These are technology news items and links removed over time from my frontpage.
Note - this is a new page so it will be a while before there are many items.

Older Technology news/links

27.06.2011 Quantum computing - quantum memory

A breakthrough in the use of diamond as an atomic-scale memory element is a key step toward quantum computing. - Science Daily.

04.05.2011 Intel unveils new 3D transistor structure

Intel says it's ready to put the first 3D transistor structure into high-volume production. - CNet.

26.05.2010 New material promises over a thousand fold increase in capacity for DVDs

Japanese researchers have found a new material which offers huge potential increases in DVD capacities. Even better the material is cheaper than the current one! - RedOrbit.

18.05.2010 CrazyTalk Facial animation software

Ran across a piece of software I'd not seen before that produces some quite impressive effects called CrazyTalk. It animates faces to make them appear to be talking in sync with an audio track, and then produce videos! It is quite easy to get started but may take some time to get proficient. I've produced a quick sample to give you an idea.

16.04.2010 RIAA and MPAA want governments to support them with spyware!!

Those idiots at the RIAA and MPAA still haven't given up with their plans to get governments to support their out of date business models by law, but now they also want to mandate spyware on all user machines! You couldn't make up anything as daft as this idiocy if you tried! - Gizmodo

09.04.2010 First ISP revolts against hastily passed Digital Economy Bill

The reckless passing of the Digital Economy Bill (report) by a deal among the political parties suffers it's first major kickback. ISP Talk Talk has announced it will not follow the more extreme aspects which unfairly favour the major media companies over private individuals - Techdirt

07.04.2010 Zbrush 3.5R3

A new release of Zbrush caused me to give it a quick look, and I was quite impressed. It handles what it calls 2.5D as well as 3D and produces complex models quite easily, although the learning curve is quite steep. There is a free trial version you can play with and tutorial videos, but the purchase price may put off the more casual graphics artist. Pixologic - CGSociety review

27.03.2010 Nvidia GTX480 - First benchmarks

Nvidia's new top of the range graphics card, based on it's new Fermi architecture, has been benchmarked, and takes the crown as fastest GPU. However, it doesn't perform universally better than the Radeon HD 5870. Gizmodo

11.03.2010 Intel's new i7- 980X

Intel announce new 6 core processor the i7- 980X - Intel - CNet - Tweaktown (with benchmarks)

04.03.2010 Opera Version 10.5

The latest version just released offers a number of significant improvements and is well worth a look. Pocket-lint

02.02.2010 Backup Machine hard disk issues

Quite remarkably I have problems on 3 of it's 4 hard disks, all less than 2 years old. Despite having my boot disk mirrored and taking regular backups to another disk, there's no way to recover and I'll have to reinstal everything when I get new hard disk replacements. One of the boot disks(Raptors) failed due to bad sectors, while the other had a scrambled partition table that couldn't be recovered. Of course the other disk that failed due to bad sectors contained my backup images!

30.01.2010 Backup Machine crashed

Found my backup machine had crashed, which means that my webcam page will be unavailable for a while.