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Yahoo's Snazzy HTML5 Visualization Shows What Stories are Popular and with Whom

For some time now, Yahoo has used an algorithm to choose the news stories it shows on its homepage. It used to do it with human editors and there used to be just one homepage for everyone. Now, there are 13 million every day. Yahoo uses a wide variety of info to pick the stories that it serves to any visitor. Based ...

11 February 2012
06:31 GMT

THQ Reorganization Hits Australian and Japanese Divisions

Video game developer THQ has confirmed that layoffs have hit its Australian office and there are rumors that the division based in Japan might also be affected. An official statement says, “THQ confirms a reduction in force to the company’s administration and publishing organization.” It adds, &ld...

31 January 2012
02:21 GMT

Iron in Earth's Core Behaves Strangely

Iron is the most important element in our planet's core, that much is known. What is still a mystery is how it behaves under the extreme pressure and temperature levels inside Earth. Thanks to a new series of experiments, scientists now have a much deeper understanding of what is happening down there. One of t...

20 December 2011
05:35 GMT

Jupiter Destroys Part of Its Own Core

The largest and heaviest planet in our solar system is apparently well on its way to destroying its own core, a complex set of analyses has revealed recently. The most interesting implication of the new work is that the largest gas giant extrasolar planets may not have a core at all. Analyzing what goes on on Jupiter...

19 December 2011
08:06 GMT

Core Satellite Undergoes Centrifuge Testing

Engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center announce that the Core satellite has begun its centrifuge tests. The assessments are meant to determine if the spacecraft is capable of withstanding the conditions it will experience during launch and mission time. Core is part of the Global Precipitation Measurem...

20 October 2011
03:50 GMT

The Nintendo Wii U Can Break Down the Core versus Casual Debate

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed his own views on what the upcoming Nintendo Wii U home console can achieve, including breaking down the barrier currently existing between so-called core and casual gamers. Nintendo presented the Wii U at the E3 2011 conference back in June, showcasing to the world just...

1 September 2011
04:30 GMT

Understanding Earth's Main Heat Source

Heat emanating from within our planet is responsible for moving continents, generating new landmasses, destroying tectonic plates, and allowing for the existence of a defensive shield in the atmosphere. Now, a team of experts takes a closer look at Earth's primary heat source.In past investigations, geologists d...

18 July 2011
05:32 GMT

Moon's Core Just as Wet as Earth's Mantle

According to the conclusions of a new scientific report, it would appear that the interior of the Moon is equally as wet as Earth's. The discovery comes on the heels of another shocking finding, which indicates that the surface of our natural satellite may be as wet as the Sahara Desert. While this may not s...

27 May 2011
02:04 GMT

Fractal Design Delivers New Core PC Case

It appears that, unlike so many other companies that fell silent over the past week, Fractal Design came forth and announced a new addition to its product lineup, a certain PC case meant for consumers that like their systems large and massive.The past week seems to have been one of those times when the IT industry g...

4 February 2011
11:06 GMT

Nintendo 3DS Targets Core Gamers at Launch

The upcoming launch of the Nintendo 3DS handheld will be specifically targeted at hardcore fans of the Japanese company, as Nintendo is bringing in all of its big franchises in order to make the 3DS irresistible. In recent years, following the success of the Wii and DS consoles, core Nintendo fans have been saying...

26 January 2011
17:21 GMT

Magnetic Field Inside Earth's Core Measured

According to a new series of measurements, it would appear that the magnetic field inside our planet's core is about 50 times stronger than the one we can measure at its surface. This is the first time that such an investigation was conducted. A team of experts measured this planetary trait at a depth of no ...

18 December 2010
04:43 GMT

Shedding Light on the Evolution of Earth's Interior

A group of investigators at the Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is developing a new technique of producing highly-detailed, three-dimensional images of minute samples of material. The method works under extreme pressure conditions as well.The new effort, which experts believe could le...

17 December 2010
03:48 GMT

Copper Remains Show Earth's Past Magnetic Field Intensity

Scientists are currently constructing a new model to explain how the magnetic field generated by our planet looked and acted like during the Iron Age. This is done by analyzing artifacts produced by copper smelting during those days.The primary conclusion that experts derived from the research was that Earth had a mu...

