Category: Technology
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Hard drive speed limit is reached
The limit of hard drives has apparently been reached. But at least its not likely to affect the production of drives for some time: The bad news is that this upper limit means that the fastest data can be written using changes in magnetisations is 435,000 million bits every second. The good news is that…
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US govt buys world's biggest RAM disk
It’s rumoured that it was the Department of Homeland Security that is going to need all this RAM. But any agency or government that needs this much memory is up to something I guess. 2.5 Terabytes of RAM. My laptop has 256Mb. So they have 10,000 times the memory. Good god.
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Miniature fuel cells may oust batteries
Perhaps when these batteries come out, it may save the 3G industry, and my laptop wont stop working after just a few hours. I live in hope.
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Al Qaeda boss confused phone SIM with cloaking device
The Reg with a follow up story on the plonkers in al-Qaeda who kept using the same SIM cards. And they rightly note that if fortunately the infamous terror network do not read the Reg: Fortunately Al Qaeda appears not to read The Register, otherwise they would have noted our observation last year that thinking…
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Gates: Buy stamps to send e-mail
This idea was mooted by Cringely early last year. Gates has cottoned on, but is probably in it for the money.
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Confess about XP Reloaded quick, Gartner tells MS
The Beast should really get their ass in gear. News leaked out recently that they were going to release an interim version between XP and Longhorn – now Gartner are asking MS to come clean.
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10 Tech Trends to Bet On
Fortune magazine list out the top 10 tech trends for the future, some interesting ones in there. Wi-Fi sounds like it really should not be in there – I was writing about that technology 3 years ago – and I am sure it figured back then in other tech trends to bet on. 1. Smart…
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Dodging a space bullet
This story from Slashdot, on a new system that could be used to try and take out a rogue asteroid headed for Earth. A killer asteroid, the kind of space rock that did in the dinosaurs, is on a collision course with Earth. A fleet of nuclear-powered robots races to the rescue. Humanity’s survival hangs…
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U.S. Army Cancels Comanche
Bloomberg is reporting that the US Army has cancelled the Comanche helicopter program. This marks a major shift in the investment strategies of the US military for the future, where it will and will not, be spending money over the next couple of decades. It’s a good decision for US interests, the Comanche is really…
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Russian missile "5 times speed of light"
It might be a blip on the BBC news site, but they are reporting that a new Russian missile is capable of travelling 5 times the speed of light. Does that mean the missile could go back in time and destroy life as we know it? Hopefully they would be lucky and just hit Bush.