The new chips are aimed at smartphones and iPods Intel and Micron plan to unveil new 25-nanometer flash memory chips today via their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, the first commercial chip products made using advanced 25nm manufacturing technology.
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The new chips are aimed at smartphones and iPods Intel and Micron plan to unveil new 25-nanometer flash memory chips on Monday via their IM Flash Technologies joint venture, the first commercial chip products made using advanced 25nm manufacturing technology.
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Intel and Micron expected to unveil first 25nm flash memory chips
Alexander Kendrick’s project consists of a low-frequency radio allowing a person to send text messages from almost 1,000 feet underground. Read his fascinating story on NPR.com. [via Slashdot ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Wireless | Digg this!
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16-year-old’s cave radio wins the 2009 International Science Fair
Firefox Mobile 1.0 Burrows Onto Nokia N900s [Firefoxmobile] Firefox Mobile crawled into its first pockets last night, going live on Maemo5. The mobile version retains the full awesomeness of the Awesome Bar and includes WeaveSync for keeping tabs, passwords, and bookmarks straight across desktop and mobile versions. The Nokia N900 sports a lot of impressive unofficial achievements on its resume, like dual-booting (sort of) and playing Starcraft and Duke Nukem 3D
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Firefox Mobile 1.0 Burrows Onto Nokia N900s [Firefoxmobile]
I know it’s just a video of a 3D printer laying down plastic, but Festo sure does a great job of showing how sexy the hardware is! I love the spool holding the plastic, and the threaded rods spinning as the extruder rises and drops. [via the Technocratic Anarchist ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in 3D printing | Digg this!
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Festo iFab in action
Amazon Gives In, Will Sell eBooks On Macmillan’s Terms [Amazon] Amazon has given in to Macmillan, and will switch to a pricing model that sees bestseller and new hardcover releases offered to customers at $12.99 to $14.99. The official statement is as follows: Dear Customers: Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases. We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles
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Amazon Gives In, Will Sell eBooks On Macmillan’s Terms [Amazon]
If you be dressed neutral put up a website, you probably all on tap deliver heard words like: keywords, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, SEO. Adwords, Adsense, SEO pull someone’s leg an individual fixation in common – Keywords . How signal are keywords
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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Sunday 31 January 2010 at 09:45:00 Eric Schmidt restates web giant’s intention to ‘make some changes’ Google’s standoff in China grew even more pronounced last week after chief executive Eric Schmidt restated the web giant’s opposition to internet censorship, according to a Bloomberg report….
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Google digs heels in over censorship in China
This classic chemistry demo involves the use of toxic metallic mercury, so it’s one of those that is best to just watch on YouTube instead of trying yourself. The pulsing action is caused by surface tension effects–metallic mercury is oxidized at the surface of the drop to form a film of mercury (I) sulfate, which lowers the drop’s surface tension and causes it to flatten under its own weight.
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Mercury "beating heart" demo video
Xavier Calluaud ‘s “Urb Garden — A vertical food garden for the urban gardener” complete with a composting ‘worm farm’ and internal watering system. [via Inhabitat ] More: Flashback: Solar Herb Dryer Set up a hydroponic herb garden How-To: Make an Herb Garden from Recycled Plastic Bottles Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this!
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Apartment-sized vertical herb garden
We at TFTS have an addiction and we’re not afraid to speak about it, we love cool watches. A very good example is this special edition Marina Militare 8 Giorni wristwatch by Officine Panerai. An old school model filled with state-of-the-art technological innovation, the stylish timepiece comes with a case made of a ceramized aluminum composite (practically immutable over time) which makes it both harder and lighter than titanium
Yesterday we showed you Apple’s misleading iPad Ad which displayed Flash where it shouldn’t have. That was definitely something tech enthusiasts like us and others did not miss especially after protesting again against Apple’s decision to still not include Flash support in its mobile products
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Apple Owns Up to iPad Misleading Ad & Removes Flash [New Apple iPad Ad Is Flash-Free Just Like the iPad]
Somewhere under all the tablets and 3D, a big story from CES earlier this month was missed, and that was Intel’s WiDi (Wireless Display) technology that they showed off. WiDi lets you use your HDTV has a display for your WiDi-enabled notebook
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Netgear Push2TV Adapter Revealed [Netgear's Notebook-TV Video Adapter Uses Intel's WiDi]
If you want to protect your online accounts from hackers, rule number one is to select strong, hard to guess passwords. However , a recent report by the guys at Internet security firm Impervia , suggests that Internet users are still relying on the same kind of predictable passwords that they used a decade ago. Password strength Impervia released a list of the top 20 passwords, which were found when RockYou.com was hacked last month. According to Impervia, these were strikingly similar to the passwords used on Hotmail.com, when that too was breached almost 20 years ago! Starting with the most commonly used, the 20 most popular passwords were: 123456 12345 123456789 Password iloveyou princess rockyou 1234567 12345678 abc123 Nicole Daniel babygirl monkey Jessica Lovely michael Ashley 654321 Qwerty It’s clear for all to see that many people are still using predictable strings of letters and numbers and names as their passwords. Obviously, if you are using ANY of these, it’s a good idea to change it for something stronger; to avoid the risk of a brute force attack
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20 popular and easy to guess passwords!
Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 30 January 2010 at 20:29:00 Big deals that had a big impact Just about every month we see some big company snatching up a smaller company. With little to no activity in the IPO space from tech firms, selling to a bigger…
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Top 10 technology company mergers
While the functionality may be suspect, these flat-pack wheels have awesome maker flair. Designer Nicolas Belly of Bordeaux, France won 2nd place in the L’Argus Design Contest which had the theme of “Less is More: Traveling in the Era of Simplicity.” [via the Ponoko Blog ] More: Wooden bike Wood Motorcycle Strange 4-legged Scooter Scooter hack Mono-Scooter is speedy Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Bicycles | Digg this!
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Flat-pack bike & scooter
Need a unique spot for your studio/workshop/cave? Perhaps you could get inspired to incubate your latest crazy ideas inside one of these. They’re being pitched as an environmentally benign alternative to commuting and less expensive to heating a whole house for a home office.
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myPod looks like a neat pad
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 30 January 2010 at 14:58:00 Fennec browser becomes available for Nokia’s Maemo platform Mozilla has finally released the long awaited version of its popular Firefox web browser for mobiles. Available initially for Nokia’s Maemo platform, version 1.0 of Fennec is engineered with key…
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Mozilla launches mobile Firefox
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 30 January 2010 at 14:51:00 Passport fraud is a bigger problem, says Ronald Noble The head of Interpol has questioned the amount of resources devoted to implementing body scanning technology in airports, according to an Associated Press report….
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Interpol chief plays down role of scanners
We found a discussion on ZDNet that sparked a mini-debate of sorts, as readers reacted to and commented on the issue of which medium is considered greener and eco-friendly: paper or digital. The post quotes excerpts from an interview with Don Carli, Executive Vice President of SustainCommWorld LLC, and Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Sustainable Communication, done by Metaprinter.com. The highlights that were given attention by ZDNet revolved around the fact that the belief that going digital and completely doing away with paper is the more environmentally-friendly option may not necessarily be true.
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Greener Option: Paper or Digital?