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has the features and design points that could make this tablet the biggest threat to the iPad yet.           HP’s TouchPad Might Be iPad’s Top Challenger: 10 Reasons Why Hewlett-Packard has been saying for quite some time now that it has big plans for the tablet space. And earlier this year,

  CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.     Who would of thought? Go Nine inch nails !!!   CASSINI MISSION from Chris Abbas on Vimeo.     From Digital Kitchen Seattle creative Chris Abbas comes this sweet mashup video featuring music from Nine Inch Nails and pictures from NASA’s Cassini mission. The Cassini Solstice/Equinox Mission

Pretty much how I start my Day- MORE COFFEE !!! Kev– A Feast for Bacteria Mmm, coffee.dyobmit via Flickr A newly described species of bacteria has joined the ranks of those of us whodepend on caffeinefor survival. The little microbe,Pseudomonas putida, uses specialized enzymes to break the precious compound into carbon dioxide and ammonia, scientists

  It’s got a cop motor, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks … and now it has a infrared night vision camera, automatic license plate reader, and dashboard touchscreen. This souped-up Chevy Caprice is theLAPD’s future cruiser, enabling cops to track down suspects with the greatest of comfort. The vehicle is operated by a

      Despite NASA’s attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behold, our departed rover’s last Martian vista, the Columbia Hills.     This was the last panorama Spirit transmitted to Earth, on its 2,175th

    Sharing the user name and password of any streaming media account is now considered against the law in Tennessee, according to a web entertainment theft billsigned into law yesterday by state Governor Bill Haslam.     The bill makes it a crime for anyone other than account holders to log into services like Netflix, Hulu

    Its kinda back online again. Seems I cant use the shopping cart though. This applies to my PSP Network. Kev– Sony is not having a good year. As the company scrambles to get the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service back online, it’s suffering from yet another security breach. This time it’s a

  Contest update June 10th Way too much fun at Caldonias Bikini Contest last night. Was forced to sit on stage and do tricks and things (Grin) Ok, I learned how to take a 1 dollar bill and a quarter, twist it up, put chapstick on it, throw it like a dart, and hope it

      Metamaterial Hyperlens This brass acoustic hyperlens can magnify imaging sound waves to increase the resolution of sonar and ultrasound. A new metamaterial superlens developed at Duke directs waves within the bulk of the lens between the outside surfaces, giving researchers greater control over whatever passes through it. Xiang Zhang research group.  

Its been a secret for a long time. The iCloud is on its way !! Kev–           One of the mysteries surrounding the 500,000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden — besides its ultimate purpose — is why it didn’t show up

Hackers may have stolen details of up to 120,000 mobile phone users by infecting applications (apps) sold to users of Google’s Android operating system, security researchers have said.   The researchers claim that hackers used malware, which is maliciously coded software, to infect more than 30 apps that users may have downloaded. “This weekend, multiple

        ViewSonic made good on a rumor from earlier this month and debuted its ViewPad 7x tablet running Google Honeycomb at Computex in Taipei. The 7-inch slate is powered by Android 3.0.1, the same version I used on Acer’s 10.1 tablet for my review. The company hasn’t yet announced a price point

Neat Video of of the history of the Endeavour. NASA Live TV The Landing Live real-time shuttle tracking is at http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html Stream videos at Ustream Live TV with chat If you have a iphone or a iPad click here for live TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/nasatv_live_iphone.html Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth for Final Time Wednesday CAPE CANAVERAL,

        As companies like Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell have recently experienced with a drop in sales of their notebook PCs, the coming of the tablet is affecting the IT business in several areas. While sales of solid-state NAND flash drives are expected to boom by 400 percent over the next year, researcher IHS

  A showroom employee displays a tablet computer from one of Taiwan’s top PC vendors, AsusTek Computer Inc., in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Dozens of global computer firms and their obsession to get a piece of the expanding tablet computing market will be on full display Tuesday May 31, 2011, as Computex, the

