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If Afghan Troops Can't Read <em>Cat in the Hat</em>, This War Is Screwed
If everything goes right in Afghanistan — like, almost perfectly — just about every local cop and soldier should be able to read like a first grader by October.
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Eight Great Tips for Traveling with the iPad
The iPad is an almost perfect travel computer. It’s easy to carry, works as a guide, a map, a book and it’s crazy-long battery life will let you sit back and watch another movie while your laptop-toting companions search for a power outlet. But as convenient as it is, a little preparation will make things even smoother. Here are some things you should do before you leave the house.
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Siracusa: Whither Mac OS X?
Iran's Robotic 'Ambassador of Death' is More Envoy of Annoyance
Iranian President Ahmadinejad skipped onto a stage yesterday, drew back a blue curtain, unveiled a shiny gold drone, and pronounced it an “ambassador of death” to Tehran's foes. So does that mean Tel Aviv should be worried about Iranian robo-bombings? Um, no.
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iPad shipping down to 1-3 days; App Store nears 250K apps
iPad shipping times have fallen at the online Apple Store for a second time in less than a week. Orders should now go out in one to three days; just last Wednesday, times had shrunk to three to five days. For some time previous iPads were stuck at seven to 10 days. The figures suggest that Apple is finally meeting demand, although whether this is because of cooling sales or better manufacturing is uncertain....
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IPad - Apple - appstore - AppleStore - IPhone
Review: Poser Pro 2010
Review: Animation Creator for iPhone and iPad
Kodak PlayTouch brings touch to pocket camcorders
Kodak wrapped up its launches today by adding its highest-end pocket camcorder to date. The PlayTouch centers on a three-inch, capacitive touchscreen that moves almost all the control to the display rather than the back. Changing controls also helps for review, as the PlayTouch can orient its display to landscape with according controls for editing as well as tagging movies for later Facebook or YouTube sharing....
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Facebook - Camcorder - YouTube - Eastman Kodak - Touchscreen
Google's Nexus One: The most popular unpopular phone
Kodak intros EasyShare M590, 10-inch photo frame
Kodak today rolled out a camera with a social networking component the 14-megapixel EasyShare M590. Using an on-board tagging tool, users can tag a photo for upload to Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, YouTube, and Kodak Gallery. It also allows photos to be tagged to an e-mail account and sent directly to an internet-enabled digital photo frame. Once tagged on the camera, photos are automatically distributed once connected to a computer....
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Facebook - YouTube - Kodak Gallery - Flickr - Kodak EasyShare
Acer exec thinks iPad market share will fall to 20%
Acer chairman JT Wang today predicted that Apple would drop to just 20 to 30 percent of the tablet market in the near future. The executive anticipated that the presence of both Acer's tablets and others to make the iPad a minority once the market 'settles.' Wang put most of his faith in Android and assumed that Google passing Apple in smartphones would repeat itself in the tablet arena, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily News....
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Google - Apple - Acer - Tablet - IPad
Magnificent Marine Algae Blooms Seen From Space
When microscopic marine organisms known as phytoplankton multiply into a dense population at the ocean's surface, massive blooms can spread so far that they can only be seen from space. These algal blooms create beautiful patterns that can stretch for hundreds of miles and trace the ocean's swirling currents, and we've gathered some of the best views of these events from space.
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Aug. 23, 1977: Pedal-Powered 'Gossamer Condor' Flies Into Record Books
Bryan Allen completes a figure-eight course piloting and powering the Gossamer Condor to claim the Kremer Prize for human-powered flight.
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The Precarious Future of Ocean-Color Satellite Imagery
With all the U.S.-owned orbiting satellites capable of measuring plant life in the ocean on their last legs, American ocean scientists are pushing to get NASA's next satellite to periodically look at the moon — a critical checkup for beaming back accurate shades of green.
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Our Solar System: Now With 2 Million Years More Maturity
New measurements of an old rock show that the solar system may be up to 2 million years older than scientists previously thought. The new birth date could resolve a major controversy among geochemists, and provides extra evidence that the solar system got its heavy elements from the explosion of a nearby supernova.
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