A lot of newly-elected lawmakers will be on Capitol Hill this week, learning their way around. But the lame-duck Congress will still be at work on issues including the possible extension of the tax cuts from the Bush administration. (Nov. 15)
Continue reading …ASUS’ Sandy Bridge motherboards are pretty, come with Bluetooth and USB 3.0 as standard
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We already got an early glimpse at what ASUS is bringing to Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge party, now how about some glamor shots of the actual hardware? The Taiwanese company has taken the shroud of mystery away from its latest range of motherboards and the first thing that stood out to us was the TUF-looking Sabertooth P67 above. It comes with an extended five-year warranty, “military-grade” electrical components, a litany of thermal sensors, and of course that Tactical Jacket up top. Beyond its obvious visual appeal, the Jacket serves to channel airflow throughout the board, aiding the cooling of more peripheral components. We’d love to see more of its kind of design purely to reduce the dust that gets in amongst our precious circuit boards. On the more diminutive front, ASUS is shown off a Mini-ITX board, the P8P67-I, that fits everything but full-sized RAM slots within a minuscule footprint. Check it out after the break. Oh, and yes, ASUS is sticking USB 3.0 ports and Bluetooth connectivity on almost all its forthcoming motherboards. Yay! Continue reading ASUS’ Sandy Bridge motherboards are pretty, come with Bluetooth and USB 3.0 as standard ASUS’ Sandy Bridge motherboards are pretty, come with Bluetooth and USB 3.0 as standard originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A powerful explosion likely caused by an accumulation of gas killed 7 people, including five Canadian tourists at a large resort hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. (Nov. 15)
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Judge rules circumstances of ‘minor incident’ involving Noam Federman, Breaking the Silence activist do not justify conviction
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Foreign Ministry says Norwegian authorities funding anti-Israel film, exhibition, and play. Norway: We support freedom of expression
Continue reading …Universal remote arrives within a pillow, makes channel surfing hip again
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It’s a pillow. And a remote. And if your powers of observation are anywhere near “strong,” you’ve probably deduced by now that you’re looking at a universal remote control… albeit one that’s wrapped within a pillow. We’ve seen similar creations come around in concept form , but leave it to the folks at Brookstone to turn this thing into a reality. Purportedly, this unit can be programmed to work with over 500 devices, and there’s a power-saving auto shutoff feature that’ll definitely be overrode by your incessant squeezing. We wouldn’t count on this thing actually working well, but for $29.95 (in addition to the cost of two AAA batteries, of course), we highly doubt you’ll find a more fashionable, lovable cube of cotton. Universal remote arrives within a pillow, makes channel surfing hip again originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …By E.J. Dionne, Jr. The lame-duck session of Congress that kicks off this week will test whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh, and whether President Obama has decided to pretend that capitulation is conciliation. Related Entries November 14, 2010 Somali Pirates Refuse to Board Carnival Cruise Ships November 14, 2010 Professor Obama’s Teachable Moment
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US President Barack Obama (R) and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev (… Graphic on the global stockpile of nuclear weapons. The Obama administratio… US President Barack Obama said he felt “reasonably good” about the chances of the Senate ratifying a major nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia this year. The Obama administration has been locked in heated negotiations with Republican lawmakers over the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which slashes US and Russian nuclear arsenals. “My hope and expectation is that given this is a good treaty, given it has the support…
Continue reading …Researchers develop ‘blood camera’ to spot crime scene stains in a flash
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Could inspecting a crime scene for even the most minuscule blood stains one day be as simple as taking a picture? It will if some research now being conducted at the University of South Carolina in Columbia pans out. A team there led by Stephen Morgan and Michael Myrick have developed a so-called “blood camera” that uses a combination of infrared light and a transparent layer of the protein albumin — the latter of which acts as a filter and is able to highlight blood stains by filtering out wavelengths that aren’t characteristic of blood proteins (or so we’re told). That’s as opposed to current methods for detecting blood at a crime scene, which rely on the chemical luminol to make the stains appear in the dark. As New Scientist notes, however, that method can also dilute blood samples and make DNA difficult to recover, and create false positives. The researchers don’t seem to be stopping at blood, though — they say the camera could also be easily adapted to detect detect trace amounts of other materials that aren’t visible to the naked eye, like drugs or explosives. Researchers develop ‘blood camera’ to spot crime scene stains in a flash originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Dallas shocked the Giants 33-20 Sunday for its second win this season. Jacksonville stuns Houston on late TD pass. Bills get first win as Lions set NFL record with 25th straight road loss. Patriots, Dolphins and Bears record wins. (Nov. 14)
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