New York City Is Breathtaking Following Google Earth Update – “That’s not a photo of New York. It’s actually many photos of New York, textured on 3D models in Google Earth’s latest update. And it’s truly nothing short of amazing…”

High-Speed Rail: The High-Speed Future Of Mass Transportation – “About 2000 miles of HSR is under construction in Europe with another 5000 planned to be built up to 2025…”

5 Educational Uses for Your IPod – “Most people use their iPod exclusively for music, but this device has all sorts of capabilities. Here are five ways to turn your iPod into an educational tool…”

Build your own Basic Stamp supercomputer – “It’s a simple hobby project using 11 Parallax Basic Stamp microcontrollers (12 by the time you read this). These “computers” are connected together for hardware/software clustered parallel processing. It’s a fantastic learning tool and can control 176 peripherals/sensors. One application is for the more rapid development of robotic sensors and software…”

Mining the Mountains – “Since the mid-1990s, coal companies have pulverized Appalachian mountaintops in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Peaks formed hundreds of millions of years ago are obliterated in months. Forests that survived the last ice age are chopped down and burned. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that by 2012, two decades of mountaintop removal will have destroyed or degraded 11.5 percent of the forests in those four states, an area larger than Delaware. Rubble and waste will have buried more than 1,000 miles of streams…”

America’s Big Three automakers build some quality vehicles – “And then I slip behind the wheel of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 and blast down the Las Vegas Strip. This $105,000 land rocket is fast and formidable enough to make most Ferraris and Porsches quiver like schoolgirls; it has a top speed of 205 mph and is as nimble as a gazelle. And as I leave the glitzy hotels behind for the speedy straight-aways of the desert outside Las Vegas, I realize if Detroit’s tormentors spent even five minutes in this magnificent machine they’d know the truth: The Big Three can still build a world-class car — at least when they put their minds to it…”

Sharpen Your Sense of Smell and Taste – “Here’s how to sustain smell and taste so that every bite (and sniff) tells you what you need to know…”

The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test – “After a grueling eight-city coast-to-coast test of the 3G networks run by AT&T, Sprint and Verizon, we’ve come up with some clear-cut test results. Think you know who has the best network? Think again…”

How to Build a Kick-ass $800 Gaming PC – “We had to make some careful choices to keep this machine within our constrained budget, but in the end we were surprised by this little PC’s kick ass performance. Want to learn how to build it yourself? We’ll walk you through our meticulous build process, explain why we chose each component, and give you our final thoughts on the benchmark results this little-PC-that-could throws down…”

3D gaming, HD video coming to netbooks in 2009 – “Netbook users rejoice: NVIDIA has announced plans to pair Intel’s Atom processor with a real mobile GPU, the 9400M. It’s no secret that Intel’s integrated graphics processors stink across the board, and they’re the biggest weakness in the company’s ultramobile platform. But by pairing the Atom processor with a 9400M, NVIDIA will be able to offer users a mobile x86 platform that supports 1080p video decoding, dual-link DVI out, DirectX 10 graphics, CUDA, and OpenCL…”

Nvidia bids to dislodge Intel as rivalry gets ugly – “Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What’s at stake? Only the future of the personal computer….”

How to spend $350 billion in 77 days – “In two-and-a-half months, the Treasury has used up half of the money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Here’s how it came and went so fast…”

Secrets of the extreme overclockers – “How the pros manage 8GHz and beyond…”

24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008 – “Over the past year we’ve reviewed sites from just about every cross-section of the web. And yet, so many ground breaking new services haven’t received the recognition they deserve: we aim to set that straight…”

The Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2008 – “
Progress This Year Wasn’t Just in Hardware but in Understanding the Urgency of Key Issues…”

Revolutionary device which costs $100 treats cancer – “George K. Lewis, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering at Cornell, has developed a revolutionary therapeutic ultrasound device which can treat cancer and relieve arthritis. What makes it even greater is the size and the price — it fits in a palm of a hand and costs only US$100…”

A Cost Effective Way To Make Hydrogen? – “Developed by Dr. Alden H. Gajo as a means of creating cost-effective hydrogen, the AS1 Stack-On Electrolyzer appears to be one of the first cost effective ways to produce hydrogen that is available to the public…”

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