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(link) Wednesday, 2-March-2011 12:00:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Right, due for a bit of news catchup today. So stay tuned..
If you're missing some Gmail, count yourself among the unlucky 0.02% of users. But Google are restoring the lost data, oldschool style, from tapes. I know what some of you are thinking: how could this happen if we have multiple copies of your data, in multiple data centers? Well, in some rare instances software bugs can affect several copies of the data. That’s what happened here. Some copies of mail were deleted, and we’ve been hard at work over the last 30 hours getting it back for the people affected by this issue.
Speaking of glitches, if an ATM spat out lots of money at you recently, and you kept it, you might be in trouble. Hundreds of people at dozens of CommBank branches around Sydney and Melbourne queued up to 30-deep after social media sites went haywire with reports the bank's ATMs were giving out "free" money. Customers with a few dollars in their accounts were suddenly able to withdraw hundreds and, as they texted and Tweeted their unexpected windfalls, the crowds quickly grew.
TheSSDReview have an SSD extravaganza. This article displays the Gigabyte P67A-UD7 motherboard running 3 RAID 0 configurations, these being the OCZ Revo x2, OCZ Revo and LSI 9260-8i MegaRAID card running 8 x Micron C300 SSDs. In total, there are 18 SSDs and one hard drive active in the system, two of which are mPCIe cards and one even being a USB 3 SSD. Meanwhile TechReaction checked out five OCZ Vortex 2's in RAID.
Sniper sent in this one about a 3D printer printing out a car. IT didn't jam the printer but there's no guarantee it won't get stuck in traffic. Two companies in the US have partnered to design and create Urbee - the car built entirely by a 3D printer. Sounds like it was only the body, not the fiddly engine bits, but still. Made me think of "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson, one of my all-time favourite books.
HardOCP have a sneak peek at AMD's Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles". Our video card came to us in this stealthy and shiny briefcase. Upon opening it we were pleased to see the Radeon HD 6990. At this time, all we can show you is this single photograph of the reverse side of the video card, proving it has two GPUs on board. There will be more photographs to come later.
Gaming legend Lord British wants to take you to space, report ArsTechnica. He says that there is no ground on the International Space Station, nor is there a ceiling. There are instruments and items and all sorts of things connected to the walls, and you can tell the people who are new to space flight by how they bump into things, which sends them spinning in zero gravity. They zoom around, followed by a mess of items and benign, space-faring shrapnel. It collects by the air vents if no one picks it up. Sleeping bodies find their way there as well. Meanwhile there's a cool photostream from a current ISS resident on Flickr.
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