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FCC Asked to Get Carriers to Hurry Up Local Number Portability Already
With all the advances in technology we've had over the last couple of decades, you'd think that something as simple as changing your land line number into a cellular one would take hours at most. At least Congress does, and its now urging the FCC to put rules in place that will speed up local number portability processing. More »
5:30 PM on Sat Jul 19 2008
By Elaine Chow
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jewelry
Designers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg have come up with a mathematical way to design jewelry. Via their Nervous System site, you steer open source "Processing" algorithms to produce a pattern you like. This is then machined by water-jet, etched and even gold-plated for you into real jewelry. Currently they've got a particle algorithm dubbed Radiolaria (think: bubbles in glass) and a diffusion-limited one, Dendrite (think: coral) but will soon add a tree-like Algae one. The prices vary, of course, depending on what you want—the gold necklace in the image costs $70. If you prefer, you can choose a pre-made pattern... but where's the fun in that? [Nervous System via PopSci]
Custom Nervous System Jewelry is Carved to Your Algorithmic Designs
Designers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg have come up with a mathematical way to design jewelry. Via their Nervous System site, you steer open source "Processing" algorithms to produce a pattern you like. This is then machined by water-jet, etched and even gold-plated for you into real jewelry. Currently they've got a particle algorithm dubbed Radiolaria (think: bubbles in glass) and a diffusion-limited one, Dendrite (think: coral) but will soon add a tree-like Algae one. The prices vary, of course, depending on what you want—the gold necklace in the image costs $70. If you prefer, you can choose a pre-made pattern... but where's the fun in that? [Nervous System via PopSci]
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CyberLink Uses ATI Card To Transcode Four 1080p Video Files Simultaneously
The fashionable thing these days is to take the tremendous processing power of graphics cards and put them to use when you're not utilizing them to render games. CyberLink, for one, has come up with a pretty ingenous method to take an ATI or NVIDIA card (in their case, the demo was on an ATI Radeon 4850 512MB card) and convert four 1080p MPEG-2 movies into MPEG-4. Simultaneously. As long as you've got a pretty fast video card, all you need is a copy of CyberLink PowerDirector 7 and you can be doing this too. We hope this is the kind of thing Apple's going to be putting into Snow Leopard. [TG Daily]
giz explains
As you've probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS that they can't boast has over 300 new features? Here's a quick rundown of how Apple is totally rebuilding OS X to take advantage of Core 2 Duos, graphics cards and parallel processing, in order to deliver serious performance gains. And yes, that is a big deal.
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Giz Explains: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Parallel Processing and GPU Computing
As you've probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features like Time Machine and Boot Camp. So why would Apple spend a year programming an OS that they can't boast has over 300 new features? Here's a quick rundown of how Apple is totally rebuilding OS X to take advantage of Core 2 Duos, graphics cards and parallel processing, in order to deliver serious performance gains. And yes, that is a big deal.
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2:00 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By matt buchanan
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Latest by n/a: @Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: I thought Mac wanted only thier stuff in Mac's. Isn't that why they build all thier own units in house. more »
snow leopard
The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple's CEO lets fly with very quotable, very understandable quotes about OS X 10.6. We already heard the details, but it was still hard to wrap our head around why Apple would make an operating system without many visible features and just go and change architecture around. He explains that they're doing it because programmers don't know WTF is going on with parallel processing.
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Steve Jobs Explains OS X Snow Leopard in Three Easy Steps
The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple's CEO lets fly with very quotable, very understandable quotes about OS X 10.6. We already heard the details, but it was still hard to wrap our head around why Apple would make an operating system without many visible features and just go and change architecture around. He explains that they're doing it because programmers don't know WTF is going on with parallel processing.
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audio processing
Resurrecting Destroyed Music Recording Earns Mathematician a Grammy
A sixty year-old concert bootleg, made on a broken and twisted old magnetic wire earned a bunch of audio engineers and a mathematician a Grammy last night for their skills in recovering destroyed music. The audio recording on the wire was so distorted, and the wire broken so many times, that the team had to invent whole new techniques to process the music back to listenable quality. The result: the only live recording of old time folk-singer Woody Guthrie. More »
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Sony Getting Sued for PS3's Cell Processor
Despite the Cell processor being a joint venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for "synchronised parallel processing with shared memory," which they claim Sony has broken with the use of the Cell processor in PS3s. But the PPC is not only asking for money, but the "impounding and destruction" of all infringing units (we're guessing just Sony's stock). More »
diy fuel
Make Biodiesel Yourself With Home Processing Plant
Etruk has devised a method to produce biodiesel within the comfort of your own home, using their Home Biodiesel Processing Plant. The unit utilises biological sources such as vegetable oil to produce the sustainable energy source. The benefits of making biodiesel at home primarily lie in the sustainability of the fuel source and the monetary savings it confers. More »
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Computer Can Now Win or Tie All Checkers Games
By analyzing all 5x10^20 (500 billion billion) possible checkers moves, computers can now beat or tie a human at checkers every single game. How'd they analyze so much data? By starting in 1989 and going until they were done. Let's see them do this with Go. [Machinist]
home entertainment
HD DVD and Blu-ray Now Completely Hacked, Cracked, Sacked
The guys at the Doom 9 forum are marking February 11, 2007 as the day when digital rights management was defeated on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. It turns out that cracking the high definition disc formats was much easier than was originally thought. The processing key that can unravel the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray discs has been found by a clever encryption fighter named arnezami. More »
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Keep Your Eyes On The Road and Your Hands Upon the Wheel
Someone at Toyota has been sitting shotgun with me. And to prove it, the company has come up with what my friends and family have wished for since I [somehow] got my license many years ago. A new image-processing computer system using a camera near the steering wheel will detect when a driver stops looking at the road. And to let you and everyone else in the car know you're not paying attention, there will be a nice beeping noise like when you forget to put your seatbelt on. If you still refuse to take your eyes off your radio, cigarette lighter or the cows on the side of the road, the brakes will just kick in for you. Genius, I say. The feature will be offered in Lexus luxury models in Japan next spring.Toyota computer makes you watch the road [ABC News]
