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Submission + - Apple TV: also a casual games console system?

Submitted by

njkid1

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @06:07PM

njkid1 writes: "Announced just two months ago, Apple TV is Apple's newest attempt in bringing downloadable iTunes content from computers to television screens. But sources at AppleInsider have stumbled upon some code in the latest version of iTunes revealing that the Apple TV might also double as a console for casual game!http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=10 4328&AFC-HSUIT&ATTR=DIGG"

Submission + - An eBay for Money

Submitted by

friedo

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @05:59PM

friedo writes: "After launching about a year ago and growing primarily through word-of-mouth, the web-based lending site Prosper.com has caught the eye of the mainstream media. So far, Prosper has originated more than $36 million in loans, with interest payments (and risk) going directly to users who bid as little as $50 on individual loans in a reverse Dutch-auction for the lowest interest rate. Any US resident can be a lender, and bid based on the borrowers' Experian credit history and personal story."

Submission + - Google Phone: Fact Or Fiction?

Submitted by on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @05:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: As if it wasn't frustrating enough to wait for the iPhone, now Google are apparently at it too. The Google phone will feature a large colour touchscreen, access to online applications and a built-in GPS receiver. Is this for real or is this a real case of vaporware? "So the game continues and we play second fiddle to the brave men and women who actually manage to sneak out real photos of prototype products. As for the Photoshoppers, who knows? Maybe it's your stuff that ends up inspiring companies to make those products, so even though it pains me when you're wrong, keep it coming."

Milky Way's Black Hole a Gamma Source? 100

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:56PM from the high-energy-pinball dept.

eldavojohn writes "A paper recently accepted for publication (preprint here) proposes a sound explanation for the source of the gamma rays that permeate our galaxy. The Milky Way's central object Sagittarius A*, widely believed to be a supermassive black hole, is now suspected to be the source. To test this theory, two scientists created a computer model to track the protons, flung outward with energies up to 100 TeV by the intense magnetic fields near the event horizon, as they make a random walk through the plasma environment. It can take thousands of years for them to travel 10 light-years from the black hole, where they collide with lower-energy protons to form pions. These decay into gamma radiation emanating from a torus-shaped region around the central object."

Submission + - Global Warming "Scam" documentary to air o

Submitted by sf_basilix on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:50PM

sf_basilix writes: A documentary being broadcast on TV this week claims that Global Warming is "the biggest scam of modern times." After all the articles on global warming we continue to hear, it will be nice to finally hear another side. An article from the Washington Times describes how these panel of scientists claim "...that [carbon dioxide] has no proven link to global temperatures... Solar activity is far more likely to be the culprit...Scientists in the Channel 4 documentary cite what they claim is another discrepancy involving conventional research, saying that most of the recent global warming occurred before 1940, after which temperatures around the world fell for four decades...Mr. Durkin's skeptical specialists view this as a flaw in the official view, because the worldwide economic boom that followed the end of World War II produced more carbon dioxide, and therefore should have meant a rise in global temperatures — something he says did not happen."

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