aviary

Slashdot

• Cell phones can now power a screen worn over the eyes.
• FBI is now trying to get the FCC to grant them the ability to monitor in-flight broadband services under CALEA, in order to be able to anticipate terrorist attacks coordinated in flights. The FCC filing is here.
• Steve Bowler, lead animator for Midway Games, has a piece of how id lost the gaming crown.
• A high school in vail, Arizona will use eletronic forms of texts. I still prefer textbooks any day.
• The North American Solar Challenge will race solar-power cars from Austin, Texas to Calgray, Alberta.
• Playing Tron Lightcycles, in real life, using GPS mapping.
• MSNBC reports on xMax, a radio filtering technology to transmit and receive data over already-in-use radio frequencies. It avoids being illegal because xMax doesn’t interfere with the radio frequency enough to make it incoherent.
• The Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster in Ceder Point, Ohio is fully wired to computers that check attempt to compensate for external variables such as wind soeed, load weights, and temperature to make the perfect right every time. If any of the 300 redundant sensors report different readings than its history, then the roller coaster is shut down for inspections.
• Toshiba demonstrates their new HD-DVD specification, with hardware that plays HDTV through its HDMI output, with analog downrezed to 480 lines. Anandtech covered the HDMI interface before.
• It seems that about 15 copies of Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince has been leaked before its July 16th release date. The bookstore has since received injunction notice for those who have purchased it to return it until Friday and not say anything about the book.
• Slate, not not a part of Microsoft, writes about China’s internet filtration, and how it’s invisible, with many offshore companies working with China to provide censored content.
• The Entertainment Software Association reports on the U.S.’ Operation Site Down that successfully shutdown of at least 8 warez servers that specializes in distributing pirated games.
• The NYT has an op-ed piece on suggesting the death penalty for hackers.
• AMD has found proof that Intel Compilers purposefully generate less than perfect code when the compiler detects an “Authentic AMD” processor running it.
• The BBC launched their BBC Open Source site today, which hosts projects of BBC’s network technologies.
• EU officials have raided Intel offices, after
• ICANN has created an additional TLD, .mobi, for mobile devices.
• HP has invented a new and faster way to print. HP’s press release here.
• CNet has an article about a survey of how people spend (waste) time at work.
• ExtremeTech has an article about how to keep your computer cool by strategically modifying your airflow and position of components.
• The official magazine of U.S. Space Command, whatever that is, advocates seizing the 5 LaGrance points before other nations do. A LaGrance point is where the Sun’s and earth’s magnetic field cancel each other out.

Flexbeta

• Wired News reports on an agreement on the definition of “spyware”.
• Comcast is to install 8Mbps and 6Mbps internet connections in areas close to DC.
• A Dutch judge against requiring ISPs to hand over clients’ personal information for copyright infringement.
• Microsoft paid a $250,000 bounty to anyone who found the author of the Sasser worm last year.

Neowin

• Microsoft Office 12 includes a user interface that allows for customizable ‘ribbons’.