Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 01:55 AM CEST - Aug,30 2002
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- Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves - Researchers at the
University of Toronto's sleep clinic have found that the
human brain creates its own internal music, and that same music can be
used to fight a common problem that affects millions of people across the
continent: anxiety insomnia. By playing their own "brain music" back to them,
researchers were able to get persons with sleeping disorders to fall asleep
more quickly, and to sleep more soundly, according to psychiatrist Leonid
Kayumov, director of the clinic.
- Webmaster indicted for terror support - The founder of the
StopAmerica.org Web site, who has been
linked to an alleged al-Qaida plot, was indicted on charges of aiding
terrorists.
- Honda, Toyota Add Telematics Features to New Cars - Japan's two
largest automakers each have
announced enhanced in-car communications systems that will be rolled out
with new models this fall, adding their technology to the global telematics
market.
- JVC claims 'uncopyable' CD-ROM - The Root technology--so named
because it is intended to prevent illegal copying "from the Roots up"--uses
encryption keys, a method that has been tried in the past. The disc's
contents are encrypted, so that it cannot be read without a "key" also placed
on the disc. The innovation in this case is that the key is hidden in such a
way that it can be read by any CD-ROM drive, but cannot be written by a
CD-R/RW drive, so that a copied version of the disc would be unreadable. The
key is different for each disc, and is hidden in a different place each time,
according to the companies.
- ATI outs mobility RADEON 9000 - ATI today launched the
mobile version of its top-of-the-range RADEON 9000 graphics accelerator.
This incorporates better power management, improved streaming capabilities for
all those DVDs you need to see on the hoof, and something called the world's
"first mobile quad-pipe 3D architecture". Reviews:
Toms's Hardware /
AnandTech /
HardOCP.
- Burning for Surround - Here's your chance to
experiment with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround . You can download a 3 minute
song I mixed in 5.1 surround that's already been encoded as an Dolby Digital
WAV file at 256 kilobits per second, then compressed using PKZIP. Yes, we all
know that PKZIP won't work to compress a PCM audio file, but it works
perfectly on AC-3 files and can reach lossless data compression rates of up to
6:1. This achieves full surround playback at somewhat reduced fidelity due to
the 256 kbps data rate, but at a size of only 2 Megabytes per minute of 5.1
audio.
- P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz - After some adjusting and
testing we were able to run SiSoft Sandra CPU and Memory benchmarks and Pifast
benchmark smoothly when the
CPU was running at 3917MHz. We raised the FSB one more step and managed to
run succesfully SuperPi benchmark while CPU was running at 3998MHz. The result
was 39 seconds.
- NVIDIA Detonator 40.41 Comparison -
Benchmarks like 3DMark2001SE, Quake3, Comanche 4, Serious Sam SE and RTCW are
used. The performance
improvements are pretty remarkable especially for 3DMark2001SE where
scores imcreased by over 1000 3dmarks!
- Windows Messenger v4.7.0101 - You can
download it directly from Microsoft.
- Sonique2 Alpha 2.1.8.28 -
A new build of Sonique2 is out.
- Netscape 7.0 Final - A new version of the popular browser
Netscape 7.0 Final has been released. Here is
a link for Linux version /
FTP
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