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<title><![CDATA[Astronauts attach cosmic ray detector to space station]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The Endeavour astronauts installed a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station today, a powerful magnet surrounded by a complex array of sensors that will study high-energy particles from the depths of space and time to look for clues about the formation and evolution of the universe.&quot;Thank you very much for the great ride and safe delivery of AMS to the station,&quot; radioed Sam Ting, the Nobel laureate who has managed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer project for more than 15 years. &quot;Your support and fantastic work have taken us one step closer to realizing the science potential of AMS. With your help, for the next 20 years, AMS on the station will provide us a better understanding of the origin of the universe.&quot;Nobel Laureate Sam Ting thanks the crew of shuttle Endeavour after the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is attached to the International Space Station.(Credit:NASA TV)&quot;Thank you, Sam,&quot; Endeavour commander Mark Kelly replied from the International Space Station. &quot;I was just looking out the window of the orbiter and AMS looks absolutely fantastic on the truss. I know you guys are really excited and you're probably getting data and looking at it already.&quot;Within two or three hours of installation and activation, the AMS was sending down a torrent of data, recording the passage of thousands of cosmic ray particles.&quot;The detector has 300,000 channels in the electronics, 650 microprocessors, and the detectors are aligned to (an accuracy of) one tenth of a human hair,&quot; Ting told reporters at a mission status briefing. &quot;We immediately checked all the detectors, everything functioned properly. Not a single one was broken, not a single electronic channel was malfunctioning. Right away, we began to see an enormous amount of data coming down.&quot;Ting showed off two sample graphs marking the passage of an electron with an energy of 20 billion electron volts and a carbon nucleus with an energy of 42 billion electron volts.&quot;This shows the detector functioned properly without any noticeable deformation whatsoever,&quot; he said. &quot;We're very pleased. It took us 17 years to build this thing and (for the) duration of the space station we will be there, hopefully 10 to 20 years, and we hope...we will be able to make an important contribution to our understanding of the origin of the universe.&quot;Shuttle commander Mark Kelly, upside down, chats with Sam Ting after installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. His crewmates, left to right: Gregory Chamitoff, Michael Fincke, Roberto Vittori, Andrew Feustel and pilot Gregory Johnson.(Credit:NASA TV)Astronauts Andrew Feustel and Roberto Vittori, working on the shuttle's aft flight deck, started the installation operation just before 3 a.m. ET, using Endeavour's 50-foot-long arm to slowly pull the 7.5-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer from its perch at the back of the orbiter's payload bay.After moving it to a point over the right side of the shuttle, pilot Gregory Johnson and Gregory &quot;Taz&quot; Chamitoff, operating the station's robot arm from a computer console inside the lab's multi-window cupola module, took over to move AMS into position for attachment on the upper right side of the station's power truss. A motorized claw mechanism in the truss then locked the detector in place on three guide pins just after 5:45 a.m.A few minutes later,an umbilical assembly for power and data was mated by remote control. No other crew interaction was required and data collection began almost immediately.&quot;And Houston, from the cupola, I've got some great news,&quot; Chamitoff radioed just before 6 a.m. &quot;The UMA mate is complete, AMS is now successfully installed. So huge congratulations to everyone on the AMS team. I'm sure Professor Ting and his group have been holding their breath. You guys can all start breathing again now.&quot;How it worksAMS is roughly cube shaped, measuring 15 feet wide, 11 feet tall and 10 feet deep, tipping the scales at 15,251 pounds. Using a powerful magnet to bend the trajectories of high-energy cosmic rays--charged particles from supernovas, neutron stars, black holes and other cosmic enigmas--scientists will look for evidence of antimatter and as-yet-undetected dark matter, believed to make up a quarter of the the universe.The AMS, on the end of the space station&amp;39's robot arm during the early stages of its move to the International Space Station Thursday.(Credit:NASA TV)AMS may even find evidence of strange particles made up of quarks in different arrangements than those found on Earth. Or something completely unexpected.The AMS &quot;really probes the foundations of modern physics,&quot; Ting said before launch. &quot;But to my collaborators and I, the most exciting objective of AMS is to probe the unknown, to search for phenomena which exist in nature but yet we have not the tools or the imagination to find.&quot;Built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and managed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the $2 billion AMS is an international collaboration between 16 nations, 60 institutes and some 600 physicists. Ting, a soft-spoken Chinese-American physicist who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, is a tireless advocate.One of the many mysteries AMS was designed to explore is what happened to the anti-matter that must have been created in the big bang. Scientists believe equal amounts of matter and anti-matter were produced, but for some reason the universe seen by humans is dominated by normal matter. Or at least the nearby universe.&quot;If the universe comes from a big bang, before the big bang it is vacuum,&quot; Ting told reporters recently. &quot;Nothing exists in vacuum. So in the beginning, you have (negatively charged) electron, you must have a (positively charged) positron so the charge is balanced. So you have matter, you must have antimatter, otherwise we would not have come from the vacuum.