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1. The little green men are innocent

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... contend that the massive amount of water vapor spewed into the atmosphere by the comet's icy nucleus was caught up in swirling eddies with tremendous energy by a process called two-dimensional turbulence, ...

2. NASA scrubs shuttle launch on gaseous hydrogen leak

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... the shuttle launches. There is much debate over the extent of damage caused to the atmosphere by the shuttle's launches. See NASA's shuttle website.  ...

3. TDK launches 1.8” microSATA solid state disk drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... to detect errors up to seven bits in 512 bytes. According to TDK the drive supports 10 years of rewrites. At least sample prices of these drives remain in a stratospheric range. TDK is selling the 64 ...

4. Apple iPhone Launch

   (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

   ... the stratosphere on eBay (6/20) IDC: Mass market appeal of iPhone uncertain (6/19) Apple developing in-car multimedia systems? (6/18) iPhone gets last minute upgrades (6/18)  ...

5. AMD launches 4x4 platform Quad FX

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... and graphics cards and you are quickly entering stratospheric regions well beyond $5000. Probably one of the major drawbacks of Quad FX, from an enthusiast point of view, may be the fact that it is a dual-socket ...

6. First Blu-ray titles to arrive on 20 June, Sony player delayed until August

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today confirmed its 20 June availability date for the first wave of Blu-ray titles. The company remained quiet on the launch date of its first living room Blu-ray ...

7. Via touts DDR validation results

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

     Via Technologies Inc. IBM's new WebSphere Translation Server is touted as being able to translate English to and from Spanish, German, French, and Italian in real-time. It also translates English ...

8. Radio satellite launches next week

   (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

   ... using 320 IBM POWER3-II microprocessors, 224 gigabytes of memory and 2.9 teraBytes of IBM storage. The computer uses image-enhancing algorithms to eliminate motion blur and compensate for atmospheric distortion ...