Photo: Amazing Scrap Sculptures Of Wildlife By Edouard Martinet These beautiful robot fish sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet were just one of our 30 most popular posts of November. The other 29 are after the jump. We know you work hard and don’t have time to see every single post we publish, so now you can kick back and see some of the best of what you might of missed. Enjoy! … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Now that Verizon’s gone official with its LTE pricing for an initial launch in some 38 markets this Sunday, we wanted to take a quick look at how it compares to the other players in the laptop data market — after all, how much you’re paying month to month can be just as big of a determining factor (if not a bigger one) in choosing a carrier than the speeds you’re seeing. So how do Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Clear, and Rover stack up? Let’s break it down. Continue reading Laptop data plans: comparing LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA+ by speed, price, and value Laptop data plans: comparing LTE, WiMAX, and HSPA+ by speed, price, and value originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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8:08 AM Thursday Dec 2, 2010 Share Email Print Are you a Kiwi who has been hit by Europe’s cold snap? Expand Shrink Heavy snow and subzero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland and causing hundreds of highway accidents. A location in the Scottish highlands recorded Britain’s lowest-ever temperature reading, a chilling minus 27 degrees. Gatwick, London’s second largest airport, and Geneva, a major hub for low-cost carrier Easyjet, were forced to shut down as staff struggled to clear runways of snow. Edinburgh airport in Scotland, Leeds airport in northern England, and Chambery and Grenoble in…
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The NCAA says Auburn quarterback Cam Newton is eligible to play in Saturday’s SEC title game against South Carolina, despite concluding a violation of Newton’s amateur status had occurred. (Dec. 1)
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photo: Paul Keller / Creative Commons Population growth is one of the touchiest issues out there. It’s really easy for people to leap to paranoia about government control of who can and cannot have children and no amount of qualification about how that’s not being advocated seems to stop it. Nevertheless population growth and its flip side, resource consumption is a critica… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A father charged with kidnapping his three missing boys fought extradition from Ohio to Michigan on Wednesday as an army of volunteers set off to trudge through fields, woodlands and dirt roads to search for the brothers. (Dec. 1)
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Photo credit: suburbanbloke / Creative Commons Congress, it’s clear, is in no rush to settle on a plan to confront climate change . For many cities and states, especially those facing increased wildfire, flooding, and drought risks, this simply isn’t good enough—they have begun developing and implementing climate change adaptation plans to prepare for the expected threats…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We’ve just gotten our hands on the less-insane version of Verizon’s LTE modems, the LG VL600. The company timed the shipment of these puppies to coincide with today’s announcement of the coming 4G onslaught, set to begin December 5th — which based on what we’ve seen thus far is going to be beyond awesome. Unless you’re on a Mac (more on that after the break). In case you haven’t seen the device in question, it’s a rather large (we mean seriously large) USB dongle, which thankfully comes with a clip and extra cable. Like all LTE devices, it uses a SIM which will look familiar to those in GSM devices, but is — again — almost comically large. Gallery: LG VL600 LTE modem We haven’t spent a load of time with the modem, but in the few short hours we’ve had to play with the device, the down- and upstream speeds we’re getting are nothing short of phenomenal. In Brooklyn, which we’re not even sure is really heavily covered by the LTE blanket (and was being battered by rain and wind at the time of testing), we saw consistent speeds which peaked at 7 Mbps down, and over 1 Mbps up. Overall, speeds held steady around 5 to 6 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. By comparison, we saw around 4 Mbps down and less than 1 Mbps up when we did some testing with Sprint’s WiMAX Overdrive 4G, and roughly 6.5 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up with Clear’s iSpot . Overall, browsing on our computer felt nearly identical to our home broadband, and even HD video playback on YouTube was snappy and responsive over the network. And did we mention we were only getting two out of four bars on our connection? Continue reading Verizon LTE / 4G preview with the LG VL600 modem Verizon LTE / 4G preview with the LG VL600 modem originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Barnes & Noble’s successor to the Nook, the Nookcolor, is a huge improvement and the best dedicated e-reader on the market this holiday season. That’s according to AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson. (Dec. 1)
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