&quot;So now the universe is 14 billion years old, you have all of us, made out of matter. The question is, where is the universe made out of antimatter&quot;Dark matter, the mysterious, as-yet-undetected material believed to provide the glue--gravity--needed to hold galaxies and clusters of galaxies together, is believed to make up a quarter of the universe compared to the 4 percent made up of the normal matter familiar to human senses. The rest is believed to be in the form of dark energy, a repulsive force that appears to be speeding up the expansion of the universe.While AMS cannot directly detect dark matter, it can detect the particles that would be produced in dark matter collisions.Whatever AMS discovers, scientists will have plenty of data to work with. Some 25,000 particle detections per second are expected during normal operations<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nintendo 3DS microwaved in the name of insanity]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A Nintendo 3DS engulfed in flames. With all that&amp;39's wrong in the world, this is exactly what we need people to be doing with their time.(Credit:Kenny Irwin)Nintendo has a lot going for it right now, but none of that really matters to Microwave Theater host Kenny Irwin, who maniacally microwaves electronics and other miscellaneous objects.The latest victim is a mint aqua blue Nintendo 3DS, which is completely incinerated in a four-minute video that is beyond absurd.  After setting the microwave to full power, the $250 3DS takes about half a minute to explode and burst into flames. Be sure to turn down your volume after the 2:30 mark, as the narrator can't seem to contain his excitement at destroying the portable game console. After scraping off the burned remains with a spatula, he offers it for sale for nearly a thousand dollars. What a bargain.The only common sense found in the video is the warning that people should not attempt this at home.Irwin, a self-described artist, innovator, and inventor, has somehow marched on past 15 minutes of fame after we first got to know him in the microwaved iPad 3G video. His YouTube channel has ballooned to more than 14 million views and he even appeared on the Conan O'Brien show.I'm not sure if I'd leave my microwave alone in a room with this guy after listening to his banter.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[E-mail innovator pitches self-deleting e-mails]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[OtherInBox CEO Joshua Baer wants e-mail messages to carry with them the dates of their own deaths.(Credit:Rafe Needleman/CNET)MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Joshua Baer, CEO of the e-mail company OtherInBox, agitated for a new addition to e-mail standards at the Inbox Love e-mail conference today. He's proposing a standard that would let e-mail messages carry with them the date of their own irrelevance. E-mails could use the the &quot;x-expires&quot; header to tell the receiving in-box that they become outdated after a certain absolute date, or a certain time relative to when they're sent or received. Baer says this idea has been &quot;bouncing around&quot; for 10 years, but he's learned, &quot;the best way to get a standard adopted is to work with individual companies first, and make it a de facto standard.&quot; That's what he's trying to do here.  This concept could help keep users' e-mail boxes cleaner and more relevant. Offers for discounts on Valentines' Day flowers could automatically vanish on February 15. Companies that blast out time-limited coupons (Groupon, LivingSocial) could serve users better by removing expired offers from in-boxes.  Other messages that become unnecessary after a period of time, such as notifications of activity in groups, shipping notices from online retailers, or system alerts (like mailbox-full alerts, one hopes), that often clutter up in-boxes could clean themselves out.  Baer hopes that the audience members at this conference, all of whom are in the e-mail business, start supporting his proposal. In the meantime, he says, his own e-mail organizing service (which I use and recommend) will start watching for and honoring expiration flags in e-mails it processes.  There's a Google group for the proposal. See also this Reporters' Roundtable with Baer: Does e-mail get the message. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inside the Boeing 747-8 factory]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The first 747-8 Intercontinental that Boeing has built for its launch partner Lufthansa.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)EVERETT, Wash.--Boeing tomorrow will formally unveil the 747-8 Intercontinental, the next generation of the aviation giant's iconic jumbo jet. The plane is said to be perhaps the most fuel-efficient in the world, and replaces the 747-400 as the company's most famous jet.According to Boeing:The 747-8 Intercontinental is the only jetliner in the 400- to 500-seat market, stretched [18.3 ft] from the 747-400 to provide 467 seats in a three-class configuration and a [8,000 nautical mile] range. Using 787-technology engines, the airplane will be quieter, produce lower emissions, and achieve better fuel economy than any competing jetliner. The 747 Intercontinental will provide nearly equivalent trip costs and 13 percent lower seat-mile costs than the 747-400, plus 26 percent greater cargo volume...The 747-8 is more than 10 percent lighter per seat than the [Airbus] A380 and will consume 11 percent less fuel per passenger than the 555-seat airplane. That translates into a trip-cost reduction of 21 percent and a seat-mile cost reduction of more than 6 percent, compared to the A380.Boeing today hosted a media event at its huge assembly plant here, a building that is said to be the largest by volume in the world. The aviation press was able to get a very rare view of the assembly process for both the 747-8 freighter, which made its first flight a year ago, and the 747-8 Intercontinental.According to Elizabeth Lund, vice president and deputy 747 program manager, the 747-8 Intercontinental's first flight is expected sometime in early spring of this year, and its first customer delivery is expected sometime in the fourth quarter. Stay tuned as CNET brings you more from the weekend's 747-8 extravaganza, including a look at an interior mock-up of the plane, and the formal unveiling tomorrow.Where Boeing's next-gen 747-8 comes to life (photos) <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Chrome Apps: The Widget Economy Is&nbsp'Back]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With all this talk of a cloud-based Chrome OS, it&amp;'s time to take a cold hard look at what &amp;''apps&amp;'' in this brave new world will look like. I recall a time, not long ago, when Apple was about to change the world with Dashboards and before that Windows users had their own &amp;''widget economy.