Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:02 AM CEST - Oct,15 2002
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- Xbox bundled with games for holidays -
Between Oct. 15 and the end of the year, Xbox buyers will get copies of
"Sega GT 2002," a racing game, and Sega's "Jet Set Radio Future" free with the
purchase of a $199 Xbox. Separately, each game costs $49.95.
- New XBox defeated: X-Ecuter v2 modchip is coming out soon - The
X-Exuter official website has word that
Evox Dashboard works as
normal on the new v1.1 XBOX.
- The case of the bootleg 'Star Wars' - SHEA O'BRIEN FOLEY, a
former production assistant at LucasFilm,
was arrested
last week and charged with 13 counts of felony for the theft of an
estimated $450,000 worth of "Star Wars"-related material from his ex-employer,
according to the Marin Independent Journal.
- Deep Fritz beats the human--still trails chess match - The
supercomputer, programmed to evaluate 3.5 millions in a second,
won its
first game of the "Brains in Bahrain" challenge to narrow the 27-year-old
Russian's lead to 3-2. Kramnik had won games two and three of the series,
while the first and fourth games ended in draws.
- Cloning team looks to human embryos - Ian Wilmut, leader of the
team which cloned Dolly the sheep, is to plunge into uncharted scientific
waters by trying to clone human embryos for research. Prof Wilmut's
plan is controversial because it seeks to create cloned embryos not, as has
been speculated, for growing cells and organs for transplant, but for research
into diseases. This could provide an alternative to animal testing,
although opponents of any kind of cloning will find the idea of "embryos for
medical testing" as easy to condemn as "embryos for spare parts".
- How mobile phones let spies see our every move - UK Government's
secret
Celldar project will allow surveillance of anyone, at any time and
anywhere there is a phone signal .The system works wherever a mobile phone can
pick up a signal. By using receivers attached to mobile phone masts, users of
the new technology could focus in on areas hundreds of miles away and bring up
a display showing any moving vehicles and people. An individual with one
type of receiver, a portable unit little bigger than a laptop computer, could
even use it as a 'personal radar' covering the area around the user.
Researchers are working to give the new equipment 'X-ray vision' - the
capability to 'see' through walls and look into people's homes.
- Gitex 2002 (Day 2) Coverage - T-break continue their coverage of
Gitex 2002 (day2) (day1),
they have posted images of the nForce2, KT400A, SiS 655 and a new cube PC from
shuttle based on the 845GE chipset.
- IBM races new PowerPC chip - The
new chip might prove a boon to Apple Computer, which could use it to
substantially narrow a growing performance gap with the PC world--PC chips
will run at 3GHz by the end of the year. Sources familiar with IBM and Apple's
plans said that Apple will be a customer for the PowerPC 970 next year. Apple
did not return calls for comment.
- GeForce4 460 Go Announced - NVIDIA has officially announced their
GeForce4 460 Go mobile graphics chipset, and also announced that the
GeForce4 460 Go will be available in their
Satellite 5205-S703 notebook.
- Toshiba to unveil Bluetooth mobile storage device - Toshiba is set
to
launch a Bluetooth-equipped portable storage device. The Hopbit will offer
5GB of storage, enough for around 1000 MP3 audio tracks and 3000 digital
images from a three-megapixel camera. The Bluetooth module will allow users to
seamlessly transfer data from other devices such as handheld computers. It's
expected to receive its debut at the World PC Expo, which opens in Tokyo on
October 16.
- MS Mobile Phone Shots - T-break has posted some
close-up shots of Microsoft's new mobile phone (you must be a registered
member of the Forums in order to view the shots).
- CreativeR NOMAD Jukebox Zen -The
Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen offers the same powerful features and
flexibility found in a large capacity MP3 player, but now delivered in a
smaller and sleeker package! Use the fast 10x transfer rate anywhere via
SB1394 FireWireR or use USB plug-in for basic transfer.
- Overclockability of Athlon XP 2800+ Processors. They Cannot Be
Overclocked - According to
Xbit-labs, 2250MHz is the highest speed AMD K7-family processors can
achieve.
- Abit NV7-8X nForce2 Specs - Abit today published
some specifications for their upcoming NV7-8X nForce2-based motherboard.
- WinAMP 3.0 (Build 488) Update -
This
update contains a few updated plugins: Output plugin system, MIDI support,
MOD support, Vorbis support, Archive reader, and is intented only for the
FINAL version 3.0 of Winamp (Build 488).
- Blender is Now Free -
Blender is powerful 3D
rendering package under the GPL. After 3 months and 100,000 euros, Blender is
now completely free for all!
- Tweak-XP Pro 2.03 -
Tweak-XP
Pro bundles more than 37 different utilities in one: it was developed to
combine both tweaking and optimizing features to increase the speed of your
WindowsR XP system.
- RegScrubXP 3.2 -
RegScrubXP is designed to delete unnecessary information from the System
Registry of XP/NT2000 operating systems. This 'junk' is often left behind when
programs are uninstalled, and the information is not needed anymore.
Programmers mistakenly load the Registry with junk as well. The result of
cleaning out the junk is a smaller, faster Registry.
- SMS-it 2.5 -
SMS-it!
allows you to send a SMS to a mobile phone using your computer. SMS-it
supports Picture messages, Caller Group Graphic, Operator Logo, Ringtones and
Flash SMS.
- HDCleaner 2.321 - Freeware
HDCleaner cleans your HDD and removes unnecessary file garbage from all
available drives. The most important groups of files, about BAK, CHK, GID, ~ *
*, TMP, are before-configured already and need to be only selected.
- AVM FRITZ!Card DSL Drivers - AVM Germany FTP has been updated
with new drivers for the popular FRITZ!Card DSL v.03.10.13 build 02.10.11 (WinXP/2k
~
Win9x/ME).
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