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Good to have you back! Whether you're here by accident, or because you're starting to like the weekly freeware picks, one of the three downloads below is sure to make a good asset. For the third week in a row, I've also found an app that suits the Mac user owning an iPhone too. But enough small talk. H... |
30 January 2009
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Nature appears to be slowed down by the coming of winter, which might make you think that scientists could also become a little lazy during this season. Well, you couldn't be farther from the truth, as nature keeps spoiling us with scientific treats. It all starts with the weather, which gets much colder. But th... |
4 December 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The memorable event that takes place on the Earth's poles, called aurora, is not only restricted to our planet. The Sun and the magnetic fields of other planets allow for it to occur in the different atmospheres of the latter as well, although it may look nothing like what we're accustomed to. In fact, they... |
24 November 2008
07:40 GMT |
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The Cassini probe found in Saturn's orbit has managed to depict yet another mystery of the ringed planet. The content of the most recent images that the spacecraft sent back to the Earth have startled experts again. The photographs unveiled a mysterious phenomenon occurring at the planet's northernmost lati... |
13 November 2008
05:32 GMT |
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NASA scientists have not yet forgotten the nasty surprise that the Sun had in store for us 5 years ago during this time of the year. As we’re passing this half-decade milestone, they recall how one of the most atrocious solar storms ever recorded – and definitely the most powerful one of modern times &nd... |
4 November 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora, the award-winning line of desktops manufactured by Alienware, a leading producer of high-performance notebooks, desktops and entertainment systems, are offered by the company with an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, considered to be the most powerful graphics card at the moment. The c... |
13 August 2008
03:10 GMT |
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It's semi-official. Atari isn't saying much, but developers are making it clear that Neverwinter Nights 2 is getting yet another expansion pack. It even has a separate discussion on the BioWare forums. Even more, it seems that the developers are already answering a lot of the questions regarding the game, w... |
11 June 2008
19:11 GMT |
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Boutique PC manufacturer has announced that it would introduce low-budget gaming systems based on AMD technology. According to the company, the first AMD-powered gaming rigs will hit the market within two weeks' time and will pack AMD quad-core processors and ATI graphics. The system manufacturer announced that ... |
13 May 2008
06:04 GMT |
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Boutique PC manufacturer Alienware has just announced a processor update for its Aurora gaming systems line-up. The new gaming rigs will come with AMD's Phenom 9850 flagship quad-core processor and will allow low-budget gamers get a professionally-built computing system for less than $1,000.The new Aurora deskto... |
17 April 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Because plasma is mostly composed of charged particles, such as electrons and ions, which have a global neutral charge, it is able to generate powerful magnetic fields, a very important feature if you ask a nuclear physicist working on the design of a nuclear fusion reactor. However, all good things must also have ba... |
31 January 2008
08:57 GMT |
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While analyzing 2004 satellite images of the poles above the Antarctic, researchers stumbled upon a new type of aurora. Better known are the conventional aurora borealis in the Arctic and aurora australis in the Antarctic, appearing like curtains of brightly colored light in the polar atmosphere. The light is emitted... |
8 November 2007
03:17 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar areas of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counter... |
25 June 2007
05:59 GMT |
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One of the most spectacular solar flares has been recorded on film with extreme details by the Japanese Hinode satellite and helped scientists see what's behind the colossal eruption.A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to a billion megatons, traveling norm... |
26 April 2007
02:51 GMT |
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Known as aurora borealis in northern latitudes (after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind) and as aurora australis in the South (australis meaning "of the South"), the beautiful lights in the sky are now known to be caused by the collision of charged particles (electrons), found in t... |
12 April 2007
08:58 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zones of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counte... |
30 March 2007
03:16 GMT |
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Dell and Alienware have introduced Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' 1TB hard drive as an option for consumers who want to buy a desktop system from the XPS, Aurora and Area-51 series of desktops. The previous offer regarding storage was Seagate's 750GB hard drive, now the second largest hard drive in th... |
15 March 2007
05:41 GMT |
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