Reality Bites
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.
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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…
The Android platform is gaining popularity around the world and Google states they now see over 350,000 activations per day. The Android Market is still trailing Apple’s App Store but have declared to have over 150,000 available apps. Checking out Android Market tracker AndroLib.com shows a progression of not only the estimated numbers of apps, […]
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The Nintendo 3DS, once slammed as an eye-destroying device, is now being thought of as a tool for diagnosing eye disorders. According to Digital Trends, optometrists feel this could be a useful tool for early warning signs.
“The 3DS could be a godsend for identifying kids under six who need vision therapy,” associate director for health sciences and policy for the American Optometric Association Michael Duenas told the Canadian Press.
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Both adults and children struggle to cope with “an epidemic” of sleep disorders, an international group of doctors says.
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