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Cheap Open Source Robots Set To Take Over The World

8:05AM November 17, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

How can we fear the robot revolution when it’s our own DIY handiwork and GPL? Each of these swarm robots costs less than €100 (about $160) to build and has a mind powered by open-source software. More »

Software

Why Did Apple Drop ZFS From Snow Leopard?

12:20PM September 1, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

In 2008, Apple announced that we would see ZFS as part of Snow Leopard Server, but a year later our copies are shipping with ZFS nowhere to be found. What went wrong? And will we ever get ZFS? More »

Software

Nvidia Badaboom and ATI Avivo GPU Video Transcoders Battle to the Death

11:30AM December 6, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

Dedicated graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia used to be critical just for gamers and pros, but now they do a lot more than make splattered guts look good. Like make video transcoding really fast.

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