Reuters: SpaceShipOne has done it! They’ve flown into space twice in the same week and captured the $10 million Ansari X Prize! Private space flights are coming our way! With this flight and the recent Virgin anouncement that they will provide spaceflights for a hefty price, mankind is off to space!
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Update: Photographed by Victor Reyes
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Reuters: Pentium is abandoning the production of it’s high speed Pentium 4Ghz chip in favor of creating dual-core pentium chips. It’s my guess that this will begin the slowdown of Moore’s Law which currently states that processor speed (or more accurately the number of transistors on the chip) will double every 18 months. Experts say [...]
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CNN: Apparently one percent of the population is asexual. They have no interest in sex at all. I’m picturing a stodgy old history professor; one who never married and is completely engrossed with historical fact. Not the kind that loves history better than pretty young women, but the kind that doesn’t even realize that there [...]
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CNN: The Vatican Library, one of the most valuable libraries in the world, is using technology to keep track of its priceless collection. It has begun inserting RFID (Radio Frequency ID) Tags onto its books in order to accurately inventory and keep track of books. They will be able to tell where exactely each book [...]
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