–> Massive schools of fish are seen on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The Reef is under threat from massive floods swamping the country’s northeast which are pouring harmful debris and sediment into the sea, an expert said on January 5, 2011. Australia’s disastrous floods have spread to 40 towns and are threatening the world-famous Great Barrier Reef as tonnes of sludge pour into the sea, officials and scientists said Wednesday. As anxious residents scrambled to build emergency levees and authorities counted billions of dollars in economic damage, researchers said the iconic reef’s corals could be damaged by run-off from Australia’s eastern coast. James Cook University researcher Michelle…
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Laurent Gbagbo pressured to step down (CNN) — The self-proclaimed president of Ivory Coast has agreed to lift a military blockade around his winning rival’s headquarters, an official mediating the standoff said Wednesday. The move…
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy “on the brink of collapse” while avoiding a humanitarian crisis, according to U.S. diplomatic cables published by a Norwegian daily on Wednesday. Three cables cited by the Aftenposten newspaper, which has said it has all 250,000 U.S. cables leaked to WikiLeaks, showed that Israel…
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The iPad was the little tablet that could. Now the rush to crash Apple’s party is on. Here’s a look at some of the upstarts turning heads at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. Related Entries December 28, 2010 Save Us From Our Devices December 24, 2010 Happy Holidays
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Hitachi GST has announced two new drive families that it hopes will find happy homes in living rooms soon. To survive the mean streets of entertainment, both the 2.5-inch CinemaStar C5K750 and the 3.5-inch CinemaStar C5K750 families are lauded as quiet, energy sipping, and compact — though they’re positively fat compared to their 7mm thick Travelstar brethren. The 2.5-inch line ships in capacities of 750, 640, and 500GBs, while sipping 1.5W power during read/write operation and generating 2.3 idle bels. The 3.5-inch family bumps up the storage up to 1.5TB and 2TB capacities and features a CoolSpin Technology for A/V performance when handling the onslaught of recording and playing multiple video streams. For full details check out the PR after the break. Continue reading Hitachi GST releases CinemaStar hard drives aimed for a DVR near you Hitachi GST releases CinemaStar hard drives aimed for a DVR near you originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A rare shootout in China left three police officers dead in the eastern city of Tai’an, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Two murder suspects on the run had been stopped when police rammed their vehicle. (Jan. 5)
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Hard drives the size of a quarter and the latest iPad competitors are on display at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Robert Ray reports.
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Republicans, their ranks expanded by tea party-backed freshmen, take control of the House when the 112th Congress convenes at noon on Wednesday. Jerry Bodlander reports. (Jan. 4)
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Avigdor Lieberman says it will be “at least a decade” before peace can be negotiated with the Palestinians. Israel’s extremist foreign minister calls for “less international involvement and over-doing and over-speaking” in this interview . Related Entries December 28, 2010 Save Us From Our Devices December 24, 2010 Happy Holidays
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