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Nerd News Today; 4/5
By Oliver Rist | April 5, 2007, 9:39 am
- Kiss that VGA port buh-bye. The VESA org just gave official blessing to the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Gonna replace VGA and DVI ports for flat panel displays. Faster, supports all those hi-def bits, and has a smaller physical plug, too. Also integrates that Blu-Ray DRM stuff, unfortunately. (Source: BetaNews)
- Wikipedia founder dissing…Wikipedia? One of the co-founders of Wikipedia just gave an interview where he’s announcing a new online, wiki-style research resource, called Citizendium. Says it’ll be better than Wikipedia because it’ll abolish anonymous postings, hire experts to review submissions and have strict review procedures. ‘Course that’s pretty similar to any other encyclopedia operation, so we’re all wondering how that’s going to work for free; but then again, it’s a Web startup so he needs to worry about pesky details like reality. (Source: CNET)
- The 8-core Mac. Everybody’s writing about it, so I gotta mention it. Apple just introed a dual quad-core Xeon-based Mac Pro workstation. Hardware junkies can run to their Apple outlets to see if they can rub up against a display model soon. Just keep the moaning to a minimum and your flies zipped at all times. (Source: TG Daily)
- RelevanceNow launches offline avatar. Not sure if this is cool or just one of those ridiculous geeky flashes. The software is called MyCyberTwin and it puts an avatar of you up on the Web (a site, your blog, whatever). This thing has a personality of its own–which you can customize a little–and can chat with people even while you’re offline. So we could have a couple of northerly-looking geek Viking avatars on this site, who might repeat the top headlines to anyone visiting while both me and Sasquatch were offline. Or tell you where the local hacker orgy was. Or say ‘fuck off’ to visitors coming from ilovecreationism.com. (Source: DailyTech)
Topics: Desktops, Today in Tech, WTF?, Evil Empires, Apple |
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