“Boffins ‘write directly to memory’ of living brains”
Happy Hallowe’en! Here‘s a vaguely Hallowe’en-themed article I stumbled across last week. It’s exciting, but the scary part is what an amoral dictator could do with it once it’s perfected.
Happy Hallowe’en! Here‘s a vaguely Hallowe’en-themed article I stumbled across last week. It’s exciting, but the scary part is what an amoral dictator could do with it once it’s perfected.
More fascinating research.
The guys at VMware have really improved VMware Fusion. Most of the claimed improvements were apparently made for Windows 7, which I’m not running yet, but it’s a major improvement even without that. With version 2 (at least on this MacBook Pro), hard drive accesses from the VMs were extremely slow, though the virtual machines …
I don’t know why ISPs didn’t start doing this ten years ago. It was easily possible then, and there was certainly a need for it at that point too. I hope more of them pick it up in the future.
Proof positive that greed doesn’t pay. We may be nothing but “self-loading cargo” to the airlines, but we’re not completely stupid.
It sounds great, but isn’t viable in practice.
Interesting use of resources.
It seems that Intel has found a way around the major complaint about multi-core CPUs, which is that they run single-threaded applications slower than single-core CPUs: they’ve come up with a technology to shut down unused cores to boost the speed on the remaining active cores. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’ll probably help …
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Wow, those Swedes even have smarter bank robbers! 😉
Some fascinating evidence suggesting just that.