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The presence of water on the Moon has been confirmed. The moon remains drier than any desert on Earth, but the water is said to exist on the moon in very small quantities. One ton of the top layer of the lunar surface would hold about 32 ounces of water, researchers said.
If you downloaded Razer drivers recently, you might want to scan for viruses. More info on Bit-Tech here. Trend Micro's analysis of the website has shown that at least eight separate driver packages offered by Razer's support site came with the unwanted bonus, and the company claims that only "7 out of 41 [anti-virus] vendors offered generic detection" of this particular worm - meaning it's potentially difficult for an end-user to know that they've been infected. More info here, thanks Barista.
Dan has an interesting article about alternate history. This is how technology often develops. If someone sees a demand, they're usually not the only one to see it. The precise sequence in which people come up with inventions, though, can sometimes make a very big difference. Take trains, for instance.
Sniper spotted this Intel page about their Light Peak technology. Light Peak is the code-name for a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds.
Also interesting is this flat speaker technology. TVs can be transformed into speakers with a new flat film that produces high-quality sound. The see-through technology, pioneered by Emo Labs, can be "stuck on" to a TV screen and play stereo sound.
Clinton noticed an Android developer who has incurred Google's wrath. Everyone’s favorite Android hacker appears to have angered someone at Google. We just received word that Cyanogen has received a cease and desist letter from Google. More info here.
Phoenix have a speedy bios in the works. Enter Phoenix's new Instant Boot BIOS. It cuts down the post time to roughly one second. Phoenix's Chief Scientist Steve Jones explained that the new BIOS uses UEFI technology (a new kind of BIOS platform) to power on several system devices simultaneously and to run only those processes which are absolutely necessary to hand control over to the OS.
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