Taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in fraud lawsuits since the government took over the companies in 2008. The closely guarded cost was released last week after Rep. Randy Neugebauer requested the figures last year. Some $132 million of the total went to…
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Daimler AG is of course best known as the producer of Mercedes-Benz vehicles, cars that usually sit toward the higher end of their respective classes. BYD , on the other hand, makes batteries, cellphones, and inexpensive cars that often look an awful, awful lot like other, rather more expensive ones. Strange bedfellows, these, but according to a “knowledgeable individual” quoted by The Wall Street Journal the two are getting closer to finalizing plans for an electric vehicle, freezing the design ahead of production to begin toward the end of 2012. The car is said to be called the GOLF, standing for Green, Oxygen, Light, and Friendship — though that L could also double for Lawsuit given VW already sells its Golf in China. This partnership is similar to what BMW is doing, working with Brilliance China Automotive to get a foothold into the potentially Chinese EV market, which is already starting to heat up and should only continue to do so over the coming years. Daimler and BYD’s GOLF electric car getting closer to completion? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Old/New Rob Interview with CanalPlus (France) from New Moon Promo + Translation
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You can watch the video in better quality here Translation Interviewer : “What I saw outside (the hotel) is crazy! I’ve seen that for Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt…May be Leonardo Dicaprio. But it’s really rare. What I want to know is how do you deal with all that. You are so young (23)..How do you keep calm and cool?” Rob: ” It’s not easy. I always try to separate my personal and private lives. I remind… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Robert Pattinson Life Discovery Date : 24/01/2011 13:41 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …Neverware’s Juicebox 100 squeezes new life into aging school computers (video)
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Your typical school computer is probably not a machine you’d like to use on a daily basis — perennially behind the curve in terms of technology, since educators can’t afford smokin’ hot video cards and primo processors year after year. Budgets and the resulting reluctance inevitably lead to stale hardware which then goes obsolete… but a tiny startup called Neverware thinks it can end the cycle of woe with virtualization technology. Its single product, the Juicebox a100, can serve up one hundred Windows 7 virtual desktops to existing hardware, pretty much regardless of its age — all computers need is a working LAN jack, a 500MHz processor and 128MB of memory, so schools could keep their beige boxes and just upgrade the Juicebox instead. Founder Jonathan Hefter doesn’t have pricing worked out yet — and his tiny company only has three of the boxes working at present — but he’s piloted the technology in a pair of schools and is planning a beta soon — all the while dreaming about how our mountains of e-waste could be transformed into useful computers for the poorer nations of the world. Good luck, dude! Video after the break. Continue reading Neverware’s Juicebox 100 squeezes new life into aging school computers (video) Neverware’s Juicebox 100 squeezes new life into aging school computers (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Down cluster. Photo credit: Wuzhen Down remains, arguably, the most efficient insulator available (although Aerogel with its amazing 95% air content, is trying), with which to make cold weather garments, sleeping bags and bedding, ). And according to the International Down and Feather Testing Laboratory (IDFL) “Down and feathers have the lowest carbon footprint of any other fill material, both natural and synthetic.” But high quality down is the plumage of ducks and … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The intern who rushed to help Gabrielle Giffords during the Arizona shooting is getting quite the 21st birthday present: He’ll be sitting with Michelle Obama during tomorrow’s State of the Union address, which happens to fall on his birthday. Daniel Hernandez Jr., will be joined by his father, reports ABC…
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‘Twilight’ and ‘Airbender’ lead Razzies with 9 nominations; ‘No Strings’ attaches to top box-office spot; ‘The King’s Speech’ is top film at producer awards. (Jan. 24)
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Police say a 38-year-old gunman opened fire in a Detroit police station. The gunman wounded four officers Sunday at Detroit’s 6th precinct before he was shot and killed. (Jan. 24)
Continue reading …Holocube scales up with life-sized, 70-inch, HC70 holographic projector (video)
January 24, 2011 No Comment
First they were little , then they added touchability , now Holocube’s holograms in a box are going big time — in that the company’s latest model is physically much larger than the others. It’s the HC70, a new version with a 70-inch transparent screen that can be viewed from both sides. It’s powered by a Windows 7 Embedded machine with 40GB of flash storage from which it can loop between eight and 18 hours of video, displayed via 1080p projector. You can see it in action below showing a… slightly mesmerizing collection of random bits of footage. Let us know if you can find the hidden meaning. Continue reading Holocube scales up with life-sized, 70-inch, HC70 holographic projector (video) Holocube scales up with life-sized, 70-inch, HC70 holographic projector (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familar slide
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How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That’s the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the weekend. It’s not every day you hear of a 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC, but our discovery of corroborating evidence for the T25 module sitting alongside it makes us more willing to credit the possibility of a Blu-ray-crunching, 13,800 MIPS-capable, multicore Cortex-A9 Tegra 3 . Moreover, the roadmap of production samples in Q4 of 2010 fits perfectly with NVIDIA’s claim that Tegra 3 was ” almost done ” in September of that year. The ULP designation on this listing stands for Ultra Low Power in NVIDIA parlance, which would indicate an aggressively tuned power management system — the only way we can envision a quad-core anything operating within a tablet. Fall 2011 is when we should know for sure. NVIDIA Tegra 3, equipped with 1.5GHz quad-core madness, teased by a familar slide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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