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Monday, September 6, 2010

Weekly Ten (9-06-2010)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:12 AM PDT

Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:

1. Maths prodigy, 15, makes Cambridge history

A 15-year-old mathematics prodigy is set to become the youngest undergraduate at the University of Cambridge for more than two centuries.

More @ BBC

2. Fidel Castro, Internet junkie

Fidel Castro is back from the dead (his words) and has been reincarnated as an Internet junkie. Not only is he a prolific blogger on Cuba's online Granma newspaper but, it turns out, the 84-year-old greybeard consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the Web and is fascinated by the WikiLeaks site, with its trove of 90,000 formerly secret U.S. documents on military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

More @ LATimes

3. Back to the future: two years of Google Chrome

Watching the 1985 classic Back to the Future last night, I was struck by how much things can change with time. The main character Marty McFly travels 30 years back in time, only to find that his house hadn't been built yet, skateboards hadn't been invented and nobody had ever heard rock 'n roll.

More @ Googleblog

4. Wearable controller for your paintball tank

More @ HackaDay

5. Sony's Shocking 'Other OS' Win and Suspect Distro Popularity Trends

A LinuxTrends report on who's hot and who's not among Linux distros doesn't paint an accurate picture, according to blogger hairyfeet, who observed that if Google trends were the deciding factor, "I'm sure Miley Cyrus would be president of the USA by now."

More @ LinuxInsider

6. Fake Antivirus Software Uses Ransom Threats

Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet's latest threat report has found.

More @ PCWorld

7. Is Android Only Surging Because Apple Is Letting It?

This weekend, I've been catching up on some reading. One post that was of particular interest to me was David Beach's article from last week about developing for Android.

More @ TechCrunch

8. IBM claims world's fastest processor with 5.2GHz z196

More @ Engadget

9. Are routerless datacenters in Microsoft's future?

Microsoft Research is exploring a new way to connect servers directly to other servers, without the use of any switches or dedicated networking inside a datacenter container.

More @ ZDNetBlogs

10. 10 Unusual Scientific Scales

It seems today if you want to make your name famous y

ou have two choices – star in "leaked" home pornography tapes, or discover something that has so far eluded the capacity to be measured, find a way to measure it, develop a way to rank the measurements or place them into categories, and attach your name to the resulting scale.

More @ Listverse