• What are your obsolete gaming skills? » Has the advance of time rendered any of your videogame abilities redundant?
• Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys » Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard.
• ‘Perry Bible Fellowship’ Comic Is Ending »
• Google Lunar Xprize » Google is offering $30 million to the first people to put a robot on the moon.
• Portal 2 Confirmed » On tonight’s episode of X-Play, lead designer for Portal, Kimberly Swift, confirmed that there will be a Portal 2. Video of interview at the link.
• Gene research may help explain autistic savants » Mice lacking a certain brain protein learn some tasks better but also forget faster, according to new research from MIT that may explain the phenomenon of autistic savants in humans.
• Austin Czech Historical Association »
• Self-healing rubber bounces back » A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.
• GetByMail » Remote Access & File Sharing by Mail
• Making your windows folder smaller!  »
• LitePC Technologies » trim Windows operating systems
• HDDVD is Dead - Toshiba Press Release » Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.
• Samuel Adams Hop Sharing Program » Samuel Adams beer is selling their hops to microbrewers at just above their cost, to help alleviate the strain of the hop shortage on microbreweries.

The format war is over.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

Now we can finally all go buy a damn movie player. Even though we won’t notice that much difference over regular DVDs. And now Microsoft can scramble to change their XBOX360, or not.

click the link at the top or the link below to see the full press release.
continue reading "Sony avoids another Betamax - HD DVD is officially dead"