This is going to be nice ! The thickest part of this new laptop is 17mm, its entire body is built from an aluminum alloy (weighs 1.1kg / 2.4lb), and the CPUs can be specced as high as Core i7. Anything else you need to know before drooling all over yourself? How about a two-second

        The space shuttle Endeavour is docked at the International Space Station in a NASA photo released May 28, 2011. The shuttle will streak across the California coastline at hypersonic velocity for the last time on Wednesday. (NASA TV / May 28, 2011) Spare parts were collecting dust in warehouses in Bell,

Seil Collins, reporter 2MRSA.jpg (Image: T.H. Jarrett (IPAC/SSC)) Seil Collins, reporter     (Image: T.H. Jarrett (IPAC/SSC))     The most detailed view ever assembled of our universe is now available… and it’s even in 3D.   Covering 95 per cent of the sky in the infrared part of the spectrum, the 2MASS Redshift Survey

Your Universe (As Seen From the Home Planet) ESO/Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the way. The video below was captured by Stephane Guisard and Jose Francisco Salgado at the European Southern Observatory’s Very

        The world’s first commercially available quantum computer, which uses principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics, was sold to aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin.   Unlike computers based on transistors, quantum computers rely on principles of quantum mechanics to conduct operations. The computers take advantage of properties like

    Nissan has taken a potshot at General Motors by mocking its plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volt in an ad for its pure plug-in electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The ad mocks cars that use internal combustion engines and gasoline by showing a world where any electronic gadget is powered by gasoline and an

By: Miles O’Brien It was a cold night in Pasadena when NASA‘s rover Spirit landed on Mars. But if tension could generate heat, we would have been perspiring. On a good day, getting to Mars is a crapshoot. Over the years, only one in three missions to the Red Planet have succeeded. That is good

RAPHAEL G. SATTER This undated handout picture released by Warwick University on Thursday May 26, 2011 which shows the corner of sky where a team of astronomers say they found the most distant explosion ever detected. The little red dot at the center is the gamma ray burst, estimated by the researchers to be more

    Park, California. To identify a mystery garment, the robot first holds it up using one of its two grippers. This allows it to estimate the garment’s length, by using its twin cameras to detect its lowest point. Next, the robot holds the garment with both grippers and records its outline as well as

Kat Austen, CultureLab editor (Image: BBC) Silicon Valley in the 1990s. Excitement filled the air. Hopeful entrepreneurs drove fast cars to their shiny workplaces, where they discussed the boundless possibilities arising from the technological explosion unfolding before their eyes. They progressed in leaps and bounds towards their utopia: a self-stabilising network of human beings who

MALCOLM RITTER   This artist’s conception provided by NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech shows a newly discovered type of planet that wanders freely or follows very loose orbits. Astronomers have the mysterious denizens of the Milky Way are apparently as common as the stars. One expert called the discovery a huge surprise. (AP Photo/NASA JPL-Caltech) Are these

            In his latest column for The New York Times Magazine, Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, likens clearing the way for his 13-year-old daughter to join Facebook to handing her “a pipe of crystal meth.”         I can’t say I have ever tried crystal meth, but

More ways to spy on you   To Fly By beating its wings back and forth, the UAV creates lift by deflecting air downward, creating an area of high pressure directly below the wings and low pressure above. Bob Sauls View Photo Gallery In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a

By Rebecca Boyle Posted 05.20.2011 at 12:01 pm 36 Comments     The Cosmic Microwave Background NASA Largest-Ever Survey of Cosmic History Confirms That Dark Energy Exists, Is Tearing the Universe Apart After a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are more certain than ever that dark energy acts as a repulsive force, tearing the

        Virgin Galactic has tested the return capabilities of their SpaceShipTwo spacecraft for the first time. The video of its first feathered flight is just too beautiful and elegant to describe. Just watch it:     Click on video to see at full screen     The test was conducted at the