Archive for May, 2008
Israel ‘has 150 nuclear weapons’
One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth: Carter describes Israeli treatment of Palestinians.read more | digg story
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Samsung intros 256GB SSD that may reach MacBook Air
Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models — and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data […]
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Image-recognition Software Lets Computers ‘See’ Like People
It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do.read more | digg […]
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The real implications of the rise of internet computing
Google is said to operate a global network of about three dozen data centres with, according to some estimates, more than 1m servers. To catch up, Microsoft is investing billions of dollars and adding up to 20,000 servers a month. Siberia is proving interesting as a location.read more | digg story
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Linux May Power New Nokia Phones
The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused devices grows, company officials said.read more | digg story
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iPhone 2.0 — everything you need to know
The new, spiffy iPhone is sure to offer plenty of new features to make you fall in love all over again. To find out what kind of sexy curves iPhone 2.0 will throw at us, follow the Continue link.read more | digg story
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Jon Stewart: You Probably Don’t Understand the Iraq War
Former Bush Admin Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was on The Daily Show to set the record straight on the war. Apparently we were not misled into war. Jon started summer early by firing up the grill and sticking Feith on it. Listen to the defense of a man who was in the […]
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RIM allows Indian government to monitor Blackberry network
“…RIM is going to back down and allow the Indian government to monitor the Blackberry network…”read more | digg story
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