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| Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:27 AM PST  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Japan's Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries It takes more than a green thumb to be a great farmer, super-human vision helps as well. The Institute of Agricultural Machinery at Japan's National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, along with SI Seiko, has developed a robot that can select and harvest strawberries based on their color. More @ SingularityHub 2. Linux kernel: 13 million lines, over 5 patches per hour The Linux Foundation has published its third annual report about Linux kernel authorship. The statistics included in the paper illustrate growth trends in the kernel development process and provide insight into how the labor is distributed among individual contributors and corporate sponsors. More @ ArsTechnica3. Introducing Google Earth Engine Google Earth Engine is a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data—current and historical—online for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth's environment. The platform will enable scientists to use our extensive computing infrastructure—the Google "cloud"—to analyze this imagery. More @ Googleblog4. BendDesk multi-touch furniture 5. IE6 Won't Die as Long as China Loves it A Microsoft executive's self-described job of driving Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction will be difficult unless he can move Chinese users off the aged browser. More @ PCWorld 6. Leveraging Linux for Supercomputing Thus, aggregation provides an affordable, virtual x86 platform with large, shared memory. Server virtualization for aggregation replaces the functionality of custom and proprietary chipsets with software and utilizes only a tiny fraction of a system's CPUs and RAM to provide chipset-level services without sacrificing system performance. More @ LinuxInsider 7. How-To Build the Ultimate Digital Photo Studio PC As a digital photography and video enthusiast, I needed a system that could handily withstand the rigors of Photoshop and make my occasional work in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 move more smoothly. More @ MaximumPC 8. X-37B spaceplane back on earth after 7 months of spying on us, shooting aliens 9. Installing SugarCRM Community Edition On Fedora 14 SugarCRM is a webbased CRM solution written in PHP. SugarCRM is available in different flavours called "Editions" ("Community" (free), "Professional", and "Enterprise"). For a detailed overview of the different editions, have a look at the SugarCRM website. More @ HowtoForge 10. 10 Controversial Apocalyptic Theories Plenty of people have speculated when the world was going to end. The following list explores possible means of the destruction of the Earth's and/or the human race. This list contains far out 2012 prophecies, probable disasters and just interesting rumors. More @ Listverse  |
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