NEW YORK–More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid.
About 65 eager shoppers lined the south side of West 34th Street across from Macy’s in Manhattan at 11:30 p.m. Thursday waiting for the [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Hundreds of people hunkered down in tents and sleeping bags on a chilly Bay Area evening Thursday to watch a NASA spacecraft punch a hole in the moon.
The crowd, expected to grow into the thousands by the time a Centaur rocket plows into a south pole crater that hasn’t seen sunlight in [...]
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sterlingda writes to tell us that scientists have built a mouse-levitating superconducting magnet, working on behalf of NASA to study variable levels of gravity. The group hopes to ascertain what physiological impacts prolonged exposure to microgravity might have. “Repeated levitation tests showed the mice, even when not sedated, could quickly acclimate to levitation inside [...]
I’ve seen it for a while, it couldn’t last. The capitalization of a social club is never a pretty thing. It’s just a matter of time before they start charging…
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Facebook Exodus
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as [...]
THE HAGUE (AFP) – A treasured piece of moon rock showcased in a key Amsterdam museum is nothing but petrified wood, museum authorities said of a gift made to a former Dutch prime minister by a US envoy.
The exhibit at the Rijksmuseum, originally gifted to Willem Drees in 1969 by then US ambassador William Middendorf [...]
Induction is just plain cool. Instead of using a flame like gas, or radiant heat like standard electric burners, induction burners use a magnetic field. The field creates heat through the property outlined in Joule’s first law—you do remember your thermodynamics, right?—in which current passing through conductive material generates heat.
So what? Well, a couple of [...]
I think part of the reason I hate Twitter is because it is all tweeting and twits. Where are the twats? I want my twatter! Now they plan on spoiling television with it too.
There’s no doubt about it: TV is getting way more social. A recent patent filed by IBM reveals that Big Blue wants [...]