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Sunday, 4-November-2007 19:43:38 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Shadowman spotted this quite cool steampunky PC which apparently spits out beer. :) Or it might just be beer-coloured cooling fluid. Though actually nobody can tell how this weird thing works.
The Space Station has been having a bit of a rough week with torn solar panels etc, but apparently a recent space walk has repaired it. If the procedure had not been successful, the array, on the left side of the station, might have had to be discarded. The loss of a solar array would have reduced the ability to produce power, possibly constraining future construction on the station.
Here's an amusing video telling the whole Half Life (and HL2) story in 60 seconds. Won't make much sense if you haven't played them through I guess. :)
Speeders on the UK motorway system could soon have a Formula 1 inspired roadster to contend with. It'll scramble from zero to 100km/h in less than 3.0 seconds flat, and will hammer from zero to 160km/h (0-100mph) in 5.0 seconds, which is fast enough to remind you what you had for breakfast.
Qimonda is apparently sampling 512MB GDDR5 modules. One of Qimonda's early customers could be Intel, one of whose stealth projects is a GPU/CPU combo processor code-named Larabee. Engineers expect to see the first samples of this chip late next year, and although it would put Intel on a par with AMD in the graphics department, analysts are actually seeing it as an "nVidia killer." Larabee would reportedly require GDDR5. Discussion here in the Memory forum.
Time Magazine have decided on their Invention of the Year for 2007: Apple's iPhone. The thing is hard to type on. It's too slow. It's too big. It doesn't have instant messaging. It's too expensive. (Or, no, wait, it's too cheap!) It doesn't support my work e-mail. It's locked to AT&T. Steve Jobs secretly hates puppies.
Sony are crowing that the PS3's contributions have made the Folding@Home program the most powerful distributed computer in the world, according to Guinness World Records. The record was initially set on September 16, 2007 as Folding@home surpassed one petaflop(*1), a computing milestone that has never been reached before by a distributed computing network. In addition to this, the collective efforts of our users have enabled PS3 alone to reach the petaflop mark on September 23, 2007. If you have a PS3, fold for Team 24! :)
Phoronix report on a conceptual Google OS called gOS. The gOS (GreenOS) is designed to be a conceptual Google Operating System that is based upon Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
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