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Wednesday, 28-March-2012 21:16:01 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Filmmaker James Cameron has reached the ocean's deepest point, the "Challenger Deep" in the Marianas Trench. His depth on arrival: 35,756 feet (10,898 meters)—a figure unattainable anywhere else in the ocean. Reaching bottom after a 2-hour-and-36-minute descent, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker typed out welcome words for the cheering support crew waiting at the surface: "All systems OK." Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo capsule, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker is now investigating a seascape more alien to humans than the moon. Cameron is only the third person to reach this Pacific Ocean valley southwest of Guam (map)—and the only one to do so solo. Discussion here.
If you like those TED online videos, you'll be happy to hear TEDx will be on in Sydney soon. TEDxSydney is returning to Carriageworks on Saturday 26 May 2012. We look forward to bringing you another inspiring and entertaining day full of Australian Ideas Worth Spreading. See the just-announced lineup of 2012 Speakers & Performers HERE.
Guru3D looked at 3-way GTX 680 SLI. Over the next few pages we'll tell you a bit about multi-GPU gaming, the challenges, the requirements and of course a nice tasty benchmark session. We'll have a peek at temperatures and power consumption of the GeForce GTX 680 cards in 3x SLI mode to monitor its generated performance and look at its handicaps.
JD sent word that the ACCC is taking Apple to court over iPad3 4G claims. The ACCC will allege that Apple's recent promotion of the new "iPad with WiFi + 4G" was misleading "because it represents to Australian consumers that the product 'iPad with WiFi + 4G' can, with a SIM card, connect to a 4G mobile data network in Australia, when this is not the case."
HotHardware have some pics of a retired World of Warcraft server. I wish I would have held onto my Atari 2600 console, or my Commodore 64, or my first graphics card, a 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (if memory serves me correct), or my collection of Sierra InterAction and PC Entertainment magazines. I don't have any of those things any more, but I am now the proud and geeky owner of the server that hosted WoW's Minahonda realm in Europe, which from my research was a Spanish-speaking player versus environment (PvE) realm.
Supplanter spotted Browser Quest, an in-browser MMORPG. BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it’s all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript.
From MoonShadow: From now on I will send you a reminder when the new Iron Photographer competition is underway, and voting for the last month has begun! Voting and entries seem to be a bit lacking, so some public announcements might help. Current competition to enter for March, themed Straight Out Of Camera. Also, the voting thread for February, whose theme was Busy.
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