Paris Motor Show 2010: Jaguar creates electric supercar with jet engine – “The C-X75, which will be officially unveiled at the Paris motor show today, can also travel for 560 miles without needing to be recharged through a plug – significantly further than the current industry peak of around 100 miles – because of a gas turbine system designed by a British engineer…”

Jaguar C-X75 Electric Concept:

AMD Announces 8-Core Bulldozer CPU – “You can’t say that AMD is ever boring. The company says its next-generation Bulldozer CPU core will take a unique approach to computing that goes beyond Hyper-Threading, which some believe could offer phenomenal performance…”

Haipad 7-Inch HDMI Android Tablet With Google TV For $199 – “Based on the Telechip TCC8902 at 720Mhz, the same CPU found in SmartQ devices, is a 7-inch Android 2.1 tablet featuring a built-in HDMI port with infrared remote control that lets you connect it to a TV, essentially becoming your very own “Google TV”. Now we’re not sure if this is the same as the Google TV that was being touted at Google’s IO event or if it’s merely trying to mimic it but the short video (below) gives some insight into the feature…”

New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA – “NASA engineers working on the James Webb Space Telescope are doing a lot of things from scratch — they’ve had to design new mirrors and a foldy space cocoon, for instance — but their newest work may take the cake: To survive the coldest reaches of space, they invented a brand-new composite material. They nicknamed it unobtanium…”

Can Computers Be Conscious? – “We kicked off the Month of Going Mental with the question “what is consciousness?”—a question that has proven elusive since Descartes first pondered his own existence. As the month draws to a close, we return to the same issue, this time to speculate about how we might recreate consciousness in silico…”

Japan develops vehicle motor free of rare earths – “Japanese researchers said Thursday they had developed a hybrid vehicle motor that is free of rare earths, the minerals that are now almost exclusively produced by China…”

Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death – “A Rutgers University freshman posted a goodbye message on his Facebook page before jumping to his death after his roommate secretly filmed him during a “sexual encounter” in his dorm room and posted it live on the Internet…” See also: Rutgers freshman commits suicide after roommate puts sex tape online

There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly – “Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Internet. By this past summer, that number had risen to 769 million— and this only counts systems that have DNS names. The notion of a computer that is not connected to the Internet is patently absurd these days…”

Google Android apps found to be sharing data – “Some of the most popular apps written for Google’s Android phones do not tell users what data they are gathering, says a study by US researchers. Half of 30 applications studied share location information and unique identifiers with advertisers…”

Chinese high-speed train dramatically cuts down travel time – “A new high-speed train linking Chinese cities Shanghai and Hangzhou has hit speeds of 416.6 kilometers an hour on its trial run on Tuesday, China Daily reported….”

Car’s Body Could Work As A Battery – “Volvo is experimenting with a new composite material that can store and release energy more quickly than a convention lithium-ion battery…”

World’s first ‘cyber superweapon’ attacks China – ” A computer virus dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities has found a new target — China…”

http://www.physorg.com/news205043536.html – ” Japan’s Panasonic on Thursday unveiled a robot that can scans a client’s head using 3D technology, then shampoos their hair and massages the scalp with its rubbery “fingers”. …”

http://www.financialpost.com/news/Guess+what+PlayBook+nuclear+reactor+have+common/3599466/story.html – “Deep inside a nuclear reactor in Qinchan, China, may lie the building blocks to the future of the BlackBerry and the key to Research In Motion Ltd.’s salvation…”

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company – “The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company With David Packard’s birthday passing last week, and HP’s recent leadership woes, we at Gizmodo feel it’s time to remember early HP’s innovative founding culture. We bring you an inspiring excerpt from Packard’s book, with a foreword by his son…”

Digg founder: We let Digg stagnate – “Digg recently launched a suite of new features, most of which constituted playing catch-up, Rose said. Collectively known as Digg v4, or the fourth version of the site, they’re aimed at moving Digg to a more social and personalized experience. The Digg community largely lashed out at the team after the new version of Digg went live, with some users apparently flocking to its competitor Reddit, a social-news site owned by magazine publisher Condé Nast…”

Why car thieves love a ’94 Honda Accord – “”It’s a good car,” he said. “They sold a lot of them and they stay on the road for a long time. The people who own them tend to take care of them, so that creates a demand for parts. That’s why the thieves like them so much — it’s easy to sell their parts.”….”

5 Retirement Savings Ideas For Young People – “It’s important to establish good savings habits when you’re young, even though you’re likely on a tight budget, says Joe Jennings, investment director for PNC Wealth Management in Baltimore…”

Breakthrough in quantum computer race – “A team led by UNSW engineers and physicists have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a “single electron reader”. Their work has been published in the journal Nature…”

Recession rips at US marriages, expands income gap
– “The recession seems to be socking Americans in the heart as well as the wallet: Marriages have hit an all-time low while pleas for food stamps have reached a record high and the gap between rich and poor has grown to its widest ever…”

Irish deficit balloons after new bank bail-out – “The cost of bailing out the Republic of Ireland’s stricken banks has risen to 45bn euro (£39bn), opening a huge hole in the Irish government’s finances. The increased cost will see the government run a budget deficit equivalent to 32% of GDP this year…” See also: Anglo Irish Bank bailout could total €34bn

‘America used to be our enemy No 1. But now it’s al-Qa’ida,’ say former insurgents – “Former Iraqi insurgents have spoken for the first time about the moment that turned them away from al-Qa’ida and swung the conflict in favour of the United States…”

Cooking with 5 Ingredients or Less – ” Delicious recipes that are easy to make for your family…”

Dr Hawking’s bright idea – “IN 1974 Stephen Hawking, pictured right, had a startling theoretical insight about black holes—those voracious eaters of matter and energy from whose gravitational clutches not even light can escape. He predicted that black holes should not actually be black. Instead, because of the quirks of quantum mechanics, they should glow ever so faintly, like smouldering embers in a dying fire. The implications were huge. By emitting this so-called Hawking radiation, a black hole would gradually lose energy and mass. If it failed to replenish itself it would eventually evaporate completely, like a puddle of water on a hot summer’s day…”

Only 1.7% of sites blocked by Scandinavia’s “child-porn” filters are actually child porn – “Germany’s working group against censorship, AK Zensur, has analysed a few recent Scandinavian blacklists, allegedly meant to block sites containing child abuse material. Our less-than-surprising findings..”

Earth-Like Planet Can Sustain Life – “A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It’s called Gliese 581g, and the ‘g’ may very well stand for Goldilocks…”

3 Secret Apple TV Features Steve Jobs Hasn’t Told You About – “During his modest introduction of the device, Jobs called the Apple TV “one more hobby.” But a closer look at the code and the hardware powering the Apple TV reveals that there’s a lot more going on under the hood than the CEO shared…”

Augmented reality comes to mobile phones – “If you thought location-aware search and other mobile mapping technologies were cool, hold onto your hat. A new wave of innovation in the mobile market will bring augmented reality to smartphones, allowing users to interact virtually with their surroundings…”

Brain-Controlled Wheelchair Gives Mobility to Paralyzed People – “How incredible would it be for a person who can’t move their arms or legs to be able to literally think their way around a room, avoiding obstacles and getting where they want to go with mind-power. A new wheelchair created by researchers at Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne combines brain messages with artificial intelligence to give hope for independent mobility to paralyzed people…”

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