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Decending From 25 Miles Up 2008-05-25 09:06:14 New York Times - A 64-year-old retired French army officer, will attempt what he is calling Le Grand Saut (The Great Leap) on Sunday from the plains of northern Saskatchewan.
He intends to climb into the pressurized gondola of the 650-foot balloon, which resembles a giant jellyfish, and make a two-hour journey to 130,000 feet. At [...] Read more:Miles
Microsoft Office will now support Open Office and other open formats 2008-05-22 11:14:42 Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun’s StarOffice, and other third-party tools as well as similarly [...] Read more:Microsoft
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Phoenix Mission To Mars Is About To Land 2008-05-20 06:45:31 After traveling 422 million miles since its launching last Aug. 4, NASA’s Phoenix
Mars Lander is aiming for a touchdown on Sunday in the unexplored northern regions of Mars. But first, it must survive what its developers call the final “seven minutes of terror” to reach the surface.
Read the Full article at The New York [...] Read more:Mission
Fastest Firefox Version is Coming Very Soon! 2008-05-20 06:24:43 Lifehacker post an article about this new Firefox
3.
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Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x [...]
Chilean Government Data Hacked 2008-05-13 04:16:32 An anonymous hacker has posted personal data about 6 million Chilean
residents on the Internet, highlighting wider privacy problems in the country.
The data was posted early Saturday morning on Fayerwayer.com, a popular Chilean technology blog.
The hacker, who calls himself “Anonymous Coward,” posted three compressed files of data that included names, addresses, telephone numbers and t Read more:Government
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Computers Powered By Thoughts 2008-05-07 20:43:23 The scientists of Southern Federal University won 750,000 dollars award for the development of the systems of the mental computer control. For the next 18 months Rostov scientists together with their Taganrog and Saint Petersburg colleagues are going to develop programs and make a research that will help them to create such a system.
Complete article [...]
Footprint of a Sauropod(Dinosaur) in Arabian Peninsula 2008-05-28 07:37:03 “The nice thing is we finally filled in a bit of a blank spot in the dinosaur map,” said Anne Schulp, a palaeontologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, who worked on the study.
“Until 10 years not even bones were known from the Arabian
peninsula and at last we have some dinosaur tracks.”
Complete [...] Read more:Footprint
Windows 7 Will have Touch Screen 2008-05-28 05:19:21 Microsoft demonstrated its multitouch interface for its upcoming Windows
7 operating system on Tuesday. The interface provides a touch-screen input for users to interact with their computers.
Full Article at Pcworld. Read more:Touch Screen
We can Literally ‘See’ the Future 2008-06-03 21:06:28 Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It’s nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.
And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.
Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in [...] Read more:Future
Is Linux Really Devil? 2008-06-03 20:45:53 The following is a true story.
Last week I walked into a local “home style cookin’ restaurant/watering hole” to pick up a take out order. I spoke briefly to the waitress behind the counter, who told me my order would be done in a few minutes.
So, while I was busy gazing at the farm implements hanging [...] Read more:Devil
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The all-purpose Laptops 2008-06-03 20:40:18 Learn more on how to use further of your laptop in a weird way.
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Internet Explorer 8 will be the most standards compliant browser ever. 2008-06-16 07:39:20 Internet Explorer
8 is set to be Microsoft’s most standards compliant browser
ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been [...] Read more:Internet
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Windows XP’s Expiration Date 2008-06-17 09:48:55 The Windows
XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it’s time for Vista to sink or swim.
Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC [...] Read more:Expiration
Firefox hit the 20 million download mark. 2008-06-26 10:04:59 Mozilla’s Firefox
3 web browser, which was officially released one week ago, has already been downloaded over 20 million
times since the official launch. This is a noteworthy achievement for the open source browser, which is rapidly eroding the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The number of Firefox 3 downloads continues to climb, but currently represents [...]
Internet is for Everyone 2008-06-25 06:27:10 Today Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet
for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband access for every American a priority in the next administration.
Why is Google involved? Making the Internet accessible to more Americans is part of our corporate [...]
Okay, There’s water on the Red Planet, now where’s the life? 2008-06-23 10:41:33 The Mars Lander’s mission on the fourth planet from the Sun is a dream come true for many scientists who have been trying for decades to prove that there is indeed water
on Mars, and that where there’s water, there could be life.
NASA’s Phoenix lander recently discovered chunks of bright materials near the surface of [...]
Man for sale at $420,000 2008-06-22 01:42:34 From Sunday, June 22 for one week, Usher’s life is up for sale on eBay with the package including his $420,000 (US$397,000) three-bedroom house in Perth, Western Australia, a trial for his job at a rug store, his car, motorbike, clothes and even friends.
Usher, 44, told Reuters he had been inundated with emails from all [...]
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