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Monday, June 3, 2013

Razer reveals "world's thinnest" gaming Ultrabook

Razer's new 14-inch Blade laptopRazer has been rather busy of late. While the company is best known for its various gaming peripherals, it is putting some serious resources into dedicated gaming hardware like the Edge tablet, which we went hands on with at

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks

Researchers claim to have increased the data capacity of optical networks to the point tha...A team of researchers working through Australia’s Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) has developed data encoding technology that increases the efficiency of

50 years of the Raging Bull: A Lamborghini retrospective

The 350 GTV, first of the first Lamborghinis, was introduced to the world at the Turin Aut...There must have been something in the water in 1963. First, I was born (a very vital piece of information), McLaren Auto was established, Iron Man and X-Men debuted in Marvel Comics, the Beatles released their debut LP, TAB Cola was introduced and James Bond’s Dr. No hit theaters. It was also the year in which a young, ambitious Italian farmboy by the name of Ferruccio Lamborghini decided his talent for mechanical enhancement, engineering and marketing would be better served designing

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Dew Motion's iStick Playtime brings smartphone control to your wrist


With one large joystick-style control, the iStick Playtime is easy to operate ... even wit...While the world waits for fully capable smart watches like the rumored iWatch and Neptune Pine, it'll have to be content with watches that provide a bridge to the smartphone. The Pebble Watch is the most well-known, but it does have some competition. One example is the new Dew Motion iStick Playtime, a sport-specific armband that controls key smartphone

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Herschel space telescope shuts down

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy in infrared, x-ray and optical (Image: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/J.Fr...All good things come to an end and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory mission is no exception. After more than three years in orbit, the most powerful infrared telescope ever flown in space has ceased scientific operations after the last of the liquid helium used to supercool its instruments ran out.

Launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on 14 May, 2009 atop an Ariane 5 rocket, the Herschel was sent into what is called a Lissajous orbit 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth. In such an orbit, the spacecraft circles, not the Earth, but the Lagrangian point L2 – a spot where the gravitational forces of the Earth, Moon and Sun balance out.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Icona's magma-laden Vulcano hybrid sets Shanghai on fire

Fluid, sensual lines taper down the narrowing roofline to an integrated rear spoilerAfter weeks of teasing by boutique Chinese/Italian auto designer Icona, the high performance, hyper-red Vulcano hybrid has finally been unveiled (in front of a snack bar) at the Shanghai Auto Show. Based on initial images and

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

And the world's fastest car is ... the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (again)

Guinness was eager to hand the record over in 2010, but a little more conservative in 2013After having its world record for fastest production car thrown into question by a competitor and put under review by Guinness, Bugatti is back on top. Its record set back in 2010 is official all over again after a reconfirmation by Guinness.