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Comment Re:SIM card (Score 1) 259

by pisces22 (#47157971) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist?
Maybe I misinterpreted this response but... I took my Galaxy S4 (Verizon) to Spain and Portugal last year and just popped out the SIM card and popped in the Orange (Spain) / Vodafone? (Portugal) SIM cards. Mostly used it for maps/GPS. Awesome. Maybe this is key: The phone is running Cyanogenmod.

Submission + - Tesla's Elon Musk Envisions 4000MPH 'Hyperloop' Transportation System (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Think the future of transportation has us all in flying cars like the Jetsons? Think again. That's not something we're likely to see in our lifetime, however we may witness the completion of several "Hyperloop" transport systems designed to get you from point A to point B at breakneck speeds. This is the dream of Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, who describes Hyperloop as a "cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table." Alternately, you can think of it as an enclosed tube that's propped way up off the ground. It would use a magnetic levitation system similar to high-speed bullet trains, except passengers would travel in capsules across a surface with almost no friction. A Colorado company called ET3 (Evacuated Tube Transport) is already working on making Musk's dream a reality by building a similar system and is planning a 3-mile trial run before the end of the year. This is just the beginning of bigger and faster things to come, According to ET3, a six-passenger capsule about the size of an automobile could hit speeds of 4,000 miles per hour on longer distances, such as going across the country or even continents.
Science

Submission + - NanotechTea Bag’To Filter Water for Pennies (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner
kkleiner writes: Researchers at Stellenbosch University’s Water Institute have developed a new water filtration system that uses activated carbon and nanofibers to quickly filter out pathogens. The carbon and nanofibers are placed in common tea bags and then fitted into a bottle. Fill the bottle with dubious water, install a filter, and drink. It’s that easy. The ultimate price for these ‘tea bag’ nanfiber filters could be around half a cent (USD) each and be able to handle around 1 L before being replaced.
The Internet

Submission + - Top 100 Web Sites of 2010

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes: Staying true to its tradition, PCMag released it's latest list of Top 100 websites based on suggestions from readers and staff members. As always, the list is broken down into two broad categories, the classic websites and the undiscovered websites. The two are distinguished based on a set of rules such as, if the site has been on the Top 100 before, it's out of contention for the Undiscovered list and other guidelines which bring time, traffic, and exposure into consideration. The two categories are further broken down into Apps, Fun, Info, News, Shopping, Social and Tech. None of the sites in the Top 100 are mobile only. The sites also aren't download-based, that means no browser plug-ins and no desktop apps. Finally, only free websites were taken into consideration.

Submission + - BBC News - Why the US keeps minting coins people h (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In hidden vaults across the country, the US government is building a stockpile of $1 coins. The hoard has topped $1.1bn — imagine a stack of coins reaching almost seven times higher than the International Space Station — and the piles have grown so large the US Federal Reserve is running out of storage space.

Americans won't use the coins, preferring $1 notes. But the US keeps minting them anyway, and the Fed estimates it already has enough $1 coins to last the next 10 years.
Microsoft

Submission + - Can VMware Put a Dent in MS Exchange? (infoworld.com)

Submitted by
snydeq
snydeq writes: "'Exchange killers' come and go, but InfoWorld's Eric Knorr sees VMware's new Zimbra appliance as a credible competitor for Microsoft's Exchange user base. 'The appliance option addresses the large chunk of business customers that remain wary of ceding email to the cloud. Plus, the appliance is intended to reduce switching and ownership costs by making deployment and maintenance a snap. If Zimbra can pull that off, it will certainly have a leg up on Exchange. 'The appliance runs vSphere inside, which simplifies high availability, backup, and disaster recovery. Ubuntu runs under the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, but it's essentially embedded and invisible, so no Linux skills are required. Direct comparisons are complicated but VMware claims that its appliance solution costs between 35 and 50 percent less than Exchange.'"
Medicine

Submission + - Researchers Regenerate Nerves After Spinal Injury (gizmag.com)

Submitted by fergus07
fergus07 writes: About two percent of Americans — more than six million people — have some form of paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury, which is due primarily to the interruption of connections between the brain and spinal cord. Such paralysis and loss of function has long been considered untreatable, but a new approach has, for the first time, induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement, showing the potential for new therapeutic approaches to paralysis and other motor function impairments and offering hope to sufferers.

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