CNET looks at newly surfaced contracts, design specs, and page after page of schematics and code, revealing how Apple created its first disk OS, a chapter of Silicon Valley history critical to its later success. [Read more]
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Augmented Hunting with a $17,500 Linux-Powered Rifle
A bullet loses six feet of height while flying across 1,000 yards, and a hunter firing such a shot must compensate by altering the weapon’s aim. At that distance, fine adjustments would be difficult to estimate — but TrackingPoint has developed a Linux-powered hunting rifle that’s capable of doing all of the calculations for the hunter. Ars Technica has an in-depthreport on what it’s like to look through the $17,500 rifle’s scope when the target locks and the viewfinder tracks upward to locate the precise point where the weapon should be aimed. Building distance compensation into the hunter’s view is only part of what the embedded ARM computer is capable of: it can also follow targets, determine the precise moment when to fire, and…
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Nebula’s OpenStack Hardware Offering Touts Plug-and-Play Simplicity
With all the momentum that the OpenStack cloud computing platform has, it was inevitable that eventually hardware running it and optimized for it would appear. What is notable, though, is that one of the first OpenStack-based hardware entries comes from Nebula, , the company that evolved from the NASA Nebula cloud with Chris Kemp, who was CIO of NASA. Nebula was directly involved with the genesis of OpenStack itself.
The Nebula One cloud system (with controller appliance) plugs into existing servers and recognizes the services you’re already running. The idea is to provide a plug-and-play OpenStack cloud solution without installation and deployment headaches.
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