Archive for April, 2008
NY Tower Plans Found in Rubbish
by BBC News
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A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York’s new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin.
Mike Fleming handed the documents - marked “Secure Document - Confidential” in to the New York Post newspaper.
The Freedom Tower is being built at Ground Zero, to […]
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AMD Posts $358M Loss for Q1, Announces Plans to Restructure
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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AMD announces plans to toss out its dead weight.
The news coming out of AMD hasn’t been on the most positive note in the past few weeks. The company announced in early April that it will cut 1,600 jobs by the end of 2008 representing 10% […]
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Corporate Giants Warm to Cutting-Edge Art
by Clara Ferreira-Marques - Mindfood
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The corporate environment is changing, with lobbies and offices decorated with with new - and much cheaper - pieces of contemporary art.
Walk into any lobby in London’s financial heart and the change is clear: the City’s giants have dropped the Old Masters and are embracing contemporary […]
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First Lungless Frog Found
by John Roach - National Geographic News
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The first recorded species of frog that breathes without lungs has been found in a clear, cold-water stream on the island of Borneo in Indonesia.
The frog, named Barbourula kalimantanensis, gets all its oxygen through its skin.
“Nobody knew about the lunglessness before […]
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‘Extinct’ Elephant May Have Been Found Again — on a Different Island
by ScienceBlog.com
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The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an article co-authored by World Wildlife Fund […]
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Nano Switch Hint at Future Chips
by Darren Waters - BBC News
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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor - one atom thick and 10 atoms wide - out of a material that could one day replace silicon.
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four years […]
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Willcom Shows Off First Production Atom Device
by Brandon Hill - DailyTech.com
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Willcom’s D4 WSO16SH sports a 1.33GHz Intel Atom processor.
Intel’s Atom processors were officially announced in March and garnered great interest from mobile professionals around the globe. Intel promises that its Silverthorne-based Atom processors — destined for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) — will feature TDPs ranging from […]
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