Google Returns Chrome To Beta, Touts Speed Boost (Wednesday 18th of March 2009 11:45:02 PM)
CWmike writes "Google yesterday reversed its decision to ditch the beta label from its Chrome
browser, saying it is restoring the moniker to some builds to get faster comment to developers.
'Since we took the 'beta' tag off Google Chrome in December, ...
(more)Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving (Tuesday 17th of March 2009 11:30:01 PM)
Longacre writes "Modern highway planned parenthood schemes designed to make roads safer
combined with the comfort and safety scientific know-how found in the modern automobile may
veritably be putting us in danger, by the numbers to a
...
(more)How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development (Wednesday 11th of March 2009 06:15:01 PM)
Snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an far-reaching public mea
culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista
mistakes changed the evolvement process of Windows 7. Chief among ...
(more)Less Is Moore (Thursday 29th of January 2009 03:15:01 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "For years, the brain* trade has made steady journey by next Moore's law,
derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore that the amount of reckoning power
procurable at a full price doubles every 18 months. The Economist ...
(more)Tying Knots With Light (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)
Thedreadedwiccan points out a summary of a of late released physics paper about tying knots
with light. A pair of researchers showed that a proportionately new unravel
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(more)Sleep: A Necessity, Not a Luxury (Sunday 08th of June 2008 05:02:12 PM)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- The pace of life gets faster
and faster, and
people try to cram more and more into every minute of the
day.
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my ...
(more)An Atheist and a Bear (Saturday 07th of June 2008 01:00:00 AM)
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that growth had created.
"What
majestic trees! What mighty rivers! What stunning animals!", he said to himself. As he was
walking along the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind ...
(more)Intel Researchers Consider Ray-Tracing for Mobile Devices (Sunday 02nd of March 2008 07:30:03 PM)
An pseudonymous reader points out an Intel blog discussing the liability of Ray-Tracing on
mobile hardware. The required processing power is reduced enough by the lower resolution on
these devices that they could realistically run Ray-Traced games. We've ...
(more)Flexible Optic Fiber Promises Cheaper Last Mile (Wednesday 28th of November 2007 02:00:05 PM)
Bn0p writes "Ars Technica has an article on a Korean company that has developed a low-cost,
flexible, plastic optical fiber that could bring cheaper 2.5 Gbps connections to homes and
apartments. While not as fast as glass fiber, it is significantly faster ...
(more)More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor (Monday 26th of November 2007 12:45:03 PM)
Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10%
faster than XP SP2 — and is 'considerably faster' than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn't scheduled
to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain ...
(more)Robot-Run Warehouse Speeds Deliveries (Saturday 10th of November 2007 10:15:06 PM)
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The robot invasion may soon be coming to a warehouse near you.
In a conventional warehouse, workers walk from shelf to shelf to fill orders, while in
conveyor-based systems, boxes move past workers who pack them. A new ...
(more)Bandwidth Crunch Looms for Cable Companies (Thursday 16th of August 2007 07:15:03 AM)
Coax4life writes "While Verizon and AT&T lay fiber, cable companies are looking at a huge
bandwidth crunch according to a new report. Increased demand for high-def programming on the TV
side and faster download speeds on the ISP side of the business will ...
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