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UK Bans iPhone 3G Advertisement

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:36:26 -0600

An ad by Apple showing off the iPhone 3G to the UK market was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after it has received complaints about the ad being misleading. The ad shows the iPhone...

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Recycled Urine As Drinking Water For ISS Astronauts

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:25:04 -0600

Space Shuttle Endeavour will take off for the International Space Station this Saturday, to deliver a device capable of recycling urine into water. This is one of the many devices needed to expand the...

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Ammonia Tank From ISS To Hit Earth

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:33:59 -0600

An ammonia tank the size of a refrigerator was tossed by astronaut Clayton Anderson during a spacewalk in July 23, 2007, and it's expected to finally enter the Earth's atmosphere and hit either land or...

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New 80 Core Processor From Intel Demoed

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:36:32 -0500

Consuming only 78 watts of electricity, the 80 core CPU is capable of delivering 1 Teraflop at a clock speed of 3.13GHz. Similarly to how modern cars shut down some of the engine's cylinders when power...

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Google Android G1 At 1.5 Million Orders

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:52:40 -0500

The G1 will come with Google Search, Maps, Calendar, Talk, Gmail and YouTube preinstalled. Applications will be made available on the Android Marketplace, a service similar to the one offered by Apple...

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The Chinese Are Spying On Skype Conversations

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:36:23 -0500

It was recently uncovered that Skype's partner in China, TOM-Skype, is monitoring and logging the instant messages of its users, if they are deemed as offensive. When saved, the instant messages are directly...

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We're Running Out Of IP Addresses

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:51:51 -0500

While most Western countries and China are making efforts to become IPv6 ready, the number of available IPv4 addresses is dropping rapidly, and China is the first one to be hit by the lack of assigned...

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The Android G1 Phone Has Been Revealed

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:09:26 -0500

Google and T-Mobile have revealed the first Android-based mobile phone that will be available for purchase in the United States starting October 22nd. The cost of the device stands at $179 and it required...

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The Large Hadron Collider Has Been Shut Down

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:59:12 -0500

On the 19th of September, the temperature of about 100 of LHC's magnets that are intentionally kept very cool, rose to well over 200 degrees Fahrenheit, about 656 degrees in excess of the normal operating...

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Microsoft Reveals The Cray CX1 Personal Supercomputer

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:30:58 -0500

Microsoft has entered the supercomputer market with Cray CX1, the first high performance computing machine to run a version of Windows designed especially for that. Windows HPC (High Performance Computing...

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