The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo instruction set compatibility consumers are accustomed to when using a standard PC and the Internet. The design also includes support ...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp, faced with Web rivals looking to poach its business customers, said on Sunday it plans to broaden the availability of its online services for e-mail and collaboration software. ... Microsoft plans to unveil the news during a speech on...
I purchased a $1,000 23andMe DNA test back in December , spit in the tube when the kit arrived and, just a few weeks later got the results back. Yeah, its too bad I didn't wait a month when I could have gotten a kit for free , but a lucky reader was able to get one instead. ...
Michael Gartenberg will eat sushi, given no other options, but he doesn't seek it out. Windows Vista is sort of like that. ... This occurs to me because I've been thinking of Microsoft's Vista as the sushi of operating systems. I'll explain what I mean by that, but first...
Motion Computing today is set to unveil a tablet computer designed to withstand difficult environments in industries like construction, field service and manufacturing. ... Geared for government and manufacturing, the F5 works in tough environments IT is critical to your...
While Microsoft's Internet search strategy involves courting Yahoo, its behind-the-firewall search efforts this week center on the company's SharePoint collaboration platform.Microsoft will unveil two search products based on SharePoint, including a free product, at its Office SharePoint...
ScienceBlogs.com - By Dave Munger - Mar. 3 (Blog Post) - You might expect someone's cultural background to influence their speech, their appearance, their musical tastes, and the foods they like. You'd probably also expect culture to have an impact on values and beliefs, on stories and traditions. But what about their bodies -- not just physical features like skin color or hair texture, but attitude towards the self? If culture touches on so many aspects of an individual, perhaps it can also impact the subtle ways people think about of their own...
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ScienceBlogs.com - By Jonah Lehrer - Mar. 3 (Blog Post) - Baseball fans pay so much attention to the sheer velocity of a fastball - the stat appears on the television screen after every pitch - but the kind of subterfuge used by Santana is even more important. To understand why, it helps to know a little bit about the psychological mechanics of hitting. The numbers make the task look impossible. A typical major league pitch takes about 0.35 seconds to travel from the hand of the pitcher to home plate...
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Washington Post - By Shankar Vedantam - Mar. 3 (Review) - When someone we know or love excels at something, we take pride in her accomplishment because we care about the other person and get to bask in some of her reflected glory. But when we are involved in the same activity as that friend or intimate partner -- and feel bested by that person -- we can simultaneously feel envious and threatened, in a way we would not if the star performer were a stranger.
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Scientific American - By Art Glenberg - Mar. 3 (Review) - It has become commonplace in neuroscience - and even in everyday conversation - to compare human cognition to that of computers. We know that computers work by using rules to manipulate symbols composed of zeros and ones. According to this metaphor, people also use rules to manipulate abstract and arbitrary symbols. The brain, in other words, was a computer that processed data largely independently of the body...
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New York Times - Mar. 3 (Editorial) - Last week, the House approved a new $17 billion package of credits, spread over 10 years, to encourage the development of renewable energy sources and to promote energy-efficient buildings and appliances. As before, the House insisted that the credits be paid for by terminating an equivalent $17 billion in tax breaks over 10 years for oil and gas companies...
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The New York Review of Books - By Nicholson Baker - Mar. 3 (Special Report) - More people use Wikipedia than Amazon or eBay--in fact it's up there in the top-ten Alexa rankings with those moneyed funhouses MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. Why? Because it has 2.2 million articles, and because it's very often the first hit in a Google search, and because it just feels good to find something there--even, or especially, when the article you find is maybe a little clumsily written...
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ScienceBlogs.com - By Ed Yong - Mar. 3 (Blog Post) - The scans imply that there is a very consistent pattern of brain activity linked to creativity, a pattern of heightened senses and self-expression with a lack of conscious control. And the very similar results from the Scale and Jazz scans suggest that this has nothing to do with the complexity of the music and everything to do with the creativity of the performers...
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"My life has not changed dramatically - well, for that matter, it hasn't changed at all. On the same blog, a video game buyer for Wal-Mart slammed a "Star Wars" film as a "debacle" even though Wal-Mart still sells the movie. This unusual new Web site, which was quietly created during the holiday shopping ...
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AFP - Japan's Mitsubishi Electric said Monday that it will stop making mobile telephones because of a bleak outlook for the loss-making business, which is facing tough competition. ... TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Mitsubishi Electric said Monday that it will stop making mobile...
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KnowledgeLake Releases Content Migration Suite for IBM FileNetSEATTLEMO-KNOWLEDGELAKE ... Aktuelle Nachrichten - veröffentlicht durch ad-hoc-news.de: SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KnowledgeLake Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions for...
Filed under: Gaming Alright, things are starting to get really good with these hacks. Just after seeing a GameCube / Wii Tetris , Linux build, SNES emulator, and the first homebrew MP3 player for Nintendo's money-maker, we're getting a totally radical, native Genesis / Megadrive emulator ...
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Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push — I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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02 Mar 2008