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Korea and Japan are leading the world for the proportion of households with fiber-optic broadband connections. The OECD's latest broadband statistics showed that Korea had 12.2 fiber-optic connections per 100 inhabitants in June… Japan has a fibre penetration of 10.2 percent…
Hardcore Computer are now offering a PC they claim to be the world's first "total liquid submersion personal supercomputer." Hardcore floods the inside of the chassis with a dielectric fluid it calls Core Coolant to keep all the heat producing components of the computer cooler. The CPU, motherboard, RAM, dual power supplies, and video cards are all submerged under water.
Fans of the co-op shooter Army of Two may be excited to hear that a movie based on it is in pre-production. Burns is an odd choice to write the film though, as he was for the Halo film too. Speaking about the movie adaptation, he admitted straight away that he wasn't a gamer, though that may actually helped him land the deal. Thanks for those, Arthur!
Don't forget to check out Monday's episode of Good Game where they'll be looking at Far Cry 2, Dead Space, Office Wars (their community-collaborative project with Infinite Interactive), the history of Epic Games and more. The podcast will be available here if you miss the 9pm screening on ABC2.
Evangel noticed this brief article on an open-source DRM project which is backed by companies such as Sony and Samsung. The co-chairman of the Marlin Developer Community claims the open-source system is far less oppressive than those from rivals such as Apple and Microsoft, allowing users to share content between any Marlin-enabled device in the home rather than on specific machines.
Researchers at the University of California have shown that, under certain conditions, Scotch tape can emit X-rays. "At some point we were a little bit scared," says Juan Escobar, a member of the research team. But he and his co-workers soon realized that the X-rays were only emitted when the kit was used in a vacuum. Discussion in this thread. Thanks Goth.
Apparently documents obtained by the Sydney Morning Herald indicate that the office of Stephen Conroy has attempted to silence ISP employees from criticising the "clean-feed." On Tuesday, a policy advisor for Senator Conroy, Belinda Dennett, wrote an email to Internet Industry Association (IIA) board member Carolyn Dalton in an attempt to pressure Newton into reining in his dissent.
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