driver
Display resolution: 1366x768
Camera: 720p
Accelerometer et al: plus magnetometer and gyroscope
USB: USB 2.0
Networking: WLAN and Bluetooth 4.0 + LE (low energy)
System firmware: UEFI

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Big Brother against Wikipedia !

2012-01-18T08:51:00.010+01:00

Why Wiki? Because it simply resembles someone to Wiki Leaks !.
Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, beginning at midnight January 18, Eastern Time. Readers who come to English Wikipedia during the blackout will not be able to read the encyclopedia: instead, they will see messages intended to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA, and encouraging them to share their views with their elected representatives, and via social media.

Interview: Sen. Ron Wyden’s fight to stop SOPA and save the Internet

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Notes On Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption

2012-01-18T08:06:00.002+01:00

Notes On Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption
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Orwellian 1984 remake: Half of computing device sales are now mobile !

2012-01-17T12:34:00.011+01:00

Half of computing device sales are mobile

Apple co-founder admits (An)droid phones 'offer more' than iPhone

Wozniak is often pictured camped out overnight for Apple iPhone launches, and is a very vocal fan of the Apple smartphone, so his 'defection' might come as a surprise to some.

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Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 ARM Devices

2012-01-17T11:14:00.000+01:00

Microsoft Bans Linux/Android Dual-Booting on Windows 8 ARM Devices? Actually, Microsoft isn't forcing laptop and desktop makers to ban Linux, though it's giving them the tools to do so.

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China Core

2012-01-13T10:52:00.001+01:00

Fully designed and made in China, a true 'China Core' right from the instruction set definition, without any licensing or other dependencies on the US technology.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Decade ago this effort would be commented as suicide, because simple technology pace would leave any such contender in a dust. Remember only X86 compatible Transmeta. But being the technology train is now stopped, has it however a chance? Yes.

Researcher's Tool Maps Malware In Beautiful 3D Models

2012-01-13T10:33:00.002+01:00

Researcher's Tool Maps Malware In Beautiful 3D Models
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Virtual Computer Accelerates Disaster Recovery by 1000X

2012-01-12T12:58:00.002+01:00

Virtual Computer Accelerates Disaster Recovery by 1000X
Virtual Computer, the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization, recently demonstrated instant disaster recovery when an organization using its NxTop(R) product on half of their PCs was able to recover from a virus more than 1000 times faster than its PCs without NxTop.
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Strike back: Hackers post Israeli SCADA logins

2012-01-12T12:50:00.002+01:00

Hackers post Israeli SCADA logins
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IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Begin First Production At New York’s Latest Semiconductor Fab

2012-01-11T14:26:00.001+01:00

The companies’ 32/28nm technology uses the same “Gate First” approach to High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) that has reached volume production in GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany. This approach to HKMG offers higher performance with a 10-20% cost saving over HKMG solutions offered by other foundries, while still providing the full entitlement of scaling from the 45/40nm node.

The new chips also will feature IBM’s eDRAM (embedded dynamic random access memory) technology, which dramatically improves on-processor memory performance in about one-third the space with one-fifth the standby power of conventional SRAM (static random access memory). IBM chips are at the heart of the company's server and storage systems, the world's fastest supercomputers and many of the best-known and widely used communications and consumer electronics brands.
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Former Facebook Engineer Impressively Logs A Bunch Of Facebook Bugs

2012-01-11T10:35:00.001+01:00

Former Facebook Engineer Impressively Logs A Bunch Of Facebook Bugs
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Is It Time For Computers To Have Their Own .Data Domains?

2012-01-11T10:27:00.001+01:00

Computer scientist and Wolphram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram thinks there is a better way for computers to speak to each other. He suggests that it is time for a new .data top-level domain.
My concept for the .data domain is to use it to create the “data web”—in a sense a parallel construct to the ordinary web, but oriented toward structured data intended for computational use. The notion is that alongside a website like wolfram.com, there’d be wolfram.data.
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JVC Reveals $5000 4K Camcorder At CES 2012

2012-01-11T09:30:00.001+01:00

JVC was on hand to display the "world's first handheld 4K camcorder," which is definitely fairly small given the video capabilities.
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Free visual guide for successful investments in Apple

2012-01-10T15:51:00.002+01:00

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I'm the first real smartwatch

2012-01-10T14:20:00.000+01:00

Here
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The $200 Windows 8 tablet will change everything

2012-01-10T12:48:00.002+01:00

In November this year. ARM is the name of the game.
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Intel Exploring Ways to Help Stephen Hawking Speak Again

2012-01-10T08:51:00.003+01:00

Intel Exploring Ways to Help Stephen Hawking Speak Again

At first, Hawking retained some limited hand movement and could manage about 15 words a minute. Now that even the nerves in Hawking's cheek are beginning to fade, Rattner argued it was time for a new approach - saying that solutions based on brainwaves or eye tracking were among the technologies being considered.

