Saturday, July 25, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Rocket Torrents launches Top Torrents

HTTP:: Rocket Torrents launches Top Torrents
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p2pnet news view P2P:- Rocket Torrents, available for free, says it’s the first BitTorrent client to provide dynamic torrent download rankings from within the software application interface.nThe feature, Top Torrents, is found under the Torrents tab beginning with the 5.2.3 software release.nAdware and spyware free, it allows users to view constantly-updated torrent download rankings from [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: P2P file sharing helping to defeat crime

HTTP:: P2P file sharing helping to defeat crime
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p2pnet news view Crime | P2P:- Two ploys used ad nauseum by the vested-interest entertainment cartels in their continuing efforts to dominate the internet and turn it into an exclusive corporate pipeline are »»»nnP2P file sharing is responsible for “massive devastation” to the multi-billion-dollar movie and recording industriesnP2P file sharing funds the international narcotics trade, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Suicide bombers hit Afghan city

HTTP:: Suicide bombers hit Afghan city
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Presidential candidate escapes unhurt as battle rages in Khost.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Alex Hanff geek to activist

HTTP:: Alex Hanff geek to activist
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p2pnet news view P2P:- The Internet is the greatest equaliser the world has ever known.nWith it, people everywhere have a voice so loud and powerful it can’t be ignored, something Alex Hanff would attest to.nHe’s only one man.  But he took on Phorm, a multi-million-dollar advertising company with an entire advertising and communications industry behind [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Speak out on copyright

HTTP:: Speak out on copyright
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The Government of Canada is, finally, paying attention.nIt’s hosting a nationwide consultation on copyright modernization through roundtables and ‘town halls’. But more importantly, it’s also opened an online discussion site.nOttawa law professor Michael Geist has been one of the leaders in the fight to make sure copyright ‘reforms’ which [...]
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Pingie: CNN.C: Despair devastation in war ravaged Swat Valley

CNN.C: Despair devastation in war ravaged Swat Valley
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Pakistani forces claim victory over the Taliban in the Swat Valley, but refugees trickling back to the region face new challenges as they endure dire conditions amid the shattered remnants of their war-ravaged towns. "Everything is in ruins," one returning businessman said. "It will take months for life to return to normality."
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Pingie: HTTP:: Bing Users Are 55 Percent More Likely to Click on Ads

HTTP:: Bing Users Are 55 Percent More Likely to Click on Ads
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Microsoft's new search engine Bing has been a relative success for the company, if not in user numbers, which may have risen slightly in the past month, though sources are often contradictory, then by the large amount of mostly positive press it has been getting almost two months since it was launched. And now there seems to be another reason why Microsoft execs should be patting themselves on the back as data from search-advertising network Chitika shows that Bing users are 55 percent more likely to click on an ad in a site they are visiting, compared to Google users. “We at Chitika are quite fond of search engines: since all of our ads serve only to search traffic, they’re our bread and butter in the online world. So with Microsoft’s new Bing decision engine making so much noise, we thought we’d take a closer look at the clickthrough rates of visitors from the three major search players: Yahoo!, Google, and Bing,” Dan Ruby, director of marketing at Chitika, sa!
id about the reasoning behind the study. The study looked at ads on 50,000 sites in Chitika's network, which generated 32 million impressions in a week this month. The findings show that users who landed on the sites coming from a Bing search were more likely to click on an ad, with clickthrough rates of 1.5...
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Pingie: TORRE: Ireland s Largest ISP Starts Throttling and Disconnections

TORRE: Ireland s Largest ISP Starts Throttling and Disconnections
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Next month Ireland’s largest ISP will begin an anti-piracy campaign against its own customers. After caving in entirely to the orders of the music industry, Eircom will first warn alleged copyright infringers, then slow their connection “to a snail’s pace”, all followed up by disconnection from the Internet.nNext month Ireland's largest ISP will begin an anti-piracy campaign against its own customers. After caving in entirely to the orders of the music industry, Eircom will first warn alleged copyright infringers, then slow their connection "to a snail's pace", all followed up by disconnection from the Internet.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Hubble Images Jupiter Impact Event

