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Kenya-based maker Babamzungu designed and built this proof of concept one-stage anaerobic digester to convert waste organic material into useful methane gas. Anarobic digesters work by placing organic material in an oxygen-free environment, where naturally occurring microorganisms digest the matter and turn it into methane and carbon dioxide.

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Building a (one-stage) Anaerobic Digester

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 01:54:00 MyWi app turns iPhone into a 3G modem for iPad A new application for users of ‘jail-broken’ iPhones allows them to be used as 3G modems with Apple’s new iPad tablet….

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New jail-break app gets iPad users free 3G

HP Now Generates More Profit From Services Today, Business Insider published the chart below, which demonstrates that Hewlett-Packard’s services division has grown larger than its imaging division. But printers still comprise a sizable chunk of HP’s business, and probably will for the foreseeable future. Just don’t count on much growth according to Business Insider

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HP’s Printer Business No Longer Its Largest

The Phenom X4 II is a quad core chip with clock speeds up to 2.3GHz, but it is unclear which specific chips for the new Dell will offer on the M501R. The processor is coupled with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics as standard, with Mobility Radeon HD 550V 1GB graphics option

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Dell Inspiron M501R Phenom X4 II Display

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 01:21:00 Private equity firm makes security company’s founders rather rich UK security vendor Sophos has sold a majority stake in the company to private equity firm Apax Partners in a deal that values Sophos at $830m (£546m)….

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Apax Partners buys control of Sophos in £830m deal

Make: Online reader Richard Kline (Dayton, OH) wrote in to remind us of this excellent ham radio convention: I thought I would send a heads-up in case nobody else had about Hamvention 2010, a huge electronics and ham radio convention in Dayton Ohio, which takes place in about two weeks (May 14, 15, and 16th). Hamvention usually has attendance of about 20,000 people and is loads of fun for anyone who is interested in electronics or ham radio… there is an outdoor electronics flea market with thousands of vendors selling all variety of electronic tools and components and a myriad more ham-radio vendors indoors showing off their latest and greatest stuff

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Dayton Hamvention, May 14-16

This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad [Apple] With every new Apple gadget, there’s always an imbecile who wants to destroy it on video to get his Warhol moment. This one put an iPad 3G 64GB in a microwave but, instead of a Warhol, he got a Pollock

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This Is What Happens When You Microwave an iPad [Apple]

After a five-year legal dispute in the United Kingdom over the “Gmail” name, Google has finally won, and they’re now allowing UK users to change their cumbersome @googlemail.com address to the proper @gmail.com address that the rest of us in the world (except Germany) use. (more…) Related posts on TFTS: Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Passwords Leaked Online [Security Breach Affects More Than 20,000 Accounts] Google 16TB Cloud Drive Available for $4,096 per Year [Cheaper Storage Solutions Available Too] Google Search Goes Minimal [Google Search Homepage Back to Basics]

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Gmail Returning To UK [Following Five-Year Legal Dispute, UK Users Can Upgrade Their GoogleMail Account To Gmail]

Red Bryant was a fourth-round draft choice in 2008 out of Texas A&M, a powerful defensive tackle who is also tall at 6 feet 4. In fact, some teams did not consider him a draftable prospect because of what they considered poor leverage inside. For two years, Bryant has been a situational tackle, and there were times he was a healthy scratch last year as the team opted to use Craig Terrill .

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Red Bryant moving toward the edge?

