10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Maryland Led Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects.
More @ UM Newsdesk
2. Intel Prepares a Quad-Core Notebook Chip
Stanford president John Hennessy calls parallel programming for multicore processors the biggest challenge computer science has faced in more than 50 years. But that's not stopping Intel from moving ahead with plans to bring even greater core counts to your laptop.
More @ Wired
More @ Googleblog
Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland's Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be among our Solar System's oldest objects.
More @ UM Newsdesk
2. Intel Prepares a Quad-Core Notebook Chip
Stanford president John Hennessy calls parallel programming for multicore processors the biggest challenge computer science has faced in more than 50 years. But that's not stopping Intel from moving ahead with plans to bring even greater core counts to your laptop.
More @ Wired
3. Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API
If you're a developer and want to reach millions of people with your latest creation, check out the Google Visualization API, courtesy of our visualization team engineers. The Visualization API provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community. It provides a common way (an API) to access structured data sources, the first being Google spreadsheets.More @ Googleblog
4. Spectrum ZX Laptop
More @ HackaDay
5. A tale of two Linux-based computing appliances
This hands-on review compares and contrasts two computing appliances that run Linux on Via C7-M processors. The Zonbu Zonbook and the gOS Cloudbook are both manufactured by Everex, and cost about the same up-front, but that's where the resemblances end, our reviewer found.
More @ LinuxDevices
6. Eating our words: Apple's Mac mini to rock on
Apple Inc.'s Mac mini, a tiny desktop system previously pegged for extinction, won't fade into the distance after all, at least not yet.
More @ AppleInsider
7. The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault
It's frustrating to repeatedly bang your head against difficult, obscure bugs, but don't let desperation lead you astray. An essential part of being a humble programmer is realizing that whenever there's a problem with the code you've written, it's always your fault.
More @ CodingHorror
This hands-on review compares and contrasts two computing appliances that run Linux on Via C7-M processors. The Zonbu Zonbook and the gOS Cloudbook are both manufactured by Everex, and cost about the same up-front, but that's where the resemblances end, our reviewer found.
More @ LinuxDevices
6. Eating our words: Apple's Mac mini to rock on
Apple Inc.'s Mac mini, a tiny desktop system previously pegged for extinction, won't fade into the distance after all, at least not yet.
More @ AppleInsider
7. The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault
It's frustrating to repeatedly bang your head against difficult, obscure bugs, but don't let desperation lead you astray. An essential part of being a humble programmer is realizing that whenever there's a problem with the code you've written, it's always your fault.
More @ CodingHorror
8. Sony's 25 megapixel Alpha A900 to arrive in August or September
More @ Engadget
9. Why Windows 7 might go to pieces
There are a growing number of clues that Windows 7 — the next version of Windows about which Microsoft continues to remain mum — could be available in pieces.
More @ ZDNetBlogs
10. Latest Firefox 3 beta offers exciting features
Firefox 3 is in testing, with the latest build, beta 4, released Monday. Mozilla is aiming for a final release of its flagship product before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Let's take a look at the changes coming down the pike.
More @ Linux.com
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There are a growing number of clues that Windows 7 — the next version of Windows about which Microsoft continues to remain mum — could be available in pieces.
More @ ZDNetBlogs
10. Latest Firefox 3 beta offers exciting features
Firefox 3 is in testing, with the latest build, beta 4, released Monday. Mozilla is aiming for a final release of its flagship product before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Let's take a look at the changes coming down the pike.
More @ Linux.com
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