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Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars 520

Posted by kdawson on Monday July 14, 2008 @05:48AM from the year-late-but-hey dept.

jamie found the news that Tesla Motors is delivering roadsters in California. (We've been following developments on the Tesla front for a couple of years now.) According to a letter from the CEO, "9 production Roadsters have arrived in California, another 3 arrive this weekend, and they will keep arriving at the rate of 4 per week... In fact, currently there are 27 Roadsters in various stages of assembly." The early owners must be proud, but there could be complications.

Submission + - 3d printer to build houses

Submitted by gbjbaanb on Sunday January 14, 2007 @11:44AM

gbjbaanb writes: Ok, its not quite like the 3d printer, even if it is inspired by it, but this is still cool: , from the Sunday Times, a robot is being developed to build houses.

The first prototype — a watertight shell of a two-storey house built in 24 hours without a single builder on site — will be erected in California before April. The robots are rigged to a metal frame, enabling them to shuttle in three dimensions and assemble the structure of the house layer by layer. The sole foreman on site operates a computer programmed with the designer's plans.

Inspired by the inkjet printer, the technology goes far beyond the techniques already used for prefabricated homes. "This will remove all the limitations of traditional building," said Hugh Whitehead of the architecture firm Foster & Partners, which designed the "Gherkin" skyscraper in London and is producing designs for the Loughborough team. "Anything you can dream you can build."

Comment Re:Timeline is wrong (Score 3, Insightful) 397

by mdb31 on Thursday September 07, 2006 @05:13PM (#16062153) Attached to: DRM Hole Sets Patch Speed Record For Microsoft

Don't do business with the RIAA if you don't want to get screwed

Your idealism is touching, but you really should get out more often. Without content from the 'majors', all of whom insist on DRM, online music stores are dead in the water. It's not like music stores actually like DRM: most indie labels, for example, allow their music to be sold without DRM, and most music stores will jump at the opportunity do so. Sales of indie content alone, though, are nowhere (and I mean: nowhere) near enough for the stores to survive.

"Don't deal with the RIAA" sounds good, but it's just not practical in the real world.

Highly Critical Hole Found in IE 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 23, 2006 @03:20PM from the must-be-thursday dept.

dotpavan writes "Eweek reports on a highly critical MS Internet Explorer hole found by Secunia Research's Andreas Sandblad. The vulnerability is due to the processing of the "createTextRange()" method call applied on a radio button control. From Secunia, "The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2." The vulnerability has also been confirmed in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview (January edition) though it could be avoided by turning off Active Scripting, as suggested by Microsoft Security Response Center blog. How would this put MS in the market, hit by the ever-growing shots of vulnerabilties? And would the divorce of IE7 from Vista's Windows Explorer help?"

SpaceX Developing Orbital Crew Capsule 122

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, 2006 @06:19PM from the fly-me-to-the-moon dept.

iamlucky13 writes "Private aerospace firm SpaceX has revealed that it has secretly been working on a crew and cargo vehicle since late 2004. Development of the capsule, named Dragon, has so far been funded by SpaceX and its partners, which includes the Canadian company that built the robotic arm for the International Space Station. Dragon would be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and dock at the ISS with assistance of the robotic arm. While SpaceX founder Elon Musk is prepared to complete development of the capsule with his own resources, SpaceX is seeking funding from NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which makes up to $500 million available through 2010 for private spacecraft development."

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