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The Sydney Morning Herald has a piece discussing the ongoing digital revolution. The digital revolution - and I think it's time we finally agree that it is a revolution and not an evolution, as many have called it over the past decade - will change our society as radically as did the introduction of print technology and its love child, the Industrial Revolution.
TIME stood still for a second on Sunday morning when the nation's timekeepers added a second to keep the atomic clock in sync with the Earth. Because the Earth is slowing down, time on the clock gets a little ahead of the time told by the sun, so we have to delay the clocks by adding an extra second,'' the National Measurement Institute's Bruce Warrington said.
If you’re a Telstra Next G customer, you’ll want to read this: Telstra yesterday admitted to tracking and recording the web history of its Next G network customers in order to help develop a new voluntary, paid filter service called Smart Controls.
Does the unveiling of Google's internet enabled glasses mean we are taking steps towards becoming cyborgs? No wonder. Google Glass may be hugely geeky and perhaps even mildly contraceptive, but it's the most convincing wearable computer I've seen. The reality isn't far removed from science fiction. Sooner or later, we're going to be cyborgs.
The code junkies out there may be interested in this detailed review of the Quake III source code. Since I had one week before my next contract I decided to finish my "cycle of id". After Doom, Doom Iphone, Quake1, Quake2, Wolfenstein iPhone and Doom3 I decided to read the last codebase I did not review yet: idTech3 the 3D engine that powers Quake III and Quake Live.
According to a US based web security firm, the number of serious web vulnerabilities dropped in 2011. Web Application Security gurus, WhiteHat Security, released a report this week that examines the severity and duration of Web application security related vulnerabilities discovered in 2011. When the numbers are stacked against those from similar reports published since 2007, the number of major vulnerabilities has fallen dramatically.
Linus Torvalds' recent barrage of criticism of Nvidia over their Linux support (or lack thereof) seems to have some merit, with a Chinese firm switching a 10 million GPU order from Nvidia to rival AMD. The problem is that the GeForce / Quadro driver from NVIDIA is only available for Linux x86 and x86_64 architectures, not MIPS or even ARM (only the Tegra driver is for ARMv7). NVIDIA refused to release the source-code to their high-performance feature-complete cross-platform driver to the Chinese, and it would cost them millions of dollars to port the code-base, so they went to AMD for their GPU order. Thanks Andrew
The Minitel, a 30 yr old French precursor to the current Internet we know and love has been permanently shut down. Once at the cutting edge of technology, the Minitel allowed users in France to check the news, search phone directories, buy train and plane tickets, make restaurant reservations and even take part in online sex chats long before similar services existed elsewhere. Thanks Asteroid
Many of you will have noticed that mechanical HDD prices remain well above what they were 12 months ago, prior to the Thailand floods. It appears as though the post-flood decline of hard drive prices is slowing Ever since the flooding, we've been waiting for the good old days to return. Indeed, we've been tracking mechanical hard drive prices since the flooding sent them skyward. Now, with a little help from the folks at Camelegg, we have even more data on the state of hard drive prices.
Adobe recently announced it would be pulling support for Flash based apps for upcoming Android operating systems. Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.
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