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| Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:03 AM PDT  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Scientists make quantum breakthrough Australian scientists say they're coming first in a world-wide race to create a new breed of super computers set to transform the way we live. More @ smh.com.au 2. The Defenders of Free Software Armijn Hemel, 32, lives with his parents in Tiel, a town smack-dab in the middle of the Netherlands. He works as a technology consultant, but spends several hours a week on his avocation: pestering some of the world's most powerful consumer electronics and technology companies. More @ NYTimes 3. A more fontastic Google Docs Documents without font choices are like photographs without colors. Just as shades of color can add depth to a picture, smart font choices give your text another dimension. More @ Googleblog 4. Portable password vault 5. Friends Without Benefits The people who run Facebook, the social-networking company, are furious about a new movie that takes lots of liberties in its depiction of how Facebook came into existence. They're upset because much of The Social Network, which opens Oct. 1, is just completely made up. That's fair enough. More @ Newsweek 6. Beatles Archive Heads for the Cloud The man who took skiffle to the world half a century ago, Sir Paul McCartney, is "getting a little help from his friends" at Hewlett-Packard to put his entire oeuvre into an accessible online archive, it has been announced. More @ PCWorld 7. Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010? One of the new things in Outlook 2010 is the "People Pane." At the bottom of e-mail windows (both the inbox view and individual messages), the People Pane is a panel that can show recent e-mail from a contact, any appointments that you have with them, and a few other bits and pieces of information.More @ ArsTechnica 8. Panasonic unleashes 16-finger, hair washing robot 9. Computer Worm Hits Iran Power Plant Computer systems at Iran's first nuclear-power plant have been infected with a potent worm capable of taking over their control systems, Iranian officials said, citing the most significant example yet of potential dangers posed by the so-called Stuxnet worm. More @ wsj.com 10. 10 Words That Can't Be Translated To English We all love words – that is why we are here reading listverse. This list looks at some special words that are not from English and, furthermore, are untranslatable to English. These are words which have, for the most part, not become loan words, but describe concepts we generally understand in English, but need many more words to convey. More @ Listverse  |
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