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Wednesday, 28-April-2004 02:57:18 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Lots of people sent word of Operation Fastlink, an international internet piracy sweep organised by the US Department of Justice and aimed squarely at "warez groups". More info here.
Tech-Report interviewed an NVIDIA person, while HWHell interviewed someone from Shuttle.
Sniper noticed Toshiba making small hard drives and Hitachi making large ones.
IBM and Stanford University are looking into spintronics, an area of nanotechnology involving the spin property of electrons. Most of today's electronic research focuses on the ability of electrons to carry an electrical charge. By focusing on an electron's spin properties, IBM and Stanford researchers hope to make breakthroughs in chip design, an IBM spokesman said.
News-blast from PodgeSSS: Internet speed record set. Intel touts 'MP3 for 3D' universal graphics format. Next-Generation Serial ATA Spec Finalized. Mars travel hazard: electric mini-tornadoes. Airplane wings that change shape like a bird's have scales like a fish. Can You Get an eMac for $25?
T-break took a look at A64 64-bit and 32-bit performance and compatability.
OCWizard have part 2 of their intro to watercooling article posted.
We linked this in an earlier "interesting thread", but people keep sending it in, so here's more info from Rature: The game is called .kkrieger - a fully blown 3d shooter, and the total thing weighs only 96k. The whole thing is written with shader scripting and compressed like the 64k animation demos we see all the time. You need a pretty decent video card to run it - My 128MB Matrox Parhelia was laggy in a few places throughout the game. Your vid card needs to have at least a v1.1 hardware pixel shader and dx8.1 minimum, so Radeon 9000, GF2/3/4MXs and lower will be useless.
Even though he died nearly 500 years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci continues to impress - with it now realised he designed a powered, remote-controlled car.
Apparently the RIAA's legal campaign is having an effect, with many Americans saying they have stopped downloading music due to action brought by the RIAA against music file sharers.
Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner, the successor to their 757 and 767 mid-range passenger aircraft, is finally going into production with an order from ANA of 50 aircraft.
A pile of links from Tekka: Dell Jumping on the Opteron Bandwagon? JPEG patent holder renews royalty offensive. Infineon to boost memory-making capacity. Gmail Still Sparking Debates. FBI wants to watch you type. Microsoft Presents Antispyware Strategy. 174 Tips to a Better Windows Experience. AMD Sets Up Indian Chip Design Center. Toshiba Samples 100-GB Notebook Hard Drive. Via, Yamashita Develop Lead-Free Motherboard. Serial ATA-II Speed, Cabling Approved.
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