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Today in Tech 3/20
By Oliver Rist | March 20, 2007, 9:40 am
Okay, so I didn’t feel like posting anything other than TiT yesterday. At least I posted something. Sasquatch couldn’t get his fattening ass off the couch to save his life.
- The Evil Empire outlines its tech plans for the year. Nope, not Microsoft. The real evil empire: Verizon. They gave an exclusive outlining all their broadband upgrades and wire/wireless convergence…attempts. Probably not going to outline all their plans for sticking it to us on the bill, tho. (Source: NetworkWorld)
- Intel opens up PC design to the public. From today through April 19, if you’ve got an opinion on PC design, you can head over to the Intel Challenge site and vote on your favorite. Companies from all over have submitted their designs for judgment and a $1 million prize. Just like Idol, except it’s all geeks and you can’t make the losers cry. (Source: Intel)
- Academic networks merge. Internet-2 made a splash a few years ago as the eventual high-speed successor to the Internet we all slog through today. Never happened. Stayed academic and got competition from another school-nerd-net, called National LamdaRail. The two hated each other for a while, competing for attention and funding. Now, after lots of intellectual infighting, they’ve merged. Means guys like our buddy Brian Chee over at the University of Hawaii will be happier, but it doesn’t do so much for those of us stuck in the real world. (Source: Ars Technica)
- Forget sprinklers, get the Hoover. Last week’s CeBit show had folks showing new data center fire suppression methods. Instead of using water (ARGH!) or chemicals to smother the flames, these products decrease the oxygen in the room in response to a fire alarm. They get sucked to death. That’s as far as I’m taking that one. (Source: PC World)
- Perfect math at MIT. It took 18 math supernerds four years and 77 hours of supercomputer computation to come up with the most symmetrical math structure known to date. Unveiled at MIT yesterday. Should help underline the physicist supernerd Theory of Everything. Man, I’m getting a headache. (Source: New York Times)
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