Opinion: Using Windows 8 Release Preview in desktop mode – not a nice story
Using Windows 8 on non-touchscreen devices such as legacy PCs in desktop mode will impose an excessive burden on many consumers and enterprise users, because the new "metro" touchscreen mode has been given all the focus.
Holy moley! IBM builds Holey Optochip prototype with Terabit data speeds
IBM scientists have come up with a prototype optical chipset, dubbed 'Holey Optochip', that is the first parallel optical transceiver able to transfer one trillion bits per second - one terabit - equivalent to downloading 500 high definition movies per second.
ACM's 2010 Turing Award goes to Machine Learning innovator
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University as winner of its 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.
