The Moon on World Wind Posted on November 3, 2005 by Robin NASA has added high res images of the moon to their world wind software (kind of like Google Earth) allowing you to use it to explore our moon as well as our planet. Nice!
IBM on the way to light based computing Posted on November 3, 2005 by Robin The clever cloggs at IBM have managed to find a way to slow down light to 1/300th its normal speed, which allows it to be manageable enough to use it to impart information inside computer chips. They still need to find a way to mass produce the opticals, and of course for these new architechtures they’ll need to create entirely new OSses but the idea is cool.
