UltraBooks: There Will Be Hard Drives

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UltraBooks: There Will Be Hard Drives

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:47 PM PDT

Ultrabook computers are the great hope for future growth of notebook computers, but sales of these products have been limited due to the high price of the SSD only versions of many current Ultrabooks. Ultrabook computers using SSDs for the only storage tend to be over $800 in price and have a limited storage capacity.???? ...


FAA Grants Clearance For Virgin Galactic Test Flights

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:21 PM PDT

Virgin Galactic has received clearance from the FAA for experimental tests of its SpaceShipTwo


Indian wins fifth world chess title

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:36 PM PDT

Vishwanathan Anand beats Israeli Boris Gelfand in Moscow championship after 12 tied matches.


Apple to "Pull String" And Introduce iTV OS Demo at WWDC on June 11

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:13 PM PDT

Jonathan Geller of BGR (aka Boy Genius Report) says he has, ?learned from a trusted source that is planning to demonstrate a brand new version of the TV operating system??next week at WWDC.? According to the report, what will introduce at its World Wide Developers Conference on June 11, will not just be an update ...


In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:35 PM PDT

To match Feature MYANMAR-HIV/YANGON (Reuters) - The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood. Jam, 42, a mother of six, and Kanama, aged 2, are both HIV positive. Abandoned by their families, they must now find comfort in each other, although Jam still yearns for her husband to return to the private HIV hospice in the suburbs of Myanmar's biggest city. "He promised to come back but I'm afraid he never will," said the woman as she burst into tears. She is known in the hospice by her nickname, Jam. ...

In Myanmar, stigma and neglect add to HIV misery

Posted: 30 May 2012 10:35 PM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - The mother and child who touch hands in an overcrowded Yangon hospice are not family, but their tragic history begins in the blood.

VIDEO: Tintin memorabilia set to break record

Posted: 30 May 2012 09:01 PM PDT

A collection of Tintin memorabilia is about to go under the hammer in Paris, with a rare cover drawn by the author himself expected to fetch a record 1m euros.


Iran cancels $2 billion dam deal with China: report

Posted: 30 May 2012 09:47 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam in the country, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting Beijing, one of Tehran's most important economic and political allies. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to visit China next week for a security summit, where he is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Iran's disputed nuclear programme. In March 2011, Iran's official IRNA news agency said China's Sinohydro Corp. ...


How To Avoid Being The Redshirt On A Big Project

Posted: 30 May 2012 09:16 PM PDT

It's your first big project. Here's how to get through it without turning into one of Star Trek's redshirts.


Goodbye To The Real Cadillac of Minivans

Posted: 30 May 2012 09:02 PM PDT

In the film ?Get Shorty,? John Travolta?s character Chili Palmer repeatedly passes off his Oldsmobile Silhouette as the ?Cadillac of minivans.? Now, what was really the Cadillac of minivans ? the Chrysler Town and Country ? is destined for the automotive graveyard. According to Automobile Magazine, Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne, who also runs Chrysler, ...


John Scalzi's Redshirts Is A Great Tribute To The Unsung Grunts Of Science Fiction

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:50 PM PDT

John Scalzi's new novel Redshirts is a fun treat for science fiction fans and a long overdue swansong for the characters who die because of bad writing.


Iran cancels $2 billion dam deal with China: report

Posted: 30 May 2012 09:47 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Iran has cancelled a $2 billion contract for a Chinese firm to help build a hydroelectric dam in the country, Chinese state media said on Thursday, a move that risks upsetting Beijing, one of Tehran's most important economic and political allies.

India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:45 PM PDT

Activists from Shiv Sena, a Hindu hardline group, carry a motor bike as they shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in petrol, in JammuNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition parties planned a national strike on Thursday in protest against the steepest petrol price rise in the country's history, seeking to exploit popular anger with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's embattled coalition government. Protests, marches and road blocks were planned across the country. The strike could reduce public transport and hit government offices, colleges, firms and industrial plants, but because it is not centrally organized its impact will differ from state to state. "It will be a total shutdown across the country. ...

What Facebook's Tumble Says About Our Evolving Mindset

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:35 PM PDT

In an earlier post, I said that ?s IPO was benefiting from euphoria generated by a powerful pack of??cognitive??biases, and that once it was clear that the company wouldn?t be able to meet the high expectations attached to its overvalued IPO, the cards would come tumbling down. Two weeks later I?m forced to admit, I ...


India set for sweeping protests at petrol price rise

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:57 PM PDT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition parties planned a national strike on Thursday in protest against the steepest petrol price rise in the country's history, seeking to exploit popular anger with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's embattled coalition government.

VIDEO: High pollution hits Bangladesh capital

Posted: 30 May 2012 07:33 PM PDT

Bangladeshi officials say dust pollution levels in the capital Dhaka are reaching well above acceptable limits during winter months posing serious health problems to its estimated 14 million residents.


Image shows buildings gone at Iran site: diplomats

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:14 PM PDT

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano enters his car after his trip to Tehran at the international airport in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit. One image from May 25 showed signs that "ground-scraping activities" had taken place at the Parchin facility, as well as the presence of a bulldozer, according to diplomats who attended a closed-door briefing by U.N. nuclear agency officials. ...

African Union to take Mali to U.N. Security Council: source

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:21 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - The African Union plans to refer the situation in Mali to the United Nations Security Council so that it can create a framework for tackling the worsening crisis there, a diplomatic source close to the AU president said on Wednesday.

i/o Ventures Launches Latest Batch Of Startups

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:16 PM PDT

San Francisco incubator i/o Ventures launched its latest crop of startups Wednesday in front of top investors.


Buyers Begin to Look North for Quality and Design: The Argument in Favor of North China

Posted: 30 May 2012 07:51 PM PDT

ONCE LOOKED UPON as the rural counterpart to Southern China's worldlier orientation, North China is rapidly developing into a world class sourcing center. The nation's giant export industry got its start in the South, quickly developing as Hong Kong manufacturers moved across the border in search of lower costs.?? For a long time the link ...


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