Yesterday, the London Trafalgar Square held the global premiere of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the concluding movie of Harry Potter series. The writer of the Book J.K. Rowling, the producer David Heyman, and almost all the cast attended this glory premiere. The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been long anticipated all over the world. But with its premiere, it also indicates that we have to say Goodbye to the Harry Potter series, which have companied us in the past 10 years.
FakeRean Rearing Its Head
The past few days, weve seen reports of sites like Twitter, Flickr, Yahoo! and numerous others, including SourceForge, being used to spread the FakeRean virus through porn-ish user profiles. Of course SourceForge does not tolerate this type of abuse. While we try and police/monitor new user accounts, we simply cannot catch them all. We would greatly appreciate your help in reporting any inappropriate user profiles, and for the love of Pete, please dont click on those even if you *are* over 18. Its tempting. We know.
Power Consumption Solved: Magnetic Processors
All right, let’s be optimistic here: it’s not going to entirely wipe power-hungry processors and memory off the charts anytime soon.
But there is at least an idea how to reduce the power consumption of semiconductor devices by a factor of 1 million.
The basic idea is to simply eliminate the flow of electrons, the ultimate source of power consumption. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said that magnetic processors could work without the need of electrons and function near the minimum power limit allowed by the second law of thermodynamics .
Telestream Brings Three New Products to Vantage Line
Video transcoding company Telestream has added three enterprise management products to its Vantage line.
The first two, Vantage Enterprise Control and Vantage Master Control, offer scalability and resiliency for demanding enterprise environments. Vantage Enterprise Control lets companies maximize their workflow capacity, and provides an automated response to fluctuation in processing or media loads.