Linux creator Linus Torvalds has unleashed a scathing attack on chip maker Nvidia over its lack of support for the kernel. Speaking at a forum hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship in his native Finland, the software engineer described the California-based firm as the "worst company we've ever dealt with". He said: "Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we've had with hardware manufacturers. And that's really sad because Nvidia tries to sell chips, a lot of chips into the Android market. "Nvidia has been the single worst (more)...
- 6/18/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been named as the joint winner of the Millennium Tech Prize 2012. The software engineer, who worked on the operating system kernel for more than two decades, will share the gong with stem cell scientist Dr Shinya Yamanaka. Technology Academy Finland honoured Torvalds for his influence in the fields of "shared software development, networking and the openness of the web". "This recognition is particularly important to me, given that it's given by the Technology Academy of Finland," Tovalds said. "I'd (more)...
- 6/13/2012
- by By Mark Langshaw
- Digital Spy
What are the best bets to buy in tech? The CNET 100 . ten lists with ten products . includes everything from winners to disappointments to the sleeper hits of the past year in technology. These are the products, apps and services that the CNET editors have tirelessly reviewed, tested and reported on throughout the year. Kindle Fire, Macbook Air and a Crazy Thermostat Top the List of Winners in the CNET 100; 3D-tv, Hp Veer and Google TV 2.0 Are the Biggest Letdowns Tech Celebrities Steve Wozniak, Craig Newmark, Daniel Ek, Vint Cerf, Linus Torvalds, David Ferrucci and Others Share Their 2011 Gadget Romances CNET has released its first annual list of devices, apps and tech ideas that changed...
- 12/13/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Enough about the kids and their I.P.O.’s—there’s history behind the dot-com billions. In an unprecedented virtual group portrait of the men who forged the computer age, the information revolution, and the Internet, Christian Witkin immortalizes titans, dreamers, and pioneers such as Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, microchip inventor Jack Kilby, and Douglas Engelbart, the man who created the first computer mouse. Alan Deutschman traces the profiles on high tech’s Mount Rushmore.
- 3/7/2011
- Vanity Fair
Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now Tero Ojanperä is launching the world's biggest delivery system for services, apps, and entertainment.
The gathering in the courtyard dining room at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca has the feel of a meeting between the Mafia's dwindling five families and an emerging Balkan gang looking to join forces. Instead of bookmakers, drug smugglers, and racketeers, the endangered species assembled are music executives from the industry's remaining major labels, including Warner and Universal Music, and an agent from the Beatles' Apple Corps.
Despite the general tension typical of an industry in free fall, there is a reunion vibe and everyone greets one another warmly over cocktails, throwing out a bit of cocksure swagger to project the notion that they can still deliver a hit. Still, nobody in attendance would deny that the days of record companies making a killing in the music industry are over.
The gathering in the courtyard dining room at the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca has the feel of a meeting between the Mafia's dwindling five families and an emerging Balkan gang looking to join forces. Instead of bookmakers, drug smugglers, and racketeers, the endangered species assembled are music executives from the industry's remaining major labels, including Warner and Universal Music, and an agent from the Beatles' Apple Corps.
Despite the general tension typical of an industry in free fall, there is a reunion vibe and everyone greets one another warmly over cocktails, throwing out a bit of cocksure swagger to project the notion that they can still deliver a hit. Still, nobody in attendance would deny that the days of record companies making a killing in the music industry are over.
- 8/18/2009
- by Mark Borden
- Fast Company
Last week, we met the nine male geeks and nine female beauties of season 5 of Beauty and the Geek who will begin their quest to become more than just beauties or more than just geeks, and perhaps winning $250,000 while they're at it. This season, instead of competing in beauty/geek pairs, it will be a battle of beauty versus geek. Which beauties and which geeks have the potential to make the biggest transformation? Who has what it takes to make it all the way? Well, it's too early to say. All we really know about them is what we've gathered from their pictures, their professions and their chosen monikers, but that's enough for me to make a preliminary analysis.
Below, I present to you my Beauty and the Geek Preseason Power Rankings of the geeks.
9. Tommy, sweater vest enthusiast
There is nothing I hate more than a fake geek pretending...
Below, I present to you my Beauty and the Geek Preseason Power Rankings of the geeks.
9. Tommy, sweater vest enthusiast
There is nothing I hate more than a fake geek pretending...
- 3/4/2008
- by BuddyTV
- buddytv.com
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