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- IBM reveals secrets of Watson’s Jeopardy triumph
- Have everything. Own nothing. Learn the difference
- 'Grow up': Assange's mother to Obama-struck Oz
- Amazon prepping cheap-as-dirt smartphone?
- Water utility hackers destroy pump, expert says
- Phishers net Norwegian secrets
- New Asia Pac cable launched for bandwidth express
- Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit
- SCC11: The Marathon Begins
- Team Texas On the Brink
- Tech firms jostle for position in LTE market
- Crooks make it rain by seeding cloud with zombies
- Big guns turn sights on cancer-causing genes
- NetApp, Wall St is very disappointed in you
- China spacecraft masters the art of docking
- Visa's amazing answer to e-wallet domination: A new logo
- Couple rewarded for naming newborn after Elder Scrolls Skyrim hero
- LinkedIn dumped by biggest sugar daddy
- AOL AIM boss legs it from yet another web biz
- Team Boston Crunch Time
- SCC11: Home Stretch
- Buffalo's in the Hunt?
- Costa Rica Cluster Finale
- Purdue Rolls the Dice
- Russians Bear Down at SCC11
- Team Taiwan Finishes Strong
- US nuclear aircraft carrier <i>George Bush</i> crippled by toilet outages
- Nvidia's Maximus: Hard-core 3D graphics on speed
- First private-sector space station docking delayed
- Supercomputer Watson too thick to use Siri
- Banks bung hard-up Acer £315m loan
- Oi! BBX is <i>ours</i>, software biz tells RIM
- One in six Americans used social web to get their job
- Boffins build bionic battery
- Earning cash not a priority for new Foursquare rival
- Ice Cream Sandwich phone a no-show on Vodafone
- China decrees in-flight cellphone calls are safe
- Boring BOFHs want cash prize more than space flight
- Apple plugs iTunes Ghost Click hole
- Muvizu animation suite
- Sweden's female students have more sex partners...
- Romanian authorities cuff NASA hack suspect
- Oops: Public backs web blocking in Google-funded poll
- No charge after woman gave fellow prisoner a cop-car BJ
- Samsung confirms Android 4.0 update for Galaxy S II
- IPO: Should stand for Intellectual Property Obliteration
- Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012?
- US general: 'We're cleared to cyber-bomb enemy hackers'
- Jilted man swaps engagement ring for Halo suit
- Boffin bothers frogs until they spill super power secrets
| IBM reveals secrets of Watson’s Jeopardy triumph Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:23 PM PST Too many rules can spoil the |
| Have everything. Own nothing. Learn the difference Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PST ReDigi and the RIAAOpinion: The nutshell of the story is this: ReDigi has a bright idea about creating a resale market for iTunes-licensed songs; the RIAA objects and has sent the cease-and-desist; and world+dog is supposed to rise up Occupy-style against another outrage by big content.… |
| 'Grow up': Assange's mother to Obama-struck Oz Posted: 17 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PST Parliament House protest during 'Au-bama' frenzyJulian Assange's mother has dubbed the Australian ruling elite as a bunch of "star-struck teenagers" in the thrall of US president Barack Obama.… |
| Amazon prepping cheap-as-dirt smartphone? Posted: 17 Nov 2011 02:17 PM PST Kindle Fire, meet Kindle FoneAmazon may be prepping a low-cost smartphone for release next year, and their partner in its development is said to be Apple's iPhone assembler, Foxconn.… |
| Water utility hackers destroy pump, expert says Posted: 17 Nov 2011 02:03 PM PST SCADA breach 'a really big deal'Hackers destroyed a pump used by a US water utility after gaining unauthorized access to the industrial control system it used to operate its machinery, a computer security expert said.… |
| Phishers net Norwegian secrets Posted: 17 Nov 2011 02:00 PM PST E-mail trojans sweep hard drivesOil, gas and defense data has been boosted from computers in Norway, in what the country fears is its largest-ever data espionage case.… |
| New Asia Pac cable launched for bandwidth express Posted: 17 Nov 2011 01:44 PM PST Links Philippines to Japan, HK, SingaporeConstruction has commenced on a new 7,200 km fibre optic cable linking Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore.… |
| Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit Posted: 17 Nov 2011 12:03 PM PST DIY handbook for 50 top civilization-saving toolsA team of open source enthusiasts is putting together instructions for how to build 50 tools essential to establishing – or reestablishing – a civilization.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 11:22 AM PST 46 hour grind starts grindingThis short video captures the start of the application portion of the 2011 Student Cluster Competition. The students had spent all day Monday driving their systems to produce the best LINPACK and HPCC result possible. Now, Monday evening at 7:30 pm on the dot, they finally get access to the data sets that they'll use in the four scientific applications that make up the rest of the challenge.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 11:20 AM PST Longhorns hope for first SCC winSC11 The Texas team captured a lot of attention at the Student Cluster Competition this year. Their mineral oil deep-fried cluster was certainly a hit with the crowd, but did it pay dividends when it came to computing? They put in the best non-GPU fueled LINPACK and, assumedly, should perform well on the scientific apps, but will it perform well enough to beat the other teams?… |
| Tech firms jostle for position in LTE market Posted: 17 Nov 2011 10:24 AM PST Ericsson and Alcatel Lucent lead, Huawei sneaking up behindEricsson and Alcatel-Lucent are staking big early claims in the LTE market, particularly in the US, according to networking and telco research firm Dell'Oro.… |
| Crooks make it rain by seeding cloud with zombies Posted: 17 Nov 2011 10:20 AM PST Your compute resources rented outMalware operators are once again trying to generate profits from the cloud, this time by stealing the resources of infected computers and selling them to a new distributed-computing network, researchers from Kaspersky said.… |
| Big guns turn sights on cancer-causing genes Posted: 17 Nov 2011 10:18 AM PST Backup is a lifesaverIn the heart of London, researchers are splitting apart the building blocks of life and working towards a cure for cancer. The Biomedical Research Centre, run by King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, has a genomic sequencing unit that genotypes tissue from patients with cancer and other diseases.… |
| NetApp, Wall St is very disappointed in you Posted: 17 Nov 2011 10:02 AM PST Two uninspiring quartersNetApp's progress seems to be slowing, as it disappointed Wall Street with lower-than-expected quarterly revenues, although profits were up.… |
| China spacecraft masters the art of docking Posted: 17 Nov 2011 09:26 AM PST Shenzhou-8 lands safely in Mongolia after coupling with space lab twiceThe unmanned Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8 has returned safely to Earth after giving the country its first successful docking mission.… |
| Visa's amazing answer to e-wallet domination: A new logo Posted: 17 Nov 2011 09:08 AM PST Take that, PayPalVisa USA has launched its new logo, with service to follow next year, securing online payments by hosting your wallet in the Visa cloud.… |
| Couple rewarded for naming newborn after Elder Scrolls Skyrim hero Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:57 AM PST Games for life, babyEarlier this year, Bethesda made a tongue-in-cheek proposal to pregnant mothers: if your child is born on Nigel Tufnel Day, the same date that Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released, then name your nipper 'Dovakhiin' after the RPG's protagonist and you'll win free games for life.… |
| LinkedIn dumped by biggest sugar daddy Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:51 AM PST Shares flogged to raise $90mProfessional networking firm LinkedIn has upped its follow-on share sale from 8 million shares to 8.75 million in a bid to raise around $92.3m for the company coffers.… |
| AOL AIM boss legs it from yet another web biz Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:42 AM PST Peanut! butter! man! joined! from! Yahoo!Brad Garlinghouse - who oversees AOL Mail, AIM and Mobile - is reportedly leaving the company after joining just two years ago.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:36 AM PST Final hours...SCC11 We caught up with Team Boston (aka Team Chowder) a few hours before they turned in their results for SC11. They share their thoughts about the competition and their results thus far, along with whatever else their sleep-deprived minds came up with.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:36 AM PST Team China preps for finishSCC11 We spent a few minutes talking to Team China before they submitted their final results for the 2011 Student Cluster Competition. They're happy and had a good time, but it's hard to figure out how they gauge their chances. We'll find out soon....… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:36 AM PST Final SCC11 Colorado ramblingsSCC11 We grabbed Team Colorado for a few final thoughts before the end of the Student Cluster Competition. Spirits were good, despite a few problems with their hardware and memory usage.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:35 AM PST Rainforest Eagles compete to finishSCC11 The Costa Rica team gave it their all at their first Student Cluster Competition. We caught up with them just a few minutes before they turned their final results files into the judges....… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:35 AM PST Strategy and final SCC11 thoughtsSCC11 As can be seen by their LINPACK results on Monday (only .233 TFlop), Purdue either completely melted down or had something up their collective sleeves. It turns out that they had a plan, a cunning plan. One that might give them a leg up on the other competitors on the all-important scientific applications. What was the plan? Why did they do it? Watch the video to find out.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PST Will LINPACK win fuel overall triumph?SCC11 We dropped by the Team Russia booth to congratulate them on their record-setting LINPACK victory and to get their thoughts on SCC11. Is their LINPACK win a sign of things to come? Can they take the whole ball of wax?… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:34 AM PST Looks for repeat at Cluster ChallengeSCC11 We had a chance to talk to Team Taiwan as the Student Cluster Competition came down to the wire. Although they were their typical friendly selves, there was an air of tension and anticipation in their booth. They have a lot riding on this. They could become the first team to repeat as champions. It's a pretty tall order to fill, but they seem to believe they have a good chance - even if they won't come right out and say it.… |
| US nuclear aircraft carrier <i>George Bush</i> crippled by toilet outages Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:22 AM PST Sailors drenched as bottles of piss emptied into windThe US Navy's newest and mightiest nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS George H W Bush*, has been plagued by continual failures in its lavatories, according to reports. Sailors have been forced into increasingly desperate measures to relieve themselves.… |
| Nvidia's Maximus: Hard-core 3D graphics on speed Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:01 AM PST Quadro-Tesla mashup for animation accelerationBlog Part of Nvidia founder/CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's SC11 keynote session was a demo of something called Maximus that elicited oohs and ahhs from some of the folks around me.… |
| First private-sector space station docking delayed Posted: 17 Nov 2011 08:00 AM PST Elon Musk's Dragon not yet ready for matingThe first private-sector mission to carry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed, according to reports. Meanwhile NASA funding for such contracted-out missions is to be cut back.… |
| Supercomputer Watson too thick to use Siri Posted: 17 Nov 2011 07:43 AM PST We're still smarter than computers, phewLooks like the human race has some breathing space in our intelligence arms race with computers. Though supercomputer Watson beats the best human brains at quiz games, it can't use the iPhone app Siri.… |
| Banks bung hard-up Acer £315m loan Posted: 17 Nov 2011 07:32 AM PST Five-year deal to get back on its feetTroubled Acer has penned a new financing deal to cover working capital requirements and pay off a previous loan it took out to acquire Gateway.… |
| Oi! BBX is <i>ours</i>, software biz tells RIM Posted: 17 Nov 2011 07:16 AM PST BlackBerry maker sued over OS nameA US software company is taking BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion to court over its use of the name BBX for its new operating system.… |
| One in six Americans used social web to get their job Posted: 17 Nov 2011 07:02 AM PST Going on Facebook to find work, not avoid itA study of workers in America showed that one in six (17 per cent) of them found their current job through a social networking site.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:54 AM PST Ten times' Li-ion capacity, charges in a tenth of the timeResearchers have devised an electrode material that allows lithium-ion batteries to hold ten times the charge they do today - and recharge ten times as quickly.… |
| Earning cash not a priority for new Foursquare rival Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:47 AM PST Upstart startup touts trendy nights-out appEmerging from Silicon Roundabout's Old Street, complete with Instagram'ed staff photos and an iPhone app, comes Flypost, which promises to promote events and venues to those with iPhones who aren't already using Foursquare.… |
| Ice Cream Sandwich phone a no-show on Vodafone Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:42 AM PST Carrier still 'testing' Android 4.0 Samsung Galaxy NexusVodafone has been disappointing punters today by failing to release the Samsung Galaxy Nexus as hoped… |
| China decrees in-flight cellphone calls are safe Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:33 AM PST 你好，我是在飞机上*Following two years of study, China has decided that in-flight calls are safe, but anyone hoping to make a call, or access the internet, on a Chinese flight will still be disappointed.… |
