Archive for May 29, 2008

‘Missing link’ memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?

“The memristor is our salvation, because it works better and better as you make it smaller and smaller,” said Chua. “The era of nanoscale electronics will be enabled by the memristor. This is not just an invention, it is a basic scientific discovery. It has always been there–we just had to face these nanoscale problems to realize its importance.”

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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.3

Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update today. The latest update to Leopard should appear in your Mac OS X Software Update. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of…

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Beyond Good & Evil 2 announced!

At Ubidays 2008. Hooray!

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Firefox community to set Guinness World Record

Firefox community to set Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours

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Carriers Have the iPhone 2, But Leaked Images Are All Fake

Yesterday I was talking with a contact in one of the European carriers that will be selling the iPhone 3G in June. I asked: “really, do you guys have the iPhone 3G?”. “Yes, we have iPhone 3Gs to test with their network and services. However, they are not the actual iPhones”.
In other words: their engineers got the guts, but not the iPhone itself

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MPAA Threatens World’s Premier Usenet Indexer

Newzbin, considered by many to be the internet’s premier indexer and .nzb provider, is under legal threat from the MPAA. The site, which was the creator of Usenet’s answer to the .torrent file, will likely have to undergo significant changes in order to appease the movie studios.

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Gizmodo mysteriously remove “All 3G iPhones are fake” story

Gizmodo said there are no carrier get the 3G iPhone and all the leaked pictures are fake. The post appeared on the internet for few hours and it suddenly disappeared. Are the editors of Gizmodo having a fight for the controversial news, or they admit that the news is wrong and the leaked photos are right?

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