[TechRepublic] Geek Trivia; Alan Turing exhibition; Photos from Mars

Geekend TechRepublic Member | March 09, 2012

Geek Trivia: What three Facebook non-founders stand to profit the most from the company's IPO? Three individual investors stand to make a substantial amount of money from Facebook's impending IPO -- despite not being company founders. Read more Alan Turing: Exhibition offers rare glimpse of the man behind the enigma Resource of the day Rethink Your Storage With IBM Data storage is an interesting thing. While it's easy to add more storage with band-aid solutions, before long, you'll need to seriously rethink how you store. For some advice, turn to this white paper. More findings narrow in on Higgs boson New Fermilab data indicate the electromagnetic range where scientists believe they are most likely to find the Higgs boson. Read more Geek Gifts 2012: Protocol TurboHawk 3 and Skyline-G RC helicopters After playing with the Protocol TurboHawk 3 and Skyline-G RC helicopters for a couple of months, Donovan Colbert shares what he does and doesn't like about the toys. Read more 'Scary stories' from Japan make you look smart and creepy on movie night Ken Hardin spotlights three "ghost" movies that express the patient and thoughtful storytelling typical of great Japanese cinema. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Future shipments of $35 Raspberry Pi computer face delay Anyone who missed the chance to buy one of the first 10,000 Raspberry Pi Linux computers may face a longer than expected wait after a manufacturing mix-up. Read more Why the Raspberry Pi is relevant Jack Wallen offers up his take on just why the Raspberry Pi is of any signifigance in an age of bigger and faster. Open source has yet another notch to add to its +5 belt of success. Read more Featured multimedia   It's a twister - and other amazing photos from Mars NASA's HRISE camera catches a half-mile tall dust devil on the Martian surface. Plus, other newer images from the Red Planet. View on site Northern Lights take their cue from massive solar storm (photos) One of the biggest geomagnetic storms in recent history is sending massive doses of charged particles toward Earth. View on site Asteroid of doom - or maybe not Reports of catastophe caused by a killer asteroid in 2040. But how much of a threat really is it? View on site Robots look for real-world jobs (photos) At the Human-Robot Interaction conference, industrial and research robots show off what they can do. View on site The Robotation Academy at CeBIT (photos) Automated manufacturing is a big theme at CeBIT, a mammoth technology show in Germany, and the Robotation Acedemy is designed to school industrialists to become robot operators -- and owners. View on site Superoverclocker takes the stage at CeBIT (photos) Nick Shih shows his technique for supercooling chips to run them far beyond their rated clock speed. It used to be for better videogaming, but now overclocking is a competition in and of itself. View on site IBM's Holey Optochip moves terabit of info per second (images) Big Blue's new chip architecture is capable of transferring 500 HD movies a second, or the entire Web archive of the U.S. Library of Congress in an hour. And it can be produced today. View on site Razer Blade gaming laptop, hands-on (photos) Razer's thin 17-inch gaming laptop, from all angles. View on site Featured Webcast Live Webcast: A Developers Guide to using Rational Solutions to Leverage WebSphere Tune in to this webcast to learn how developers can leverage WebSphere with rational solutions. Start improving your productivity today. Today's recommended downloads Live Webcast: A Developers Guide to using Rational Solutions to Leverage WebSphere (IBM) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Rethink Your Storage With IBM (IBM) How to Reduce Cellular Spend with ShoreTel Mobility (ShoreTel) The Changing Role of Mobile Communications in the Workplace (ShoreTel) Connect with TechRepublic Poll: Is it OK for people to expect free IT advice from you? Every IT pro has been asked for some kind of technical advice from friends and family members. But when near strangers in a social environment ask, is it out of line? TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! TechRepublic UK TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise Google in the Enterprise

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