Mad Genius' Motion Sensitive Gaming peripheral

"When Cloud becomes the Platform"

But the other thing the new codec, known as ORBX.js, features is much, much more significant: it also enables steaming of desktop applications. An application (say, Microsoft Office) could be hosted on a company's server and then used by any employee who logs in to the application. It would not matter what operating system they were using (Windows, OS X or Linux) or even what platform (phone, tablet or desktop), because the browser would be the only thing that matters.

"This is not just remote desktop tech, or X11 reborn via JavaScript]," [blogged Mozilla Foundation CTO Brendan Eich, "Many local/remote hybrid computation schemes are at hand today, e.g., a game can do near-field computing in the browser on a beefy client while offloading lower [level of detail] work to the [game processing unit] cloud."

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ISS leaves MS, goes Linux

All the computers on the International Space Station that used to run Windows XP now run Linux, reports Extreme Tech. The reason: Microsoft's OS just wasn't "stable and reliable" enough, according to the United Space Alliance, the spaceflight operations company that manages the hardware onboard the ISS in conjunction with NASA.
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