Microsoft has started giving away their desktop graphing calculator for free. You can download it from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a
Microsoft has started giving away their desktop graphing calculator for free. You can download it from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9caca722-5235-401c-8d3f-9e242b794c3a
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Not sure how much press this will receive but this is an incredible discovery. No, it's not life on another planet, but it's pretty "alien" in terms of what we consider normal biology for an organisims on Earth.
- Mark
"Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything...
By Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo
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It's something most of us never think about. But you may start to take notice if HP Labs is successful in commercializing a new version of computer memory, which would make our electronics dramatically faster and more energy efficient.
The technology is called memristor, and it is designed to work more like our brains and less like the electronic on and off switches that run computer memory now.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc displaced iPhone maker Apple Inc to become the second most popular provider of smartphone software in theUnited States during the first quarter, the latest sign of the increasing competition in the fast-growing mobile market.
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LONDON (Reuters) - New software by startup company ALGO Technologies offers to cut trade execution time to levels close to the speed of light, giving exchange clients an edge in the high-frequency trading arms race.
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It showed that microscopic worm-like structures found in a Martian meteorite that hit the Earth 13,000 years ago are almost certainly fossilized bacteria. The so-called bio-morphs are embedded beneath the surface layers of the rock, suggesting that they were already present when the meteorite arrived, rather than being the result of subsequent contamination by Earthly bacteria.
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Ok, I know this isn't IT related but still pretty cool so I thought it worth posting. Personally, I believe the evidence is starting to really pile up in favor of life on Mars at some point in the distant past. Is there life on Mars today? On on the fence when it comes to that question. The current environment on Mars is pretty inhospitable.
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