Tuesday, October 26, 2010

26-Oct-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Canonical denies that they are forking GNOME, and say they are just switching to the unity interface. But this has 3D dependencies:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ubuntu-moves-away-gnome

Asus and Garmin part company, as mobile phones become good enough to start replacing GPS navigators. Garmin may go pure software:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/asus-and-garmin-untie-their-smartphone-knot/

Firesheep, a firefox plugin that makes http hijacking point and click:
http://www.gizmag.com/firesheep-http-hijacking-tool/16726/

And finally. US$400,000 of robots, two eight-core i7 Xeon system servers, 5MP vison, 48 GB of memory, lasers - and they make pancakes:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3062

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