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Tuesday, 12-July-2011 01:40:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Australia has until September to finalise its bid for the Square Kilometre Array radiotelescope to be built here. At the international SKA Forum in Banff, Canada this week, project coordinators unveilled their process for deciding between the two short-listed sites, Australia and South Africa. The project involves 20 nations, each pledged to contribute to the 1.5 billion euro ($2 billion) cost of building the 3,000-dish array by 2024.
ISP NetBay is planning free metropolitan WiFi in Australian cities, supported by advertising. It adds: "Netbay's free WiFi service is expected to be rolled out in the December quarter of this year to a number of high traffic locations in Melbourne estimated initially to have about 500,000 users per day. The addition of Netbay's WiFi service user traffic is expected to expand GoConnect's aggregate online network audience reach towards the target of one million users before year-end 2011."
HWHeaven have a Z68 DDR3 memory roundup. Today we are going to look at Intel's mainstream chipset and put 5 different memory kits through their paces in a selection of real world and synthetic tests on Z68.
Here's a very cool 360 degree panorama of a Space Shuttle flight deck. So many buttons..
Speaking of buttons, Sniper spotted a new Microsoft mouse. The device comes with the company's proprietary BlueTrack Technology, allowing it to read and track its positioning on pretty much any surface - including the leg of a pair of jeans (as we discovered). It has five customisable buttons, which can be configured for right or left-hand use, and borrows the same kind of haptic touch scroll pad as the Arc Touch, which lightly vibrates in use so that you can feel what you're doing (you can also turn the feedback function off, if it freaks you out).
It's pretty quiet out there, so here's some reviews:
Video Cards:
Sapphire Radeon HD 6770 FleX Edition on Techgage.
PowerColor Radeon AX6850 SCS3 on BenchmarkReviews.
Sapphire Radeon 6670 Ultimate on PureOC.
PowerColor HD6990 LCS on OC3D.
Storage:
Siig SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to SATA 3Gb/s HD Docking with Fan on ReviewTheTech.
Sandisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I Camera Card on RamblingThoughts.
Mushkin Class10 SDHC Card on NeoSeeker.
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 (G2) – 32 GB on ReviewTheTech.
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