&amp;'' Then Yahoo! added widgets to the web and then Samsung added widgets to their TVs. And widgets appeared here, there, and everywhere. But do widgets beget moneyNo, because they are, by definition, useless as standalone products. Case in point: I just &amp;''downloaded&amp;'' the Netflix &amp;''app&amp;'' from the Google Chrome App Store and, to my great disappointment, it resulted in an additional widget in my toolbar and little else. When you click on it you see a top 100 list of Netflix movies. Also available is a list of top rentals, new instant and DVD-based movies, and genres. If you click on the Queue button you go to Netflix proper in your browser and if you click &amp;''play&amp;'' another window opens and asks you to update Silverlight. It&amp;'s more of a constant ad for Netflix than a real way to interact with the service.True, there are a few good widgets like Tweetdeck for Chrome (which one wag noted is just like the real Tweetdeck in that it  &amp;''crashed for no reason&amp;'') but a widget is not an app and I worry that the widget economy will overrun the Chrome App store before real apps can take hold.What is an app and what is a widget A widget is a way to view information. I compare it to a view or a form in a database &amp;8211' the data is there and the widget can show the data and do very little else with it. An app is a formal system with a process, a way to modify data, and has a clear reason to exist. A widget exists to offer a single piece or set of data quickly. The problem is that it&amp;'s easy to build widgets and it&amp;'s hard to build apps. Look at Chumby, for example. The Chumby is a widget machine that runs on a Linux core and includes a touchscreen. However, it does not have one clear purpose and, because of this, users have no idea what to do with it. I would say the vast majority of Chumby users plugged it in and forgot about it. My Chumby, sadly, collects only dust.But hidden in the periphery is an entire Chumby hacking community attempting to create real tools out of the Chumby&amp;'s component parts. This is where devices and OSes really shine &amp;8211' with the people dead set on making something useful. What needs to happen is this: folks like Netflix need to build XBox and Roku-like apps for Chrome and Chrome OS. This will allow users to browse, select, and watch movies from their browsers. The interfaces already exist so it&amp;'s not too hard and widgets like this simply get in the way of real, formal application development. In short, go big or go home, Netflix et al. Until then I&amp;'ll just keep using your web &amp;''apps&amp;'' on my &amp;''standalone OS&amp;'' machine. I may even fire up Dashboard once or twice this week, just to see how my old OS Xwidgets are doing.gallery-1 {margin: auto'}gallery-1 .gallery-item {float: left'margin-top: 10px'text-align: center'width: 33%'}gallery-1 img {border: 2px solid cfcfcf'}gallery-1 .gallery-caption {margin-left: 0'}<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[George Zachary: No bubble yet, but one&'s building]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For the past seven years, George Zachary has led Charles River Ventures&amp;' investments in a number of big firms, including Areae, Geni.com, GoTV, Millennial Media, Skyrider, SocialMedia Networks and (most notably) Twitter. He&amp;'s a man who can spot trends.In his keynote address at the Founder Showcase event in Silicon Valley at the beginning of the month, Zachery covered a variety of topics a4&quot; including his thoughts on the signs of another growing bubble. We&amp;'re not in one yet, he notes, but said one is building a4&quot; and the hiring of musician Will.i.amas Director of Creative Innovation at Intel is an ominous sign.Zachery also addressed the recent announcement by Russian investor Yuri Milner and Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway that they&amp;'d invest in every startup incubated by Y Combinator with no-cap, no discount convertible loans, terms that many believe could spoil deals for other tech investors. Zachery said this type of investing will not permeate the marketplace, because Zachery himself experienced a significant backlash when rolling out Charles River Ventures&amp;' similar QuickStart program a few years ago (which has since been changed).Zachery said there is a wave of capital available right now, and entrepreneurs need      to be taking advantage of it. The market is overcapitalized with &amp;''undifferentiated      money.&amp;''He      also discussed the most common pitching mistake he hears from almost every      entrepreneur he meets.The full 52-minute keynote is embedded below. Separately, the application deadlines for Founder Institute Spring Semesters are coming up soon in Berlin, San Diego, Paris, Brussels, Washington D.C. and New York City. Click here for more information.Founder Showcase: George Zachary Keynote from CRV from Founder Institute on Vimeo.Previous Story: Will Trion&amp;'s Rift be cataclysmic for World of WarCraftPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Venture CapitalCompanies: Charles River Ventures, TwitterPeople: George Zachary, Yuri Milner          Tags: Venture CapitalCompanies: Charles River Ventures, TwitterPeople: George Zachary, Yuri MilnerChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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