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In other file sharing news, TorrentFreak have looked at the growth of Mininova, a popular torrent site. Mininova is without a doubt the most popular BitTorrent site in terms of traffic. According to Alexa they are among the 100 most visited sites on the Internet, more popular than Digg.com, Apple.com and TorrentFreak.com for example. In September Mininova received over 70.000.000 visitors that generated more than 300.000.000 pageviews, and they’re still growing. In October the number of daily visitors gets close to 3 million a day which means that they can get close to 100 million visitors this month.
Hitachi have developed 100Gb Blu-Ray discs compatible with existing Blu-Ray drives. 100GB on a single Blu-ray Disc that will work with today's machines, promises Hitachi. Throughout the life of the format, DVD has been primarily limited to at most two layers, keeping the format at a maximum storage space of under 9GB. The new high-definition formats, however, appear to have taken a page from hard disk drives when it comes at adding additional storage.
Nvidia have killed their 320Mb 8800GTS in favour of the 640Mb version and a new core. We knew that Nvidia was planning to kill the 8800GTS 320MB in order to make room for the 65nm die-shrink that the world has come to know as G92. But it turns out that you cannot order 320MB versions any more either, since it is being pronounced as an EOL (End of Life) product. Next in line to go through a change is the 8800GTS 640MB, which is being tweaked up in order to live through the 512MB and 256MB versions of G92. Nvidia decided to raise the specs by another 16 scalar shader units, so the 8800GTS will now feature 112 scalar shaders, 16 less than 8800GTX/Ultra. Clockspeeds remain the same, as do thermal and other specs.
Phoronix have taken a look at an an interesting motherboard with an embedded Linux environment, browser and Skype. The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel's new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client!
Scientists have created a new life form in a laboratory. A scientist who built a synthetic chromosome from laboratory chemicals is expected to announce the creation of a new species, the first new artificial life form on Earth, British newspaper The Guardian reported Sunday. The new species is a form of bacteria, and the announcement, which could come as early as Monday, is expected to provoke a substantial ethical debate about the manufacturing of life forms in a test tube, as well the dangers posed by introducing a new species, The Guardian reported.
An Airbus A380 has arrived at San Francisco, here are some pictures of it inside and outside. Not only is October 4th the 50th Anniversary of the Sputnik launch, but history was made today in San Francisco as an Airbus A380 Superjumbo arrived at SFO for the first time ever. Telstar Logistics was on hand for the event, and we went hog-wild with the camera as we were afforded a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore all the nooks and crannies of this massive aircraft. The A380 is BIG -- so big that it can carry as many as 800 souls if you pack 'em in like sardines (though most airlines have configured the plane to carry around 550).
CNet have a set of images celebrating the last 50 years of space flight. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch on October 4, we take a look back at some of the ships that have helped humans explore space and some of those that might do so in the near future. Forget about the Xbox and the iPhone. This is some serious hardware. The launch of the basketball-size satellite is widely considered the dawn of the space age, and began the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
And finally, a program for detailing your computers GPU has been released, titled GPU-Z, it works in a similar fashion to the CPU detailing program, CPU-Z. There is a thread discussing this here.
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