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Three Australian troops have been killed in Afghanistan overnight. The three soldiers were shot during a parade yesterday morning. Seven other Australians were wounded and an Afghan interpreter was killed. The lone gunman - an Afghan national soldier - was shot and killed as the Australians returned fire.
Qantas have grounded all flights in the latest move in their industrial dispute. QANTAS has grounded its entire domestic and international fleet of aircraft and will lock out all staff involved in its industrial dispute from Monday night. Discussion continues here.
XbitLabs say that the HDD industry only has two months of stock in reserve, which is significant given the flooding damage in Thailand. Due to the flooding, Western Digital shut down two local plants, which will result in a 60% capacity decrease and Seagate suffers from tight supply of components. For exmaple, Nidec, which controls nearly 80% of the global HDD motor market, has temporarily shut down seven factories; it is not yet known when operations will resume. More info on PC Perspective.
Samsung has permission to appeal Apple's ban on their Galaxy Tab. The Federal Court has granted leave to Samsung to appeal a temporary ban on the sale of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia. The appeal will take place before the full bench of the Federal Court. A date is expected to be set for late next month, despite arguments by Apple seeking to delay it until next year.
A new startup is working on immersive datacentre cooling. High-density cooling specialist Green Revolution Cooling has published photos and video of several installations of its product, which submerges servers in a liquid similar to mineral oil. The Austin, Texas startup said its cooling enclosures can eliminate the need for CRAC units and chillers, allowing users to cool high-density servers at a fraction of the cost of traditional racks.
BF3 was released recently - HWHeaven have a review, while TechSpot look at CPU & GPU performance, as do Guru3D. After waiting way too long before the game to be unlocked we wanted bring you guys one of our traditional graphics and processor performance articles. As such we'll take a card or ten today and have a look at DX11 performance with the newest graphics cards. We'll also show you the performance differential with a couple of different processors.
Phoronix looked at Bulldozer multi-core scaling, while thread scheduling gets examined on Tech Report. Is an awareness of the shared nature of AMD's Bulldozer architecture the key to unlocking its performance? We investigate.
A few people sent in this new patent from Apple, which seems to cover the slide to unlock feature. A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device.
The Perth Mint has unveiled the world's biggest gold coin. Weighing in at just over one tonne, the 99.99 per cent pure gold coin has been valued at more than $50 million. A team of a dozen people have worked since late last year to create the coin which measures 80 centimetres wide and 12 centimetres deep, featuring a kangaroo on one side and the Queen's motif on the other.
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