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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 20:09 |
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From a website that is not known for its philanthropic nature,this is in itself news. The back story is pretty amazing also, so we send Kudos to 4chan for having a heart. We would like to join in wishing WWII vet William J. Lashua a very happy and memorable 90th birthday.
Today, someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and by lunchtime, his local branch of the American Legion said th...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 20:09 |
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A prototype car built by Craig Henderson in 1984 just broke its own Guinness World Record driving 1,478 miles using 12.4 gallons of diesel at 119.1 mpg. My weed eater burns more fuel
The Avion is a car Craig Henderson originally built with partner Bill Green way back in 1984 as a prototype for a high-mileage vehicle he hoped to sell. Commercial plans never came to fruition, but Henderson never abandoned the Avion. Over the years he's kept tinkering with it, improving its ...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 19:09 |
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The Chinese have been conducting experiments with their satellites in space. China's SJ-12 satellite has been maneuvered at least 6 times, one resulting in 'bumping' another Chinese satellite. Speculation on the maneuvers ranges from space station preparation to military to purely scientific. A close encounter of the Chinese kind.
Such close encounters could allow China to practice rendezvous procedures between its future space station and other spacecraft, as well as learn abo...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 19:09 |
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Next Wednesday Google is having a press conference to share their latest technological innovation and evolution of Google search. The announcement comes without details, but with a 'don't miss this' tagline. Maybe they bought themselves a country
My guess is that this will be similar to the "Searchology" events that Google's held in 2007 and 2009. This is a general update on things Google's doing in search, usually peppered with a few product announcements, but nothing that d...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 18:09 |
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New standards for flash memory cards are being developed by the SD Card Association which will increase data transfer by close to 300%. The specs should be complete early 2011 and be in production early 2012.
Today's SD cards have data-transfer buses with a maximum speed of 104MB per second, though actual read and write speeds are somewhat slower. The new specification, just called SD 4.0 for now, will increase that to 300MB/sec, said Kevin Schader, the association's director of...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 17:09 |
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A new 32nm AMD 8 core CPU will mainly be aimed at the server market, but that will not deter hard core hobbyists on having the biggest and baddest in their boxen.
The new 32nm design promises to confuse the very notion of cores, however, with AMD referring to the chip's building blocks as modules. Each module will feature a pair of 128-bit floating point units and share L1 cache and other resources, essentially allowing a module to function as a dual-core unit while making the...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 17:09 |
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that internet surfers are more prone to giving up their private information on websites that appear to be less reputable than others. Darwin would be proud.
One site displayed an official-looking logo, formal fonts, and staid colors. Another site was designed to appear neutral. And the third used lurid colors, less professional-looking fonts, and a cartoonish devil icon. The researchers found that people were nearly twice...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 16:09 |
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Back in May Steve wrote about the possibility of running World of Warcraft on an iPad. It is no longer just a possibility, but a beta reality. No thanks to Apple for this achievement.
aikai is a game streaming service currently in beta. It would allow you to play games using a Flash client on any desktop and, apparently, a native client on the iPad (or iPhone, I presume). In theory, an application like this would allow any kind of game to be played in the iPhone OS without going...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 16:09 |
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The Hamburg State Court ruled uploaded videos on YouTube of performances by singer Sarah Brighton violate existing copyright laws, disregarding current directives of the European Union.
"This decision results in a substantial legal uncertainty for all providers of video platforms, opinion forums, social communities, blogs and many other Internet services in Germany," Haller said in a statement.
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 16:09 |
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Beware of a new malware scam that looks incredibly similar to Microsoft Security. The Rogue:MSIL/Zeven malware automatically detects your browser and issues a fake warning page. The new twist here is the use of the user's trust in their browser integrity.
While the malware is a pretty good attempt, it's not perfect. The goal is to get the user to download and install something, shelling out some cash in the process, which neither of the three browser vendors would ever recomme...
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Written by MadMax
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 15:09 |
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Canonical has announced a new beta release of Linux Ubuntu distro codenamed Maverick Meerkat. Major improvements have been made in the Netbook area with its Unity user interface.
The Ubuntu Netbook Edition has seen particularly dramatic improvements during this development cycle due to Canonical's work on the new Unity user interface. Unity, which was initially introduced in May, has matured very rapidly. It has a global menubar that works surprisingly well.
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