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Two Towers Trailer. AICN have posted what seems to be a genuine review from a person lucky enough to have seen a rough cut of the upcoming Two Towers trailer. If it's genuine… well, let's just say I had shivers reading it!

Nuclei put a new spin on quantum computing. Particles with spin angular momentum – a quantum mechanical property – behave like tiny bar magnets and can be aligned by a magnetic field. The operation of conventional electronic devices such as transistors depends solely on the charge of electrons, but physicists believe that highly efficient ‘spintronic‘ systems could be developed that exploit the spin of particles such as electrons and nuclei.

Robots Serve As Surgeons At University Of Michigan. If you walk by one of the University of Michigan Health System's operating rooms these days, you might think you're looking in on a science fiction movie. A seven-foot robot stands right alongside the operating team, not as an observer, but as one of the surgeons.

Where Is All the Linux Going?. Linux is going into a lot of vertical applications, and it's being adopted by a lot of big, old companies with customers who are not sexy enough to show up on the what's-hip radar but who move a huge part of the economy.

Alternatives to Northern Light. Probably the closest alternative is Vivisimo. [It] is a meta-search engine, but it presents its results in groups that look similar to the Northern Light search results. Vivisimo doesn't include Google, but it does include Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, etc. Vivisimo also offers a news search.

Linux worm Adore found. Adore is a worm, that spreads in Linux systems using four diffrent, known vulnerabilities already used by Ramen and Lion worms. These vulnerabilities concern BIND named, wu-ftpd, rpc.statd and lpd services.

Another Happy Thing. The only detraction last night was that Chris's filet was about 20% gristle. And when you're paying over $2 an ounce for a steak, you want to be able to eat it all.

John Dvorak on blogs He concludes his column with, “Whatever the reason for the Blog phenomenon, it's not going to go away anytime soon. The main positive change: far fewer cat pictures!” [Doc Searls]

Rating Laptop Cases. I'm looking for a new laptop. Now, this is no easy matter. There's so many things to decide — what things to include, what things to leave out, what things to compromise on, how much money I'm willing to part with. But the most important part for me, and one that is often overlooked, is the case. In a perfect world, my laptop (when closed) would be strong enough to be treated like just another college textbook. I can shove it into my bookbag, lug it around all day, slam the bag down on a desk, all with no damage.

When computers learn to talk. Big investments from the likes of IBM, Microsoft and Sun are convincing some analysts that Web services will soon be a reality. But significant hurdles remain, McKinsey experts say.

Flash Player 6.0 Beta. Macromedia Flash Player 6 Public Beta is a pre-release version, of the final release. It is been made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues.

(Almost) Free Movies On-Line. the latest movies on the net? Its possible - apparently the law in Taiwan says that for a movie to be protected by copyright law one has to apply for such protection within a month after the opening in the theaters.

Microsoft Reportedly Halts New Software Development Temporarily. According to a report in Government Computer News (GCN), Microsoft has halted all new software development for one month so that the company's programmers can focus instead on fixing existing bugs.

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