16 December 2010
06:02 GMT

New 32nm Intel CPU Coming in Q1 2011, Six CPUs Get Cheaper

The new generation of Sandy Bridge processors is coming in fast, and while price cuts for existing CPUs may not be a very big oddity in such condition, Intel seems to also be preparing a new Pentium CPU based on the 32nm process.According to a report made by CPU World, the new line of CPUs with integrated graphics i...

18 October 2010
06:40 GMT

Intel Expands Mobile CPU Lineup

Coming to reinforce its dominance over the mobile market, Intel has revealed the existence of several new central processing units, four to be exact, all of which are dual-core models from the Core or Pentium series.Intel has dominated the CPU market for quite a while and was, until some time ago, the more or less o...

29 September 2010
02:42 GMT

Intel Mobile CPU Lineup Expanded

Apparently, while AMD is busy selling its new six-core and quad-core Phenom II central processing units, Intel is aiming for the mobile market, having unleashed several new Celeron and Core series dual-core models of up to 2.80 GHz.The new central processing units (CPUs) that Intel Corp. has, according to reports, u...

27 September 2010
05:12 GMT

Quad-Core Intel Core i5-760 CPU On Sale

Intel's Sandy Bridge series of central processing units was recently moved up, because the company's partners supposedly found it very promising. Apparently, the IT player revised its roadmap somewhat and will unveil the first chips before the year is out. This might goad some end-users into believing that ...

19 July 2010
02:38 GMT

Characterizing the Center of the Earth

For many years, science books have been presenting the areas underneath the surface of the Earth, the upper and lower mantles, and the core, as regions that are relatively homogeneous. However, experts know that this is as far from the truth as it gets. These planetary layers are actually riddled with all sorts of st...

12 May 2010
06:04 GMT

Earth's Core Is Regularly Stirred Up

Our planet is known to have a core, but not many people know that this central, molten region is also divided in two parts – the inner and outer cores. In a new scientific study, it was demonstrated that the outer core was indeed influenced by decade-long stirring motions, which kept it churning. This was hypot...

23 December 2009
07:03 GMT

Debates Rage on over Earth's Magnetic Field

More than 400 years ago, a debate started in the scientific community, which was seeking to uncover the answer to the question “What generated our planet's magnetic field and magnetosphere?.” The latter is the only thing that prevents all life on Earth from being annihilated in an instant, due to mas...

25 June 2009
05:46 GMT

Mantle 'Hot Spots' Move Beneath the Crust

According to scientists, mantle plumes are stretches of enormously hot rocks that can be found in the Earth's mantle. They come from tremendous depths, and some hypothesize that a few of the mantles originate from parts very close to the planet's core. The hot rocks are responsible for a lot of features on ...

6 April 2009
03:51 GMT

The Internet Will Double in Size Every 5.32 Years

Moore's Law was first used to predict the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit, and argued that their number would grow exponentially over time. Indeed, current trends show that twice as many transistors can be placed on the same circuit in an interval of approximately 18 months. Now, newl...

15 January 2009
03:10 GMT

New Model Suggests Earth Has Two Inner Cores

A new geological theory gives rise to the belief that our planet has two inner cores instead of one, as scientists believed until now. That's not to say that the new theory proved correct. In fact, it's very difficult to say what exactly lies at the center of the Earth, as studying the region is nearly impo...

7 January 2009
13:01 GMT

The Moon Could Be Earth's Offspring

Not long ago, when humans visited the Moon, there were still many theories related to the way it formed, but soon they were ruled out, one by one. For instance, one stated that it formed, like the Earth, from the accretion of space dust into increasingly larger lumps, another stated that it was born in a di...

12 December 2008
04:31 GMT

Jupiter's Core Is at Least Twice Larger

A new research performed by a team of geophysicists from the University of California in Berkeley, led by Burkhard Militzer, concluded that the rocky core of the giant gaseous planet in the middle of our solar system is at least twice bigger than previously indicated by computer simulations and studies. The main focu...

