The iPad’s gorgeous 9.7-inch display has been attracting attention for its musical potential, and the Djay app from Algoriddim has definitely contributed to some of the noise. The guys who brought a consumer-friendly DJing app to the Mac have gone ahead and ported it over to Apple’s magical tablet, enabling pretty much anyone to get their shot on the decks. Does Djay for iPad live up to the hype? Read on past the break to find out. Continue reading App Review: Djay for iPad App Review: Djay for iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Clever Electric Bus Prototype Combines 2 Battery Chemistries for Max Power & Range
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Photo: GE Dual Battery System FTW There are about 840,000 buses on the roads of the United States, and while they are a greener way to get around than individual cars (especially for commuting in urban areas – please people, if you live in the city, use transit), the vast majority of them are powered by non-renewable fossil fuels. Some use diesel-hybrid powertrains for better fuel economy and lower emissions, and others run on compressed natural gas to reduce smog-forming tailpipe emissions, but those are just partial solutions. Fully electric buses would be better, but current battery t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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After a big snow strands motorists on a highway near Buffalo, New York, snow plows are making quick work clearing the way. (Dec. 3)
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An NGO report has found that key UN climate negotiations are institutionally biased against poorer nations, specifically that lesser developed countries are less able to send delegates to meetings and often time cannot understand what is being discussed at the talks. —JCL The Guardian: The UN climate negotiations are weighted heavily against the poorest countries, who cannot send delegates to key meetings, often do not understand what is being said and are unable keep up with the decisions being taken in their name, a report by an NGO that promotes fairness in the negotiations has found. While rich countries have sent more than 150 delegates each to Cancún, more than half of the countries in the world have fewer than five representatives, with 26 countries having only one or two. For every 100m people living in Africa there are three negotiators – the equivalent figure for the EU is 6.4. According to the report, based on research by campaign groupUNfairplay, countries must be at as many as six meetings at the same time to follow the talks which are “cryptic”, “untransparent” and “opaque”. Read more Related Entries December 2, 2010 Cheney May Face Nigerian Bribery Charges November 30, 2010 Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’
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photo: Rupert Taylor-Price / Creative Commons Is there no place on the planet where human-caused pollution has not reached? Scientists have discovered that both the snow and soil on Mount Everest now contains dangerous levels of arsenic and cadmium, most brought to the roof of the world thanks to the
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An economic stimulus plan of lower taxes on businesses, privatization, and cuts to unemployment benefits has been accepted in Spain Friday as the government there tries to stem the tide of growing deficits and unemployment by neoliberal means. Neoliberalism, the strategy of economic governance that relies on free market capitalism and the opening of barriers to foreign direct investment, is the most-favored mechanism by many multilateral organizations to “fix” broken economies. —JCL ctv.ca The Spanish government has approved a package of new austerity measures and economic stimulus that it hopes will ease investor fears about its debt. The moves include selling off nearly third of its national lottery, partially privatizing airports, cutting a jobless benefit and trimming taxes for small companies. The measures were agreed to at a weekly cabinet meeting Friday. Spain, which has soaring unemployment and a swollen deficit, is battling to convince markets it can handle its debt and won’t need a bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund like Ireland and Greece. Read more Related Entries December 2, 2010 Cheney May Face Nigerian Bribery Charges November 30, 2010 Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’
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The intertubes were abuzz with the big news from NASA yesterday: Researchers announced they discovered a new kind of life that rearranges all our assumptions about life as we know it (but first they had to apologize that no, it wasn’t an alien ). This life form, a microbe that substitutes phosphate (heretofore a building block of all life on e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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President Barack Obama says US troops in Afghanistan are making progress, achieving their objective, and will succeed in their mission. (Dec. 3)
Continue reading …World disappoints us once again: Japan loses 2022 3D holographic World Cup bid
December 3, 2010 No Comment
Look, we don’t know anything about World Cup bids. They probably have a lot to do with “infrastructure” and “taking turns” and stuff like that. But really, world? You couldn’t pick Japan just this once? Japan’s incredibly great 2022 World Cup bid involved projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto soccer football fields around the world, allowing folks that can’t make it to Japan for the actual games to get a pretty great simulacrum, while standing next to people that look like them and are probably rooting for the same team. “I have to admit that the idea of this blows my mind away,” said Japan’s committee chief Kohzo Tashima. Did you get that, world? Japan was offering you 3D holographic full field broadcasts , and you just turned a cold shoulder. Congrats, Qatar, we hope you’re happy with 2022, and we’re sure you earned it based on whatever arbitrary metrics FIFA uses to select World Cup countries. But you’ll never earn our hearts . Video of Japan’s bid is after the break. Continue reading World disappoints us once again: Japan loses 2022 3D holographic World Cup bid World disappoints us once again: Japan loses 2022 3D holographic World Cup bid originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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photo: Artur Bergman / Creative Commons According to new research done by the University of Copenhagen and NASA , the anesthetic gases used during surgery have huge global warming potential , but yet there is no obligation to report them–nor seeming awareness about them on the part of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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