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Submission + - Did iTunes Kill the Record Store?

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An anonymous reader writes: Record stores across America are turning up dead, including more than few established, high profile chains. Who killed the record store? Was it the iPod, iTunes Store, or is the real killer still on the loose? Did iTunes Kill the Record Store?
Announcements

Submission + - The world's most anti-reflective coating

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a material that reflects virtually no light — or absorbs it like a black hole. They've built this new material by stacking layers of 'silica nanorods.' And they reached a refractive index of 1.05. This can be compared with 1.0 for air or 2.4 for diamonds. This coating, which is effective for all wavelengths, could be used for brighter light-emitting diodes (LEDs), more efficient solar cells, and new classes of 'smart' light sources that adjust to their environments. But don't expect to see your next glasses or the windshields of your cars protected with this coating: it's too sensitive to water and it would be destroyed by rain. Here is a link to more details and references about this anti-reflective coating."
Businesses

Submission + - Off-the-Shelf Car Parts Can Fight Global Warming

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Aaron Huertas
Aaron Huertas writes: "The Union of Concerned Scientists has designed a car that uses a package of off-the-shelf technology to cut global warming pollution from all classes of vehicles by more than 40 percent. The design dismantles automobile industry claims that they can't affordably comply with clean car standards adopted in 11 states.

See animation, design and specs here: http://ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/avp/"
Space

Submission + - Wasabi threatens the International Space Station

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "A NASA report issued to congress this week showed that the International Space Station faces a number of significant risks — not surprisingly flying space rocks crushing the hull among the biggest risks. But it didn't account for this: Wasabi. Yep, the hot green stuff that goes so well with sushi is a great threat when exposed to weightlessness as it could get in eyes, air ducts and all manner of things that might screw up a space mission. According to an AP report Astronaut Sunita Williams this week was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squirted a load of the green stuff into the air. After a lengthy cleanup, the wasabi was exiled to a cargo bay. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1199 9"
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Build an Environmental-Friendly PC

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ThinSkin
ThinSkin writes: "While gas-guzzling cars are greatly to blame for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, computers play their role in warming up the Earth too. ExtremeTech has an informative how-to article on building a green PC that will not only help save the planet, but will also slim down that energy bill. An important component, or culprit, to consider is the power supply, so investing in an 80 PLUS PSU is a step in the right direction. The article also discusses how to configure Windows Vista to utilize its power-saving options."
The Internet

Submission + - Conservapedia - The Religious Right's Wikipedia

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jeevesbond
jeevesbond writes: "The Guardian reports of a new Wikipedia variant created by the US religious right:

A website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they claim is 'liberal bias' on Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia which has become one of the most popular sites on the web. The founders of Conservapedia.com say their site offers a 'much-needed alternative' to Wikipedia, which they say is 'increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American'.
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Wii

Submission + - The Wii's MEMS Inventor on Future Technology

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "IEEE Spectrum is running an artcile on the inventor of the motion sensor that the Wii uses. The microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gives Wii it's core ability to sense motion in the controller and, arguably, a distinct advantage over the competition. But what's really interesting is where Benedetto Vigna wants to take this technology: 'First he wants to make the sensor even smaller, even cheaper, even tougher. "I want it to fit in all kinds of places — shoes and textiles, for instance, where it might be useful for medical monitoring," he says. "Then I want to make a three-dimensional gyroscope, to measure rotation around three different axes. Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side. We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter cube, to serve as an image stabilizer in cameras and to track a person's position in the intervals when he can't get a GPS signal." Better still, he adds, would be to throw in a magnetic detector, freeing the navigator from GPS altogether. It would be yet another marvel from Lilliput — the smallest compass ever sold.'"
Windows

Submission + - Falling into the Vista Trap

Submitted by iB1
iB1 writes: Business editor of the BBC Tim Weber has an interesting tale of woe about his experience of upgrading from XP to Vista. Although it appears that the initial upgrade went without a hitch, it was the frustrating realisation that a substantial number of his peripherals did not and would never work with Vista that tipped him over the edge.
Handhelds

Submission + - Dell could start making phones?

Submitted by Joris Arjan
Joris Arjan writes: Dell will have to enter the mobile phone market in order to keep up with rivals such as HP and Apple, a U.S. analyst has claimed. The prediction are centered around Ron Garriques, the former Motorola handset boss lured to Dell less than two weeks ago to run its consumer division. According to the Analyst, Dell would stop selling standalone PDAs — a fast-dying market — "within the year", concentrating instead on "offering a smartphone device that has all of the features both business and high-end consumers would want (eg push email, office document viewing/editing, media capability)".
XBox (Games)

Submission + - XBOX360 Hypervisor Security Protection hacked

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ACTRAiSER
ACTRAiSER writes: "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the XBOX360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well. "We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.""
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call'

Submitted by wooha
wooha writes: Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model. Ozzie, who has only made a handful of appearances since his promotion last June to replace Bill Gates as chief software architect, told analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas that he has been laying the groundwork for programmers across the company to build Internet-based software.

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