Dr. Peter Tsou of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory once said, “you could take a two- or three-bedroom house, insulate it with aerogel, and you could heat the house with a candle. But eventually the house would become too hot.” So why haven’t we all been spraying our building’s with the stuff? Unfortunately, for the past [...]
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Just saw on Ars Technica that This American Life has come out with an iPhone app. I for one being a huge fan couldn’t be happier – why you ask? Well the current podcasts are great, but often times when driving on a road trip I’d love to catch up on some older episodes, can’t [...]
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“Wolfram|Alphas long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other [...]
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Users with disabilities are fighting back against a recent attempt by the Authors Guild to shut down the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature.
About 300 people drawn from the National Federation of the Blind and partner organizations protested outside the offices of the Authors Guild in New York Wednesday in hopes of reversing the Guild’s stance. The [...]
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Yeah, you read the title right, the fusion of Korean BBQ Tacos (a fusion of its own) is big business when fused with twitter. What do the two have to do with each other? Well for the Kogi Korean BBQ Taco Truck in L.A. using Twitter to announce their next stop means that when they [...]
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[Quick background, MLB At Bat is a program in its second year for the iPhone that now exists as a free 'Lite' version and a pay $9.99 full version. The full version that I have allows detailed stats and scores for all games in real time (or close to) and additionally live audio for the [...]
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This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans: are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality? It’s a [...]
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I’ve been surprised (not really upset I might admit) that the television in England hasn’t jumped on all the gimicks of digital imaging and breaking down plays that the US has. Some of these efforts were complete jokes (the glow puck in hockey, thanks Fox) but others like the first and ten line worked and [...]
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In an interview with BBC Sport, Foster noted “We went into the shoot-out as well prepared as possible. We have had things to look at over the last couple of days and before the shoot-out, you can see me looking at an iPod with Eric Steele. It had actual video on it and showed where [...]
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Being into all things new I installed the beta of Safari 4 on my Mac, I had know of some of the changes, including massive improvements with Safari’s Java performance, among other under the improvements. The UI also had some tweaks, probably most notably is the addition of Top Sites, a thumbnail view of your most visited [...]
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