Daily Readings July 26, 2005. 17:32:02
Also with readings from yesterday for previous days too.
Slashdot
- The TSA broke privacy laws while attempting to collect information on travelers.
- The Economist is predicting a Google stock value deflation
- Firefox to see boost in users when IE7 is released to only Windows XP users
- Team Banzai is using OSX Tiger to run Dora, their customized Touareg car, in the DARPA Grand Challenge
- Gamespot has an article for those who want to be a game designer
- Columbia LDEO, sigh, has released audio recordings of last year’s December 26 earthquake
- ‘Vista’ may bring Microsoft and Vista into a trademark dispute
- Construction begins on the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will feature a 25.6m diameter lens, and will be installed in Chile by 2016
- New self-cleaning building that fights smog by breaking it down when exposed to the air and sun
- Microsoft releases VirtualEarth
- Hitachi releases the 7K500 SATA-II Deskstar
- Studying the butterfly helps determine why evolutionary lines splits species
- The FreeBSD Status Report for Second Quarter 2005
- Yahoo! purchases Konfabulator and makes it free
- ZDnet has a review on Intel and AMD notebooks
- XYZComputing reviews fanless power supplies
- WSJ reports that computer games will include TV-like commercials
- Russia’s biggest spammer found murdered in his apartment
- MIT creates cell phones that can predict the actions of 100 MIT staff members 85% of the time
- Multibooting Intel-based Macs - A step-by-step howto guide
- Not new, but the TechReport reviews the Asus’ Pentium M socket adapter for Socket 478
- Japan wants to spend between $714 million and $893 million (USD) on a 10 petaflop supercomputer to be used for formation-of-the-galaxy and medical simulations, and not non-military simulations (again)
- China has produced a MIPS-compatible processor, but is unlicensed and is based on 1995 technology.
- Sony BMG pays $10 million to New York State, and stops ‘Payola,’ which is bribing radio stations to play Sony BMG artists
- New Unified Extensible Fireware Interface (UEFI) to replace BIOS
- Personalized Google Homepage
- Gigabyte releases i-RAM, solid state storage in the form an SATA controller populated by DDR RAM chips, which is powered by a rechargeable battery when the system is off
- Discovery is launched, the first shuttle mission since February 2003
- Microsoft introducing compulsory Windows piracy checks into Windows Update, Microsoft Update and Microsoft Download Center
- Google and Microsoft are fighting for the same consumer base with their services
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