Archive for April, 2008
Oil Painting ‘Originated in East’
by Vincent Dowd - BBCNews.com
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Painting with oils was taking place in what is now Afghanistan centuries before such techniques were known to Europeans, researchers say.
French-based scientists have been investigating cave paintings at the ancient complex of Bamiyan.
Until 2001 two vast 6th-Century Buddhas stood at Bamiyan. Then they were […]
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Apple Hopes To Kill Psystar’s $399 Mac
by Jason Mick - DailyTech
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Steve Jobs and Apple are not fans of cheaper Mac clones
The numbers look too good to be true for Apple Inc.’s Mac followers — A 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of DDR2 667 memory, a 250 GB hard drive, DVD, and Integrated Intel […]
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NASA to 13-year-old German Boy: Neener Neener Neener
by Shane McGlaun - DailyTech
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NASA says it’s right and German boy is wrong — threatens to tell mom.
13-year-old German schoolboy Nico Marquardt grabbed worldwide headlines when he wrote a paper for a school project about the Apophis asteroid that NASA has been tracking refuting NASA’s impact predictions. Apophis has an […]
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Western Digital Goes Full Bore With 300GB VelociRaptor
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech
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Western Digital takes the fight to SSDs with next generation VelociRaptor.
With all of the talk these days in the storage industry swirling around solid-state drives (SSDs), it’s easy to forget that advances are being made in the hard disk drive (HDD) market as well for consumers. […]
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ASUS is Quickly Getting Away From Its Roots With The Eee PC
by Brandon Hill - Daily Tech
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More features means more $$$
It may seem like ages ago now, but when ASUS first announced the original Eee PC 701 4G in June 2007, it promised a retail price of $199. Many people were skeptical of such a low price and they were right […]
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What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?
by Science Daily
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Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such […]
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Early Elephant ‘Was Amphibious’
by Science Daily
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The scientists were investigating the lifestyle of two early elephants (proboscideans) Moeritherium and Barytherium that lived in the Eocene period, over 37 million years ago. By analysing isotopes in tooth enamel from Moeritherium they were able to deduce that it was very likely a semi-aquatic mammal, spending its […]
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