26 November 2008
04:56 GMT

Early Planets Had a Short, Agitated Life

A recent study sheds new light on the early years of the solar system, and comes to indicate that its whole evolution must be reconsidered. According to the findings, during the first 3 million years, the system was full of miniature planets, called planetesimals, that sported tiny molten cores and solid crusts, and ...

31 October 2008
05:31 GMT

Planetary Cores as a Future Source of Energy

A group of experts from all over the world have used powerful laser technology to recreate the extreme conditions inside planetary cores or stellar surfaces. Besides the obvious consequence that this study may have on the general comprehension of the formation and evolution of the solar system and, ultimately, the un...

24 October 2008
13:41 GMT

Geomagnetic Poles Stay in Place on 12.21.2012

The fatidic date of December 21, 2012 was linked by many to the drastic decrease in strength of our planet's magnetic field and to the complete reversal of its poles. This would leave Earth undefended against solar radiation, as well as force our satellites down from their orbit, wrecking the GPS system, further...

6 October 2008
04:15 GMT

Stars' Birth Rate Hard to Determine

Since the distance between space's bodies is so enormous, astronomers have very hard times counting and measuring all the newly-emerging stars. That's why the H-alpha characteristic signal emitted by the new stars comes as a blessing for those who detect them by telescope. The amount of such rays emitted fr...

2 October 2008
09:53 GMT

CORE Release Date Announced

Classic first person shooter action, single- and multiplayer modes plus tons of fun: that is what CORE promises to bring exclusively on the Nintnedo DS. The game is the debut project from developer NoWay Studio and it will be released in October 2008, just before the Christmas sales.In the game, you take the role of ...

14 August 2008
02:23 GMT

Mercury Got Smaller Still

Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, but one thing is certain: it wasn't always this small. At least, that's what the data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft during the beginning of this year reveals. In the early history of the solar system, when Mercury was much warmer than it is...

5 July 2008
04:56 GMT

Planet's Magnetic Field Varies Much Faster Than Expected

It is widely known that the Earth's magnetic field is varying in strength periodically and has reversed poles several hundred times in the past 4.6 billion years, since our planet exists. However, new measurements show that the changes take place much more rapidly than is has been previously predicted, especiall...

1 July 2008
06:09 GMT

CORE Shooter Comes to Nintendo DS

Polish developers NoWay Studio have decided to bring the first person shooting action to the Nintendo DS, so they have started to work on CORE, which promises to become instantly familiar to all those who love classic FPS games - single player and team based. At the moment, we only have some really good looking conce...

23 May 2008
02:47 GMT

Deep Inside the Core of Windows 7

Microsoft did officially confirm Windows 7's delivery in 2010, but additional details on the next version of the Windows operating system are scarce to say the least, as the project is built under the watchful eye of Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. In 2007, one...

1 April 2008
09:56 GMT

Earth Could Have Had a Magma Ocean

Recently an alternative theory designed to contest the notion that Earth's mantle, the layer between the outer crust and the inner core, might have been solid, suggests that instead it could have consisted of a thick magma 'ocean', slowly flowing beneath the surface.Evidence collected from seismic even...

6 December 2007
03:47 GMT

HardCore Extreme Sports PC: Powered by Suunto!

Gizmag has found out about the new addition on Suunto's portfolio. The company is known in the industry as an xtreme sports instrument specialist. They have recently added the Suunto Core to its cool range of outdoor wristop PCs. The Core device was soon labeled as the "total timepiece for the hardcore outdoor e...

24 October 2007
03:00 GMT

No More Xbox 360 Core for You!

Don't panic... or panic, if you've been saving enough cash to buy the ordinary Xbox 360 Core package. Gamespot and Kotaku have caught wind of the newest rule that applies to game stores: "Don't say a word about the Core pack". It seems that the stock is gone, although I've just seen one of these ...

1 October 2007
04:02 GMT

KateOS 3.6 Has Been Released

The 3.6 version of KateOS is now available, after the development team worked for no less than eight months. It is developed independently and free of charge as a light-weight Linux (based on Slackware) distribution targeting the intermediate Unix users by combining popular Open Source software with its own original ...

