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Thousands of rubber ducks are set to land on the beaches of Britain after a 15 year journey drifting around the world, thanks Bern. The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago. Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack. And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
Bern also spotted this article about a 3D touch feedback system. A system that makes three dimensional images solid enough to grasp has been unveiled by Japanese firm NTT. It could let businesspeople shake hands from across the globe or allow museum visitors to feel precious exhibits that are normally out of reach, the company says. The prototype Tangible 3D system combines a 3D display with a "haptic glove". The display creates lifelike images appear in just in front of a flat screen.
In more non tech news, the Roswell conspiracy has been brought up again after the PR officer for the incident released an affadavit on his deathbed. But last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery. Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard. Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death. Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
Check out this interesting file format timeline, thanks Craig. Microsoft once made file format information on the binary formats readily available, in fact encouraged programmers to use the binary formats. But then around 1999 they reversed course, and eliminated such documentation.
DigitalTrends have posted an article about hiding your identity online. There are a number of reasons you might want to hide your identity when you’re online. Some are good (making sure you’re not tracked and loaded down with cookies by sites, for instance) and some are possibly illegal (P2P file-sharing networks), but the fact is that you can surf anonymously.
TechARP have posted a graphics card repair guide. This is going to be a simple guide on repairing most physical damages that may afflict your graphics card or other add-in boards. Do note that this kind of work will void your card's warranty. So, if your card is still covered by warranty, you do not want to resort to this method.
PCStats have collated a checklist of things to do to keep your PC running well. There comes a time in every once-new computer's life when it just doesn't feel fresh anymore. You know, when it's taking 5-10 minutes to boot up into Windows, the fans are making funny squealing noises, and there's a wad of orange cat hair protruding from the rear fan grille. It's the computer equivalent of senility, your once precious box has lost its edge.Time for action.
IGN have taken an in depth look at the Halo 3 beta and some concept art. A little while ago, IGN was invited to Bungie's military-compound-like studio for a very hush-hush look at what lies beyond the beta. Since then, the beta has come and gone, but the fire still burns. And, because we know that you want every scrap, every drop, every molecule you can scrounge on Halo 3's content, we humbly present a few fresh chunks of information on new maps, vehicles and items.
PCMech looked at networking your various devices. As it happens, you can connect all sorts of gadgets to them. To begin with, you can share printers. "Big deal!" you might say, "I already share my printer from Windows." The problem with that scheme, however, is that the computer to which the printer is attached must be powered on for the Windows share to work. A network attached printer doesn't have that restriction.
Phoronix have taken a look at Nouveau open source Nvidia drivers. The last time we had written an article on Nouveau, the community project working on developing an open-source 3D display driver for NVIDIA hardware, was this past January after being enlightened by glxgears finally being able to run on NVIDIA's NV4x GPUs. Since then many developments have occurred with this open-source NVIDIA driver as we have covered in several news postings.
David spotted a new trailer for GTA4. The second trailer released for Grand Theft Auto 4, titled "Looking for That Special Someone".
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