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Beta for Adobe Flash Player 11.3 and AIR 3.3 Released

The feature list announced in this release for the upcoming stable version of Flash Player 11.3 is quite impressive. It includes full screen keyboard input for Flash Player, low latency audio support for streaming audio, as well as protected mode for Firefox (on Windows). The current beta boasts important traits, to...

6 April 2012
05:01 GMT

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Available for Download

Adobe released the stable version for build 11.2 of their Flash Player. As far as the highlights are concerned, the new release announces premium features for gaming, and a collaboration with Unity Technologies. This allows Unity customers to publish web-based 3D games in Flash Player using the premium features for ...

28 March 2012
03:28 GMT

Adobe AIR 3.2 Release Candidate Available

Adobe has launched the release candidate for AIR 3.2, which introduces Stage3D hardware accelerated rendering for mobile devices running iOS and Android. Besides enabling hardware accelerated cinematic, the Stage3D API also allows for high-performance 2D and 3D graphics, with games being able to run at 60 frames per...

27 February 2012
02:37 GMT

Origami Robots Could Be Used in Delicate Operations

Materials scientists at the Harvard University envision sets of paper robots that could be used during surgery, in situations where a more delicate touch is needed. They say that air could be used to fold the paper robots like origami. The resulting structures would be able to lift 120 times their own weight. Accor...

13 February 2012
14:01 GMT

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 Beta 5

Adobe rolled out a new beta for Flash Player and AIR products. This is the fifth and last beta before making available the final release. Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197 and AIR 3.2.0.1830 do not usher new features, but instead concentrate on bug fixing and improving performance and stability as well as device compa...

1 February 2012
08:48 GMT

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 Beta 4 Available for Download

Adobe released a new beta for both Flash Player 11.2 and AIR Runtime 3.2. Besides bug fixing and smoothing out the edges, specific to beta development, the new builds also feature new stuff. When possible, content using direct mode for Flash Player or “renderMode=direct” for AIR, Stage3D and StageVideo i...

20 January 2012
04:09 GMT

Galaxy Nexus Tastes Adobe Flash Player 11.1 in December

When made available for purchase, the Galaxy Nexus featured no Adobe Flash Player, which proved to be a deal breaker for many users, but it seems that things will turn out for the better soon. As soon as next month, Adobe will provide an update for its Flash Player to offer support for Samsung’s new Galaxy N...

29 November 2011
02:55 GMT

Download Adobe Flash Player 11.1 and AIR 3.1

Unlike the previous versions of Flash and AIR, which were highly anticipated for introducing cinematic 2D and 3D hardware accelerated graphics of Stage 3D, the current releases focus mostly on plugging security holes and fixing bugs. Security-wise, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 takes care of critical vulnerabilitie...

11 November 2011
05:24 GMT

Water-Air Interface Is Extremely Thin

The question of where water stops and where air begins is a very old, and difficult-to-answer one. Experts have been trying to do so for years, and now it would appear that they finally have an answer. The layer separating the two is as thin as the distance between two atoms in a hydrogen molecules. At the topmost la...

13 June 2011
08:09 GMT

Pollutants from Burning Wood Threaten Public Health

The smoke released from fireplaces and wood-burning stoves poses a significant health risk for the general population, say researchers who've recently had a chance to investigate the smoke's effects.The team behind the new work says that a large number of people is using fireplaces and stoves to ward off wi...

7 February 2011
05:21 GMT

Electrical Air – New Alternative Energy Source

The air is loaded with electricity, so if scientists manage to collect it, it should be the newest alternative energy source.Just like solar cells capture sunlight, a device that captures electricity from the air should be able to transform it so that it can light a house or recharge an electric car, and scientists a...

26 August 2010
04:14 GMT

Fuel Cells Rely Only on Water and Air

In a finding that could innovate the field of small electronic devices, experts recently created a new type of fuel cells that only need water and a warm breeze to function. The German research team behind the investigation says that possible applications for their energy-storage device could include powering up smal...

