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  ASUS Giving Free GPS Dongles to Fix Issues
  ASUS will be giving away free GPS dongles to correct GPS issue with Transformer Prime owners.
  by reedsanders / on Apr 8, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sci tech”

 

• Passenger Plane Flies 800 Kilometres Without a Pilot

  
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  Say hello to the droneliner. A business plane has flown an 800-kilometre round trip in civilian airspace without the pilot onboard operating the its controls. Instead, the plane flew itself like an outsized drone with continual monitoring of its autonomous manoeuvres performed by a pilot based on the ground. The ...
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• Russia pursues hypersonic weapon research

  
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  Russia is developing a hypersonic weapon program. It involves more than 60 companies and is scheduled for completion this summer. Launched in the former USSR, hypersonic weapon research was resumed in post-Soviet Russia in 2009 under the umbrella of the state-owned Tactical Missiles Corporation. Viktor Litovkin, ...
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• Photo Of The Day: Spot Of White

  
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  Filed under: Asia , Thailand , Photo of the Day This interesting Photo of the Day , titled "Spot of White," comes from Gadling Flickr pool member Mark Fischer and was captured in Bangkoks Siam Square using a Nikon D90. Mark captions the image: "On Sunday, May 8th, 2011, an estimated 100,000 people ...
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• FCC Wants More Wi-Fi In The Sky

  
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  Filed under: United States , Airlines , News The convenience of sky-high connectivity has not been lost on the broadband overlords at the FCC, who have moved to open up new frequencies for in-air data use . Current offerings use around 3 MHz of bandwidth, but the FCC envisions opening up 500 MHz of bandwidth to ...
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• More Than 78,000 People Have Applied to Die on Mars

  
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  Mars One, the Dutch company that is looking for a few individuals with the "right stuff" (the "right stuff" being wanting to leave Earth and never, ever return), reports that more than 78,000 people have applied to be chosen for a trip to the red planet. The company is aiming to put four people on Mars every two ...
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• Pole-Land: The Climate of Tibet

  
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  The Economist examines conflicting research into the effects of climate change on the Tibetan plateau and surrounding mountains , known collectively as Earth’s “Third Pole”: Until recently studies of the Third Pole were piecemeal—not surprising, given its remoteness, the altitude, the harsh weather and ...
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• Airline Hopes To Avoid Volcanic Ash Clouds With New Technology

  
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  Filed under: Europe , North America , France , United Kingdom , United States , Airlines , Airports Volcanic ash is something commercial airliners want nothing to do with. When Alaskas Cleveland volcano erupted not long ago, shooting low levels of ash into the atmosphere, many airlines were concerned. ...
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• Apple receives iPhone unlock requests from law enforcement

  
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  The encryption on your iPhone is apparently secure enough that law enforcement agencies are waiting in line to have Apple "crack" the lock and provide data to be used as evidence. According to a report by CNET, Apple has the ability to decrypt seized iPhones and has created a waiting list to handle requests. At one ...
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• Apple receives iPhone unlock requests from law enforcement

  
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  The decryption on your iPhone is apparently secure enough that law enforcement agencies are waiting in line to have Apple "crack" the lock and provide data to be used as evidence.According to a report by CNET, Apple has the ability to decrypt seized ...
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• Sam Pizzigati: How We Pay for CEO Performance

  
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  Federal unemployment benefits for 400,000 Californians out of work since last fall recently dropped 18 percent, a $52 cut out of weekly checks that average $297. Similar cuts are rolling out in other states.
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• Modelling the effect of climate change on iceberg production by Greenland glaciers, and its impact on sea-level rise

  
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  While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg production has eluded researchers for many years. Published in Nature this week, a new study presents a sophisticated computer model that provides a fresh insight ...
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• Huawei Founder Breaks Silence

  
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  The elusive founder and chief executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei , Ren Zhengfei , gave his first-ever press briefing on Thursday as he held court with local media in Wellington, New Zealand . From The Wall Street Journal: Until this week, Mr. Ren, 68 years old, had made few public appearances. The last ...
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• UWE, Goslings and Me

  
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  Today I had a bit of a mixed medium day - I went to UWE (University of the West of England) in Bristol to look around their science communication centre and to talk about maybe doing the post graduate certificate there. Being me I arrived stupidly early and was doing my normal clumsy performance [...]
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• Hit a 95 mph baseball? Scientists pinpoint how we see it coming

  
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  How does San Francisco Giants slugger Pablo Sandoval swat a 95 mph fastball, or tennis icon Venus Williams see the oncoming ball, let alone return her sister Serenas 120 mph serves? For the first time, vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects.
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• Hubble finds dead stars "polluted" with planetary debris

  
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  The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted by debris from asteroid-like objects falling onto them. This discovery suggests that rocky planet assembly is ...
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• Customers Lash Out as Adobe Announces New Cloud Subscription-Only Future

  
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  Are Adobe committing suicide with their new ‘mandatory subscription only’ model for the tools of choice (Photoshop, Dreamweaver etc.) for so many industries? With a Facebook page full of disappointment from loyal users and multiple petitions demanding Adobe to re-think their plans – Adobe has annoyed ...
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• Product Review - Samsung Note 10.1 tablet

  
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  by  +Alexa Rankin Wow!! Thanks to all the nice people who helped me get a new Samsung Note 10.1, especially the one really generous person (you know who you are). I can now write my STP posts on the go and without waiting 20 minutes for my ancient desktop PC to boot up. It was a mere 6 months ago that I wrote ...
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• US urban trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value

  
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  From New York Citys Central Park to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Americas urban forests store an estimated 708 million tons of carbon, an environmental service with an estimated value of $50 billion, according to a recent U.S. Forest Service study.
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• Consumer alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud: practical software choices

  
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  Yesterday, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud , an on-line subscription based suite with $49.99 monthly charges that moves into the Creative Suite subscription space first started back in 2011. Existing customers of CS 3 to CS 5.5 and academics will pay $29.99 per month. Both Adobe and Microsoft are exploring ...
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• Consumer alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud: practical software choices

  
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  Yesterday, Adobe introduced Creative Cloud, an on-line subscription based suite with $49.99 monthly charges that moves into the Creative Suite subscription space first started back in 2011. Existing customers of CS 3 to CS 5.5 and academics will pay ...
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