The National Ignition Facility in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory performed a successful test of the controlled fusion experiments using all 192 lasers. This test did not utilize the full power of the system. Higher power tests will begin in May. One of the concerns that this test alleviated was that the plasma produced by [...]

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Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have filed plans with the SEC to sell a portion of their stock, which would reduce their combined share to just below majority. After the deal, their ownership total would fall below 48%. Many are not worried however about the loss of majority control by the founders, since [...]

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The NY Times will begin charging for online content. This plan has been long in the making for the Times, and it will certainly set a new trend if even moderately successful. A formal letter was sent out to NY Times print customers along with a full page ad on the back of the business [...]

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The AMD Radeon HD 5670 will be the first graphics card to support Direct X for under 100 dollars–essentially allowing “next generation” graphics for nearly any budget. The graphics card will be smaller than previous models, and yet it will still support features like DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and DX11, such as tessellation, in [...]

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