But Rattner said his best bet was on high definition cameras that pick up on the minute movements in Hawking's face to synthesize his speech.
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Invensense tips single-chip inertial navigation unit

2012-01-09T10:16:00.002+01:00

Invensense tips single-chip inertial navigation unit
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Leaked Memo Says Nokia and Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments

2012-01-09T09:00:00.006+01:00

Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments
The Indian government then "utilized backdoors provided by RINOA" to intercept internal emails of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a U.S. government body with a mandate to monitor, investigate and report to Congress on 'the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship' between the U.S. and China.

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Nginx overtakes Microsoft as No. 2 Web server

2012-01-05T09:50:00.004+01:00

Although Apache continues to dominate the Web server space, open source Nginx is nibbling at rivals'
market share
It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now.
The C10K problem
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CES Preview: Ultrabooks to Dominate the PC Landscape in 2012

2012-01-04T14:09:00.002+01:00

At CES 2012, you can expect to see 30 to 50 ultrabook models from Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer, Asus and Lenovo, a few of which already have ultrabooks in their arsenals of shipping products. Most of ultrabooks will be in the $1,000 to $1,200 price range, and that’s a problem, according to Display Search analyst Richard Shim, who says these devices need to be priced around $699 to appeal to mainstream consumers.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Windows 8 won’t be shipping until mid-2012 at the earliest. This means ultrabooks won’t really begin to shine until later this year and early next year — we’re just in the “build-up phase” right now, Shim says.

LG's 84 inch 4K Ultra High Definition Display. Soon.

2011-12-29T14:20:00.003+01:00

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Universal GSM device charger is around the corner

2011-12-28T12:41:00.002+01:00

Here
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Investors were warned to be wary of buying Intel Corp. stock in the coming months !

2011-12-28T10:40:00.003+01:00

See in the previous post why.
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Fedex's secure monitor delivery

2011-12-23T09:48:00.004+01:00

Video
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Last look inside space shuttle Atlantis

2011-12-21T09:06:00.000+01:00

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Carbon-time-bomb-in-Arctic

2011-12-20T13:53:00.002+01:00

Check here.
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Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive

2011-12-20T10:54:00.000+01:00

"According to Stuff.co.nz, the Australian Transport Safety Board found that a software bug was responsible for a Qantas Airbus A330 nose-diving twice while at cruising altitude, injuring 12 people seriously and causing 39 to be taken to the hospital. The event, which happened three years ago, was found to be caused by an airspeed sensor malfunction, linked to a bug in an algorithm which 'translated the sensors' data into actions, where the flight control computer could put the plane into a nosedive using bad data from just one sensor
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Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer

2011-12-16T12:12:00.004+01:00

Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian specialists then reconfigured the drone's GPS coordinates to make it land in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan.

"The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's "electronic ambush" of the highly classified US drone. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot.
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16 core Opteron based CAscade XE6 supercomputer.

2011-12-15T10:01:00.002+01:00

The XE6 supers, which shipped with AMD's 12-core Opteron 6100s in early 2010 are now shipping in limited quantities with the 16-core Opteron 6200 processors, announced two weeks ago at the SC11 supercomputer conference.
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TI Meta Watch™ Bluetooth® Wearable Watch Development System

2011-12-15T08:26:00.003+01:00

Texas Instruments Meta Watch™ Bluetooth® Wearable Watch Development System
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Intel's low overall demand compared to ARM chips

2011-12-15T08:09:00.002+01:00

Behind the financial meltdown.
Market research firm Gartner Inc. Wednesday (Dec. 14) forecast that global semiconductor capital spending would decline by 19.5 percent from this year's projected total, largely due to the slowing macroeconomic environment.

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On afterlife

2011-12-15T08:02:00.001+01:00

The current cremation figure is 41%, and by 2017, it’s expected that cremation will be the choice in more than half of all deaths in the U.S.

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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Poor economy to blame. Like in India.

Web Browsers and Their History

2011-12-14T13:19:00.000+01:00

Here
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F-35 7 years late

2011-12-14T12:21:00.008+01:00

The Air Force currently has zero flyable stealth fighters. None.
In addition to costing more, the stealthy F-35 could take longer to complete testing. That could delay the stealthy jet's combat debut to sometime after 2018 - seven years later than originally planned.
Testing uncovered problems the computers did not predict, resulting in 725 design changes while new jets were rolling off the factory floor in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Some of the problems - the electrical bugs, for instance - were becoming clear before the the Quick Look Review; others are brand-new.
In other words, the F-35 might not be as invisible to radar as prime contractor Lockheed Martin said it would be.
Pilots on F-35 video.
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President : Iran, will you please return back our super killing drone ?

2011-12-13T15:14:00.012+01:00

Video
Please, we have tight budget restrictions, right now !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: The probable answer is: No, we will use your's know how to make our own drone fleet.

No One Says Who Took $586B in Fed Swaps

2011-12-12T11:41:00.003+01:00

EU?
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AMD fabs and products, EUVL first !

2011-12-12T10:41:00.001+01:00

EUVL (extreme-ultraviolet lithography) fabrication machines should make way to Fab 8 in the second half of 2012 allowing GLOBALFOUDRIES the ability to move forward to burn chips beyond 20nm. It will likely take 1 to 2 years to qualify those tools which should put GLOBALFOUNDRIES first to market with that technology.
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Is there a pilot in the plane: What Really Happened in Air France crash ?

