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Submission + - Cell Phones for Science: BOINC Now Available for Android (worldcommunitygrid.org)

Submitted by Luyseyal on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:27PM

Luyseyal writes: BOINC is now available on Android. Many of you may not know, but the Slashdot Users team makes a decent showing on World Community Grid. WCG supports research on AIDS, schistoma, cancer, clean energy, and more. Now is your chance to put your idle charge cycles to good use. Let's do some science!

Submission + - AMD Cuts 1400 workers (statesman.com)

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Luyseyal

on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:21PM

Luyseyal writes: "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. slashed its global employment by 1,400 jobs Thursday as the company seeks to boost profits and re-balance its work force to pursue new product areas. This amounts to over 11% of its global workforce, including Mark Langsdorf, who often posts AMD patches to the Linux Kernel Mailing List."

Submission + - Low Level Format using USB Flash Drive? 1

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Luyseyal

on Friday May 28, 2010 @02:25PM

Luyseyal writes: "Hey Slashdot. I unwittingly bought one of these terrible flash cards at Fry's and have managed to nuke two of them, successively. I have a USB flash card reader that will read/write the current one at USB 1.0 speed, but it locks up every Ubuntu and XP machine I've come across in high speed access mode. I have read that if I low-level format it that it could be fixed, though my current one doesn't support it. My Google-fu must be weak because I cannot seem to find a USB flash reader that specifies that it will do low-level formatting. Help me Natalie Portman's grits — you are my only hope!"

Submission + - Recycle Waste CPU Wafers into Solar Panels (statesman.com)

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Luyseyal

on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @12:16PM

Luyseyal writes: "IBM has developed a process for scrubbing the data clean from waste silicon wafers, allowing the otherwise highly secret waste to be sold. The silicon quality usually necessary for solar production is very high and the cost of solar panels reflects it. Recycling this waste should help bring down the cost in the long run and add a new profit vector for chip manufacturers."

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