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Motorola announcing Krave ZN4 for Verizon October 14th

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Thanks to one of our ever-sneaky sources, we’ve just learned that Motorola will be holding a “virtual media briefing” for media at 9AM EST on October 14th. That’s this coming Tuesday for all your early weekend party starters. We’ve explored the Motorola Krave ZN4 in depth with our exclusive hands on review a while back, […]

Looking for Earth-Like Exoplanets

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Discover Magazine is running a story detailing the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars. While we’ve been able to locate a few “super earths” so far, none of them really compare in size or the potential for habitability with our own world. Fortunately, advances in data analysis and new space-based telescopes — such […]

EMP Shielded Power Grids Under Development

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: “A one-megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern electronic devices and systems in the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time. … A solar storm similar to the one that occurred in 1859, which shorted out […]

CNET UK Credits Claim That Apple Will Release Networked TVs

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

r2k writes “While the Apple rumours posted yesterday highlight some of the most commonly talked-about opinions, a writer for CNet UK sat down with Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis, who told CNet he knew for a fact that Apple is developing fully networked LCD TV sets. As the writer points out, Apple dropped ‘Computer’ from its company […]

British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Master of Transhuman writes “Seems like nobody can keep their data under wraps these days. On the heels of the World Bank piece about massive penetrations of their servers, the British Ministry of Defense has lost a hard drive with the personal details of 100,000 serving personnel in the British armed forces, and perhaps another […]

UK Government Says More Spying Needed

Friday, October 10th, 2008

An anonymous reader writes “Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we’re not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton’s phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of […]

This Week’s Hot News: Oct. Week 2

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Missed this week’s hot news? Check them out here in this weekend’s roundup!

Original post by Julie Strietelmeier

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax Network Debuts In Baltimore, Works Well

Friday, October 10th, 2008

bsk_cw writes “Sprint’s newly launched Xohm service is now offering America’s first WiMax network. Computerworld’s Brian Nadel went to Baltimore to try it out, and he reports that Xohm delivered data smoothly to a car moving at highway speeds, played YouTube videos flawlessly, and on average, pushed through more than 3Mbit/sec., compared with 1.3 Mbit/sec. […]

Computer-Aided Lego Art Project

Friday, October 10th, 2008

rsk writes “Justin Voskuhl, a Google engineer, in a 2-fold bid to fight boredom and figure out something to cover a large barren wall in his living room, one weekend developed a Java program using an annealing algorithm to figure out the best layout and colors of Lego blocks to reproduce a source image exclusively […]

Dell expands music tie-ins on festival circuit

Friday, October 10th, 2008

NEW YORK (Billboard) - At the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival in Texas at the end of September, sandwiched between a stage and a small recycling center stood a white dome decorated with colorful cloud patterns. Inside the air-conditioned structure, visitors could get customized T-shirts, temporary tattoos and a mixtape of songs by artists […]

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