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Submission + - Unlock iPhone 4 (unlockiphone.co)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Find out how you can unlock your iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G or 2G with the ultimate iPhone unlocking solution online.
EU

Submission + - Europe Sending a Probe to the Sun (bbc.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Mindflux0
Mindflux0 writes: The European Union is going forward with the proposed Solar Orbiter, a space probe designed to study the sun. The probe will orbit closer to the sun than any other man-made object at a sizzling 42 million km. It's planned to launch in 2017 for close to a billion euros.

Submission + - Specific Media's Big Plans For MySpace (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Specific Media, which bought MySpace for $35 million, has big plans for the faded social media site. Mainly, it wants to become the Hulu of music (and somehow having Justin Timberlake as an investor will help make that happen). From All Things Digital's Liz Gannes:

Specific is telling marketers that the new Myspace’s vision is 'to become the #1 online community music destination,' and its mission is to feed the energy of youth culture everywhere.'

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Firefox

Submission + - Firefox Advises Users to Disable McAfee Plugin (itworld.com)

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes: "Mozilla is advising Firefox users to disable McAfee's ScriptScan software, saying that it could cause 'stability or security problems.' ScriptScan, which ships with McAfee's VirusScan antivirus program, is designed to keep Web surfer's safe by scanning for any malicious scripting code that might be running in the browser. But according to Mozilla it has an unintended side-effect: It can cause Firefox to crash... a lot."

Submission + - Detect major earthquakes? (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by hcs_$reboot
hcs_$reboot writes: According to a Japanese researcher, the electrons count escalation high in the atmosphere could indicate that a major earthquake is going to happen within 30~40 minutes.
That phenomenon was observed before three earthquakes since 2004.
If confirmed, the earthquake detection system could save thousands of lives.
Transportation

Submission + - 175 MPH Student-Built EV Smashes Speed Record (byu.edu) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A team of Brigham Young University students recently smashed the world land speed record for electric vehicles by hitting a top speed of 175 miles per hour in their self-built electric car. The car, named “Electric Blue,” reached high speeds thanks to lithium iron phosphate batteries and its streamlined design, which is capped by a tail fin for speed and agility.

Submission + - 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics (sciencemag.org)

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brindafella
brindafella writes: "Thirteen years ago, two teams of astronomers and physicists independently made the same stark discovery: Not only is the universe expanding like a vast inflating balloon, but its expansion is speeding up. And, the two teams are recognised with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Half of the prize will go to Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, who led the Supernova Cosmology Project. The other half will be shared by Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, who led the High-z Supernova Search Team, and Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, who worked on High-z.

In essence, they proved that Einstein's "biggest mistake" (the cosmological constant, to create a 'stable universe') was actually a clever theoretical prediction that there was something else happening — dark energy."
Hardware

Submission + - David Caminer, creator of the first business compu (reghardware.com)

Submitted by linatux
linatux writes: Chris Bidmead at reghardware.com has written a fascinating article on "LEO" — the first business computer.

"A programming language, even at assembly level, would have been a help. LEO came with no such luxury. But it took Caminer's team only two years to tame the beast, and in November 1951 it was proudly running "The Bakery Valuations Job" to track and cost the labour and material of cakes, biscuits and bread moving through Lyons various profit centres."
China

Submission + - US Congressman takes aim at China over IP theft (techworld.com.au)

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "U.S. government officials need to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a "pervasive" cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. companies, says Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Espionage sponsored by the Chinese government has resulted in "brazen and wide-scale theft of intellectual property of foreign commercial competitors.""

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