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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features – “iPhone OS 4.0: All the New FeaturesThe curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is massive: There’s multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here’s the full rundown….” See also: iPhone OS 4.0: Ten Pressing Questions
HP Slate vs. iPad – “HP Slate Details Leaked: $550 Netbook, Minus Keyboard…”
Air Force Calls for Reusable Booster Vehicles for Military Space Planes – “Space marines won’t sprout wings (probably), and so the U.S. Air Force has been pushing forward on the reusable military space planes this year. Now it’s asking for a reusable booster that can launch a space plane into the upper atmosphere, do a 180-degree turn, and come back for its own runway landing, Ares Defense Blog reports…”
NASA unveils sweeping new programs – “One week before President Obama is scheduled to attend a major “space summit” in Florida, NASA unveiled sweeping new programs Thursday designed to implement the administration’s proposed shift to commercial manned rockets and development of new technologies to enable eventual deep space exploration…”
The Coming War: ARM versus x86 – ” In this in-depth analysis, we will discuss the emerging competition between ARM and x86 microprocessors. Led by the Intel Atom, x86 chips are quickly migrating downwards into embedded, low-power environments, while ARM CPUs are beginning to flood upwards into the more sophisticated and demanding market spaces currently owned by x86 processors. The central focus of this report will be an extensive compute performance comparison between the ARM Cortex-A8 versus the new Intel Atom N450, the new VIA Nano L3050 and, for historical perspective, an old AMD Mobile Athlon based upon the Barton core. The Apple iPad A4 system-on-chip [SoC] is equipped with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8…”
Solar Impulse – First flight of airplane that will soon try to circumnavigate the globe using solar power
Bank’s Headquarters Are So Big That You Need Robot Guides:
Be Your Own ISP – “For those who are increasingly frustrated with their ISP’s poor customer service, variable-rate connections, and traffic shaping/filtering, a question arises: can you be your own ISP? In some cases, the answer is yes…”
Electric car keeps going and going – “Meet the ”XD” – an electric car with enough power to drive for several days on a single charge…”
H.P. Sees a Revolution in Memory Chip – “Hewlett-Packard scientists on Thursday are to report advances in the design of a new class of diminutive switches capable of replacing transistors as computer chips shrink closer to the atomic scale…”
Memristor Memory Readied for Production – “HP has begun testing samples of a new kind of nonvolatile memory based on memristors–circuit elements that are much smaller than the transistors used in flash memory. The company plans to introduce the first commercial memristor memory product in three years’ time…”
Anger about ‘stitch-up’ over Digital Economy Bill – “Under the terms of the bill, internet service providers will be obliged to send letters to any of their subscribers linked to alleged infringements. Copyright holders will be able to apply for a court order to gain access to the names and addresses of serious infringers and take action against them while ISPs would be able to suspend accounts of offenders…”
Is It Okay To Download A Pirated Copy Of A Book You Already Own? – “Yesterday we wrote about someone who downloaded a pirated copy of a game after he couldn’t gain access to the copy he’d already paid for. In that case, which most of our commenters supported, it was clear that the consumer was trying to resolve a problem created by the DRM. But what about if you own a printed copy of a book and you simply want to read the ebook version? Should you have to pay for a second copy? Randy Cohen, who writes the The Ethicist column for the New York Times, says downloading a copy you find online is ethical. Here’s his argument…”
What If AT&T Prevented You from Reading This Article? – ” Comcast, AT&T and Verizon are making a play to control the Internet. Tell Obama and the FCC to preserve an open and free Internet…”
Runners Caught Outside As Hail Storm Hits – “The students were covered in red welts after being pounded by the hail. Crawford and her husband loaded the runners into their van and took them to the hospital…”
Artificial ‘muscles’ may pump up touch-screen typing – ” A Sunnyvale, Calif., company called Artificial Muscle says its thin plastic “muscle” can push a glass screen ever so slightly, nudging back on a texting finger to create the sensation of typing on a real keyboard…”
D Drive – invented by Stephen Durnin – “An infinitely variable geared transmission which allows an engine to operate at it’s most efficient setting while allowing the vehicle speed to be continuously varied to suit driving conditions…”
Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years – “Like a magician who says, “Pick a card, any card,” Stanford University computer scientist Debashis Sahoo, PhD, seemed to be offering some kind of trick when he asked researchers at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine to pick any two genes already known to be involved in stem cell development. Finding such genes can take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars, but Sahoo was promising the skeptical stem cell scientists that, in a fraction of a second and for practically zero cost, he could find new genes involved in the same developmental pathway as the two genes provided…”
How Rotifers Work (Just add water):
No, There Are NOT More Earthquakes Than Normal – “Well, the United States Geological Survey explains that – contrary to appearances – we really don’t have more earthquakes than normal…”
China Is Eager to Bring High-Speed Rail Expertise to the U.S. – “Nearly 150 years after American railroads brought in thousands of Chinese laborers to build rail lines across the West, China is poised once again to play a role in American rail construction. But this time, it would be an entirely different role: supplying the technology, equipment and engineers to build high-speed rail lines…”
Court Drives FCC Towards Nuclear Option to Regulate Broadband – “fiber_connectorsA federal appeals court all but told the FCC Tuesday that it has no power to regulate the internet, putting large chunks of the much-lauded national broadband plan at risk. And the FCC has only itself to blame…”
South African fossils could be new hominid species – “The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa. The fossils of a female adult and a juvenile male – perhaps mother and son – are just under two million years old…”
GE makes LED replacement for 40-watt bulb – “GE on Thursday unveiled the Energy Smart LED bulb that puts out 450 lumens–about the same output as a 40-watt incandescent–while consuming 9 watts…”
Process Explorer v12.01 – “Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded…”
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