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Tuesday Morning
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(link) Tuesday, 27-March-2007 02:08:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Happy birthday to Sciby for yesterday!
Looks like Sony's PS3 is leading the way when it comes to Folding@Home performance. According to the most recent Folding@home client statistics sorted by operating system, the PlayStation 3 leads all other platforms by a huge margin. The PS3 has 367 current TFLOPS, while the next closest is Windows with 151 TFLOPS and more than ten times more CPUs. There's a thread on this stats spike here in our Team OCAU forum.
It might not be too long before dropping your mobile phone into your lemonade is a good idea. The researchers have run a handheld calculator on a prototype sugar battery the size of a postage stamp, running the battery on sap, flat soft drink and sweetened drinks.
Meanwhile Sniper spotted this page about converting your car to electricity. Today I drive a battery electric car which was born back in 2005 when the cost of fuel took a huge price hike and although I had not done much in the field over the previous few years I was aware of what was available on the market and I can assure you it is not rocket science these days the gear you need to do it with is readily available.
Raytheon has developed a polymorphic computer. "In laboratory testing MONARCH outperformed the Intel quad-core Xeon chip by a factor of 10," said Michael Vahey, the principal investigator for the company's MONARCH technology.
There's some new paint that can protect your wireless network. The EM-SEC Coating System uses a series of water-based shielding products that restrict the passage of airborne RF signals, and was initially developed to aid the U.S. Government and Military is shielding operation centers; the Military always gets the good stuff first.
MadShrimps have part 2 of their Cebit coverage posted, while XbitLabs have part 4 and part 5.
XbitLabs also interviewed John Byrne from AMD's graphics products group. The merge between Advanced Micro Devices and ATI Technologies has indisputably changed the world of computer hardware in several ways. Let’s find out more details about AMD’s strategy, business and intentions in the graphics processors’ business from the man who is behind sales of graphics cards to the end-users.
Possibly handy for modders is this project to add a foot pedal control to a rotary tool like a dremel, on Metku. For me, this has been a true life saver even though I came up with the idea just only couple of days ago.
Apparently MMORPG addiction isn't all that bad according to a UK-based researcher. However, In a survey of 400 Asheron's Call gamers, 50 percent admitted to not getting a proper amount of sleep, 40 percent admitted their social life suffered, 40 percent said the amount of game play was causing issues at home, 35 percent said they missed meals to continue game play, and 30 percent admitted that gameplay interfered with work.
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