These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame.

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,125772,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

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Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption

Wednesday, 19 April 2006 04:49 ESTRaw code for ‘unbreakable’ quantum encryption has been generated at record speed over optical fiber at NIST. The work is a step toward using conventional high-speed networks such as broadband Internet and local-area networks to transmit ultra-secure video for applications such as surveillance.

Code for Unbreakable Quantum Encryption – IT Observer

DoctorBit writes "NASA scientists have achieved a breakthrough in simulating the merging of two same-size non-spinning black holes based on a new translation of Einstein’s general relativity equations. The scientists accomplished the feat by using some brand-new tensor calculus translations on the Linux-running, 10,240 Itanium processor SGI Altix Columbia supercomputer. These are reportedly the largest astrophysical calculations ever performed on a NASA supercomputer. According to NASA’s Chief Scientist, "Now when we observe a black hole merger with LIGO or LISA, we can test Einstein’s theory and see whether or not he was right.""

Slashdot | NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation

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More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

Apple – Boot Camp

First Digital Simulation of an Entire Life FormPosted by Zonk on Monday March 27, @04:42PMfrom the who-doesn’t-love-alife dept.ScienceAn anonymous reader writes "LiveScience is reporting on what appears to be the first digital simulation of an entire life form. Researchers created more than a million digital atoms to reverse engineer the satellite tobacco mosaic virus, a relatively simple organism. But is it really a life form? From the article: ‘Viruses are tiny bundles of protein and genetic material that straddle the line between life and non-life. Many scientists prefer to call them "particles" because even though they contain RNA or DNA like other lifeforms, they can only replicate inside other living cells.’"

Slashdot | First Digital Simulation of an Entire Life Form

 Wow, this is so cool. Take a listen, but you HAVE to use headphones.

http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/

You just have to see this  !!! 

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1

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Dell starts selling $9,900 overclocked gaming PC[Print][Mobile]By Tony Smith22nd March 2006 16:38 GMTDell will today begin taking orders for its "limited edition" XPS 600 Renegade quad SLI, physics engine-equipped desktop gaming rig, the computer giant said today. The kit will set you back a whopping $9,930, though that includes Dell’s 30in LCD monitor.The XPS 600 Renegade comes in a custom-painted case inside which sit four GeForce 7900 GPUs each with 512MB of video memory ready to run games at 2,560 x 1,600. The unit also features an Ageia PhysX processor on which games can offload all their complex physics calculations to free up the CPU – a dual-core Pentium D Extreme Edition "factory overclocked" to 4.26GHz, no less – for stuff like artificial intelligence work.

Dell starts selling $9,900 overclocked gaming PC | Reg Hardware

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 22, @09:27AMfrom the only-a-matter-of-time dept.AppleOSXpert writes "Sure, we all know that Windows can now run on intel Apple Computers. Alas, the solution does not include drivers, and until now Mac users could still only hope to be able to use every application available to their Windows counterparts. However, with drivers now working 100% on the Mac Mini and drivers for the MacBook Pro only lacking video (which, by the looks of the 2nd link is only days away), Mac users now have a complete and working Windows solution."

Slashdot | Windows Drivers for Mac Rolling Out

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