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Hydrogen-Powered cars with Zero-Carbon-Emission? 203

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 14, 2008 @06:13PM from the look-up-in-the-sky-it's-some-sort-of-pastry dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have a bright idea — at least at first sight. They want to create a sustainable transportation system by using hydrogen-powered cars. They would like to create an infrastructure where people could use a liquid fuel for driving while the carbon emission in their vehicles is trapped for later processing at a fueling station. 'The carbon would then be shuttled back to a processing plant where it could be transformed into liquid fuel.' Where will all this liquid carbon be stored? The researchers don't know. They suggest that it could be stored in geological formations or under the oceans."

Comment Re:Buy it (Score 1) 259

by emseabrown on Saturday December 15, 2007 @11:39PM (#21713986) Attached to: Experience with Fighting Domain Farming

Should you ever need to do anything fancy with that domain, you will be regretting the choice of Yahoo.

They outsource their domain registration, and it takes some serious hoop jumping to change or do anything interesting.

I am speaking from both personal experience and from research. See the following:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yahoo+domain+registration+nightmare&btnG=Google+Search

Asus Insider Claims Apple Tablet Is Real 358

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 06, 2007 @10:22AM from the pleasant-fantasy dept.

CaptainCrunchyApple writes "According to cnet.co.uk the oft-rumoured Apple Tablet PC is actually very real, and on its way soon. CNET claims to have spoken to an anonymous tipster at Asus who claims to be working with Apple to produce the tablet. 'We're guessing it'll be based on Intel Core architecture, a tweaked version of Leopard, and have all the multi-touch, CoverFlow goodness we've seen in the iPhone and iPod touch. All this begs the question: Can Apple turn the Tablet PC into a success when previous attempts have failed? The short answer is 'yes'. Any company that can make a mobile phone with no buttons, no picture messaging, slow Web access and no video capture into the most desirable phone on the planet can easily make tablets popular.'"

STriDER, a Three-Legged Walking Robot 105

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 24, 2007 @03:15PM from the they-call-him-tripod dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In a short article, New Scientist reports that researchers at Virginia Tech University have developed a tripedal experimental robot. With its three legs, this robot, named STriDER — short for 'Self-excited Tripedal Dynamic Experimental Robot' — is actually more stable than 2- or 4-legged robots. As said another researcher, 'It's like a biped with a walking stick.' This robot is intended to deploy sensors and cameras in difficult-to-access areas."

Submission + - US trains new ELITE Swedish anti-piracy policeunit

Submitted by soulxtc on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:18PM

soulxtc writes: Never one to let its interests anywhere in the world go unprotected, the FBI and the MPAA have teamed up with the Swedish govt to create an elite corps of Swedish anti-piracy police. In an effort to help stamp out pesky Swedish pirates, FBI agent Andrew Myers and the MPAA have given a group of six Swedish police officers extensive training on how to effectively combat piracy and catch people who engage in illegal downloading from the internet.

Contagious Cancer Found in Dogs 303

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 11, 2006 @10:39AM from the heavy-petting dept.

Dan East writes "Scientists in England have gathered definitive evidence that a kind of cancer in dogs, known as Sticker's sarcoma, is contagious. It is spread by tumor cells getting passed from dog to dog through sex or from animals biting or licking each other. Robin Weiss and his colleagues did genetic studies on the tumor cells from 40 dogs with Sticker's sarcoma, collected from five continents, which showed that all the tumor cells are clones of each other. The parent cell probably arose in a domesticated dog of Asian origin — perhaps a husky — hundreds of years ago, and perhaps more than 1,000 years ago. A similarly transmissible cancer has recently been discovered spreading through populations of Tasmanian devils."

The Challenges of A DVR Service 134

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 21, 2006 @02:36PM from the under-the-antennas dept.

ChelleChelle writes "'The two burdens that are probably most annoying to the user are a complex and difficult control interface and lack of reliability.' So says TiVo cofounder Jim Burton as he describes the challenges of designing and delivering an easy-to-use yet highly effective and reliable DVR service. The article is quite broad in focus, providing information on the design aspects of TiVo (hardware, security, source code, etc) yet also taking into consideration the human element, with a large section devoted to service design principles. Overall, a good read for anyone interested in purpose-built systems." Update: 04/21 18:54 GMT by Z : Tim Burton no longer cofounding Tivo.

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