28 April 2010
10:57 GMT

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 for Android Enter Private Beta

Adobe has just announced that it has begun beta-testing the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 for Android. The two pieces of software are in private testing for now, but the betas will be opened up to the public at some point. Adobe couldn't specify a precise date for the public betas. At the same time, ...

19 April 2010
05:58 GMT

Adobe Announces AIR for Mobile Phones

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced today at the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona that it had made new advancements with its Adobe Flash Platform for mobile phones, and that one of them was the release of Adobe AIR for such handsets. According to the company, the new solution comes as a feature-rich environm...

15 February 2010
04:44 GMT

Skin Can Apparently Influence Hearing

Scientists know that the human brain is far from being decoded, and as such remains one of the most mysterious constructs in nature today. But they had no idea that it also processed impulses from the skin, when transforming electrical signals from the ears into the auditory sensation. Though that might seem improbab...

26 November 2009
15:01 GMT

Adobe AIR 2.0 to Add Multitouch Support and Significantly Improve Memory Use

Adobe is betting hard on its AIR platform and despite being far less popular than some of Adobe's other technologies, certainly nothing like Flash, it is beginning to see more traction as it's becoming more popular with developers. And now developers and users have something to look forward to with AIR 2.0 ...

31 October 2009
07:02 GMT

New, Bladeless Fan Uses 'Air Multiplier' Technology

Everyone is accustomed to fans consisting of a motor and blades, which, through their circular motion and their shapes, suck up air from behind them and push it forward. But now, British inventor James Dyson, the same man that created the vacuums that bear his name, has created a new, groundbreaking type of fan, whic...

14 October 2009
05:21 GMT

Flash 10 and Adobe AIR - Record Installations

The Adobe MAX in Japan on January 28, 2009 gave the company an ample opportunity to applaud record installation milestones for its technologies. In this context, Adobe indicated that Adobe Flash Player 10 has now been installed on over 55% of the world's computers, this after just a couple of months since the so...

29 January 2009
09:53 GMT

Adobe Releases Stable Version of AIR for Linux

Adobe announced last evening the final release of Adobe AIR for Linux, a new technology that allows AIR applications to be deployed on computers and devices powered by the Linux operating system. This first stable version, Adobe AIR 1.5, gets injected with support for custom effects and filters, extensible rich text ...

19 December 2008
01:29 GMT

Adobe Media Player 1.6 (Beta) Available – Download Here

Adobe Systems has released a new version of its Media Player, Adobe Media Player 1.6 Beta. The new release is immediately available for free download, and requires Adobe AIR Runtime to work. Adobe Media Player is built on Adobe AIR technology. AIR is built on Flash, a client environment for running rich media applica...

5 December 2008
06:00 GMT

ISS Tests Air Quality Sensor

Here, on Earth, bad air is not that much of a problem on a small scale, since one can always open a window to let fresh air in, or move to a different location in case the city's polluted air poses any threat to one's health. Unfortunately, astronauts aboard the International Space Station or those involved...

24 November 2008
02:40 GMT

Prepare Yourselves for Air Cars

Carbon dioxide emission gets a new bump from the vehicle industry that takes a major step into adding air among the alternative sources of fuel. Based on the idea of Guy Negre, founder and CEO of Luxembourg and France-based MDI SA company, who invented the car and had it developed in his French factories, the America...

4 November 2008
09:16 GMT

Mach 1.4 Attained by a Car

The Bloodhound SSC (Supersonic car) is currently in the making at the Swansea University, and will apparently be ready by 2011. It will attempt to break the barrier of 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h), while also taking down the previous record held by a land vehicle (763 mph or 1,228 km/h, established by Thrust SSC on October...

24 October 2008
14:01 GMT

How Turbochargers Work

A turbocharger is a force-induced system used to enhance the mass of air entering the combustion chamber of a typical internal combustion engine. Basically, a turbocharger is a compressor that, by forcing more air into the cylinder, enables an increase in the amount of used fuel, so that more explosion power is gener...

