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Submission + - Navy Planning to Build Laser Cannon in Four Years (wired.com) 1

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CowboyRobot
CowboyRobot writes: "The US Navy is months away from requesting bids from contractors to construct a laser weapon for its ships, now that the technology is feasible. "The key point came last April, when the Navy put a test laser firing a (relatively weak) 15-kilowatt beam aboard a decommissioned destroyer... the Martime Laser Demonstrator cut through choppy California waters, an overcast sky and salty sea air to burn through the outboard engine of a moving motorboat a mile away.""
Television

AT&T To Offer TV Over Phone Lines 303

Posted by Zonk from the next-up-is-radio-via-peanut-butter dept.
ppadala writes "AT&T is upgrading their phone lines to offer video programmes over phone line. The service, called U-verse TV will be available in parts of Southern California communities initially. Channel lineups will be similar to traditional cable and dish offerings. AT&T is insisting that, 'This offering is on par with those of its cable rivals. But AT&T claims that it offers customers more for their money, including fast channel changing, video-on-demand, three set-top boxes, a digital video recorder, a picture-in-picture feature that allows viewers to surf channels without switching channels and an interactive program guide.'"

Comment Study Not Complete (Score 1) 273

by n1ckdrake (#19141649) Attached to: A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning
From TFA "Participants then worked on a "learning task" in which one complex sequence of keypresses was followed by an angry face on the screen, another sequence was followed by a neutral face, and a third sequence was followed by no face." Why did the researchers not include a happy face as well. It would be interesting to know if a happy face could induce the same learning reinforcement in the high testosterone group vs the low testosterone group.

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