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From Wired News: British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind. The University of Essex’s UltraSwarm project is an experiment in swarm intelligence and wireless cluster computing that might one day …
From CNet: The chipmaker unveiled the prototype with AOpen on Tuesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The squarish metallic box, originally code-named Pandora, will be released under AOpen’s XC Cube product line and is similar to one revealed by the chipmaking giant at its Intel Developers Forum in March. Intel often contracts with …
Yahoo! now gives blog writers a way to submit their information. You can submit your RSS or ATOM feed at http://publisher.yahoo.com/submit.php
A CNet review of search engines: We took a fresh look at Google, Yahoo, and seven of their closest competitors, focusing on their interfaces, features, and functionality. While Google and Yahoo still trump their rivals in terms of overall search, we found that almost every player in our competition brought something unique to the table. …