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Wednesday, 29-March-2006 02:18:08 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Brenton noticed us coming one step closer to The Borg. The proteins allowed the neuro-chip's electronic components and its living cells to communicate with each other.
Eroda meanwhile spotted some interesting videos about augmented reality. This one demonstrates a few artificial objects being inserted into a video in real time, while this one shows how games can use the technology.
Nature has a few articles exploring Computing in 2020. This Nature web focus combines commentaries from leading scientists and news features analysis from journalists assessing how computing science concepts and techniques may transform mainstream science by 2020. Thanks RnR.
XYZComputing have Part 3 of their Mini-ITX project running Linux. The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system.
BTXFormFactor report on Perpendicular Hard Disk Drives. Perpendicular Hard Disk Drives aim to stem the theoretical limit of disk capacity, and this article aims to explain how and why.
TheTechZone muse about some lessons learned from IDF. After a few minutes of Pat Gelsinger’s keynote, we knew we were going to spend a lot of time on Wikipedia! ATCA, DLNA, RAS, DRM, VQM, AKE, AES and new acronyms on top of old ones.
Thetron spotted a new game being made, based on the Desperate Housewives TV show. In the game, players take on the role of a new Wisteria Lane housewife, who can uncover or create new scandals on the seemingly idyllic street where the show takes place. Sure, but do you get to drive tanks?
The University of Queensland has had a successful hypersonic scramjet flight test. Researchers are now analyzing data from the test, focused on the last six seconds of flight prior to impact when the scramjet may have reached Mach 8 - eight times the speed of sound, or nearly 8,000 kilometers per hour. More info on UQ's site, thanks FatMan.
LostCircuits interviewed Jeff Lewis from Innovative Silicon, about Z-RAM. The ZRAM approach, on the other hand, solves this problem by getting rid of the storage capacitor. Essentially, what that means is getting rid of the fundamental memory structure that holds the data in the form of electric charges.
SilentPCReview have an article about building an overclocked Pentium D 830 system, and making it quiet. ordered a 120mm DustProof AcoustiFan to attach to the Ninja, since I was dubious about dissipating >130W passively, even with the two case fans close by.
An unpatched IE flaw is the target of several compromised websites. According to a list obtained by Security Fix, hackers have infected at least 200 sites, many of which you would not normally expect to associate with such attacks (i.e., porn and pirated-software vendors).
A1-Electronics have a historical article about Colossus, apparently the world's first electronic programmable computer, used by codebreakers at Bletchley Park in WWII.
Finally, RobV sends word of a Perth Pub Meet! Saturday 1st April, 7:30PM, Moon and Sixpence - Murray Street. More info here.
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