This popular “sub-notebook” us the best value for money offering of all the 12.1 inch screen ASUS notebooks. It offers less battery life than the more expensive models, but makes up for that in the slightly lower price.The Asus UL20A hits that spot between a full notebook and the ever-popular netbooks. It costs the same as a high-end netbook, but offers a larger screen, and performance and specifications that are more typical...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
ICOO A80 MP3 Player
Featuring a magnesium alloy body, the A80 is the latest MP3 player from ICOO. The player comes with touch sensitive control buttons, a quick charge function (5 minutes charging for 120 minutes of continuous music playback) and supports a wide range of audio formats. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment.TechFresh, ICOO A80 MP3 PlayerSee...
World's fastest Rubik's cube solving machine does it in a little over 10-seconds
Gone are the days where solving a Rubik's cube in under a minute is considered an achievement. The students at the Swinburne University of Technology have created a robot that can do it in seconds - less than 11 seconds in fact. Called Ruby, the puzzle solving machine managed to solve a randomized cube, including the time it took to scan...
Sony Vaio C class released
Read about it fully here.Today, Sony announced their newest line of models, the C class. It isn’t that much different than the E class (EA ,EB, EC) except for a few noticeable difference. Like the E class, it comes in different sizes, 14 and 15 inch models, and has an optical drive.What separates it from the E class, is how much flashier it is. It looks thinner than the EA, comes in bright neon colors, and has some kind...
Shuttle Crew Prepares to End Mission
The STS-134 crew members were awakened at 4:57 p.m. CDT with the song “Sunrise Number 1,” performed by the band Stormy Mondays. This song was chosen in an online vote of the general public as the winner in the Space Shuttle Program’s Original Song Contest, which attracted 1350 entrants.The shuttle crew begins deorbit preparations at 8:26 p.m. and should close Endeavour payload bay doors at 9:49 p.m. By 12:19 a.m. Wednesday Entry...
New NASA Map Reveals Patterns Of Tropical Forest Carbon Storage
Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington Alan Buis Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. WASHINGTON -- A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The data are expected to provide a baseline for ongoing carbon monitoring and research and serve as a useful resource for managing...
Computers With The Best Video Options
When it comes to your video management system, you want to find a machine that handle this software well. This can be difficult, due to the amount of RAM that video require to be efficient, not to mention the necessary processing power. It is a good idea to consider your options for the best computing systems to meet your need or the needs of your business.Desktop vs. LaptopToday’s laptops are more powerful than ever. You can...
Over the Earth
Earth's atmosphere and a starry sky just off the port wing of the docked space shuttle Endeavour are the subject of this image photographed by the Expedition 28 crew, while the shuttle was docked with space station on the STS-134 mission.Endeavour and the STS-134 crew undocked from the station on Monday, May 30, and landing is slated for...
Digital Forensics: Regional Labs Help Solve Local Crimes
In 2008, Illinois police received disturbing information about a Chicago woman who had taken a 3-year-old to a “sex party” in Indiana where the child and an 11-year-old girl were abused by three adults. However, by the time the tip was received, the crime had already occurred, and there seemed to be no evidence to support criminal charges.But...
Lockheed-Martin Purchases D-Wave's First Quantum Computer
D-Wave out of Canada has just sold the first of its commercial quantum computers and they sold it to Lockheed-Martin. However, it wasn't as easy as your average sale. Despite the fact that D-Wave managed to make the sale, the company had to do it despite a debate over whether it truly was a quantum computer.Back in February 2007 D-Wave demonstrated...
Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth for Final Time Wednesday
Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to return to Earth for the final time on Wednesday, June 1, completing...
Review MSI X420 Laptop
Nme Cpu Intel® Core 2 Duo SU7300 Cpu speed 1,3GHz Ram DDR3 Ram size 4GB Hard drive Go 500 5400 rpm graphic ATI Radeon HD5430 / screen 14" sys Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit Laptop...
