Photo credit: Todd Ryburn / Creative Commons According to current estimates, only 3,200 tigers remain in the entire world . These few individuals are scattered across 13 countries in Asia, mostly sheltered in protected habitats and reserves. These reserves will have to increase, conservationists say, if tiger range countries will meet their goal of doubling the species’ population by 2022. If the size of th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In light of the State of the Union address and the conspicuous lack of climate change mentions in it: As the BBC reports, International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol has “said the unsayable”–during a lecture at Imperial College London noting that the utter lack of political ambition to tackle climate change and do anything meaningfully strong enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions means that 1) peaking emissions by 2020 is virtually impossible and therefore 2) we… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Microsoft: ‘over 2 million’ Windows Phone 7 licenses sold to manufacturers so far
January 26, 2011 No CommentMicrosoft just dropped a few tidbits of knowledge on us regarding Windows Phone 7′s performance in the marketplace so far. Here’s what we’ve got: ‘Early research’ says 93 percent of WP7 customers are ‘satisfied’ and 90 percent would recommend the platform to others. We don’t know details about the research, though — number of customers polled, time frame, so on. Average of 100 new apps in the Marketplace per day, and over 6,500 total are available right now. Most importantly, “over 2 million” licenses have been sold to OEMs around the world. What does that tell us? Well, let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way: the iPhone 4 sold 3 million units in a little under a month after its launch, so Microsoft clearly has plenty of room to catch up — but that comes as no surprise to us, analysts, or Microsoft itself. Furthermore, selling a license to an OEM isn’t the same as selling a phone to a customer, since many of these manufactured devices are sitting on store shelves; it’s unclear exactly how many WP7 devices are actually in users’ pockets right now, but the number is certainly less than “over 2 million.” Microsoft’s earnings call is tomorrow where we expect to get more detail on the platform’s performance, but the company is saying today that it sees plenty of reasons to be “bullish about the foundation for long-term success” here — and considering that they simply can’t afford to fail in the mobile game, we hope they’re right. Microsoft: ‘over 2 million’ Windows Phone 7 licenses sold to manufacturers so far originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Korean researchers demonstrate LTE-Advanced in a custom RV, score 600Mbps downloads
January 26, 2011 No Comment
We’re just giddy like kids on the way to Disney World at the prospect of LTE and WiMAX sweeping like wildfire across the country, yet someone always has to come along and be a downer by showing off something even cooler. Those kids are the players at Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute , the same folks who brought us a Body Area Network back in 2006 and this creepy looking koala . Now they’re working on LTE-Advanced, the real true 4G that delivers 600Mbps downloads. That’s six times what you can ever hope to expect from LTE and 40 times faster than 3G — enough to download a 700MB file in 9.3 seconds or stream 3D HD footage on the go, a feat those crazy cats did in their rolling man cave shown above. Sadly we have no pictures of the thing on the outside, but we’re seeing antennas. Lots of antennas. [Thanks, Andy] Korean researchers demonstrate LTE-Advanced in a custom RV, score 600Mbps downloads originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Donald Sutherland teams up with Jason Statham and Ben Foster in new hit-man movie ‘The Mechanic,’ a film he calls a ‘must see.’ The veteran star says both actors thrilled him with their performances. (Jan. 26)
Continue reading …Donald Sutherland teams up with Jason Statham and Ben Foster in new hit-man movie ‘The Mechanic,’ a film he calls a ‘must see.’ The veteran star says both actors thrilled him with their performances. (Jan. 26)
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Old Spice Spot of the Day: Isaiah Mustafa is back with a brand new Old Spice ad and everything is exactly the same, right down to the tenuously-tucked towel. As they say: If it ain’t broke… sorry, I was lost in his striking brown eyes. [ oldspice .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 26/01/2011 18:16 Number of articles : 5
Continue reading …Let’s put a stop to the controversy of steroids in sports right now—by making doping legal. “I see nothing unjust or wrong about professional athletes using chemical compounds and medical knowledge to improve their abilities and performance,” writes Kyle Munkittrick on Discover . “Let me rephrase that: there is nothing…
Continue reading …Huffington Post is hosting a beautiful slideshow of artificial reefs , made entirely from old tankers, subway cars, army tanks, and other oddities. It’s a gorgeous look at underwater wonderlands. Artificial reefs are often used to help ecosystems and economies, from regrowing habitats like kelp beds to creating habitat for fish and corals to promote tourism . … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Chris Matthews Blasts Tea Party’s’ Russo for Having ‘Balloon-Head’ Bachmann as Spokesperson
January 26, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media Somebody got on Tweety’s bad side tonight… the Tea Party Express’ Sal Russo. Joan Walsh didn’t get a chance to say much during the segment but she has more here at Salon — The skewering of Sal Russo : Live by the Tea Party, die by the Tea Party. The GOP flack falls apart defending Michele Bachmann’s slavery history Poor Sal Russo. The Tea Party Express leader had a rough day. Booked on MSNBC’s “Hardball” to discuss Michele Bachmann’s upcoming State of the Union rebuttal, instead he found himself confronted by Bachmann’s idiotic whitewash of American history in a speech in Iowa over the weekend. Go read the rest for more on Bachmann’s nonsense he was trying to defend, but I thought I’d share one more point she made during the interview and in her article about these astroturf teabaggers and who they really are. It was hard to feel sorry for Russo, though: He’s a mainstream Republican campaign consultant who’s worked for everyone from Ronald Reagan to Christine Todd Whitman. He saw a future in the Tea Party, so he hitched his wagon to its “Express.” His firm Russo Marsh and Associates paid itself millions for promoting the candidacies of Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle and Joe Miller — three seats Republicans should have won but lost because Russo’s candidates were crackpots. (Russo insists his firm does it for love, not money.) Now he’s hyping Bachmann; it’s the Tea Party Express that’s sponsoring her speech opposite official GOP rebutter, Rising Star™ Paul Ryan. Maybe Russo is secretly working for the Democrats? On “Hardball,” I tried to meet Russo on his own terms and talk about the deficit. His former boss, Ronald Reagan, built up the largest peacetime budget deficit in history back in the day, and also signed the largest peacetime tax increase. Republican George W. Bush took over a $200 billion annual budget surplus left by Democrat Bill Clinton, and handed President Obama a $1.2 trillion annual deficit. Where was Russo’s Tea Party movement when Republicans were looting the Treasury? Nowhere to be found. Russo and his buddy Dick Armey and the rest of them didn’t have a reason to be busing them to town halls when Republicans were busting the budget.
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