12 July 2008
06:22 GMT

How Breathalyzers Work

I'm going to make this easy and simply say that a breathalyzer is a drunk driver's worst nightmare. You might have seen one on television, used on a person or even on you, but how does it work? A breathalyzer is a simple device used by law enforcements to determine whether or not a person driving a certain ...

9 July 2008
07:36 GMT

Ozone Pollution Shortens People's Life

Up into the stratosphere, the ozone layer protects life on Earth by reflecting harmful UV light. But in the troposphere (lower atmosphere), another ozone story takes place. Short-term exposure to current ozone concentrations seems to kill people earlier, as signaled by a new National Research Council report. Ozone is...

23 April 2008
14:06 GMT

How Air Purifiers Work

Although air purifiers have well developed industry around them and are generally required by patients suffering of asthma and allergies, scientific studies often show that most of these devices are not working correctly, and can in fact cause more harm than good. It may seem obvious at first, but air inside a typica...

22 April 2008
08:04 GMT

The Earth Like an Electric Circuit

Electric energy is crucial for Earth and its cycles. The Globe is like a huge electric circuit. The Ionosphere layer of the atmosphere is positively charged and the Earth is negatively charged. The difference is of about 250,000 volts. If we could make the connection, through a conductor, between Earth and Ionosphere...

8 April 2008
10:48 GMT

AIR: the Asus Internet Radio

Even though Asus is a brand commonly associated with the utmost technological breakthroughs, especially in the field of computing, it looks like it's not nearly enough to make them stay aside when it comes to truly nifty gear. The Asus Internet Radio, codenamed AIR, is the strongest proof that their engineers an...

8 April 2008
10:13 GMT

TSA Guys Couldn't Believe the Air was a Laptop

We've often heard of blokes in uniforms becoming highly suspicious when encountering new tech. It is the case of one guy who missed his flight for carrying an Apple MacBook Air. What the TSA found particularly strange when he rolled it on the conveyor belt was that the laptop featured no drive and no visible por...

10 March 2008
11:58 GMT

Steve Jobs Flies a Lot Lately. Could Mean Stuff

Ever thought to look at Steve Jobs' flying bills for clues to how the company is doing and what its plans are? Well, Kathryn Huberty (Morgan Stanley analyst) did, and she believes that Steve Jobs' recent jet trips may indicate that we're in for a big announcement on behalf of Cupertino's most well...

27 February 2008
07:20 GMT

Adobe AIR Is Going to Make Linux Breathe

Adobe Systems is thinking about Linux users too! The company wants to extend its AIR - Adobe Integrated Runtime - software to Linux later this year. The first stable version - 1.0 - was released a few days ago, only for Windows and Mac platforms.AIR was known at first as Apollo, and is a runtime that enables rich Int...

26 February 2008
08:38 GMT

Massive Aerial Meteorite Explosion Over The Northwestern US

The U.S. Pacific Northwest has just experienced an atmospheric meteorite explosion on Tuesday morning. Richard Pugh, a scientist at the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory of Portland State University in Oregon, said that the lucky ones could find marble to basketball size space rocks in eastern Oregon. The event was witn...

22 February 2008
04:59 GMT

MacBook Nano - Too Good to Be True

It is surreal, as in Not Real, OK? Forget about it! Not gonna happen! If You're asking "where can I preorder this?" (as "bump" wrote on flickr.com) the answer is God! Ask God and maybe, just maybe, He can squeeze an optical drive in that delicious, slick, streamlined, sharp piece of fake Apple device.Don't ...

19 February 2008
06:19 GMT

Air Contamination Causes Sperm Mutations!

Air contamination is bad for our health, that is clear: it causes an array of respiratory diseases, from asthma to lung cancer, if chronic. But a new research published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows it may hit where men are most hurt: their fertility. Mice living in areas with pollute...

