IBM, Canonical, and Simmtronics to market an Atom-based notebook in South Africa and Asia for US$190. Time for the parallel imports...:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5247302500.html
Nvidia drops the Open Source "nv" video driver for their cards, won't support or even mention the Open replacement "nouveau" driver either:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_kills_nv&num=1
OpenSSL 1.0 has been 11 years in the making but is available now:
http://www.openssl.org/
Mike Davey builds a Turing Machine that actually writes 1's and 0's on a piece of tape with a pen and wipes them out with a rubber:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/an_actual_turing_machine.html
Skinput uses your arm as an input device. Tap it with the other hand or pinch fingers together and it can recognise up to 10 "keys":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8587486.stm
And finally. A New York Federal court rules that patents on genes from breast and ovarian cancer - & thus many more - are invalid:
http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-womens-rights/patents-breast-cancer-genes-ruled-invalid-aclupubpat-case
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