Internet search and services giant Google has expanded its commitment to green energy with a $38.8 million investment in wind energy.  Google has purchased a tax equity stake in two South Dakota wind farms, capable of generating a combined 169.5 megawatts of electricity. (more…) Related posts on TFTS: US OK’s First Offshore Wind Farm [130 Wind Turbines Headed For Nantucket Sound] Indonesia Considering Volcano-Powered Geothermal Energy Production [Volcanoes Would Contribute 4,000 Megawatts Of Power] Kinesis K3 Wind and Solar Charger [Recharge USB Gadgets Using Mother Nature, Weatherproof Design, AC Adapter for Pre-Charging] Wind Generator Wind Turbine Kit Powers LED, Period (Cool Educational Gadget) Dell Energy Smart Vostro 410 ‘Green’ Business Desktop Gets Early Release [Energy-Efficient Vostro 410 Intel Core 2 Quad PC] Google to Help Minimize Plug-in Charging Load [Google Software to Help Electric Vehicles Charge More Efficiently] © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us

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Google Invests $38.8 Million In Wind Energy [Google Goes Green With Large Investment In North Dakota Wind Farms]

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Monday 3 May 2010 at 23:57:00 Big Blue looks to strengthen cloud offerings with latest acquisition IBM has agreed to acquire Cast Iron Systems in a move designed to bolster its line of cloud computing services….

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IBM buys integration tools specialist Cast Iron Systems

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Monday 3 May 2010 at 23:55:00 Firm pays out over ‘complete and utter failure’ SAP has paid out an undisclosed sum to former customer Waste Management over the implementation of a failed enterprise resource planning system….

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SAP settles Waste Management ERP lawsuit

One of my favorite ham radio activities is making contacts on satellites. It’s really fun to know that you’re controlling something that’s receiving and sending communications from space. But communicating with satellites means carrying a big Yagi antenna around.

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Collapsible fabric Yagi antenna

Hey, who knew that Apple A4 processor was so powerful? Sorry, but the iPad isn’t technically playing World of Warcraft, it’s instead just streaming it off of a server somewhere.

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WoW Streamed To iPad For Linkbait [Gaikai Shows Off Game Streaming Technology By Playing World of Warcraft On iPad]

iPhone, iPad “Spirit” Jailbreak Available for Download [Jailbreak] The iPad/iPhone jailbreak we learned about on iPad launch day is now available for download. The untethered hack works with activated iPhone OS gear running versions 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2. As for the iPad, users should proceed with caution, as any errors, crashes or other unforeseen issues will require a restore for things to work like normal again.

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iPhone, iPad “Spirit” Jailbreak Available for Download [Jailbreak]

Environmentalists struck back at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who blamed the explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent oil leak on an inside job by “hardcore environmentalist wackos.” Gulf of Mexico – Rush Limbaugh – Oil – Talk radio – Radio

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Rush: The Ocean Can Take Care of Spill Itself

May is here, spring’s in full swing, and folks are in happy circulation. From my home office window, it’s a steady stream of people on leisurely walks, kids and adults on bikes, kids on skates n’ skateboards, and the old guy down the street who proudly rides his Segway to the 7-Eleven. With gas prices and the economy being what they are, growing concern over environmental impacts, and a greater public harangue over obesity and health issues, I’ve definitely seen an increase in neighborhood biking in the past few years.

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It’s Alt.Transportation month!

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Monday 3 May 2010 at 22:26:00 Chrome sees biggest gain while Firefox continues to chip away at IE’s lead Microsoft’s share of the browser market continued to erode last month, according to a recent traffic report. The April report from traffic analysis firm Net Applications found that over the…

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Internet Explorer market share falls below 60 per cent

Dell has plans for new laptops for us but the company didn’t want to spoil everything with a neatly written press release. Instead they have made their new Inspiron R notebook line available on the Internet and we’re going to take a look at each of them and see if we get inspired in any way.

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Dell Inspiron 13R, 14R, 15R, 17R & M501R Surface, Not Properly Announced Yet [Dell Makes Available New Laptops Without a Proper Announcement: 13R,…

The e-book reader is a fairly new product—and in some ways that immaturity shows in our debut Ratings of the devices , available now for subscribers. We’ve also updated and expanded our buying advice on e-book readers , which is available free

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Now live: Our first Ratings of e-book readers, including the Kindle and Nook