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Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the "Single-chip Cloud Computer" (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product...
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Data Saved In Quartz Glass Might Last 300 Million Years The electronics giant partnered with Kyoto University's Kiyotaka Miura to develop "semiperpetual" slivers of quartz glass that Hitachi says can preserve information for hundreds of millions of years with virtually no degradat...
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OrbFit
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Freespire is a community-driven, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer (community driven, freely distributed, open source code, etc.), but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as t...
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WWII code
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WWII code 'may never be cracked' Experts at intelligence agency GCHQ have asked for help in de-coding a message found attached to a pigeon leg, thought to date back to WWII. The dead bird was found in a chimney in Surrey a few weeks ago. Read more...
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Swinburne Supercomputer
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The Swinburne Supercomputer: Finding Diamonds in Astrophysical Haystacks In this video Professor Matthew Bailes discusses the capabilities of Swinburne University's 'Green Machine', its newest Supercomputer. Through the power of...
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MITS Altair 8800
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The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold by mail order through advertisements in Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics and other hobbyist magazines. Read more
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Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni will officiate at the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0," a 10-year project based at the University of Virginia and begun at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to use advanced technology to digitally rebuild ancient Rome. The event wil...
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Stolen NASA Laptop
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Stolen NASA PC held space station control codes A laptop stolen from NASA last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station, an internal investigation has found. The laptop, which was not encrypted, was among dozens of mobile devices lost or stolen in recent years t...
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Witch computer
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Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire. The Witch, as the machine is known, has been restored to clattering and flashing life in a three-year effort. [url=http://www....
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Intel 4004
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The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. It was the first complete CPU on one chip, and also the first commercially available microprocessor. Such a feat of integration was made possible by the use of then-new silicon gate technology allowing a...
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TI-84 Plus C Calculator
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TI-84 Plus C Colour-Screen Calculator Texas Instruments will be releasing a colour-screen TI-84 Plus calculator next year, according to Cemetech member 0rac343. In a post published this morning, he mentions that his class was chosen by TI as a pilot to test the reception of these new devices. [url...
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Distant Suns is one of the premier desktop astronomy packages of all time. Now in its 15th year of publication. Few other software packages can boast that kind of longevity.
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When Stanford computer scientist Vladlen Koltun decided to build a better virtual world, he began with 3-D treesmillions of them. Now he wants to give them away. Trees, like almost all objects in virtual worlds, whether in video games or Internet social communities like World of Warcraft or Second...
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We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level--Google Ocean. The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. There, the...
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