Friday Morning Reviews
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 12, 2005 at 2:20:50 PM
Intel plans to release Pentium M across the line in 2006. NetBurst is dead. Pentium 3 architecture is better.
Jerk-O-Meter.
Nasal spray for Alzheimer’s.
MRO heads to Mars.
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The design of these upcoming processors is largely derived from the Pentium M notebook line of chips. For the past few years, Intel has produced chips based on two separate architectures. Current Pentium 4 desktop chips and Xeon server chips come from the NetBurst architecture.
Jerk-O-Meter.
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For now, the Jerk-O-Meter is set up to monitor the user's end of the conversation. If his attention is straying, a message pops up on the phone that warns, "Don't be a jerk!" or "Be a little nicer now." A score closer to 100 percent would prompt, "Wow, you're a smooth talker."
Nasal spray for Alzheimer’s.
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Now Howard Weiner, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, US, and his colleagues have tried a new strategy. Weiner was intrigued by the fact that brain inflammation in the earlier trial coincided with exceptional clearance of beta amyloid. He did some experiments and found that mice with Alzheimer’s treated to develop multiple sclerosis-like brain inflammation also cleared the beta amyloid from their brains. “Sometimes inflammation is good,” he says.
MRO heads to Mars.
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The $720 million mission's main science phase runs from November 2006 to December 2008, enabling the onboard cameras, spectrometer, climate sounder and subsurface radar to gather an unparalleled amount of data about Mars.