Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:05 AM CEST - Jul,30 2002
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- Boeing tries to defy gravity - Researchers at the world's
largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to
create a device that will defy gravity. The company is examining an experiment by
Yevgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have developed a device which can shield objects from
the Earth's pull.
- R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid - Do you like toys? :) The R2-D2 Interactive
Astromech Droid is a 15-inch-plus version of R2-D2 and is packed with all the spunk
and charm that made the droid famous. This responsive droid answers to your call and obeys
your commands. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning
technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognizes 40 spoken phrases, plays
six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold
a 12-ounce beverage.
- 200GB HDD Ships - Drive maker Western Digital begins shipping a
new drives with up to 200GB of capacity--a whopping 80GB more than found in most high-end
consumer PCs.
- Qualcomm to add Wi-Fi to phone chips - Qualcomm, which licenses
cell phone designs to manufacturers and makes chipsets, is the latest company to begin merging
cell phones with the Wi-Fi wireless networks, which create a powerful wireless zone of
about 300 feet.
- Settec introduces a new, updated audio copy protection - A
Korean company using the name Settec has released a press release on its website about a
new and improved audio
copy-protection using the name "Alpha Audio M3 Type".
- Windows PE revealed - One of the coolest and most unknown
products Microsoft has released is called the Windows XP Preinstallation Environment, or Windows PE. In short, it's
Windows XP-on-a-CD. You boot directly to a Windows XP GUI, which allows you to set up your
computer to install Windows. This is a wonderful utility for those of you who regularly
use DOS boot disks or Windows Setup to set up your computer for installation.
- NVIDIA NV30 Sneak Preview - This
sneak preview of the NVIDIA NV30 focuses on the architecture behind the chipset and
some, but not all of the new features that it will bring. Because we signed an NDA to get
this information we wont be giving away performance figures, as mind boggling as we know
them to be. Instead we shall focus on "CineFX", NVIDIA's new cinema engine that
promises to render animation such as Toy Story; in real time. Since we can't share
benchmark figures we will leave you with some thought. NVIDIA says Cinematic quality
requires five key points: 1) Advanced Programmability, 2) High Precision Color, 3) High
Level Shading Language (CG), 4) Highly Efficient Architecture, 5) High Bandwidth to System
Memory and CPU (AGP 8X). The only other point we can share is that NV30 will use a 256 Bit
memory bus and DDR2 memory. I recommend you to read another article at SharkyExtreme too.
- Epic Workshop @ Intel P4 CPL - CliffyB
and Allen from Epic show off their latest work, UT2003, in this amatuer video from a
recent press event
- Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0 - Download the Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0 which Brings the power of XML
- CPUCooL 7.1.2 - CPUCooL version 7.1.2
has been released. What is CPUCool? CPUCooL is a program that monitors temperature, fan
speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It provides Cpu cooling under Win9x/2000/XP/NT,
allows FrontSideBus changing, optimizes your memory and CPU.
- BSPlayer v0.85 Build 490 - BSplayer is windows player for playing back avi/asf/wmv/mpeg video
files or any other file for which you have a codec. The previous version wasn't much
stable for me, I hope they fixed it :)
- VIA Beta AGP driver v4.30 (8x AGP) - VIA have released a new
Beta AGP driver version 4.30 with support for 8X AGP cards in VIA's 400 range of
chipsets and beyond.
- Asus A7V333 BIOS - Asus have released a new BIOS
version 1011.001 for the Asus A7V333.
- Asus Detonators 30.00 Drivers Available Again - Asus have
their Detonators 30.00 drivers (Win9x/ME ~ Win2k/XP) back online.
- Abit Siluro Geforce4 TI BIOS - Abit have released a new Siluro
Geforce4 TI bios updates for TI4200/TI4400/TI4600 and the Geforce4 MX PRO. Download: Geforce4 TI4200
BIOS ver 4.25.00.34.00 / Geforce4 TI4400 BIOS ver 4.25.00.34.00 / Geforce4 TI4600
BIOS ver 4.25.00.34.00 / Geforce4 MX
PRO BIOS ver 4.17.00.52.00.
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