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(link) Monday, 16-September-2013 22:57:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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SiliconAngel sent in another worrying legal scenario unfolding internationally. The copyright provisions in the TPP will carve a highly restrictive copyright regime into stone and prevent countries from enacting laws that best address and promote users’ interests. In this final stage, it’s time for us to demand that our lawmakers join those who are already denouncing this agreement. We must drag this out into the light and reject international laws that uphold corporate interests at the expense of users’ rights.
The audio cassette is turning 50 years old. This month, Philips, the innovator behind Compact Cassette technology, celebrates the cassette’s golden anniversary. That’s 50 years of playing, recording, fast forwarding, rewinding and flipping the tape. On a related note, audio pioneer Ray Dolby has passed away.
Newly-appointed Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has slammed an academic over their NBN analysis. Communications Minister-elect Malcolm Turnbull has savagely attacked a University of Queensland lecturer for a seemingly innocuous article analysing rising online dissent towards the Coalition’s NBN policy, inaccurately labelling the academic’s article as “false” and “misleading”, and claiming that it was “a disgrace”.
The head of the NSA is a Star Trek fan, if his Information Dominance Centre is anything to go by. But now, on the website of DBI Architects, Inc. of Washington and Reston, Virginia, there are what purports to be photographs of the actual Star-Trek-like headquarters commissioned by Gen. Alexander that so impressed his Congressional overseers. It's a 10,740 square foot labyrinth in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The brochure touts how "the prominently positioned chair provides the commanding officer an uninterrupted field of vision to a 22'-0" wide projection screen".
Lots of Intel news, with a 14nm PC, the new Bay Trail quad-core Atoms, a Z86 / Haswell OC guide and a Haswell / Richland memory guide on TomsHardware. Graphics workloads love fast memory. But how much difference can a desktop-oriented kit have on gaming performance with Intel's HD Graphics 4600 or AMD's Radeon HD 8670D? We test six 16 GB kits, two all the way up to DDR3-2400 to find out.
IBM aren't out of the CPU race either, with a new openPOWER Consortium. IBM is joining with Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Tyan to create the OpenPOWER Consortium, with the intent being to build advanced server, networking, storage, and GPU-accelerated technologies based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture. High performance computing clusters and cloud computing are other areas of focus for OpenPOWER.
Here's a cool natural mechanical gear found in an insect. As a duo of researchers in the U.K. report today in the journal Science, the issus also the first living creature ever discovered to sport a functioning gear. "Jumping is one of the most rapid and powerful things an animal can do," says Malcolm Burrows, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge and the lead author of the paper, "and that leads to all sorts of crazy specializations."
Symon sent in this Phonebloks concept for a modular mobile phone, with discussion here. Join the thunderclap, together we can show the world there is a need for a phone worth keeping!
Tekin meanwhile spotted this cryptography challenge. Last year, GCHQ created a groundbreaking challenge, which asked ‘Can You Crack It’. Now in 2013, we are asking Can You Find It? Our new challenge is to find and solve 5 codes we have hidden around the web. For anyone able to rise to the challenge and find all the codes, you’ll join an elite community of people with some of the specific skills we look for at GCHQ. We also have some great prizes. You can win 1 of 100 Raspberry Pi or 1 of 5 Google Nexus 7 tablets.
But I imagine everyone is playing GTA V instead of reading all this, so here's a look at how the game map compares to Australian cities. Grand Theft Auto V’s map is big. At this point I think that point has been well established, but just to illustrate matters further PlayStation Australia has attempted to give us some local perspective. What if Grand Theft Auto’s map was stretched atop Sydney? How much ground would it cover?
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