2008 July

Microsoft Research has come up with a pixel design for a flat panel display that will be faster, brighter, more power efficient, and easier and simpler to fabricate, which should make it cheaper. Each pixel switches in 1.5 milliseconds, compared to 20 - 45 ms in LCD displays. For more info, check this [...]

Terry Childs is a 43 year old network administrator for the city of San Francisco. They pay him a $127,735-a-year salary - plus he made an additional $22,534 last year in overtime for coming in to cover emergency situations.
He was part of a team that built a fibre WAN that now stores [...]