Jesus Diaz wrote It looks like a metal marble floating in space. Or the palantír of Orthanc, magically teleported from Middle Earth to 11,000 light years away, in the Cassiopeia constellation. But it's just a visual effect. This is the Bubble Nebula. Cataloged as
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Jesus Diaz wrote An oil production platform in the Vermilion Bay exploded today around 9:30am, with 13 people on board. One crew member was injured, and 12 are in the water in immersion suits. As of 10:30am the rig was still on fire. The
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Jesus Diaz wrote Interconnecting natural philosophy, theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, natural history, geology and paleontology, genetics, chemistry, microbiology, neurology, medicine, and even the closed Chemistry line, this map of the subway is a fascinating summary of human sciences. The map—subtitled
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Jesus Diaz wrote The Toshiba Folio is now official, following the trail of Samsung Galaxy Tab. Here are the official details: Running Android 2.2, powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2, this tablet has a 10.1-inch 1,024 x 600 multitouch display and the usual networking
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Jesus Diaz wrote Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards are the fastest in the world. Now, good luck finding a camera that can saturate that kind of bandwidth. Why would anyone want to
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Jesus Diaz wrote In the age of touchscreens, I love this close-up of a MiG-29 joystick, all dented and battered by thousands of flight hours, and God only knows how many missile launches and bomb drops. Form follows function taken to the extreme. Quite
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Jesus Diaz wrote I've never seen anything like this: The Earth captured in time lapse by an astronaut at the International Space Station, cruising at 17,239 miles per hour—that's 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second. The time lapse video was
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