HTTP:: Hubble Images Jupiter Impact Event
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A certain point 580 million kilometers away is these days the rage in astronomical observations. A few days ago, an object impacted the planet Jupiter, as we reported. The event was first discovered by an Australian sky watcher, who telephoned NASA and told them about his observations. The impact, which left the planet scarred, occurs 15 years after the 1994 impact, when debris from the Shoemaker Levy 9 comet struck the gas giant and battered it considerably. Now, all telescopes are focused on Jupiter, including the mighty Hubble, which took a series of pictures revealing the extent of the damage.One of the most revealing photos was taken two days ago by a team of scientists operating Hubble, led by Heidi Hammel, of the Space Science Institute, in Boulder, Colorado. The director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, Maryland, Matt Mountain, allotted discretionary observation time to the team, so as to get the best possible picture of the “unfolding drama!
” on our neighbor. The newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) was used for the observations, which were made in visible light wavelengths.“This is just one example of what Hubble's new, state-of-the-art camera can do, thanks to the hard work of the astronauts and the entire Hubble team. Fortunately, the best is yet to come!&amp;rdqu...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 16385 123 Screenshot Gallery

HTTP:: Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 16385 123 Screenshot Gallery
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Windows 7 Build 6.1.7600.16385 is RTM. Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows Division, and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista's successor on July 22nd, 2009. In just three months, on October 22nd, 2009, Windows 7 will hit the shelves, general availability for both the OEM and retail channels. But by October, Microsoft will serve the RTM bits of the platform to a variety of audiences. OEMs are the first in line, and are already getting the gold release of Windows 7. “Windows 7 is a product not just of Microsoft, but of a whole industry of partners of all kinds. Throughout the development of Windows 7 we’ve seen an incredible engagement from so many people that have contributed to making the Windows 7 engineering project one we, collectively, feel good about. The feedback and collaboration throughout the development of Windows 7 has been outstanding and valuable beyond measure. This work has created the kind of ex!
perience so many of you have talked about in this blogâ€"the ability to use a broad range of PC hardware and peripherals with a great setup and out of box experience. On behalf of the Windows team and all of the successful installations and device connections, please let me extend an incredible “thank you” to all of o...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Creating Superior Car Sound Systems

HTTP:: Creating Superior Car Sound Systems
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European researchers are currently engaged in a line of study that could eventually result in improved audio systems, to be used during videoconferences or in homes, cars, and offices. The new tool system will essentially allow developers to stop focusing on how to make their creations work on various types of embedded systems and microprocessors, and concentrate more on the creative side. The HARTES project's main goal is to create algorithms and calculations necessary for full compatibility between embedded systems so simple that developers need not worry about it anymore.   The new code-writer will be much quicker and more cost effective than utilizing programmers who spend countless hours performing this tedious job rather than concentrating on improvements and innovation. “These [tools] take the developer’s high-level software algorithm and code it to run on the different processors and parts of processors,” explains Roberto Marega, the office manager at HARTES.!
As a proof-of-concept for the new system, they chose to work on an audio system inside a car, so as to see how the new embedding tools work.   “We chose to look at applications which focused on audio improveme...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Delayed U S climate action increases risks EU

HTTP:: Delayed U S climate action increases risks EU
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BRUSSELS/ARE, Sweden (Reuters) - A U.S. proposal to cut greenhouse emissions slowly at first before making deeper cuts later will increase the risks of irreversible climate damage, a European Union report says.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Major Security Breach at Network Solutions

HTTP:: Major Security Breach at Network Solutions
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Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 credit cards in the process. The unauthorized code was detected by Network Solutions technicians during routine check-ups of its e-commerce infrastructure. The company sells web hosting solutions particularly fitted for merchants, which run on servers housed on a separate network segment. However, only a portion of these servers, which host a total of over 10,000 e-commerce websites, have been compromised. According to the company, details about credit card transactions that took place between March 12 and June 8 on 4,343 websites might have been intercepted and forwarded to an outside location. Unnamed law enforcement agencies have been notified and are curr!
ently investigating the incident. Meanwhile, the company is in the process of notifying the affected merchants who, in turn, will have to notify the customers whose credit cards might have been compromised. "At this point, we have no reports or other reasons to believe that any credit card account information has be...
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Pingie: HTTP:: A Gamer 039 s Week 18 25 July

