The magic number for notebook designers in the near future just might be eight--as in the hours of a full workday.
A somewhat outlandish idea a few years ago, the eight-hour notebook is moving closer to reality as promising trends in battery materials and power consumption converge. If all goes well, within three to four years, portable PCs could see battery life double from today's four-hour stretch.
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) is linking with a team of Swiss scientists to create the world's first accurate, computer-based model of the brain, the U.S. company said on Monday.
The researchers hope that modeling the brain at the cellular level will give new insights into the workings of the most complex organ in the body.
Skype users can now download a free plug-in from Dialcom that will enable video conferencing using the Skype P2P engine. The Spontania Video4skype, allows any users with a webcam connected to their PCs and a Skype account and broadband internet access, to make video-calls using the Skype client.
SONY SAYS that it is testing CDs featuring technology from UK anti-piracy outfit First4Internet, that will allow punters to only make a limited number of copies.
The technique is known as ‘sterile burning", although the Aussie ABC News failed to say why.
However the big idea is to stop ‘casual piracy’ which it defines as ripping and burning CDs by people who have actually bought the disk in the first place and give copies to their mates.
Sony said that it will be releasing CDs with the technology soon, but will not say which ones.
Here comes the next step toward a cashless society. J.P. Morgan Chase on Wednesday will begin distributing new credit cards that do not need to be swiped to complete a purchase. Instead of a familiar magnetic stripe across the back, the new "contactless" credit cards use RFID technology, or radio frequencies, to complete a transaction.
For consumers, simply waving the card a few inches from a special checkout terminal does the job.
The U.S. military is seeking the ultimate answer to identity theft and Internet hacking in a physics-based cyber security system secretly developed five years ago in a private Boca Raton laboratory, officials close to the partnership said this weekend.
The wealthy will be able to download their consciousness into computers by 2050 - the not so well off by "2075 or 2080", claims futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson, head of the Futurology unit at BT.
While it sounds like science fiction, Pearson is serious about his claim. He believes that humans will achieve a kind of virtual immortality by saving their consciousnesses into computers within the next 45 years.
L33tdawg: Here are the direct download links to the 4.1.0 beta copies: Windows
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As part of our ongoing efforts to make publishing files on the Web painless and disruptively cheap, BitTorrent has released a 'trackerless' version of BitTorrent in a new release.
Spam detection software company Mail-Filters.com reported that last week its servers had detected an average of 103,967 sources of spam or malware per hour being sent to its customers. The company warned, however, that this was only "the tip of the iceberg" and the number of pieces of spam and malware sent were likely much larger.
Inmates can run, but they can't hide - not so long as a radio-linked wristband remains attached, pinpointing their location within a few feet.
Removing or breaking the bracelet sets off a computer alarm, alerting guards to a possible prison escape. It's an emerging technology that could transform the way convicts are managed, contained and monitored.
