The Battle For Brooklyn, a documentary about one man’s fight to stop a private developer from using eminent domain to take his home, recently opened in select theaters in New York City after a successful film-festival run. In 2003, billionaire real estate developer and New Jersey Nets owner Bruce Ratner decided to move the team to Brooklyn, with Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Big Government Discovery Date : 19/07/2011 21:00 Number of articles : 4
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Two new studies add to growing evidence that physical activity helps to keep older people’s brains sharp.
Continue reading …You shouldn’t drink and drive—no matter what kind of horsepower you’re riding. A 17-year-old Amish boy driving a buggy in upstate New York led deputies on a short chase after they saw him with an open can of beer, reports the Buffalo News . Once stopped, deputies say he was…
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The new Apple products keep on coming. Apple has announced that it is releasing 2 new MacBook Airs, the first updates to the super-light laptop since October 2010. The new Airs will be available to order online and in Apple stores immediately. The most noticeable difference between the two Airs is screen size: one comes with an 11-inch screen, and the other a 13-incher. Both come standard with much of the hardware we’ve already told you about: Intel i5 processors, super-fast Thunderbolt periphery connection, a back-lit keyboard, and the recently-released OS X Lion. After that, though, the options are up to you. First, let’s look at the 11” model, which, at a starting price of $999, Apple has trumpeted with the tagline “Everyone should have a computer this advanced. Now everyone can.” Here are some specs for the $1,000 model (all upgrades are on the $1200 model): 2GB RAM (upgrade to 4GB RAM available) 1.6GHz processor (upgrade to 1.8 GHz available) 64GB storage (upgrade to 128GB and 256GB available) Weight: 2.38 pounds Two USB ports and a Thunderbolt port (no SD card reader) Up to 5 hours of battery life And here are your bullet points on the 13-inch model, which starts at $1299 and upgrades to $1600 for the top-of-the-line model: 4GB RAM 1.7 GHz processor 128GB storage (upgrade to 256GB available) Weight: 2.96 pounds Two USB ports, a Thunderbolt port, and an SD card reader Up to 7 hours of battery life These aren’t the flashiest updates to the Air, but they are substantial. The Thunderbolt port and the back-lit keyboard are the most noticeable changes, but the real work has been done on the inside. Apple says that the new Intel processors make this Air up to 2.5x faster than the previous generation; it has also added more durable flash storage, which means faster start-up times and the ability to put the computer on standby mode for up to 30 days. This has been a busy week for Apple, which posted its “Best Quarter Ever” and also announced its new Lion operating system. According to ZDNET, the company reported shipping 3.95 million Macs last quarter–impressive, but not as robust as the numbers for the iPad, 9.25 million of which were shipped in the same quarter. Now take a look at what it hopes will be its latest good news: The refreshed MacBook Air:
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Holographic disc storage may not have worked out so well for InPhase , but the folks at General Electric are still trying to make HVD work. Their latest breakthrough, shown off today at an IEEE symposium in Hawaii, is a new micro-holographic material which is 100x more sensitive than its predecessor and ups recording speed to that of Blu-ray discs. In the two years since we saw it last some of the hyperbole has apparently been lost — no claims of “two to four years left for Blu-ray” this time around — but manager Peter Lorraine still thinks the DVD-sized discs have a future in archival and consumer systems. That’s getting tougher to imagine in a world with FiOS and Netflix streaming, but if there is ever another disc format you may be looking at it right now. Continue reading GE’s new holographic storage burns 500GB discs at the speed of a Blu-ray GE’s new holographic storage burns 500GB discs at the speed of a Blu-ray originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Forty two years ago today, Neil Armstrong uttered those iconic words. While NASA controllers in Houston, and much of the planet, held its collective breath, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set down the Eagle Lunar Module, becoming the first men to land on the moon. Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. on July 16,
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New Macbook Air to Sport Sandy Bridge, Mac OS X: Source … Mac OS X Lion / MacBook Air / Mac Mini NEW: OS X Lion, MacBook Air and Mac Mini sapanv says: EXACTLY! RT @SkinnyRant OH MY GOD THE NEW MACBOOK AIR !
Continue reading …A golfer-caddie relationship is a rare thing in sports. When a player is out on the course, his caddie is his only crutch. So most golfers hang on to them for years until it’s time for a drastic change. Tiger announced today that he was dumping Williams, his caddie for 12 years and 13 major
Continue reading …Sex columnist Dan Savage long ago turned Rick Santorum into an R-rated Google joke—the uninitiated can search “Santorum” to see for themselves—and now the GOP candidate is using it as a fundraising tool, reports Politico . “Yes, he may have the right to belittle and degrade us, but that…
Continue reading …AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile must be blocked on antitrust grounds, Sen. Herb Kohl declared today. The chair of the Senate subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights released a letter urging the FCC and Justice Department to step in before the two phone companies get hitched, the Wall Street…
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