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Microsoft released a robotics toolkit recently, and VIA have announced comprehensive support for it. Which reminds me, I've been lusting after one of these for a while now.
HardOCP have a look at some problems with i680 boards. There seem to be some serious issues with the products though that are affecting some people and not others.
Google has a new site that lets you search U.S. patents. More info here. "The existing Web sites have patents that you can view, so it's not that the information isn't there. The problem is finding it, and that's where Google's expertise comes in," said Mike Overy, secretary for the Wessex Round Table of Inventors, an inventors club in England.
TechReport cover AMD's four-hour Financial Analyst Day presentation. Intel talked about processors with "tens to hundreds of cores" at IDF earlier this year, but AMD believes the core race is just a repeat of the megahertz race and that adding more cores isn't the best way to go about scaling processor performance in the future. Instead, AMD is cooking up what it calls "Accelerated Processing Units."
Adobe Acrobat and Reader now have GPU acceleration. This features enchances page display, zooming, and panning within PDF files. When Acrobat or Adobe Reader starts, it detects the properties of the video card and enables the Use 2D GPU Accerleration feature within Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Howard spotted this extremely geeky greeting site.. here's an example.. takes a little while to load. :)
From Demitri: There is a video games and Japanese anime concert on this Saturday in Sydney. The ensemble will playing pieces from Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Haibane Renmei, Chrono Cross, Xeno gears.. among others. Yasunori Mitsuda (composer of Chrono Cross / Xenogears) and Hitoshi Sakimoto (composer of Final Fantasy XII) will be there.. and fans will be able to have their merchandise signed after the concert. The website is here. It's at the conservatorium of music, macquarie st Sydney CBD. Two concerts... 3pm and 7:30pm.
Here's a cutesy timewaster from Sciby, Winterbells.
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