Nanoscale structures are made to order with DNA. Take a look at the slideshow -
the micrograph of the smileys is somehow vaguely disturbing:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11829347/
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060313/full/060313-8.html
It appears that the delayed PS3 launch may allow Nintendo to consolidate its
place in the console market rather than simply hand the market to the Xbox:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30453
Sun will release the underlying design to the Niagra CPU under the terms of the
GPL this Thursday:
http://news.com.com/Sun%20releases%20open-source%20Sparc%20designs/2100-7344_3-6051800.html?tag=nefd.top
A practical 32GB Flash-based solid-state drive appears from Samsung. Could this
be the first to be "good enough" to replace hard disks?:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/21/samsung_unveils_ssd/
China's Yellow Sheep River launches a PC for only 123 Euros, using the
indigenous Chinese Godson II MIPS-clone. A version of Linux is supplied:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yellow_Sheep_River_develops_%E2%82%AC123_Linux_based_computer
And finally. Latest results show that more land and sea areas are becoming
protected, but we're losing species at an increasing rate:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1735751,00.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.