A nixie tube project modeled after the Union Square clock in NYC. via Make 

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“Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world’s computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have appreciated: the digital equivalent of a 5.6-billion-mile-high stack of books from Earth to Neptune and back to Earth, repeated about 20 times a year.” via PhysOrg

Read the UCSD report here.

On August 25, 2011, the Linux operating system will celebrate its 20th anniversary. This short video takes you through the history of the OS and focuses on the cool free licensing that really allowed Linux to take off.

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“AMD’s news this week that it has begun mass production of the next phase of its AMD Fusion range of processors will mark the company’s new assault on Intel: in the lucrative mainstream notebook and desktop segment.”
read the full article at SlashGear

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A 75-year old woman was digging for scrap metal when she hacked into a fiber optic cable that runs through Georgia to Armenia, forcing thousands of Internet users in both countries offline for several hours on March 28.

via Digital Life and Gizmodo

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Photographer Jeffrey Martin created a 40 gigapixel panaoramic photograph of the Strahov Monastery Library in Prague.

He used a robotic “GigaPanBot” to capture 2,947 shots over five days of the impressive library, and viewers can zoom in enough to read individual titles on the books on the bookshelves.

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“In a blow to the electronics industry in Australia, Altium is relocating its global headquarters and core R&D facilities from Sydney to Shanghai, China.

The relocation will affect Altium’s core software development activities, corporate office and executive management team, and refocus its marketing toward the Chinese market.” via Electronics News

Read full article here

“The recent announcement from Tabula about the $108 million raised in its Series D round of funding is putting the focus on FPGA technology, and FPGA startups in particular. Who are these FPGA startups, what is their differentiation, where is the innovation, in the product or the business model?” via Read More → "A history of FPGA startups"

Intel announced today a new family of Xeon E7 10-core dual-threaded processors. The Xeon E7 is intended for both servers and very high performance computers.

via electronista