18 September 2007
10:22 GMT

AMD Says They're Late to The Party

While Intel chose the shortest route to quad core processors by putting two dual core CPUs side by side on the same piece of silicon, AMD took the longer route to a true native quad core design that in theory should give their Barcelona and Phenom processing units a big performance advantage. The downside of this app...

21 August 2007
09:52 GMT

New Xbox 360 After Current Hardware Stocks Deplete

You don't even know what to believe these days. Rumors take all possible shapes, but when we're talking about the games market and gaming hardware, they sometimes tend to be overstretched. This time however, a rumor about Microsoft prepping to launch new Core and Premium Xbox 360 models, enabled with HDMI o...

8 August 2007
09:09 GMT

Intel's Next Generation CPUs Revealed

AMD will soon launch its Barcelona quad core processors and Intel will follow after a few months with a new family of processors named Penryn. Based on the 45nm technological process, the processors using the Core 2 micro architecture and the quad core design are gathered into a single family generically named Penryn...

6 August 2007
06:59 GMT

Could Milky Way Have a Mysterious Second Black Hole at Its Heart?

A new astronomical theory could change the established knowledge about our own galaxy and its center. Supermassive black holes are currently thought to exist at the center of most galaxies, including Milky Way. But what if for a second, invisible black holes were to exist at the center of our galaxy, besides the one...

24 July 2007
03:34 GMT

Scientists Discovered That Mars and Earth Are Also Different to the Core

Mars and Earth are now different on the surface, but recent discoveries support the idea that the Red Planet was once similar to our world, having an atmosphere and possibly even water. A new discovery shows that, although somewhat similar on the outside, the two planets are really very different to the core.The re...

29 June 2007
10:53 GMT

Mars' Molten Core Will Solidify

Mars' surface is a frozen wasteland composed primarily of basalt and full of craters. Much of the surface is deeply covered by a fine iron(III) oxide dust that has the consistency of talcum powder. The planet has no intrinsic magnetic field, even though parts of the planet's crust have been magnetized.But ...

1 June 2007
02:54 GMT

Milky Way's Core Shoots Stars Our Way

A strange thing happens at the very core of our galaxy. It seems that a spinning bar of material may be throwing nearby stars outwards as it rotates and most of them are heading towards our solar system. Fortunately, none of these stars has any chance of actually reaching us.A team of researchers led by Thomas Bensb...

31 May 2007
09:28 GMT

How Do Extreme Temperatures and Pressures Inside a Planet Affect It and Its Life?

Recently, a team of researchers have been able to recreate the extreme conditions of pressure and temperature found inside our planet to understand how it is forming and evolving. The exotic high pressure inner world may be a window to understand a variety of problems in planetary science.In a workshop entitled Syn...

22 May 2007
04:21 GMT

Sun's Core Rotates Slower Than Previously Thought

It seems that the solar core rotation is slower than previous theories suggested.The core of the Sun is extending from the center to about 0.2 of the solar radius, and it's the hottest and most dense part of the Sun, having a temperature of 15 million Kelvins (the surface only has 6 000 K) and a density 150 ti...

7 May 2007
03:07 GMT

Gamestop Readies Trade-In for Xbox 360 Elite Release

Now that the Elite's on its way, with that elusive 120 gig hard drive, HDMI enabled and having IPTV capabilities, you might just want to trade in your old Xbox or Xbox 360 (any SKU), for the black cased system from Microsoft. However, I'm not so sure how people are going to do just that if they have preciou...

17 April 2007
05:52 GMT

Advanced CPU Utility

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. (Gertrude Stein)". Finding information about something has never been easier. With a computer and an Internet connection, you can find answers about everything and this happens in seconds (depending on the connection speed). But with ...

13 April 2007
15:53 GMT

Fedora Core 6 Post-Install Guide

You've just installed Fedora Core 6, now what? Well, there isn't a straight guide everyone should use after installing Fedora or any other operating system. Everyone should configure and install additional applications based on their needs and wishes. However, there are a few steps it's recommended to ...

27 March 2007
06:15 GMT


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