News Archive - April 2006 - News Post
Holograms, Microsoft, and April Fun
Saturday 1st April 2006
Category: News
Plenty to talk about today - here is just a few selected highlights. First of all, there are new advances in storage technology, allowing 515 Gb per square inch - in contrast to the 37.5Gb per square inch we have right now. The Guardian takes a look at what's eating Microsoft.
And here's the rest from the massive influx of news:
- Chip and Sing - even more secure than Chip and PIN on account of the fact that you now have to sing a specific song.
- Blizzard reveals the new Alliance race in World of Warcraft to be wisps, including the feature of permanent death.
- Dave Johnston explains the lack of original maps - "95% of all possible level designs have been discovered".
- BMW announces their new technology to beat Slow Cameras.
- Distrowatch reviews Windows Hasta La Vista.
- Apple publishes plans for the first advertisement viewable from space - a giant iPod.
- The Register reports on China buying Google...
- ...the same Google that has just brung out Google Romance.
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