With a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope off until next spring at the earliest, NASA on Thursday chose November 14 for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by Endeavour to the international space station. Read more…
Archive for October, 2008
Plug-in electric vehicles from General Motors and Toyota are not expected to hit showrooms for more than a year, but when they arrive, the first buyers will be eligible for a tax credit that could reach $7,500. Read more…
Plug-in electric vehicles from General Motors and Toyota are not expected to hit showrooms for more than a year, but when they arrive, the first buyers will be eligible for a tax credit that could reach $7,500. Read more…
This schlieren photo depicts a wind tunnel test demonstrating air flow over the .331 percent model of the Ares V heavy cargo launch vehicle at Mach 4.5…. Read more…
For Google to believe that it should have free access to copyrighted material has pissed off many. Now Google is making a settlement that shows it must play by the old rules. Read more…
If you happen to have a spare MacBook lying around, and you’re at all intrigued by Axiotron’s ModBook tablets, you’ll probably be stoked to hear that the company is now taking orders on their website to convert personal MacBooks into the devices. Prices start at around $1,300 — far less than buying a new one, [...]
Nowadays,within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity,and use other IP addresses than your own IP. Or, for some special purposes – a few IPs or more, frequently changed. So no one will be able to track you.A solution exists, and it is called Tor Project, or simply tor. Here’s [...]
A couple who claim they have never played a video game are accused of illegal file-sharing. Read more…
Cybercrime in the UK rose by more than 9% in 2007, according to a new report. Read more…
Starwood’s Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Manhattan, Verizon’s call center on Long Island, the Sierra Nevada brewery in northern California and a Whole Foods Market in Connecticut have little in common except this – all are powered by fuel cells that turn hydrogen into electricity, saving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read more…