Docked One Last Time
Backdropped by a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, the Space Shuttle Endeavour is photographed docked at the International Space Station on May 28, 2011. The STS-134 astronauts left the station the next day on May 29, after delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and performing four spacewalks during Endeavour's final mission.Image...
Handling Events with the Microsoft Reactive Extensions
The Microsoft Reactive Extensions (RX) are a library of methods and types that extend the LINQ standard query operators to encompass event-based data sources and asynchronous operations. RX extends the ability of LINQ to handle dynamic observable collections.In the traditional LINQ model, you define an enumerable collection of objects, and then iterate over that collection and process each item in turn. The collection that you...
Apple provide iWork package users of iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple released a while ago and before the date of the Conference of Apple's global developer update to iWork package to work with iPhones and iPod Touch, where she was previously working with the iPad, but only now has become a comprehensive programs.And talking about this update, Phil Schiller, vice president of global marketing for Apple:Now...
Steve Jobs : the Lion and iCloud iOS 5 on June 6
Apple announced in a press statement that the premiere (Keynote) to Developers Conference WWDC 2011 submitted by the company's chief executive Steve Jobs. Will be next Monday June 6 at 10 amCrowd out Apple on Monday unveiled the next operating system coming from the Mac Mac OS X Lion and the next operating system for mobile devices (iPhone...
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Endeavour Prepares for Return Home
Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 11:55 p.m. EDT Sunday, ending a stay of 11 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes at the orbiting laboratory.Pilot Greg Johnson, at the aft flight deck controls, flew Endeavour in a circle around the station at distances of about 450 to 650 feet. Crew members took still and video images of the station.As Johnson was about to begin the flyaround, Commander Mark Kelly radioed mission...
STORRM Complete, Endeavour Sets Course for Final Return to Earth
At 4:38 a.m. EDT, Endeavour fired its jets to complete the final separation from the International Space Station, setting it on its course for return to Earth Wednesday, June 1. The shuttle will begin to increase its distance behind the station with each trip around Earth.The shuttle's re-rendezvous with the space station for the Sensor Test for Orion Relative-navigation Risk Mitigation, or STORRM, was completed as planned, with...
RFMD expands portfolio of broadband components with new IQ modulators
GREENSBORO, USA: RF Micro Devices Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, has extended its portfolio of broadband components to include two new low power IQ Modulators featuring integrated fractional-N synthesizers and voltage controlled oscillators (VCO).The RFMD2080 and RFMD2081 are broadband devices capable of generating output...
Backlit Keyboards
How Important are they?Possibly one of the most underrated features in laptops today is the backlit keyboard. This is not, and never really was, an issue with desktops for I don’t know many people who enjoy working at a desk in the dark. With a laptop these days, there are very few places people will not try to get work done. The most common useful places for backlit keyboards are darkened lecture halls (for powerpoint presentations)...
Genesis Photonics places multi-unit order for MaxBright MOCVD systems
PLAINVIEW, USA: Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that Taiwan based Genesis Photonics Inc. (GPI) has placed a multi-unit order for Veeco’s recently released TurboDisc MaxBright Multi-reactor MOCVD System. GPI will use the systems to increase capacity for the production of high brightness light emitting diodes (HB LEDs) being driven by applications such as backlighting, lighting, displays, and automotive.David Chung, chairman and...
Endeavour Undocks from Station
At 11:55 p.m. EDT Sunday, space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station. Endeavour spent 11 days, 17 hrs and 41 minutes docked to the orbiting laboratory. At undocking, the spacecraft were 215 miles above LaPaz, Bolivia.The fly around of the space station will begin at 12:22 a.m., with Pilot Greg Johnson maneuvering Endeavour to circle the station at a distance of about 600 feet. The shuttle crew members...
Studying Hard in School Opens Doors, Stresses Astronaut
By Lt. Jennifer Cragg, Submarine Group 2 Public Affairs OfficerGROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- More than 1,100 students and teachers from 12 area high schools were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at Robert E. Fitch High School to learn from a former submariner and veteran of three NASA space shuttle flights, May 26.Capt. Stephen G. Bowen,...
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