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RatcHeT-x went to a recent Sony demonstration and wrote up a report for us including some photos, and more info on the external-GPU laptop we mentioned earlier.
Tim, shredR and Fudz sent word of a lacklustre response to online submissions about Australia's Classification System. It seems that few people have bothered to respond. The Issues Paper has been published since May 20 and as yet only 80 public submissions have been made - 80 per cent of them from people who believe in government intervention for the sake of child protection. Considering, the furious debates within Australia's technology communities, does this reflect the national balance?
The last ever Space Shuttle launch is scheduled for tonight our time, but the weather is looking a bit dodgy so it might be delayed. As engineers prepared to move the Rotating Service Structure away from Atlantis, a severe thunderstorm passed overhead, delivering rain and lightning that produced two strikes near the launch pad.
Australian retailer Kogan is taking the HDMI cable war to the UK. Kogan is offering TV buyers a free HDMI cable with proof of TV purchase from one of its competitors, to prove that its £4 cable is as good as the £20, £50 and £100 alternatives on sale at rival stores. It may even extend the offer to PC buyers.
With the phone-hacking scandal in full swing, News Corp are shutting down their tabloid News of the World. Phone hacking involves calling a phone from two other phones at the same time, sending one caller to voice mail. That caller then enters the code number to retrieve voice mail remotely. Hackers depend on the fact that many people never change the default PIN for voice mail retrieval.
TechReport have a blog post about moving to Ubuntu. Well, it finally happened. Windows XP is no longer the primary OS on any of my day-to-day machines. The last holdout was my laptop, a gray-haired but solid HP nc8230 rocking a single-core 1.86GHz Pentium M, 2GB of RAM, and a Mobility Radeon X600 graphics chip. The low-brow specs ruled out my modern OS of choice, Windows 7 Professional.
LegionHW have a DDR3 shootout. Today we are checking out three dual-channel memory kits, each offering an 8GB capacity with a 1600MHz operating frequency. These kits come from the likes of Crucial, G.Skill and Kingston, and all cost under $100, making them very affordable.
Sniper spotted the new Porsche 911 which looks lovely as always but not very OCAU-related, until I read this bit: The Porsche ACC InnoDrive system will take full control of throttle inputs and "learn" the routes that the driver regularly travels. Only the steering will be left for the driver to control when the system is enabled. Wait, what?
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