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Sometimes, it's not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the search giant's pre-IPO employees, there's great appeal to a workplace that prizes creativity and rewards its employees -- of course, there's also the cachet of working at one of the hottest tech companies in the world, a virtual Shangri-La for the geek set.
A research collaboration between La Trobe University's Centre for Technology Infusion (CTI), Peregrine Semiconductor Australia (PSA) and the CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) have come up with a new chip design they hope will be integrated into the world's largest radio telescope.
Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.
Despite successfully running for many years, astronomers behind the SETI@home project are looking for more computing power as they ramp up the amount of data they look at. And they want to borrow your system's spare time to do it.
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CSIRO's new Terabyte Science Project is aimed at helping science and business cope with masses of data.
Google has announced it has sponsored the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon with a purse of US$30 million.
Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.
Google Earth will, from tonight, allow users to view the sky as seen from ground level, thanks to a new feature called Sky.
It is a hotel in Buenos Aires, the trade name of a classy hot tub, a visible and infrared survey telescope and a city near San Diego. It is Vista, the name that Microsoft picked for its next-generation operating system out of a hat and proof that however many lawyers you employ you may not have enough.
Microsoft is aiming to have its first cluster version of Windows ready in time for a supercomputing conference in November.
President Bush on Monday presented Congress with a US$2.6 trillion budget for the federal government that would modestly reduce some social programs while boosting overall spending on information and surveillance technology.
Samsung has unfurled a mobile phone with a 1-megapixel camera, two colour screens and a 1.5-gigabyte, 1-inch hard disk drive. It can be used to play MP3 files or display pictures or shoot videos.
We should be able to determine whether there is intelligent life in our galaxy in about two decades, thanks to the relentless pace of Moore's Law, a researcher says.
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