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Yesterday afternoon I read a Reuters article by Liana B. Baker, in which I found out about the three new tablets the company has to offer. According to Baker’s article, Acer’s CEO Gianfranco Lanci showed off 4.8-inch, 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablet devices, all three of which are going to run Android 3.0, though Acer will also release a 10.1-inch tablet that runs a version of Microsoft Windows.
I went to lunch yesterday, and in the process I drove by a high school. I stopped at the traffic light while three high school students walked past on the crosswalk. And they were all lighting cigarettes. They looked to be 10th or 11th graders. “What a waste” is the thing that went through my [...]
I have friends who LOVE going to Vegas to play the casinos. This I have never understood, in the same way I have never understood smoking or playing the lottery. Part of their delusion is that they believe that they can make a lot of money at the casino. But of course in reality they [...]
Apple is promoting its new AirPlay feature in iOS 4.2. You need to buy an Apple TV box to do this, but assuming you do that then it gives you an easy way to do three things: If you have a video on your iPad/iPhone/Touch, you can instantly watch it on your HDTV If you [...]
IBM uncloaks 20 petaflops BlueGene/Q super – “Although everybody seems to be excited about GPU-goosed supercomputing these days, Big Blue is sticking to its Power-based, many-cored BlueGene and Blue Waters massively parallel supers, and revving them up to bust into the 20-petaflops zone….” Dogs are ‘smarter than cats’ – “Dogs are cleverer than cats because [...]
Dukan diet Consolidation Phase (Phase 3) week 5 – A revelation
by Marshall Brain | November 23, 2010
Here is my journey so far with the Dukan Diet: – I wrote an article on the Dukan diet: How the Dukan Diet works – The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic – I started with a 5-day “attack phase” (Phase 1): Yesterday I finished a five-day “Attack Phase” on the [...]
You Asked: How do air-supported structures work? — Jeff, Leander, Texas Marshall Brain Answers: Let’s say you need to cover a big area and you don’t have a lot of money to do it. You might want to cover it to protect it from the rain or to provide some temperature control. For example, you [...]
There have been some pretty strange reboot ideas floating around TV land of late, but this one just takes the cake: Warner Brothers and Atlas Entertainment are firming up plans to give ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ a 21st century update – without auteur Joss Whedon. Wait … what?!
Thanksgiving is almost here and if you read my post on how to prepare a perfect turkey in a flash, you’ve pretty much got things covered for a tasty meal without spending all day in the kitchen. Near the end of that post, I mentioned how I like to consolidate things on the bread and stuffing front, too — do you really need rolls AND stuffing? OK, maybe some of you do — but even you can still enjoy these tasty stuffing muffins (stuffins for short). So as promised, here’s how to make them.
Normally, I summarize the TechStuff podcast topics in a single blog post at the end of the week but Monday’s topic deserves special attention. Chris and I talked about a few photographs, forum posts and videos that some people say are evidence that we will eventually figure out how to travel through time. That’s an extraordinary claim and it requires extraordinary evidence. So how does the evidence stand up to scrutiny?
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