Today may very well live in infamy as the day the cable companies died. Internet giant Google announced its new, groundbreaking Google Fiber, a broadband service that will bring breakneck 1Gbps internet speed to Kansas City — service far faster and far cheaper than that offered by traditional cable companies. How fast is Google’s 1Gbps …
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Final report issued on San Onofre Nuclear Plant – Edison not to blame, it was a Mitsubishi computer glitch
The final review of the radiation leak at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations (SONGS) has been completed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Among its findings are that Southern California Edison (SCE) responded appropriately to the issue, while Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a company based in Japan, is to blame. They found that Mitsubishi’s “faulty …
25 pictures of North Koreans losing it over Kim Jong-Il’s death
Are they laughing or crying I can’t tell?
Everybody should dictate like this – Peyton Manning calling audibles in a Buick
Peyton Manning, signal caller, loves using the Verano’s voice activation features to call out commands, just like when he’s on the field.
London Olympics may be the greenest, most sustainable ever
With the opening ceremony of the London Olympics only days away, organizers prepare to celebrate what may be the one of the greenest Olympic Games to date. For Olympic organizers, sustainability has been a major focus in planning the Games’ venues. Forbes notes that existing or temporary venues are utilized whenever possible. For permanent structures, …
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International Space Station has a Large Hadron Collider – and it’s collected 18 billion cosmic rays
The largest-ever experiment in space has reported the collection of some 18 billion “cosmic ray” events that may help unravel the Universe’s mysteries. Run from a centre at Cern, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aims to spot dark matter and exotic antimatter. At the heart of the seven-tonne, $2bn machine is a giant, specially designed …
Mitt Romney begins foreign tour of UK, Israel and Poland
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is in Britain on the first leg of a week-long foreign tour that includes stops in Israel and Poland. He is to meet political leaders and attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in the next three days. The former governor of Massachusetts is not expected to make any …
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Foursquare launches promoted updates – now all social networks have ads in your news feed
It’s official, all the social networking sites have started adding “promoted” tweets/posts/places to your news feed. It’s no surprise considering that Twitter, with its “promoted tweets,” recently said it has a “truckload of money in the bank”. Today Foursquare is launching its version of search ads, Promoted Updates. Promoted Updates operate like Google’s promoted listings or Twitter’s …
Meet the ‘bots’ of Wikipedia
ClueBot NG, as the bot is known, resides on a computer from which it sallies forth into the vast encyclopaedia to detect and clean up vandalism almost as soon as it occurs. It is one of several hundred bots patrolling Wikipedia at any given time. Its role in repairing the Supreme Court article illustrates how …
The most complete review of Apple’s new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion – the ars technica review
It’s bold, it’s brash, and it’s 25 pages long. Don’t worry it has a table of contents. If you’re short on time, read the TOC and you’ll be up-to-date. Otherwise, sit back and dig in for a feature rich update on your favorite computer. Apple’s traditional desktop computing business has suffered many indignities over …