| Science: Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:51 am] |
Science: Deciphering the DNA Code of Neanderthal Man
Posted by Zonk on Friday July 21, @01:44PM
from the hey-good-buddy dept.
smooth wombat writes
"U.S. and German scientists have embarked on a two-year long project to map the genetic code of Neanderthal man. Their hope is to gain a greater understanding of how modern human brains evolved. This study comes after last years completion of mapping the DNA of chimpanzees, our closest living relative."
From the article:
"Over two years, the scientists aim to reconstruct a draft of the 3 billion building blocks of the Neanderthal genome -- working with fossil samples from several individuals. They face the complication of working with 40,000-year-old samples, and of filtering out microbial DNA that contaminated them after death. Only about 5 percent of the DNA in the samples is actually Neanderthal DNA, Egholm estimated, but he and Rothberg said pilot experiments had convinced them that the decoding was feasible." |
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| Hardware: Apple Reaches 12% Market Share In U.S. Notebooks |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:53 am] |
Hardware: Apple Reaches 12% Market Share In U.S. Notebooks
Posted by Zonk on Friday July 21, @10:36AM
from the growing-tree dept.
bonch writes
"Apple's U.S. notebook market share has doubled to 12% after shipping 1.33 million Macs in the quarter. Apple also shipped 8.11 million iPods, topping analyst estimates, for a net income of $472 million. Remember when Apple was dying?"
From the article:
"The iPod shipments appeared to calm investors worried that growth in that red-hot business was slowing and Apple's results topped what analysts had said was a conservative forecast. Shares of Apple were down some 24 percent since early May. 'Apple looked good,' said Jane Snorek, technology analyst with First American Funds. 'The PC numbers were great, too.'" |
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| IT: The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:54 am] |
IT: The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing?
Posted by Zonk on Friday July 21, @08:57AM
from the bioawesome dept.
AxisPower9 writes
"What we often watch in films and television - circumventing biometric security access - is turning from science-fiction to reality. Bori Toth, biometric research and advisory lead at Deloitte & Touche, warned that biometric spoofing is a growing concern. From the article: 'We are leaving our prints everywhere so the chance of someone lifting them and copying them is real. Currently it's only researchers that are doing spoofing and copying. It's not a mainstream activity--but it will be. Many people are trying to regard biometrics as secret but they aren't. Our faces and irises are visible and our voices are being recorded. Fingerprints and DNA are left everywhere we go and it's been proved that these are real threats.'" |
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| Google Doubles its Profits |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:56 am] |
Google Doubles its Profits
Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday July 21, @04:25AM
from the selling-like-hotcakes dept.
WinEveryGame writes
"Google just announced a very strong quarter. The internet search engine said it had net income of $721m, or $2.33 per diluted share, up from $343m a year earlier. Wall Street had expected earnings of $1.94 per share. Earlier this week Yahoo had announced lower than expected earnings." |
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| Your Rights Online Yahoo! Sells Advocates DRM-Free Music |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:56 am] |
Your Rights Online: Yahoo! Sells, Advocates DRM-Free Music
Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 20, @07:02PM
from the could-have-picked-a-better-lead-artist dept.
prostoalex writes
"Jessica Simpson's 'A Public Affair' will be sold on Yahoo! Music in MP3 format with no DRM attached. According to Yahoo! Music blog, this is a big deal for the major online music store: 'As you know, we've been publicly trying to convince record labels that they should be selling MP3s for a while now. Our position is simple: DRM doesn't add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day -- the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform. We've also been saying that DRM has a cost. It's very expensive for companies like Yahoo! to implement. We'd much rather have our engineers building better personalization, recommendations, playlisting applications, community apps, etc, instead of complex provisioning systems which at the end of the day allow you to burn a CD and take the DRM back off, anyway!'" |
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| Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:57 am] |
Latest Vista Build Making Real Progress
Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 20, @04:52PM
from the better-build dept.
feminazi writes
"Computerworld's Scot Finnie has reviewed the newest Vista build and found some significant improvements over Beta 2, which he had previously criticized in pretty strong terms. There's improved performance, greatly reduced installation time, four network control panels and some wizards have all been combined into one nicely organized Network and Sharing Center. Microsoft is also reducing the number of annoying User Access Control (UAC) prompts. There are some minor improvements in the way Media Center handles windows, but it's still buggy." |
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| Hardware: Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4 |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|01:59 am] |
Hardware: Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4
Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 20, @01:45PM
from the chip-fight dept.
Grooves writes
"Intel has said that the company is stepping up the pace of its Core 2 architecture rollout to compete with AMD's 4x4. Two "quad-core" parts originally slated for release in the first half of 2007, Kentsfield for the desktop and Clovertown for servers, will make their debut as early as the end of this year. The Ars article warns that per-core bandwidth problems could end up giving a performance advantage to AMD's 4x4 approach." |
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