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Archive for September 2009
Rapping Flight Attendant from Southwest Airlines
September 19, 2009 by alikat.
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Google Fast Flip news website launched
September 17, 2009 by alikat.
“(telegraph.co.uk)– The new-look news website, dubbed Google Fast Flip, will pull in content from more than 40 publishers and aims to make reading articles online a more "engaging" experience, said Google.” read more
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The $150 Edge-of-Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money Budget
September 17, 2009 by alikat.
“(wired.com)– Bespoke is old hat. Off-the-shelf is in. Even Google runs the world’s biggest and scariest server farms on computers home-made from commodity parts. DIY is cheaper and often better, as Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh found out when they decided to send a camera into space.” read more
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Japan scientists create 3-D images you can touch
September 17, 2009 by alikat.
“TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Imagine a light switch or a book that appears only when you need it — Japanese scientists are one step closer to making the stuff of sci-fi films into reality after creating a hologram that can also be felt.” read more
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Pigeon ‘faster than broadband’
September 15, 2009 by alikat.
“(bbc.com)– A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.” read more
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Zune HD Demo
September 13, 2009 by alikat.
Release Date: September 15, 2009
cnet.com review
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Steel version of Velcro ’strong enough to support buildings’
September 9, 2009 by alikat.
“(telegraph.co.uk)–The new invention, called Metaklett, uses the same hook-and-loop fastening system as Velcro but can support loads of up to 35 tonnes per square metre at temperatures as high as 1,472F (800C).” more
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How 16 Electronics Companies Got Their Names
September 8, 2009 by alikat.
“(online.wsj.com)– Most of us spend a lot of time staring at a computer or TV screen, playing video games, or gabbing into our cell phones. The brand names for these products are all familiar, but where did they come from in the first place? Just what is a Nokia? Here’s a look at the origins of some of your favorite tech and gadget companies’ names…” read
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Google Algorithm Predicts When Species Will Go 404
September 6, 2009 by alikat.
“(wired.com)– Biologists have figured out the most efficient way to destroy an ecosystem — and it’s based on the Google search algorithm.
Scientists have long known that the extinction of key species in a food web can cause collapse of the entire system, but the vast number of interactions between species makes it difficult to guess which animals and plants are the most important. Now, computational biologists have adapted the Google search algorithm, called PageRank, to the problem of predicting ecological collapse, and they’ve created a startlingly accurate model.”read more
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