HTTP:: A Gamer 039 s Week 18 25 July
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming news from the past 7 days. It's been a pretty hectic time, especially since the San Diego Comic-Con started this week, and a lot of companies already prepared some big announcements for this weekend. So without further ado, here's this edition of A Gamer's Week. Monday definitely brought some good news for racing fans as the upcoming NFS Shift title was reported to have a special Collector's Edition launched for consoles. Some special unlock codes, including one for the stunning BMW M3 GT2, will be worth your extra money. Also, Bethesda talked about raising the level cap with the launch of the upcoming Mothership Zeta DLC for Fallout 3. But don't think that this will happen, as it will certainly break the game, but in the following titles from the company a higher level cap will surely be included. Tuesday had some good news for those still playing Call of Duty: World at War,!
as the title would receive a third DLC pack containing three new multiplayer maps and yet another scenario for the extremely popular Nazi Zombie cooperative mode. Speculations were plentiful that day, as a World of Warcraft fan went scooping through the texture files of the next patch and found some Halloween masks that might hint at new playable races...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Next Batman Starts Shooting in 2010

HTTP:: Next Batman Starts Shooting in 2010
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One of the biggest challenges for Warner Bros. in terms of coming up with a sequel to the highly successful and universally acclaimed “The Dark Knight,” the last installment of Batman, was to find a way to make it bigger and better now that Heath Ledger’s The Joker was gone. Despite rumors to the contrary, Gary Oldman says the film is a go, with a production start date set for next year, HitFix informs. Oldman’s performance as Commissioner Gordon in the two films that reinvented the story of the famous caped crusader, “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight,” was hailed by critics as nothing short of brilliant. Being such an important member of the cast, it is being widely held that whatever comes out of his mouth regarding the franchise can only be well-informed facts, albeit not yet official. With this in mind, his statement at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego can only bring joy to the millions of Batman fans around the world. “While finishing up a p!
anel promoting his new film ‘The Book of Eli’ at Comic-Con in San Diego today, Gary Oldman broke some massive news regarding Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman’ franchise. When asked by a fan when the next movie would start filming, Oldman stunned the crowd by actually answering the qu...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Philips Xenium X650 Surfaces

HTTP:: Philips Xenium X650 Surfaces
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Philips X650 Xenium is yet another mobile phone that comes to the market with impressive battery life, only that this time around it seems that the device is set to become available for purchase in more markets besides Asia and Russia, where the other such handsets usually landed. Given the fact that this is a Xenium phone, one would think it to boast a long-lasting battery, and so it does, with a month of standby time (720 hours) and with 8 hours of talk time. As anyone would expect from such a device, the battery life is the one that impresses the most, while the rest of the specs, although quite appealing, are not out of the ordinary. For example, the new Philips Xenium X650 comes to the market in a sliding form factor, sporting a 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen that can deliver a 240 x 320 pixel resolution and support for up to 262K colors. In addition, the specification list of the handset also shows a 3.2-megapixel photo snapper with auto focus, as well as FM radio, Bluet!
ooth connectivity, USB port, 30MB of internal memory, and a microSD memory card slot meant to enhance the storage capabilities of the device. In terms of connectivity options, the Philips Xenium X650 has been packed with support for GSM (900/1800/1900MHz), GPRS. The new mobile phone measures 104.5 x 52 x 16.75 mm and weighs 133.9g. As state...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Apple 039 s Tablet to Come in Early 2010

