Category: Technology
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XBOX 360 graphics
Yes I have been tempted by the Beast of Redmond. But the price point is crazy, just because it’s a new console doesn’t mean you charge on average €70 per game. Screenshots like this make it oh so tempting though.
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Two-Stage-to-Orbit 'Blackstar' System Shelved at Groom Lake?
Aviation week have an interesting story on the secret “Blackstar” project. Now facing the possibility that this innovative “Blackstar” system may have been shelved, we elected to share what we’ve learned about it with our readers, rather than let an intriguing technological breakthrough vanish into “black world” history, known to only a few insiders. U.S.…
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Buy Bebo now
I know if I had some spare change I would be buying Bebo. Apparently it has gone relatively unnoticed in Silicon Valley, at least according to this report. But over here I have never heard or seen anything like it. Anecdotally, just walking around UCC in the past week I overheard at least a dozen…
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Ask maps
A new competitor to Google Maps, a little slower though. The directions for Ireland work way better…
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Microsoft Origami device
The rumours have abounded about the mystery device for the past week. Microsoft have tried a viral marketing thing with this website. But the advert/promotional video appears to have leaked. (But then of course leaking the video could be part of the viral marketing) It’s like a big PDA or small Tablet. All it needs…
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Google Envision
Looks like a fake, but interesting following rumours last month of a Google OS or ‘Gubuntu’.
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National Archive videos
Now with the humour out of the way, back to business. Google have started putting US National Archive videos online, in what I think will be the coolest application of Google Video. And we wondered what we needed broadband for.
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HMS Daring launched
The most newsworthy aspect of the launch appears to be that crew quarters will be fitted with iPod docks. Development of the Type 45 goes back to 1988, when it was a multi-nation project, that broke into a tri-nation one in 1992, and then a UK only project in 1999. Construction began in April 2003,…
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Wikipedia blocks Congress
Following wholescale rewriting of bios on Wikipedia by suspected staffers in the US Congress, Wiki have decided to block IP ranges. Congressional staffers have made more than 1,000 changes to entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the past six months, an investigation by the Lowell Sun has found. The Massachusetts newspaper highlighted changes made…
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Putting Windows XP on Intel Macs
It looks like some people are making their new Apples into temporary lumps of plastic by trying to install Windows XP. Now a bounty is being offered for the first person to boot Windows XP onto an Intel Mac.