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1. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... the competition, says the project is a serious one. "Our goal is to generate enough interest in the project, so that within five years the Space Elevator basic building blocks can be demonstrated as feasible, ...

2. Internet users do have friends

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... fact, according to research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, people who use the internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networks. The study found that six percent ...

3. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... a prosthetic hand to existing nerve endings, allowing the user to actually feel it. Robin af Ekenstam of Sweden, the project's first human subject, has not only been able to complete complicated tasks ...

4. Cops to get long range tasers

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... people they want to Taser, coppers are looking at new long-range shocking gear. According to New Scientist, a Pentagon project, now in its final stages, to perfect a projectile capable of delivering an ...

5. Russia plans nuclear rocket for manned Mars mission

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... reactor - far more powerful than the small nuclear reactors that power some Russian military satellites. "The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs, including a manned ...

6. Google finds partners for PowerMeter monitoring

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... March,  Edward Lu, Advanced Projects Program Manager told a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: "we must develop and deploy smart grid technology in a manner that empowers consumers ...

7. Toshiba hunts for rare metals in Kazakhstan

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... announced a partnership in the field of nuclear energy. Toshiba is a participant in the Kharassan uranium mine development project in the country. Kazatomprom is an indirect minority shareholder in Westinghouse ...

8. Raindrops keep falling on Mozilla's head

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... Raindrop project aims to create a filter that will let you see the different streams and screams of consciousness deluging you from such diverse sources as Twitter, Facebook, Flikr, RSS and the rest.  ...

9. Chrome for Mac finally arrives in beta, sort of

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, but admitted he was disappointed by how long it had taken to arrive. "The timing of that has been one of the disappointments of Chrome project for me," said Brin ...

10. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... contribute to open source Linux projects and work with the Java community." ...

11. Americans tweet like a flock of canaries

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    One in five online Americans feels the need to tell the world what they're up to, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. One in five online Americans feels the need to tell the world ...

12. Oracle Sun takeover ‘like putting fox in charge of the hen house’

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... of a new free and open source software project to integrate existing program code, is not a viable option to ensure competition in the marketplace, contrary to what defenders of the Oracle takeover claim. ...

13. Office 2010 enters public beta next month

    (Software/Software Features)

    ...  The public betas of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010, along with Project 2010 and Visio 2010 will become available in November 2009. More information is available here.  ...

14. Gartner veep outlines Windows 7 migration costs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... added that the cost of deploying PCs, reinstalling software, moving data and settings, and managing the project should also be factored in.  ...

15. NASA does kick up moon plume after all

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... and the creation of the Centaur crater. "We are blown away by the data returned," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS principal investigator and project scientist. "The team is working hard on the analysis ...

16. Oracle, Linux, Sun to blame for Sidekick Danger data loss

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... technologies and 3rd party technologies.  Microsoft’s other cloud computing projects are totally separate from the Danger Service and do not rely on the Danger Service technology.” Well, who’d have ...

17. Moving to Windows 7 will be "inevitable" - report

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... to move off Windows XP by the end of 2012, and avoid significant support problems in the future. They should start migration projects now - because moving typically takes 12 to 18 months. They shouldn't ...

18. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... access to all books scanned by the Google Books project; probably books that are out of print." The upcoming Barnes and Noble e-reader will likely find itself competing against Apple's rumored tablet ...

19. Global warming debate hots up

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... a more definitive answer on climate change. "Some projections are well established, some have competing explanations, yet others are speculative," said Dr Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University Biology ...

20. European VCs bin majority of entrepreneurs' business plans

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... businesses, and therefore there were also good opportunities for successful exits and for the VCs to make money.Schmitt said that he wasn't interested investing in "crazy projects in crazy countries". ...

21. PS3 claims "top home console" slot as Wii sales decline

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... forecasts, October's new releases would need to produce $225 million to post flat year-over-year comps. Currently, EEDAR projects high single digit growth in October, low double digit growth in November, ...

22. Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... "have a say in what happens at Cisco". And it appears that it will need these number of people because, he continued, it has 30 continuous projects on the go.He said: "The internet is re-inventing life ...

23. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... or deferring the decision, would have cost Intel $19 million due to high maintenance and cooling costs. We project that Nehalem will save us a total of $250 million over an 8 year period." Bryant ...

24. Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, others also hit in Hotmail phishing attack

    (Security/Security Features)

    ...  Pastebin’s  Paul Dixon said the site had received ‘an unprecedented amount of traffic’. "Pastebin.com is just a fun side project for me, and today it's not fun. It will remain offline all day ...

25. Scientist recreates Shroud of Turin

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... He claimed it had no effect on his results. He said that “money has no odor,” adding that the project was scientific and  if the Church wants to fund him in the future, he would do it.  ...

