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Comment linux community (Score 1) 907

by thereadrchaos on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @07:55PM (#29210365) Attached to: Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor?

awesome and very very true to form post. Ive been a linux/Unix user since 1996. the same trend continues. I still really like Linux, but I'm a programmer with LOTS of patience. ;)

London's Robotic Fire Brigade 82

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @06:30PM from the playing-with-fire dept.

dustpan writes "The BBC has a story up about a quartet of robotic fire fighters that the London Fire Brigade is testing and with which have been achieving 'tremendous results.' The robots were developed by QinetiQ, which is a defense contractor. The LFB has been testing the units since last year and the machines are primarily used in fires involving acetylene canisters. The group commander for hazardous materials and environmental protection with the LFB says that the robots have cut the time to resolve these potential hazards from 24 hours to 3. From the article: 'Three years ago we were shutting down parts of London for over 24 hours every other week. Now it doesn't even make the news.'"

Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" 406

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @01:01PM from the baseball-bats-will-never-be-the-same dept.

Professor_Quail writes with this interesting excerpt: "Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion."

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