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Saturday, 8-March-2008 13:43:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Apparently the universe is 13.73 billion years old, give or take a bit. NASA’s WMAP is the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (which is a mouthful, and why we just call it WMAP). It was designed to map the Universe with exquisite precision, detecting microwaves coming from the most distant source there is: the cooling fireball of the Big Bang itself.
DailyTech report on the Acid3 Test for browsers. Currently, no known browser is able to correctly render the Acid3 test, which displays an animated, incrementing score counter and a series of colored boxes with some description text.
Publishing giant Ziff Davis has filed for bankruptcy protection, thanks Sniper. The company cited a decrease in revenue after falling print subscriptions and advertising as the main reason for the filing, according to an Associated Press report. Ziff Davis has holdings including PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly, and plans to undertake a major restructuring to reduce its debt.
Google has been banned from taking images of military bases in the USA. The ban comes after detailed footage from inside and outside of the U.S. military base at Fort Sam Houston in Texas turned on up Google Earth’s Street View service.
Phoronix looked at NVIDIA Quadro performance under Windows, Linux and Solaris. In this article today, we are doing just that as we test the NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 512MB with each of these operating systems and their respective binary display drivers.
There's an interesting analysis here about Flash and Disk storage. Looking at these figures you can see its possible to buy 23 times the storage per dollar with 3.5 inch disks compared with flash.
Bigiain notes that the Apple iPhone SDK has been released, a 2.1GB download. Washingtonpost have an article covering it. Ultimately, the iPhone may very well shape up to be a major platform in its own right if programmers take to the SDK en masse. And if the App Store fills up quickly with cool tools and games, yesterday's announcement may prove to be a major one, even for those who have no interest in creating their own software.
An attack on the Pentagon last June apparently stole an "amazing amount" of data, thanks Rezin. The messages themselves were spoofed and appeared to be legitimate missives from other employees. Once the recipient opened an infected email, the worm sent that person's password and other login credentials back to home base.
Here's an amusing story about a Phantom of the Internet who mysteriously plagiarises other websites, thanks Wessam. Someone's been hacking into his websites. He says he was alerted to the problem by his web techs on February the 14th this year.
The XBOX 360 HD DVD Emulator is now available as a free download on Xbox Live. This is a development and test tool. If you're looking to make your own HD DVDs or play around with some HDi - have at it. If you think this will allow you to playback ripped discs you have stored on a hard drive, it will not. The emulator is a great tool for testing HD DVD projects.
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