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Google maps has updated their imagery for Sydney after a twin engine Aero Commander flew over parts of Sydney. The imagery is among the highest resolution in Google maps. The new photos, captured by a specially equipped chartered twin-engine Aero Commander that flew over parts of Sydney on January 26, are among the highest resolution images available on Google Maps. It was the first time that Google had planned and publicized ahead of time a flyover covering large swathes of an urban area.
The Pentagon is planning a ultrasonic curtain to mask the sound of loud tanks. A Pentagon-based budget layout has revealed plans for an "ultrasonic curtain" to be constructed in a presumed attempt to "significantly" muffle vehicles and loud machinery in order to get our troops closer to foes without being noticed.
Microsoft is aiming to license video game music to make it available beyond games. Microsoft said Wednesday that it hopes to license the music from its collection of video games, such as Halo and Age of Empires. The software maker struck a deal with an arm of Warner Music Group, which will handle the licensing duties on Microsoft's behalf.
ArsTechnica has taken a first look at the Bittorrent video store. BitTorrent joined the masses of legal video download services yesterday with offerings from five movie studios and a handful of TV networks. The service offers movie rentals for $2.99 to $3.99 and TV download-to-own episodes for $1.99 a pop through BitTorrent's already-existing P2P client. Ars took a look at the service on its first day to see how it measures up.
Dell are set to sell Linux PC's after a survey from Dell's Ideastorm site indicated that that people wanted them. Who here thinks companies actually listen at all to the consumer surveys? Most of us don't hold even the slightest hope that anyone is actually going to implement our ideas. However, one did - the customer spoke, and Dell listened. And the Texas-based computer manufacturer will start offering Linux PCs soon.
AMD has launched an integrated graphics chipset, the AMD 690 which can handle HDMI. The merged company announced the AMD 690 chipset on Wednesday, the first product from AMD to feature a graphics processor from its ATI division integrated into a chipset for its Athlon 64 processors. The 690 uses ATI's X1250 graphics chip, and can handle HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) video.
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