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Google Chrome OS – The Introduction
January 16th, 2010 / 4 Comments » / by B@D
Once upon a time, Google’s Chrome operating system was an exciting idea that offered far more questions than answers. But now we now know much more about what the company is working on and have even seen the OS in action. Basically, there are some important things you need to know about the Google Chromium [...]
Where Is My Quaid
June 28th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Faizan
ISLAMABAD: The portraits of Founder of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah have been removed from the Prime Minister House and Presidential House, Geo News revealed Saturday.
Two days ago, President Asif Ali Zardari hosted a reception in the honour of national cricket team on winning the ICC Twenty20 World Cup title. On this occasion, the team [...]
SPARC64 VIIIFX = world’s pWnin’ Processor.
May 15th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Fujitsu opened this year’s Fujitsu Forum conference by kicking Intel squarely in the groin, debuting a new processor that’s 2.5 times faster than anything the CPU giant has on offer, and one third as power-hungry.
Called the SPARC64 VIIIFX (sexy codename: “Venus”), this eight-cored slab of processor can crunch a staggering 128 gigaflops (128 billion calculations [...]
Space boomerang video – old but c00l
April 23rd, 2009 / 3 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency: A video of astronaut Takao Doi showing that the objects [i.e: Boomerang] do, in fact, come back – even in the microgravity environment of the space station.
Aerodynamics expert David Caughey of Cornell says that is just what is expected – the looping paths are the result of uneven forces on the curved [...]
Words of Science originated from Scifi.
April 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
In no particular order:
1. Robotics. This is probably the most well-known of these, since Isaac Asimov is famous for (among many other things) his three laws of robotics. Even so, I include it because it is one of the only actual sciences to have been first named in a science fiction story (”Liar!”, 1941). Asimov also [...]
Super LoiLoScope MARS
April 11th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Japanese firm intros GPU-accelerated consumer video editor
Consumer-oriented video transcoders that take advantage of GPU acceleration are all well and good, but what if you want to do some video editing, too? The folks at LoiLo were probably trying to fill that gap when they came up with Super LoiLoScope Mars: this $69 video editor has [...]
Beware of teh CADIE — g00gle’s HOAX {1-4-2009}.
April 1st, 2009 / 6 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE)
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning [...]
NEC Ending [to Quit] their PC Sales by July – 2009.
March 30th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
NEC is killing their PC Sale by this Year’s endin’ July. Japan’s NEC Corp will halt production and sales of personal computers in the Asia-Pacific region around July, a spokesman said on Saturday, in a move that would see it pull out completely from the loss-making PC business overseas.
NEC, which has the top PC market share in [...]
Action Video Games Could Sharpen Eyesight
March 30th, 2009 / 14 Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
People who have a hard time seeing traffic lights or cars at night, who miss facial gestures, or who need a great deal of light to read typically suffer from poor contrast sensitivity. This condition is thought to be correctable by wearing glasses or contact lenses or by surgery. Now, researchers say they may have [...]
How Can Dawkins Explain the Perfect Eye in Our Brains?
March 28th, 2009 / No Comments » / by sT*rchi1Ð
The main reason why Darwin said, “the thought of the eye made me cold all over” is the fact he had no explanation to offer in the face of the eye’s extraordinary complexity. But the fact is that Darwin knew very little about the eye. Genetics had not been discovered in his day, there were [...]
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