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Thursday, 22-May-2008 17:45:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Bletchley Park in the UK, famous for being the site where Alan Turing and others broke the code of the German Enigma machine, without which the Allies may have lost WWII, is under threat. As a result of lack of funds, the Trust is unable to rebuild the site's rotting infrastructure and faces an uncertain future. "The Trust is the hardest-up museum I know," said Greenish. "We have this huge estate to run and it's one of the most important World War II stories there is."
BFM spotted this article about dicking around with your brain using big magnets. Finally he located my Broca's and the train of pulses stopped me in my tracks. I wanted to recite the rhyme but stumbled and stuttered as my speech area was disabled.
Murray sent in a story about infinite battery life, a phrase that sets off quite a few "shonky science" alarms, but they're not talking about a closed system. The technology has been filed under a U.S. patent for a “charge-pump” that harvests radio frequency (RF) energy using a wireless antenna.
MadShrimps have been overclocking their Core 2 Duo E8500, using air, phase and LN2 cooling. The Intel E8500 is the highest end dual core CPU currently on the market, it doesn't get any faster than this… or does it? In this Overclocking report we take a retail E8500 sample for a spin with high end air cooling, than mount a modified phase change cooling on it, and to finish it off pour a few liters of LN2 over it.
TBreak meanwhile looked at Triple SLI on AMD and Intel systems. We put this theory to test by putting three nVidia 9800GTX cards in Triple SLI mode and running some games on the highest-end Intel and AMD CPUs, the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and Phenom X4 9850 respectively.
HotHardware reckon ATI's upcoming Radeon 4000 series will use DDR5 memory for the first time. Just weeks away from the rumored public debut of AMD's new ATI Radeon 4000-series GPUs, AMD clues us in on a tantalizing tidbit about a key technology found in its next generation graphics cards.
From Velicoma: I thought the CSS players amongst us would be interested in the finals of the CEVO Intermediate (Thursday 22nd May 7:30pm AEST) and Professional (Sunday 25th May 8pm AEST). Both these matches are a best of three maps, and will be absolutely epic matches. Striking the Scene will be shoutcasting the matches, so you can tune in via winamp or similar media to listen to the event, you can also choose to watch the match through SourceTV, those details will be announced on Striking the Scene's website as well. It's going to be a great couple of matches, as all teams have been through weeks of difficult matches to emerge as the finalists; the best of the best in Australian Source. The first of those is tonight!
Digit-Life checked out 3DMark Vantage. Late in April 2008, Futuremark Corporation released the long-awaited new version of 3DMark. While the previous versions featured years of announcement in their names, the new series got a proper name of '3DMark Vantage'. Like its predecessors, this suite should become an industry standard for gaming PC benchmarking. Now exclusively for MS Windows Vista and DirectX 10 API.
Bit-Tech have a first look at a new line of gaming PC's from Acer, their Aspire Predator range. We certainly believe that Acer has a market in PC World style retail stores for first time buyers and families wanting something special, but we aren’t sure if Acer will ever break into the market covered by boutique system builders like Vadim. UK market info obviously, but possibly relevant here.
"Haze" is the new FPS for PS3, and seems at first glance to be the equivalent of Halo on the XBOX range. IGN and Bit-Tech have both reviewed it. For a game that's had so much hype surrounding it, Haze should have been the perfect game. The problem is that few games rarely live up to the hype, and Haze falls firmly into that category.
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