2011-12-09T15:07:00.006+01:00

What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

It's quite possible that Bonin had never flown an airplane in alternate law, or understood its lack of restrictions. According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law.
Unlike the control yokes of a Boeing jetliner, the side sticks on an Airbus are "asynchronous"—that is, they move independently.
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Nvidia: ARM supercomputer to be more efficient than x86

2011-12-08T09:42:00.003+01:00

Nvidia: ARM supercomputer to be more efficient than x86
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Windows 8 will be 'largely irrelevant' to traditional PC users

2011-12-08T09:35:00.002+01:00

IDC’s top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft’s potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users.
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Iran Claims to Have Shot Down U.S. Stealth Drone

2011-12-06T14:01:00.018+01:00

Iran said on Sunday that it shot down a U.S. stealth drone near the country's eastern border, but U.S. officials in Afghanistan said the craft could instead be an unmanned reconnaissance plane that veered off course and crashed last week.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted a military official who said Tehran had downed an RQ-170 Sentinel, the U.S. Air Force's stealth drone.
If the drone that went down is an RQ-170, and if it is largely, or partially, intact, it is possible that the technological secrets of the advanced aircraft could be compromised.

Tehran has focused part of its military strategy on producing drones for reconnaissance and attacking purposes.Iran announced three years ago it had built an unmanned aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers), far enough to reach Israel.
However, Thompson said that all signs point to the RQ-170 Sentinel as the missing drone. He added that the Sentinel likely malfunctioned and crashed, and was probably not shot down or attacked in any way by Iran. The fact that the drone was lost indicates that there was likely a software problem. Iran disassembled drone, no stealthy cover wrapped around. Where it is now? In Russia, China, who knows?

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All Your (DARPA) Shreds Are Belong To U.S victorious

2011-12-06T11:56:00.001+01:00

The team, known as "All Your Shreds Are Belong To U.S." is made up of three programmers based in San Francisco: Otavio Good, creator of the visual translation tool Word Lens, Luke Alonso, a mobile phone software developer, and Keith Walker, who works on satellite software at Lockheed Martin.
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Intel leaks

2011-12-06T10:01:00.000+01:00

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Did the U.S. Create the Conficker Virus to Wipe Out Iran’s Nukes?

2011-12-06T09:42:00.002+01:00

The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the U.S. and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran's nuclear program.

It took Bumgarner months to conclude that Conficker was created by the authors of Stuxnet.
First, he noticed that the two pieces of malware were both written with unprecedented sophistication, which caused him to suspect they were related. He also found that infection rates for both were far higher in Iran than the United States and that both spread by exploiting the same vulnerability in Windows.
He did more digging, comparing date and time stamps on different versions of Conficker and Stuxnet, and found a correlation — key dates related to their development and deployment overlapped. That helped him identify April Fool's Day, April 1, 2009, as the launch date for the attack.
Bumgarner believes the attackers picked that date to send a message to Iran's leaders. It marked the 30th anniversary of the declaration of an Islamic republic by Ayatollah Khomeini after a national referendum.
He also identified two other signals hidden in the Stuxnet code, based on the dates when key modules were compiled, or translated from programming text into a piece of software that could run on a computer.

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Penguin Computing APU cluster

2011-12-06T09:07:00.002+01:00

The experimental system, known as Altus 2A00, sports 104 nodes interconnected using QDR Infiniband fabric, purportedly able to reach a peak performance of 59.6 TFLOPs.
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Disk form factors

2011-12-06T08:10:00.002+01:00

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North Mexico: Drug cartel had its own cell network !

2011-12-05T07:58:00.003+01:00

ANd submarines !
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COres by size and transistors count

2011-12-05T07:55:00.002+01:00

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Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation !

2011-12-02T10:13:00.005+01:00

Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation
Matthew Huber, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue, said roughly a 40 percent decrease in CO2 occurred prior to and during the rapid formation of a mile-thick ice sheet over the Antarctic approximately 34 million years ago.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Vice versa question worth of $Billions: What the rise of CO2 will trigger?

IBM, Micron to build hybrid memory with TSVs

2011-12-02T09:34:00.003+01:00

Micron Technology Inc's hybrid memory cube (HMC) will become the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employee IBM Corp.'s through-silicon via (TSV) process, the companies said Thursday.
According to IBM (Armonk, N.Y.), the TSVs will enable Micron's HMC devices to achieve speeds 15 times faster than current technology. HMC parts will be manufactured at IBM's advanced semiconductor fab in East Fishkill, N.Y., using the company's 32-nm, high-K metal gate process technology, the companies said.
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iPhone 5 next summer

2011-12-01T14:27:00.007+01:00

'It is on track to be introduced in summer of 2012, and is still in the engineering phase, not early production. We suspect that poor battery life doomed the prior prototype version.' The new version, iLounge says, is being built to cope with the increased battery drain of an LTE aerial - ie 4G.
In Britain, there is still no 4G network - offering far faster data transmission than the current 3G network - but there may be networks in place by the time Apple's handset launches next summer.
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