HTTP:: Apple 039 s Tablet to Come in Early 2010
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The much anticipated Apple tablet seems to finally be on its way to becoming reality. After about 2 years of rumors and small pieces of information leaking here and there, it seems that the device is getting the final cut and might drop on the market sometime at the beginning of next year. Following the variety of rumors on the tablet, a new story on AppleInsider shows the imminent arrival of the machine. According to the news, the tablet, which is 10 inches wide, comes with multi-touch capabilities, features 3G functionality, and has been developed under the supervision of Apple's CEO Steve Jobs himself. This is something that has been rumored before, only that this time the report points towards the fact that the last details have been settled, and that the possible launch time frame for the device would be January-March 2010. AppleInsider states that the sources providing the information this time are known “for their striking accuracy in Apple's internal affairs.â!
€ While being sent back to the drawing board a few times before, the tablet should come in the first quarter of next year, possibly with the mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless. The move to a new operator seems to have been determined by the fact that AT&amp;T, Apple's partner in the US, has delayed the availability of some features of...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Iraqi Kurds go to the polls

HTTP:: Iraqi Kurds go to the polls
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Semi-autonomous region in Iraq's north holds presidential and parliamentary elections.
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Pingie: HTTP:: China Postpones HXM Telescope Launch to 2012

HTTP:: China Postpones HXM Telescope Launch to 2012
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The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported yesterday that the country had postponed the launch of its first space telescope by two years, until 2012, due to cost problems. The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) will be the country's first observatory, originally scheduled for launch in 2010, as part of the nation's ambitious space program, which already saw the launch of the first “taikonauts” in low-Earth orbit in 2003. The cost of the observatory is estimated to be of about one billion yuan ($146.4 million), which is not much by NASA standards, for example.The instrument is the first of its kind, designed specifically for discovering and analyzing black holes. Rather than sporting a set of lenses or mirrors to aid it in observing the Universe, the HXMT will use three or four single telescopes, each of them outfitted with hard X-ray detectors. It is essentially based on the direct demodulation (DD) method and the well-developed NaI(Ti)/CsI(Na) phoswich detect!
ing techniques. NaI(Ti) stand for sodium iodide doped with thalium. The collimated hard X-ray instrument will work with particles in the 20-to-200-keV energy range.It will scan the skies looking for X-ray sources, and the team behind the project, supported by the Ministry of Scien...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Democracy groups plan global Iran rallies

CNN.C: Democracy groups plan global Iran rallies
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Human rights supporters in dozens of cities around the world plan to rally Saturday to show solidarity with Iranians seeking democracy and civil rights, one of the organizing groups says.
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Pingie: TORRE: One in Three Is A Music Pirate

TORRE: One in Three Is A Music Pirate
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A report just published by the market research firm Interpret has tapped into the downloading habits of a massive 64 million respondents. From this group, well over a third admitted to downloading music illegally through file-sharing networks and BitTorrent, but that doesn’t mean they don’t buy any music. nA report just published by the market research firm Interpret has tapped into the downloading habits of a massive 64 million respondents. From this group, well over a third admitted to downloading music illegally through file-sharing networks and BitTorrent, but that doesn't mean they don't buy any music.
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Pingie: CNN.C: Ousted president returns to Honduras

CNN.C: Ousted president returns to Honduras
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Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya walked under a border chain Friday and returned to his country nearly a month after being removed by a military-led coup. He was surrounded by supporters who cheered and a media scrum, and had been told he faced arrest if he returned.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Zelaya makes brief Honduras return

HTTP:: Zelaya makes brief Honduras return
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Ousted president steps a few metres into home territory before re-entering Nicaragua.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Toucans Use Their Trademark Beaks for Heat Regulation

HTTP:: Toucans Use Their Trademark Beaks for Heat Regulation
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Scientists studying toucans came across a wondrous revelation recently, when they discovered that the birds sporting some of the most beautiful beaks in the world actually used them to regulate their bodily temperatures. Using infrared cameras and time-lapse videos of a sleeping toucan, the team comprised of Brazilian and Canadian researchers noted significant temperature variations in the beak over the hours, as it gradually became warmer or colder, depending on the core temperature. Until now, there existed a number of conflicted theories as to why the bird developed such an impressive front end. Charles Darwin was among the first to attempt an explanation, saying that it was most likely an ornament designed to help with the mating process. Other naturalists have proposed that the large beak could have evolved to allow the bird to rip the peel of fruits, while others believe it plays a role in visual warnings, or nest predation. The new investigation, conducted by scient!
ists from the Brock University, in Canada, and the Universidade Estadual Paulista, in Brazil, proposes a completely different explanation, and provides solid pieces of evidence to support it. “We used infrared thermal imaging technology to assess the surface temperature of the bill of toucans while they were encountering a...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Shots fired at border before Zelaya arrives

