10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
1. Professor works to revolutionize computer chips
On Sunday, Krishna Palem, speaking at a computer science meeting in San Francisco, announced results of the first real-world test of his probabilistic computer chip: The chip, which thrives on random errors, ran seven times faster than today’s best technology while using just 1⁄30th the electricity.
More @ chron.com
2. Windows XP's Days are Really Numbered Now
In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan.
More @ PCWorld.com
3. Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose?
More @ Googleblog
On Sunday, Krishna Palem, speaking at a computer science meeting in San Francisco, announced results of the first real-world test of his probabilistic computer chip: The chip, which thrives on random errors, ran seven times faster than today’s best technology while using just 1⁄30th the electricity.
More @ chron.com
2. Windows XP's Days are Really Numbered Now
In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan.
More @ PCWorld.com
3. Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose?
More @ Googleblog
4. Augmented FPS gaming
5. Wake Up Call: Facebook Isn’t A Safe Haven
Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network.
More @ TechCrunch
6. VMware Rolls Out Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
VMware has released an open source virtual desktop infrastructure client, aiming to make it easy for partners to build their own applications or devices around its code. The goal eventually is to make possible a "universal client" that will support multiple environments.
More @ LinuxInsider
7. Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up
Scratch all the confusion over the past few days regarding whether Microsoft would take user feedback into account and make the User Account Control (UAC) setting in Windows 7 better suited to protecting users.
More @ ZDNetBlogs
Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network.
More @ TechCrunch
6. VMware Rolls Out Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
VMware has released an open source virtual desktop infrastructure client, aiming to make it easy for partners to build their own applications or devices around its code. The goal eventually is to make possible a "universal client" that will support multiple environments.
More @ LinuxInsider
7. Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up
Scratch all the confusion over the past few days regarding whether Microsoft would take user feedback into account and make the User Account Control (UAC) setting in Windows 7 better suited to protecting users.
More @ ZDNetBlogs
8. WSJ: Kindle 2 launching today with Stephen King exclusive
9. Real Geeks do Peer Clouding
"The cloud" is just a new buzzword for an old concept, hosted services. While a number of grumpy old geekbeards swear they will never embrace "the cloud" because they do not trust their data in other hands, it's already happening. Google Mail, for whatever reason, is cool in ways that Hotmail and Yahoo mail never were. Google Apps are also cool. Inexpensive hosting services have been a staple of the do-it-yourself geek since forever.
More @ LinuxToday
10. Top 10 Fascinating Skydiving Myths
Skydiving is the single most exciting sport there is. Nothing even comes close to the exhilaration you feel when floating on a cushion of air, and flying your canopy safely to the ground. It’s also very misunderstood, and filled with many common fallacies and misconceptions that keep most people from trying this beautiful sport.
More @ ListVerse
"The cloud" is just a new buzzword for an old concept, hosted services. While a number of grumpy old geekbeards swear they will never embrace "the cloud" because they do not trust their data in other hands, it's already happening. Google Mail, for whatever reason, is cool in ways that Hotmail and Yahoo mail never were. Google Apps are also cool. Inexpensive hosting services have been a staple of the do-it-yourself geek since forever.
More @ LinuxToday
10. Top 10 Fascinating Skydiving Myths
Skydiving is the single most exciting sport there is. Nothing even comes close to the exhilaration you feel when floating on a cushion of air, and flying your canopy safely to the ground. It’s also very misunderstood, and filled with many common fallacies and misconceptions that keep most people from trying this beautiful sport.
More @ ListVerse
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