Oracle and Intel are feuding over the future of the Itanium chip. 

Image: Intel Corporation

via VentureBeat

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This is a great story about a guy who went to MIT with no prior high school degree, all due to his brilliant programming skills.

via GeekOSystem

James Huang over at Wired reviews some tiny tracking devices for keeping tabs on your enemies.  

“The world’s most advanced Wiffle-ology lab, using wind tunnels and computer models to measure aerodynamics.”  Really??

via Wired Magazine

Over at Dangerous Prototypes we found this link to a Beginner’s CPLD Tutorial. Thanks guys!

What if you had a computer that you ONLY used for work? Not for Facebook, not for playing Minecraft, not for surfing for your next RC helicopter. You’d ideally have another device you used for play.  It’s an interesting proposal.

source: Seth Godin, via Geekosystem

Designed by Jung Hwan Song & Joo Young You, this digital neck pillow just might be the perfect thing for your next business trip. It’s temperature-controlled, soft, and comes with an integrated mp3 player and digital sunglasses.  

Image and source: Yanko Design

Engineers at Ohio State University have designed a lens that enables microscopic objects to be seen from nine different angles at once, creating a 3D image.

Source: theEngineer

Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was the co-founder and director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a sound effects and music studio established in the 1950s that had a vast influence on electronic music and synthesizer technology.

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