| Boring BOFHs want cash prize more than space flight Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:22 AM PST DBAs would prefer to boldly go to their bankIT professionals would rather win a wad of cash than a trip to space, the company behind a space flight competition said.… |
| Apple plugs iTunes Ghost Click hole Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:12 AM PST Another 120MB security update... fantasticApple has updated its iTunes software to correct a security shortcoming that offered the potential for miscreants to mount man-in-the-middle attacks and appears to have played a central role in the infamous Ghost Click botnet scam.… |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 06:00 AM PST Unreal 3D modelling without the boring bitsReview Digimania's Muvizu is free 3D animation software running on the Unreal engine. It allows you to create movies and even upload them directly to YouTube or Facebook from the application. Considering how much Autodesk Maya or 3DS Max will set you back and how many man hours it will take you to do the simplest of animations (and trust me, I know), programs like Muvizu make me all warm inside with their simplicity and ease of use.… |
| Sweden's female students have more sex partners... Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:54 AM PST ... but use fewer condoms: 'worrying research'Sweden's female university students are enjoying twice as many partners but using fewer condoms than their counterparts of 10 years ago, worrying research has found.… |
| Romanian authorities cuff NASA hack suspect Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:42 AM PST The Iceman comethRomanian authorities have arrested a 26-year-old suspected of breaking into NASA's systems, causing damages estimated at $500,000 in the process.… |
| Oops: Public backs web blocking in Google-funded poll Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:31 AM PST Can we elect a new population?Analysis Talk about an inconvenient fact. A survey into US attitudes to internet piracy shows strong public support for blocking access to websites guilty of serial copyright infringement. No fewer than 58 per cent support the idea of ISPs blocking the pirate sites, and 36 per cent disagree with this. Of the respondents, 61 per cent want sites like Facebook to take more action to screen for infringing material.… |
| No charge after woman gave fellow prisoner a cop-car BJ Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:24 AM PST No need to be down in the mouth after Texas drugs arrestA Texas woman arrested on drug charges has escaped additional sanctions for allegedly giving her fellow prisoner a blowjob in the back of a squad car en route to the county lockup.… |
| Samsung confirms Android 4.0 update for Galaxy S II Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:15 AM PST Ice Cream Sarnie tasterSamsung UK has confirmed that the Galaxy S II smartphone will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But it can't say when.… |
| IPO: Should stand for Intellectual Property Obliteration Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:11 AM PST Sir Humphrey's onslaught on creators' rightsComment Thanks to Yes, Minister, the idea of bureaucrats running the country is embedded in the nation's imagination. Governments change and ministers come and go with barely enough time to master the jargon. Public policy is quietly made in private, and while the media focuses on the elected government, the real one, our bureaucracy, quietly goes about its business. How true is this, really?… |
| Java's 'Steve Jobs' moment in 2012? Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:00 AM PST OpenJDK: Right ideas, wrong timingOpen-source Java: Part Two Five years after Sun Microsystems finally released Java under the GPL, Oracle has been pushing hard on the OpenJDK.… |
| US general: 'We're cleared to cyber-bomb enemy hackers' Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:51 AM PST Curiously, his command website went down after he said itThe US military is now legally in the clear to launch offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the US Strategic Command has said.… |
| Jilted man swaps engagement ring for Halo suit Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:43 AM PST Aisle be the Master ChiefThere's nothing worse than splashing out on a hugely expensive engagement ring only to be dumped before you can drop to one knee. When such tribulation was bestowed upon Halo fan Eric Smith, though, the traumatised chap wasted no time toughening up.… |
| Boffin bothers frogs until they spill super power secrets Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST What makes them leap so far?A springy catapult tendon is what sends frogs flying far beyond what their muscles alone could achieve, a boffin researching frog jumps has discovered.… |
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