Jul 21
About 75 percent of African Internet traffic is routed through Britain, or even the United States, making it the least connected region in the world.
Jul 21
Filed under: Laptops
Yeah, it’s just your luck. Dell comes out with a well designed, high specification laptop, and the thing promptly sells out. Although systems have started to ship, any new orders will take at least four weeks to arrive: if you select some of the nicer build-to-order options like the LED backlight, your order will take even longer. Looks like you’re lumping it then.
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Jul 21
AP - Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas Hold’em — against a computer.
Jul 21
Filed under: GPS
Talk about getting into some hot water. Reportedly, some 14 implike squirrels were recently “arrested by Iranian authorities for espionage,” as the critters were apparently found to have various amounts of “spy gear from foreign agencies” on (er, in) their bodies. Some reports even mention that the animals were sporting embedded GPS sensors, but due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the capture, things are still a bit foggy. Nevertheless, Iran has apparently claimed that the “rodents were being used by Western powers in an attempt to undermine the Islamic Republic,” and while it doesn’t seem that anyone is really aware of the squirrels’ fates, it looks like sending in the animals to do a human’s dirty work isn’t as effective as it once was.
[Via DailyWireless, image courtesy of UMT]
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Jul 21
The iPhone is a gadget that trumps everything that’s come before it, and likely, many things that will follow it. The term ‘user-interface’ has taken on a whole new meaning. Even 2-year olds know how to use it—instinctively.
Jul 21
Filed under: Robots
NASA is testing two new robots designed to for future moon landings in a crater in Canada, both of which are equipped with some high end kit designed to analyze their surroundings. Loaded up with “GPS, stereo cameras, laser scanners and sun trackers,” the K10 Black and K10 Red can laser map terrain over 3,000 feet away, and fire radar into the ground and detect features up to 16.4 feet down. Running on regular laptop batteries, the robots are able to cover over 120 acres of ground and operate for up to five hours at a time, providing far more information than the restricted space-suit wearing astronauts are able to gather. Now all NASA’s gotta do is get the robots onto the moon by the around-2020 date that the adminstration keeps mentioning.
[Via The Register]
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Jul 21
Google has announced the acquisition of ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery. ImageAmerica has previously provided images for Google Maps and Earth, including high-resolution black and white imagery of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
Jul 21
There have been rumors that the next “6th Generation” iPod could be released as early as August 7th, 2007. According to some sources, the new iPod may still be housed in the traditional click-wheel design rather than moving to a full touch-screen design like the new iPhone.An anonymous sour…