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O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy

NEW YORK -- Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, is known as a futurist, but his keynote address on Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo was heavy on the realism in the wake of sobering news from Wall Street. Read more »

Fake Morris Iemma on Twitter

Someone this afternoon briefly started using the Twitter micro-blogging service to impersonate newly ousted NSW State Premier Morris Iemma; and the results were hilarious. Read more »

Machines to terminate human intellect

Machine intelligence will catch up with that of humans and begin to overtake it in the next two decades, a visionary scientist has predicted. Read more »

Atomic particles 'teleported'

Scientists say complex quantum experiment could lead to faster computers that work like magic. Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Driving towards in-car software

Developing applications to run inside cars is a fascinating and potentially lucrative market for developers. But what systems are actually running under the hood, and what hurdles do you have to overcome to build for them? Read more »

Thinking more like Booch

I'd be the first one to say that talking about the future of software development and the computing world is a difficult endeavour. Read more »

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Hyperconnectivity -- REMIX08 Keynote

Mark Pesce, Futurist and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, delivers the keynote for REMIX08 and says that thanks to services such as Twitter, employees can instantly relay bad experiences outside the normal confines of the office. Read more »

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The future remains yesterday

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »

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  • Staff XP stays on life support for longer

    This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computers

    Ever wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Brendon Chase Apple's iPhone engineers to tour Sydney, Melbourne

    Aussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

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