Intel Chip in a Mac and Robocops in Korea
Apple's operating system contains a kernel extension called AppleTPMACPI.kext. TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It makes sure OSX only runs on MAC hardware. Wouldn't it be nice if I could buy a really fast processor, a standard PC box and hard drive and have OSX blazing away without having to drop $2000 on an iBook, or iMac with considerably less processing power?
OSx86 is the nickname of the hacked version of OSX without this extension. Released last week on the BitTorrent system. http://osx86project.org/
http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/imaclabtest1/index.php
Robot Cops to Patrol Korean Streets
The South Korean government has robot fever, and they're about to unleash a whole army -- literally -- of the mechanized creatures on their public. According to The Korea Times, the country will see the rollout of police and military robots within the next five years, thanks to a newly approved $33.9 million spending appropriation. Patrol bots will guard the streets at night, and even chase criminals, while horse-shaped combat bots will augment the country's fighting force. In both cases, the bots will communicate via Korea's vast mobile network.
To get things rolling, so to speak, Korea will debut a series of household bots in the private sector this October. Unlike domestic bots already released in Japan, the Korean bots will be relatively cheap, since they use the network to perform much of their computational work instead of internal hardware and software.
