Dec. 3, 2006 — To say that an archaeological discovery is “technologically advanced by ancient Greek standards” would seem to imply simplicity rather than sophistication.
But earlier this week, a team of British, Greek and U.S. researchers identified a set of corroded bronze gears that suggest Ptolemy and his pals may have been sporting something more [...]
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Asus Technology announced that the ASUS TeleSky telecom adaptor will now be included in the package of the M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky motherboards.
The TeleSky telecom adaptor converts ordinary house phones into multi-functional Skype phones. It is a highly integrated application for traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and Skype VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calls. The [...]
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London - Remember when the idea of global warming was almost an afterthought, relegated to the back pages of your daily newspaper? You probably wouldn’t question the seriousness of it today, and perhaps in the not-too-distant future the same increased, well, gravity, will be given to space travel too.
Not the seven-minutes-of-weightlessness jaunts that Richard [...]
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Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 3036 Beta is available for download.
We are continuing our efforts for bringing you even more feature-full product and we are making our latest Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 early available to you. It will be one more FREE update of the currently available version.Here’s a short overview of [...]
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FYI: Internet Governance
The Internet is not defined by the geographic boundaries that govern nations and laws of the non-virtual world. Without a clear jurisdictional framework for the Internet, scholars, businessmen, and laypersons have been left to decipher in a piecemeal fashion what set of laws and norms, if any, shall govern this forum.
The United [...]
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Astronauts have arrived in Florida ahead of their launch scheduled for Thursday aboard space shuttle Discovery.
NASA is planning its first nighttime launch in four years to start the 12-day mission to the international space station.Discovery astronauts will rewire the space station, bring up an eleven-(m)-million-dollar addition and drop off astronaut Sunita Williams [...]
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When violent crime strikes a social network, the ghosts of the dead start roaming the machines.
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DEANNE BAYS WAS WORRIED about her kid brother, Daniel. His girlfriend hadn’t heard from him for a day and a half. There was no sign of him online, eve though he usually spent [...]
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DENVER - What do remote-control garage door openers have to do with national security? A secretive Air Force facility in Colorado Springs tested a radio frequency this past week that it would use to communicate with first responders in the event of a homeland security threat. But the frequency also controls an estimated 50 million [...]
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When items like pictures frames and analog turntables are outselling the media-hyped Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Zune digital music player shortly after its release and during the hottest shopping time of the entire year, something may be amiss, yes?
Sales of Microsoft’s Zune digital music device ranked Number 58 on the list of Amazon.com’s best-selling electronic devices [...]
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AMD have released official details of the Quad FX platform (previously known as 4×4). The Quad FX platform features AMD’s Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture to deliver dual-socket, multi-core processing for “megatasking enthusiasts”.
The 4×4 platform was initially being pushed as to gamers, but AMD is now broadening the scope to include those who [...]
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