CNN.C: Shots fired at border before Zelaya arrives
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Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya has arrived at the border as he attempts to return to his country nearly a month after being removed in a military-led coup, a broadcast on Telesur showed. Before he arrived at the crossing, police and soldiers fired on Zelaya's supporters, a correspondent for CNN en Español reported from the scene.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Zelaya begins return to Honduras

HTTP:: Zelaya begins return to Honduras
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Interim government imposes curfew as ousted leader vows to come home via Nicaragua.
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Pingie: HTTP:: United Airlines Breaks Guitars Loses 180 Million

HTTP:: United Airlines Breaks Guitars Loses 180 Million
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Luggage mishaps are known to happen on airplanes, be it at the airport, or because of the way the packages are stored and transported. Either way, the flight company eventually owns up to them and finds some form of compensation for the respective passenger. This did not happen to Canadian singer Dave Carroll, who had his Taylor acoustic damaged on United Airlines and who took his plight to YouTube. United stock fell by ten percent because of it, amounting to a loss of $180 million, the Daily Mail informs. The incident occurred in 2008, when Carroll saw his guitar being thrown around by airport personnel before being loaded. As he arrived in Chicago, he saw that, indeed, his Taylor was broken, so he took his complaint to United Airlines. The company, in its turn, refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing and, after many months of attempts, the singer did the only thing he knew to get his revenge: made a song and a video of the whole thing and posted it on YouTube. “When air!
lines damage or lose their passenger’s luggage, they normally â€" perhaps grudgingly â€" end up paying back compensation of a few hundred pounds. But United Airlines are much more out of pocket in this case. The company has lost 10per cent of their share value â€" a massive $180million â€" after being blamed ...
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HTTP:: Several killed in Iran plane blaze
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At least 17 people killed after plane catches fire in the country's north east.
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http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2009/07/2009724161958575354.html

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HTTP:: How to Fit More Transistors in a Smaller Processor
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Moore's Law has been the sacred rule of the computing hardware industry since its announcement in 1965. Basically, it states that the number of transistors in an average processor, for example, will increase exponentially, with the number doubling once every two years. However, it has been known that the pace of progress will eventually slow down, on account of problems that will occur in the miniaturization process. Experts at the Rice University (RU) and North Carolina State University may have found a way past that, when they created a new method of attaching molecules to the semiconducting silicon. The innovation could eventually result in smaller and more powerful processors. The problem facing the industry today is, quite simply put, the tendency to make things smaller and more powerful. As the size of the transistors has decreased over the second half of the 20th century, their number of processors has constantly increased. But now, making them smaller is becoming p!
roblematic, mostly because of the fact that the process has reached the nanoscale. And the problem is not the size, of only a few billionths of a meter, but the internal structure of the silicon itself. In normal computer “brains,” the silicon substrate is subjected to a process known as “doping,” in which t...
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HTTP:: Safe Hair Dyes to Be Made from Shetland Seaweed
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Because of the increased concern over the safety of currently available hair dyes, researchers at The University of Leeds are now working on a project meant to bring to market such products, and other beauty treatments as well, made from Shetland seaweed. Not only will the products be healthier, but they will also be considerably more environmentally friendly, EurekAlert informs. The idea to start this project came about because of the pressing urgency to find something that did not include the many chemicals and allergens found in today’s dyes. The sum of £500,000 has been invested in the two-year project so far and, from what researchers are saying, chances are the revolutionary products will reach international markets soon enough. “Scientists at the University of Leeds are planning to extract chemical compounds from different species of seaweed and use them to develop a new range of hair dyes. The naturally sourced compounds will be used by scientists as substit!
utes for synthetic ingredients that can be found in most hair dyes currently on the market. Many compounds in existing products are allergens and certain chemicals, notably p-phenylenediamine (PPD), have been linked to more serious, long-term health effects. The project also hopes to develop other safer and more environmen...
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