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NASA

Skylon - proof the UK has guts to deliver on space tourism ->

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NRidigital Ed
NRidigital Ed writes "The UK could harness a massive chunk of the space tourism market, if it is willing to back build a spaceport, a major IoD report has unveiled.

But does the country have enough experience, ambition or guts to go through with such an out of this world scheme? A project called Skylon, already in the works, suggests that the answer is an emphatic yes.

Skylon is an unmanned reusable cargo spacecraft being designed by UK-based Reaction Engines (REL) for the UK Space Agency (UKSA). The remotely controlled spaceplane will be derived from the HOTOL spacecraft that was launched in 1982.

The unmanned craft can transport 12,000kg of freight to the International Space Station (ISS). It is currently in the proof-of-concept phase and the total cost of its development programme is estimated to be $12bn."
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Government

Who is still using IE6? The UK government->

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strawberryshakes
strawberryshakes writes "The death knell for IE6 was sounded a couple of years ago, but seems like some people just can't let go. Many UK government departments are still using IE6, which is so old — 11 years old to be exact — it can't cope with social media — which the government is trying to get its staff to use more to engage with citizens"
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Power

US is Happy To Pay More for Clean Energy. Well, a Little More->

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Fluffeh
Fluffeh writes "A recent study of over 1,000 folks for a paper published in Nature Climate Change has found that the average US citizen is inclined to pay a premium to ensure that by 2035, 80% of US power comes from clean energy. At random, respondents received one of three "technological treatments" or definitions of clean energy that included renewable energy sources alone, renewable sources plus natural gas, and renewable sources plus nuclear power. Delving into the socioeconomics, researchers found that Republicans, Independents, and respondents with no party allegiance were less likely by 25, 13 and 25 percentage points respectively to support a NCES than respondents that identified themselves as Democrats."
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Comment: All well and good (Score 5, Insightful) 99

But we are still hopeless at spotting these things for instance today Asteroid 2012KA will pass within 224000 Kilometres of earth http://www.universetoday.com/95202/asteroid-2012-ka-to-buzz-earth-on-may-17/ the scary thing is it was only discovered yesterday!!!

So what are we going to do when one the size of texas comes heading for DC I mean aside from putting marshmallows on extremely long sticks :)

Android

What the HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE Means to Apple->

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Tech Analyzer writes "HTC has placed itself in Apple’s line of sight with the HTC One X and the EVO 4G LTE. Apple’s thermonuclear weapon of choice for HTC? Patent Infringement.

We’ve seen our fair share of bans across the world (mainly from manufactures like Samsung) on behalf of Apple related litigation. However, we have not seen much action in the United States until now with US Customs indefinitely putting HTC’s phone shipments on hold. We believe that Apple has been pressuring the US Customs to do so.

The problem for Apple is that the HTC One X and EVO 4G LTE are already being sold on carriers that already have the iPhone. For every day that someone walks into a Sprint or AT&T store looking for a new smartphone, the chances of them walking out with a HTC One X or EVO 4G LTE will remain high until Apple announces and comes out with their next gen iPhone."
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Science

Iranian physics student from UT gets 10 years in jail for spying->

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scibri writes "Omid Kokabee, a laser physics graduate student from the University of Texas who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran.

Kokabee was arrested in February 2011 while on a trip home, and charged with “communicating with a hostile government” (ie Israel) and “illegal earnings”. He has consistently denied the charges, and refused to speak at his trial, where no evidence against him was presented.

Several international science groups, including the American Physical Society, have spoken up in his defence, and an online petition has been set up in support."
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AMD

AMD Trinity A10-4600M Processor Launched, Tested-> 3

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "AMD lifted the veil on their new Trinity A-Series mobile processor architecture today. Trinity has been reported as offering much-needed CPU performance enhancements in IPC (Instructions Per Cycle) but also more of AMD's strength in gaming and multimedia horsepower, with an enhanced second generation integrated Radeon HD graphics engine. AMD's A10-4600M quad-core chip is comprised of 1.3B transistors with a CPU base core clock of 2.3GHz and Turbo Core speeds of up to 3.2GHz. The on-board Radeon HD 7660G graphics core is comprised of 384 Radeon Stream Processor cores clocked at 497MHz base and 686Mhz Turbo. In the benchmarks, AMD's new Trinity A10 chip outpaces Intel's Ivy Bridge for gamingbut can't hold a candle to it for standard compute workloads or video transcoding."
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