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“We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe (via kari-shma)

Randall Munroe of xkcd fame has drafted this handy chart that puts in perspective how much radiation humans receive from commonplace activites (such as eating a banana) and less ordinary situations (spending one hour outside of Chernobyl, for example). More »

Did you go out and see the Supermoon last night? It was huge! Well, in some places. I went out in New York and didn’t even notice a difference. Nonetheless, here’s the gigantic, fiery Supermoon hanging over Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. She looks pretty scary. [MSNBC] More »

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.

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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…

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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…

Air Canada says the company is encouraged by the initiatives unveiled by the NHL this week to curb head injuries, but the league still has work to do in the effort to curb on-ice violence.

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