Source: DailyTech Former computer engineer Hans Reiser was today sentenced 15-to-life after a first-degree murder conviction after he strangled his wife and buried her in a ravine. Reiser’s claim to fame in the computer world is the ReiserFS file system, a general-purpose file system used in the Linux operating system. ReiserFS is still popular in [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2007/10/ion_propulsion# The key: Ion propulsion only needs a tenth of the fuel of a chemical rocket system to reach the same destination, and that means a smaller rocket — and a lot less fuel — is needed to launch missions, such as the Dawn probe. The miserly use of propellant will allow the Dawn [...]
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DailyTech – IBM Creates Tunable Nanolaser IBM continues its march towards creating an optical computer with another breakthrough.
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Japan Net Cafe Short article by DannyChoo about net cafes in Japan I’ve been to a few myself but there was no bed:
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Stem cells ‘created from teeth’ Japanese scientists say they have created human stem cells from tissue taken from the discarded wisdom teeth of a 10-year-old girl.
DailyTech – China Blocks iTunes After Olympic Athletes Download Tibet-themed Album .. LOL On Monday China’s many internet users began to notice that they were unable to download songs from the popular Apple service iTunes. Then someone noticed that was the day after Art of Peace Foundation announced the release of “Songs for Tibet,” with [...]
DailyTech – Physicists Theorize New Method for Faster than Light Travel he physicists — Gerald Cleaver and Richard Obousy — have theorized a new idea for faster than light travel that involves manipulating dark energy to propel a spacecraft. According to Space.com the universe — in theory — moved faster than light for a short [...]
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DailyTech – Cassini Spacecraft Investigates Saturn’s Enceladus “Icy Jets” Suggest Liquid Water May Be Beneath Surface New pictures taken by the Cassini Spacecraft of Saturn’s moon Enceladus have revealed stunning new features of the moon’s surface. The images display the so-called “tiger stripes” that span the south pole, and reveal the features to be V-shaped [...]
DailyTech – Intel Roadmap Shows SSDs Launching in Q3 2008 Extra info: http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3376 Intel SSDs will have a read speed of 240MB/sec and a write speed of 170MB/s
DailyTech – New Ribosomal Research Offers Fresh Evidence, Understanding of Evolution Skepticism aside, evolution is steadily being verified and analyzed thanks to cutting edge computing
Nvidia demos real-time GPU ray tracing at 1,920 x 1,080 | News | Custom PC Nvidia claims that it’s just demonstrated ‘the world’s first fully interactive GPU-based ray tracer’ at the show, which was achieved using a Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System (VCS) containing four Quadro GPUs, each with 1GB of memory. Nvidia [...]