4 February 2008
14:06 GMT

What Is a Tweel?

If you ever had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, no spare and waited for more than two hours for someone to come and rescue you, then you might consider throwing the car's wheels right to the garbage container and buy yourself a pair of tweels. Unless you want to be a wise guy and buy an additional spare ti...

29 January 2008
08:37 GMT

12 Amazing Facts About Atmosphere

1.The Earth is wrapped in a layer of gas called atmosphere. Atmosphere is tied to Earth by gravitation, so that it cannot disperse in the space. It is 500 km (300 mi) thick, being made of a mix of about 10 gases, called air. The air is made by nitrogen (78 %), oxygen (21 %) and other gases (argon, carbon dioxide, he...

14 January 2008
16:26 GMT

The New Air-Compressed Car: 200 Km (125 mi) with Just $ 2 (1.5 Euro)!

We are in the middle of a dreadful global warming that could melt all the Arctic glaciers by the middle of this century. Humankind is in a struggle to find all kind of technologies reducing the emissions of greenhouse effect gases. And one of the main emitters of these gases are cars. Sun-powered cars would emit no p...

7 January 2008
02:50 GMT

How Can Vacuum Cleaners Affect Your Health?

It is clear that vacuum cleaners have saved us from a lot of effort and time wasted on cleaning our houses. Still, some researches have demonstrated that using this electric appliance too much can decrease the quality of the air we breathe. It appears that the vacuum cleaner expels to the environment particles and mi...

27 September 2007
07:15 GMT

What's the Cold Drop?

Your friends have told you a lot about their holidays in sunny Spain. What could you want more: sun, warm weather, booze and sexy girls. But when you get there, you may have the surprise of seeing snowed palms in Barcelona and wonder where did you leave the Eskimo suit. You have arrived in the middle of the "La Gota ...

1 August 2007
15:16 GMT

How to Replace Air Conditioners with Ice - NYC Buildings Are Doing It

Ice has long been valued as a means of cooling, before the invention of air conditioning units. Although the latter are more efficient, they also cause pollution and eat up massive amounts of electricity, which is mostly produced by burning coal and oil, which also pollute the environment.Some office towers and buil...

25 July 2007
03:36 GMT

How to Free Dive Till Depths of 150 m (500 ft)

In the first 9 months of our lives, we live like aquatic beings in the womb of the mother. But that's all. After that, the water environment is forbidden for us: we can swim at the surface, but less under water. One famous and remarkable example (but not the only one) are the famous Japanese ama woman divers. Am...

6 July 2007
15:16 GMT

How to Avoid Being Struck by Lightning

You've probably heard than when a lightning storm catches you on open ground, you shouldn't take cover under a tree. That's true. Since lighting often strikes the highest spot in an area, ducking below a tall tree is definitely not a good idea, since you'll probably be struck in the same time.If ...

25 June 2007
10:10 GMT

Solar Powered Air Conditioning

Air conditioning appliances work by cooling and often dehumidifying the indoor air, typically through refrigeration. Unfortunately, some of these appliances are huge energy consumers that also contribute to air pollution through emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases.A company is providing an alternative way of b...

18 June 2007
09:02 GMT

Why Ghosts Can't Go Through Walls...and More - Scientific Arguments

Hollywood movies are full of monsters, bad guys, aliens and mythological creatures, which make the good guys look better after saving the world, or at least some damsel in distress. While some depictions are scientifically documented, some of them are just plain impossible and could only exist in people's imagi...

26 May 2007
09:01 GMT

Making Houses From Fly Ash Bricks

A new discovery shows that bricks made from fly ash are very stable and much safer than initially thought. When they were first discovered, many theorized that these special bricks would leak small amounts of mercury into the atmosphere, thus posing a major threat for humans.A team of researchers, led by Henry Liu, ...

23 May 2007
06:31 GMT


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