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Thursday, 17-February-2011 14:40:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Now, this first story came from a few people, but I couldn't make it work for me. I'll have another play later and see how I go. But anyway, apparently Amazon.co.uk have free shipping to Aus, under certain circumstances. Namely, the item has to be eligible for "super saver shipping" and the order total has to be over GBP 25. It's .co.uk only, not .com. So I'm sure Gerry Harvey won't be too happy about this, but people wanting cheap books and things might be. More details here.
IBM's "Watson" supercomputer has appeared on Jeopardy. Here is Monday's episode of Jeopardy! as we start our IBM challenge with a supercomputer codenamed, "Watson". We have returning champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter competing against "Watson" for a $1,000,000 prize. Here is part one of day 1 of the IBM challenge.
NBNCo have bought some spectrum from Austar, to help with their wireless rollout. Austar said today it would receive $120 million from NBN Co for its 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz spectrum holdings, enabling NBN Co to roll out a high-speed fixed-wireless service to rural and regional areas. The first NBN Co fixed-wireless commercial services are scheduled for delivery in mid-2012, a statement by Austar and NBN Co said.
TomsHardware consider the effect on your power bill of having a high-end video card. Many reviews analyze the minimum and maximum power consumption of a given graphics card. But just how much power does a high-end graphics card really need during the course of standard operation? This long-term test sheds some light on that question.
NVIDIA have announced a quad-core tablet CPU called Kal-El. Am I going senile, or was that the real name of Superman? Tonight NVIDIA whetted our appetite for what's to come with a demo that can most fittingly be described as an exhibition of unadulterated computational muscle. A 2560 x 1440 stream was being decoded on a developmental device, scaled down to that slate's native 1366 x 768 resolution, and additionally displayed on a connected 30-inch, 2560 x 1600 monitor. That entire voluminous workload was being handled in real time by Kal-El and we saw no signs of it struggling.
Bullus sent in this EVGA contest to win an i7 Extreme Edition CPU. When we say you can win big we really mean it; a next generation Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition Processor is up for grabs. This processor isn’t even out yet! It is set to launch soon and you can score one as soon as it hits the streets. Interested yet? We thought so! So all you need to do to win one of these processors is fill out the below survey, one lucky EVGA member will win. Also this contest is completely global so anyone, anywhere is eligible. Entries close in a few days.
This whole HBGary-vs-Anonymous thing is getting pretty crazy, with HBGary issuing a statement and cancelling their booth at RSA Conference 2011. A security company withdrawing from a security conference due to a security breach? Ouch. Wired have more info and interviews with Anonymous, while Salon explore the background story.
Steve spotted a use for your old Zip drive. Sadly, I have a parallel port one and a few disks sitting on a shelf in my "must eBay one day" pile. Who am I kidding? The good old Zip Drive introduced by Iomega in late 1994 served it's purpose as a medium-capacity removable disk storage system until obsolescence kicked in as it was replaced by flash drives as well as rewritable CDs and DVDs. Here are a few things you can do to give new life to that outdated drive. Never had an Orb drive though, which means I avoided the Click Of Death. Until the Deathstars came in, of course. And I wore an onion on my belt, as was the fashion at the time. Get off my lawn!
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