The long talked about dual boot Android, Windows XP Acer netbook is ready to come out of hiding and you can snatch one up now (with a six-cell battery) for $350.
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Acer Aspire One AOD250 Boots Android And Win XP, Holds Us Over Until Chrome OS Arrives [Android]
Apparently plasma knives, surgical instruments which have glowing, ionized gas as a blade, have passed Special Operations Command’s field testing and evaluation stages. Great! Now how much longer until this tech can be used to make real lightsabers? The plasma knives are vaguely similar to tools currently used in radiosurgery, but rather than heating tissue directly and damaging it, they penetrateand cauterize it safely
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Commandos To Use Plasma Knives For Field Surgery [Lightsabers]
In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realized that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation
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Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months [Health]
In the past, the delivery of a giant dessert item (cupcake or donut) to Google’s lawn meant a new version of Android was incoming. Today, a giant eclair was delivered: We deduce that Android 2.0 should see release shortly.
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Giant Eclair Delivered to Google; Android 2.0 Imminent? [Android]
Sir James Dyson is more than a guy who makes unusually interesting vacuums . He makes unusually interesting fans , too! We got a (very brief) chance to talk to the man about his tech allegiances, his design philosophy, and more
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James Dyson Lightning Interview: A Mac Man With a Bladeless Fan [Interview]
Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through. The best part? They included the browser
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Linux Users Can Try the Chrome OS Browser Right Now [Btw]
Google spilled some choice Chrome OS guts yesterday, leaving us with a heap of files to sift through.
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Linux Users Can Try the Chrome OS Browser Right Now [Btw]
Neuroscientists at Princeton created a new way to study the neurons of the classic mouse-in-a-maze: Strap it to a suspended ball and have it run through a virtual maze. That first virtual maze
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Real Mouse Navigates Quake 2 Using a Trackball [Science]
$1.30 barely gets vending machine soda, but it’s enough to leave an NY lawyer without unemployment benefits. Her total Adsense earning of $238.75 was enough to trigger that response because there aren’t proper guidelines in place for such residual earnings
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Earning $1.30 Per Day From Adsense Is Enough To Lose Unemployment Benefits [Adsense]
The following information on Google Wave may not be 100% “real” or “accurate,” but you’ll agree that it makes a lot of sense and that it’s probably what Google has planned. I mean, maybe.
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Google Wave Is Going to Create a Horrifying Dystopian Future [Humor]