26. Google leaks Apple's October Mac lineup: Mighty Mouse!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  According to Jade, the projected October (7-9) lineup is likely to be accompanied by a redesign of Apple's Mighty Mouse, remote and aluminum wireless keyboards. He added that Apple has already informed ...

27. Acting fast could cut climate change risk, says MIT

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... climate outcomes. For example, under the strongest of the four policy options, the average projected outcome was a 1.7 degrees C reduction of the expected temperature increase in 2100, but for the most ...

28. Adobe brings Flash to future phones

    (Software/Software Features)

    Qualcomm and Adobe said they have worked together as part of the Open Screen Project to optimize and increase performance for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 to support Snapdragon chipsets.Qualcomm and Adobe ...

29. Nissan copies fish schools to avoid robot collision

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... robots which it hopes will emulate this kind of behavior. Toshiyuki Andou, who is Nissan's principal engineer of the robot car project, said: "We have a lot to learn from the behavior of a fish in terms ...

30. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    ... conference  and it suddenly hit me that we are at the forefront of another massive change in the computer industry.    The kinds of projects that are being showcased have change the world ...

31. GPU-based array processes 20TFLOP with just 20kW of power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... an image every 8 seconds," explained Pfister. "We observed a 10X improvement over typical CPU performance with Nvidia GPUs, which is helping to make this project possible." The MWA currently comprises ...

32. World’s largest windfarm breezes into Texas

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... wind farm near Roscoe, Texas. The Roscoe wind complex has an installed capacity of 781.5 megawatts (MW), generating enough electricity to power more than 230,000 homes. The project area spans parts of ...

33. ICANN is broken: they think they have fixed it

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... structure and policies. "This federal commission should take six to twelve months to fully audit ICANN and develop recommendations for a revised and updated JPA [Joint Project Agreement]. The commission ...

34. Sony promises motion controller next spring as Nintendo cuts price of Wii

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sony's become the latest console manufacturer to launch a motion-sensitive controller for its PlayStation 3, following Microsoft's formal announcement of Project Natal earlier this week. Sony's become ...

35. Activision delays Blur release over multiplayer concerns

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... and projections."  ...

36. Apple Snow Leopard sales hit record numbers

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the fall selling season, and the release of another major OS upgrade, it will be instructive to see if that upgrade - currently projected to sell at ASPs much higher than Snow Leopard - can deliver the ...

37. Google bolsters OCR capabilities with reCAPTCHA acquisition

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google has bolstered its optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities with the acquistion of reCAPTCHA. The company - which was originally spun-off from a Carnegie Mellon University research project ...

38. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... a bar and the ThinkPad is considered one of the sturdiest products in the market as well which is important for kids.   Perhaps I’m projecting a lot of my own wants and needs when I was a student ...

39. ESO unveils zoom-in images of the entire night sky

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... batch of photos last week. The project is a collaboration between ESO, the French writer and astrophotographer Serge Brunier and his fellow Frenchman Frédéric Tapissier. Brunier spent several weeks ...

40. Intel's Pat Gelsinger leaves for EMC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... of sales and marketing, Sean Maloney, will increase the size of his empire by taking server chips, graphics and other microprocessors under his wing.Gelsinger was the pioneer of several projects at Intel ...

41. Slideshow: AMD previews next-gen gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    As TG Daily previously reported, AMD showcased its next-generation technology during a recent media event on the USS Hornet in Alameda, California. A number of rigs, projectors, laptops, components and ...

42. Euro phone operators agree to auto crash alert system

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... making it mandatory if there is no progress by the end of the year. The launch had been scheduled for this autumn, but four years after the project began, eCall is still not operational in any EU ...

43. AT&T upgrades 3G network with high speed packet access

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... for the 4G future." He added that AT&T was currently working on a number of additional projects, including: An initiative to substantially expand the wireless spectrum with 850 MHz.   The ...

44. Wintel alliance fires first shots of OS war

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... involved hundreds of their engineers working together in the Windows 7 project. The idea was to make Windows 7 better and more bug-free than the January 2007 launch of Windows Vista. Engineers put ...

45. Help crack Nazi Enigma messages

    (Security/Security Features)

    Although it might be a little late, a network project has started to try and crack a couple of World War Two Enigma messages. Although it might be a little late, a network project has started to try ...

46. Cu Jimmy! China to tighten grip on copper

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... currently trades at over $6,000 a ton and has shown a steep rise during this year. The Rio Tinto/Invahoe Oyu Tolgoi mining project will come onstream in 2013 but this is only the first of a series of other ...

47. AMD launches 40W six-core Opteron processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... require low power processors often deploy dense, large-scale IT projects where system energy trumps raw performance and every watt of saved power has a "significant" impact on the bottom line. "This ...