Google Will Conquer the Final Frontier With Simplicity [Blockquote] It’s no secret: Google loves space. The company sponsors the $30 million Lunar X Prize and hosts a radical, detailed maps of Mars and the Moon
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Google Will Conquer the Final Frontier With Simplicity [Blockquote]
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 00:32:00 Search firm makes a play for the hosted municipal services market Google has launched new version of its Apps cloud services aimed specifically at the government market. Apps for Government includes word processing, email and calendar functions, and web pages for…
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Google unveils Apps for Government
I doubt anybody is going to keep this Firefox plugin installed for very long (the point is made after a few minutes), but big red boxes and airhorns blasting you in the face are a good way of saying “HEY.
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Privacy-Conscious? Hear An Airhorn Every Time Google Detects You
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – The Congress on Tuesday gave President Barack Obama long-delayed funding for his troop increase in Afghanistan despite opposition from many fellow Democrats, while Obama played down the gravity of leaked war documents.
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Congress gives Obama long-delayed Afghan war funds
When the specs for Nikon’s new entry-level D3100 leaked out, it got a lot of folks’ attention. Now, the camera could officially be unveiled by the Nikon folks in about three weeks. Nikon is hosting a press week in Europe from August 16 to 20 and it’s expected that the new entry-level DSLR will make its debut there.
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Proper Nikon D3100 Unveiling Coming August 19th? [Rumors Point Towards D3100 Being Shown Off During Nikon Event August 16-20 In Europe]
I have a couple dozen of art instruction books, but few are as fun as Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots , by Jay Stephens. Unlike a lot of other art books geared towards kids, Robots! has less emphasis on step-by-step tutorials (though there are a few of these, which is a good thing), focusing instead on ideas to incorporate into your own bot drawings: heads, sensors, communications subsystems, arms, legs, materials, armor, dials & levers, defense systems, controls, etc
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Next week, AT&T and RIM are going to be unveiling a mystery product at a press event in New York City. It’s widely speculated to be the BlackBerry 9800, the touchscreen slider that’s supposed to help RIM compete the Android phones and the iPhone.
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BlackBerry App World Ready For BlackBerry 9800 [BlackBerry 9800, BB6 Show Up As Options On App World Submission Form]
We’re expecting to get official word on the D3100 next month; Nikon is currently planning a press event the week of August 16th-20th in Europe, which is pretty typical. It’s expected that there will be two events, one to announce the launch of new Coolpix cameras, and one to announce the launch of the previously rumored D3100, as well as some new lens.
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Official Nikon D3100 Announcement Expected August 19th
The Motorola Milestone XT720 never made it to the United States, but now us Yanks can get our hands on the Android phone (‘tumor’ and all) by way of Newegg.com.
Dale Dougherty wrote in the kickoff article for this Making Detroit series about how a GO-Tech meeting was a catalyst for the Detroit Maker Faire. Well, GO-Tech, a once-a-month Maker Show and Tell, held on Ann Arbor’s west side, also brought together the members of an incredible experiment in industrial coworking known as the A2 MechShop
The Leaf is Nissan’s all-electric car. Nissan is doing some pretty interesting things with marketing the car (more on this later), but at first, like it’s competitor the Volt, it’ll only be sold in select markets at first
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Nissan Leaf Availability To Be Limited, Too [Like The EV1 & Volt, Leaf Will First Only Arrive In Select Markets In The United States]
Apple must make a big, juicy target to lawyers trying to cobble together class-action lawsuits. They make promises in plain English that, as is the case with almost all advertising, don’t exactly pan out, but usually allowances can be made. Does Old Spice make you “smell like a man”
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Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple Alleges That iPads Get Too Hot When Used In The Sun
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs.
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Tattooed Lego minifigs
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Anticipating California voters will back a November ballot measure to legalize casual marijuana use, officials in Oakland have approved two tax rates on pot sales in their city, already a hub of the state’s medicinal marijuana scene.
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California city OKs tax rates for marijuana
In the early days of the Internet it was used pretty much solely to exchange ideas, talk about various topics and so on. However, now a days, it is used for so much more. Arguably one of the most effective uses of the Internet is the ability to buy something and have it shipped to your house (which I’m sure all of you have done) without every leaving your desk
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Facebook Finally Allowing Some Users To Delete Their Accounts [New Facebook Privacy Settings Allows For Permanent Account Deletion, Higher Sense Of…
Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs [IPhone Apps] Heaps of music-streaming apps already exist for the iPhone, but Cloud Music has one novel selling point: you upload the music files to Google Docs, and then stream the songs from there. Docs is not just for word-processing anymore, remember ?
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Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs [IPhone Apps]
The whole wireless power issue is an interesting one, no mistake there, but there are plenty of problems with it. The biggest of them is that some devices won’t work on some chargers. The Wireless Power Consortium, meanwhile, is working to make that problem a whole lot less prevalent, and to that end, has announced the Qi standard.
Today, in 1938, Ernest Gary Gygax was born in Chicago, IL. He would go on to create a gaming and publishing empire, built on math-driven storytelling and gem-like Platonic solids dice (co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ). Anybody who’s ever played Dungeons & Dragons will know why Gary Gygax is suited to be celebrated in a Maker Birthday shout out.
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Maker Birthdays: Gary Gygax
Global warming and rising gas prices are forever a concern, especially to those who pride themselves in being extremely environmentally friendly. Fortunately, as gas prices continue to creep skywards, car manufacturers are coming frth to release extremely efficient models with high gas mileage ratings. However, just getting better MPG doesn’t exactly remedy the problem, it just puts a band-aid on it
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Chevy Volt Finally Gets Official Pricing From GM [Highly Anticipated Chevy Volt EV Now Priced At $41,000 Or $350 Per Month With 3-Year Lease]
You’ve heard quite a bit about MeeGo coming from us over the course of the last few months, but then, there’s been a lot to tell. Now we’ve got something new–MeeGo’s made some serious headway in the automotive front, and is now the infotainment system of choice with a host of auto developers. (…) Read the rest of MeeGo Now System of Choice With Several Auto Developers [In Many Vehicles, The Choice For Display-Based Navigation And Entertainment Is MeeGo] © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010