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Sunday, 16-October-2011 15:01:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The New York Times have a detailed obituary for Dennis Ritchie, while his friend and collaborator Rob Pike has posted his thoughts also. “The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today,” said Brian Kernighan, a computer scientist at Princeton University who worked with Mr. Ritchie at Bell Labs.
Apple have won their battle to block Samsung's tablets in Australia, at least temporarily. An Australian court has temporarily banned the sale of Samsung Electronics' tablet computer in Australia, a victory for Apple in its global patent dispute with the South Korean company. Apple has accused Samsung of copying its touch-screen technology for its Galaxy Tab 10.1. The two companies are embroiled in legal battles in nine countries. It doesn't help when Samsung's own lawyers (in the USA) can't tell the difference between Samsung and Apple products.
Google are dropping some services including Google Labs, Code Search and (unsurprisingly) Buzz. We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided to shut down some products, and turn others into features of existing products.
Tweaktown compared AMD FX-8150 vs. Intel i7-2600k CrossFireX HD 6970 x3. Today we test the video card side of things a bit more and see what goes on when we start to make use of CrossFireX on the 990FX platform. The 990FX chipset shows some good potential and it's going to be interesting to see what happens when we start to make use of all those PCIe lanes that are on offer.
Meanwhile VR-Zone look at the future of Intel CPU overclocking. Ivy Bridge CPUs decouple the main clock finally, following what the coming Sandy Bridge - E Socket 2011 is also implementing. Now, you can overclock the cores and memory without worrying about affecting the I/O and PCIe clocks. But then comes the more interesting piece news. A year later, in early 2013, the pinnacle of Intel's 22 nm process show off, the initial Haswell processor, is expected to go another step further, where CPU core, GPU, memory, PCI and DMI ratios are all set independently here, on top of fine grain BCLK base clock available within the Lynx Point chipset.
It turns out the moon is full of delicious titanium, not cheese. Prized on Earth for its strength, ability to resist corrosion and light weight, titanium on the moon, which is mostly found in mineral called ilmenite, could be mined and processed for future use. The compound, which contains titanium, iron and oxygen, could be heated to free the oxygen so it could be used for breathing or making rocket fuel. It also is studded with particles from the solar wind, including hydrogen and a rare form of helium, called helium 3, a fuel for a proposed fusion reactor.
One of the founders of The Pirate Bay has been sentenced to prison and has lost his appeal. Today the Court announced that due to Svartholm’s failure to appear, the District Court’s ruling of 2009 against him will be made permanent. This means that the Pirate Bay co-founder is sentenced to a year in jail and his share of 30 million kronor ($4.48m) in damages. This verdict stands and can no longer be appealed.
German authorities are in hot water for allegedly using spyware against their citizens. But a lawyer representing a suspect in an illegal pharmaceutical trafficking case told journalists that his client's laptop computer had been deliberately infected with the Trojan horse by Customs agents in 2009 when he was traveling through Munich airport, according to Deutsche Wells.
MSDN have posted a detailed look at the Windows 8 Task Manager. We are really excited to share some of the improvements we are making to the Task Manager in Windows 8. Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps, and it has a long history. It showed up in early versions of Windows as a simple utility to close and switch between programs, and has had functionality added to it through several releases to make it what it is today.
I know there's been a lot of iPhone 4S stuff lately, but this video and the part 2 one demo the Siri personal assistant feature in the real world. It seems quite neat, but apparently it doesn't work all that well in Australia? Anyone using it and want to let us know?
Lastly, the MotoGP is at Phillip Island this weekend, and will be broadcast in just a little while on Ten and ONE HD. Will Australia's Casey Stoner wrap up the championship this afternoon? It seems increasingly likely. Discussion here.
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