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After needing to release a second Release Candidate just over a week ago, Mozilla have finally signed off on version 4.0 and made it available to the public ahead of the official launch date of March 22.
The Firefox website has yet to be updated, but we expect this will happen…
We’ve been anticipating Ruairi Robinson’s evil robot short Blinky™ for years! Wait no more, the full short's out for public consumption! Watch it now, and don't worry — your kids are perfectly safe! Plus a musical short with Doug Jones! More »
Share Contacts is a free app that gives Android users an easy way to send and receive contacts via SMS with others (even if they don’t have an Android device). More »
“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma)
CBC Community members sent in their photos of the ‘supermoon,’ the full moon at perigee on March 19.
Word on the street was Archos planned to give us a couple of new tablets at IFA this year, but it turns out the upscale Gen 9 hardware is coming a couple months prior to the September trade show. The new Honeycomb slates are set for a June 2011 release and pack a 1.6GHz ARM A9 dual-core chip (the prospect of which should get you spec-heads drooling), up to a 250GB HDD / 32GB SSD, and a patent-pending "disruptive 3G modem" — all for €400 (about $566). Archos' fiendish plan is to steal some of the iPad 2’s thunder with its speedy processor and competitive price, but history tells us it’ll need more than “competitive” to truly yank any marketshare. Too bad the post-PC world can’t be bothered to care, right Steve?
Sneak peek at Archos Gen 9 tablets: 1.6 GHz dual-core A9 processor, 250GB HDD for €400 in June originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The next version of Mozilla Firefox could be released in the last week of June, as the company moves to an accelerated release schedule.
According to a draft document, posted by Mozilla’s Rob Sayre and spotted by ConceivablyTech, a single Firefox release will take 16 weeks, a far cry from the…
Technicians prepared to vent radioactive gas into the air Sunday because of a new spike in pressure at Japan’s crippled, leaking nuclear complex, more radioactive gas into the environment.
Research scientists in Saskatoon have made a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria, Jill Smith reports.
I still can’t believe this is the first up-close, 480p video of NASA retrieving the space shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) from the Atlantic Ocean, and yet it is! The SRBs, in a word, are massive. And they float! More »
Star Trek’s Data must be smiling. One of his kind has finally made it to the High Frontier. The voyages of Robo Trek have begun! More »
In footage guaranteed to make your stomach drop, watch the tsunami wave approaching from the bridge of a Japanese ship. Although it is hard to believe, speeding straight into the 30+ foot wave is the safest way to approach a tsunami at sea. More »
Hard to say if Doc Brown would give this his coveted seal of approval, but our gullible minds have already been made up: time travel is not only possible, but it’s well within reach. A gaggle of scientists have apparently figured out a theory that could use the Large Hadron Collider to move a Higgs singlet back and forth through time. The 'catch' is that they have yet to prove the existence of said singlet, but the upside is that nothing in theory violates any laws of physics or experimental constraints. In other words, this wouldn't enable a human to move back and forth along the universal timetable à la Fringe, but it could allow for messages to be sent forward and back. About 14 other improbable things have to happen before this could even be tested, but if you’re even remotely interested in the concept (c’mon, you are), you owe it to yourself to give those source links a peek.
Theorists get us closer to believing time travel is possible via the Large Hadron Collider originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Emergency crews continue frantic efforts to restore power and cool spent fuel pools at a quake-damaged nuclear plant as the Japanese safety agency raises its rating of the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi power complex.
Samsung, which is currently the market leader in 3D TVs that require viewers to wear glasses, has just proved it can make a big-screen TV that displays 3D images without the need for glasses.
The display uses a technology known as autostereoscopic 3D, which relies on thousands of mirror embedded into the display itself and makes it look like the thin display has depth.
Other companies have forayed into this technology, the most notable of which is Nintendo, which is using autostereoscopic 3D for its 3DS system. Other uses include preview displays on 3D cameras, 3D photo frames, and small TVs in Japan.
Samsung’s 55-inch display, which is not a fully functional TV but could easily be made into one, is the biggest mass-market product yet.
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Things haven’t been well at Digg for a while now. They’ve gone through a couple new CEOs and one disastrous site re-design over the last 12 months and now, according to Mike Arrington, at least, the social bookmarking site has lost its talisman.
In a post on TechCrunch, Arrington informed…
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