Apple today updated its MacBook Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning, lightweight, aluminum enclosure that is just one-inch thin.
Hardware
Jun 5, 2007
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Radical steps to engineer Earth’s climate by blocking sunlight could drastically cool the planet, but could just as easily worsen the situation if these projects fail or are suddenly halted, according to a new computer ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 5, 2007
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Guy Demmert got quite a surprise when he hauled a fishing net into his boat off the coast of southeast Alaska in July 2002. There among the salmon, in living black and white, was a Humboldt penguin, thousands of miles from ...
Jun 5, 2007
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Concerned that current methods for making computer chips might become stymied as components keep shrinking, many engineers are looking for circuit building blocks with improved electrical properties.
Nanophysics
Jun 5, 2007
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Ports could use their cranes to move goods more quickly without investing in any new equipment. A system called double cycling would minimize empty return trips -- what taxi drivers and long-haul truckers refer to as "deadheading" ...
Engineering
Jun 5, 2007
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In his opening keynote at the Computex computer trade show, Intel Corporation Executive Vice President Sean Maloney unveiled the new Intel 3 Series Chipset family along with several other technology plans that surround the ...
Hardware
Jun 5, 2007
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Archaeologists have discovered shell beads believed to be 82,000 years old – making them the oldest dated human decorations.
Archaeology
Jun 5, 2007
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A main engine computer upgrade developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will fly on space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-117 mission, targeted for launch June 8. The upgrade is part of NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2007
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A small piece of early American history will become the latest space traveler with the liftoff of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis is scheduled to launch Friday, June 8 at 7:38 p.m. EDT for the STS-117 mission to the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 5, 2007
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is today announcing volume shipment of the industry’s highest-performing and lowest power-consuming laptop hard disk drive at a quarter terabyte of capacity.
Hardware
Jun 5, 2007
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