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Microsoft Flight: what to expect
1How to choose your personal submersible
2The BPG Uno: A One-Wheeled Motorcycle
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Chrome 4.0 for Windows
(Windows only) Google has released version 4.0 its Chrome web browser, which it claims has more than 1,500 new features. Chrome edged up to 3.6 percent of browser usage for October, its highest showing so far in Net Applications’ statistics since the browser’s first public release 14 months ago. That’s within striking distance of third-place Safari at 4.2...
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A Mountain View over Cupertino and Redmond
Remember the time when Google was a search engine and did just that? Remember the time when Apple did just computers? The two companies were “friends” for quite some time, united against a common enemy (the evil Microsoft Corporation). How much can things have changed? Google and Apple are competing in increasingly overlapping markets, and the more they compete, the...
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How to follow the Apple tablet event
Tomorrow is the big day, the one we have been waiting for since the very first fake leak shots of the overhyped Apple tablet. The last weeks have been crazy, and I must admit that the blogosphere is going to feel strange without an hourly Apple rumors update. Anyway, I’m sure you’re as curious as I am to get to know what the tablet is all about, so here are a few tips...
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Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems
According to a number of reports, the European Commission decided on January 21, 2010 that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems does not pose substantial interference to monopoly regulation and fair trade acts, thus authorizing the $7.4 billion takeover. According to Neelie Kroes, the European competition commissioner in charge of analyzing this case, stated recently that she...
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Hillary Clinton’s internet freedom speech
In the wake of China’s attacks on Google servers, Hillary Clinton gave a landmark speech on internet freedom around the world, making it clear exactly where the United States stands: “On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access...
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Movie of the month: Capricorn One
I loathe conspiracy theories. They’re so pretentious, and they leave more questions than answers. The ironic thing is that these theories basically tell you to not be naive and gullible, but if you believe in them, you’re exactly that. The one theory that really gets on my nerves is the moon hoax. Sorry guys, but the most important moment in mankind’s history...
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Firefox 3.6 is here
Today, Mozilla announced Firefox 3.6, the oft-delayed but very much improved version of their popular browser. For those still suffering of internet Explorer’s reign of terror, Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage...
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AGV: Not just any high-speed train
The Automotrice à Grande Vitesse (AGV) will be the successor of the famous TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse), France’s successful high-speed train built by Alstom. Scheduled to be deployed in Italy in a few years by Europe’s first private high-speed train operator, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, it represents a new step for railway transport. Alstom, the firm behind the AVG,...
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