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Pearl Jam fans from all over the US, listen to this: Verizon is offering free mobile bootleg recordings from the band's current US tour that started yesterday, June 11, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and will end on June 30, in Mansfield, Massachusetts. More exactly, during every one of the 12 concerts included in... |
12 June 2008
04:42 GMT |
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It is no longer a secret that the success enjoyed by Guitar Hero and Rock Band means, at the same time, an increase in the sales of the music artists featured in the games. However, it was still unsure whether the same thing happened in case new singles were involved: Motley Crue have decided to test that out and man... |
26 May 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Look at all this technology! Orbiters circling Mars, rovers running on the surface… But how many of them are able to say whether or not life was or is present on the Red Planet? None. Of course, the Beagle 2 probe carried by the Mars Express orbiter had such capabilities until contact was lost upon separation. Not mu... |
8 May 2008
09:31 GMT |
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It is the symbol of the American Southwest and western movies. But how old is the Grand Canyon? A new research suggests that it could have started to form during the dinosaur era.The over a mile (1.6 km) deep canyon in Arizona is the work of the Colorado River digging through ancient rock layers when the plateau of ... |
16 April 2008
03:05 GMT |
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United Kingdom-based notebook vendor Rock has just pulled the veil off a new, sleek ultra-portable notebook offering that resembles Apple's MacBook Air and Toshiba's Portégé R500. Called the Pegasus P210, the new laptop PC is quite a surprise, given the fact that Rock is mostly known for its huge, desktop-l... |
3 April 2008
08:43 GMT |
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs and basalt lava, persecuted Christians carved churches, monasteries and dwellings. Goreme National Park, with a surface of 9,576 hectares, is located in central Anatolia, between the volcanic mountains Hasan and Erciyes, in the Nevsehir Pro... |
20 March 2008
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On the evening of March 5, Wednesday, the Physics and Astronomy Department at Western Ontario University received a number of calls and e-mails from people claiming to have been a bright streak of light crossing the sky sometime around 10:59 p.m. EST. Luckily, the astronomy department is equipped with a network of al... |
8 March 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel has announced earlier this week world's first processor to feature two billion transistors on the die. Called "Tukwila", the chip is part of the Itanium family and has a thermal envelope of 170W.The members of Intel's Itanium team yesterday took the floor and came with further juicy ... |
8 February 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimati... |
8 February 2008
03:20 GMT |
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The ongoing International Solid State Circuits Conference unveiled some extremely juicy details about Intel's products and roadmap, and I'm sure that the party is far from being over. However, Intel may be an important guest, but let's not underestimate the other participants. Sun, for example is less ... |
5 February 2008
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Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier Nationa... |
4 February 2008
09:11 GMT |
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Hardcore computing specialist Rock has unveiled a new notebook in its Xtreme SL8 series of power laptops. The computer's central piece is the recently announced Nvidia GeForce 8800 SLI graphics card for notebooks, which is the highest graphics combination known to man and laptop.As if this was not enough, the sy... |
1 February 2008
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The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the '60s, when the proofs came from the ocean. Earth's external layer is called lithosphere. It is a rigid blanket with a thickness of about 100 km (62 mi). It includes both the oceanic platform and the continental crust, but also the u... |
23 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. You may believe that Mount Everest is the tallest in the world, with its 8,848 m (29,450 ft) in altitude. Yet, it was proven that the volcano Mauna Loa from Hawaii is taller by 2,300 m (7,660 ft), if we measure it from its base on the bottom of the ocean. 2. The mapping of the oceanic bottom revealed oceans are ex... |
18 January 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Calcareous rocks, like limestone and marble (a rock modified by heat and pressure), are made mainly by calcite, a mineral form of the calcium carbonate. The calcite is insoluble in pure water, but the rain water contains carbon dioxide, coming from air or soil, and forms a weak acid that react with the calcite, resul... |
14 January 2008
11:35 GMT |
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Ancient cities were usually located on main rivers whose waters were a source of food and sometimes protection. But on the northwestern extremity of the Arabian Desert there was a city renowned for its lack of water: Petra. In the arid areas of the Middle East the caravan routes connected cities located at great dist... |
12 December 2007
08:38 GMT |
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While most of the high-end desktop computer systems are now coming nowadays with HD DVD features, this is not the case on the mobile computing market as only a handful of products from several companies are able to field such claims. Such a product that comes with a HD DVD unit as a standard is the Xtreme 770 laptop ... |
6 October 2007
07:31 GMT |
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How did the Earth form? Astronomers have detected a "cooking" process for an Earth-like planet. The huge ring of hot dust surrounding a sun-size star 424 light-years away could be shaped into an Earth-like planet in a time period of maximum 100 million years.The team investigating the infrared light coming from the s... |
5 October 2007
05:51 GMT |
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As the mobile computer market segment is getting bigger and bigger, more hardware manufacturing companies and system integrators are readying themselves to step up and bring at least one notebook or laptop to consumers. One of the relatively small companies that are now thriving on the mobile computer market expansio... |
4 October 2007
08:56 GMT |
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Russian hunger for land and oil has not ended and now they back their claim on the North Pole with rock samples taken last month from the floor of the Arctic Ocean at the site of the North Pole, as announced by the Russian government. Stone analysis has revealed that the Lomonosov Ridge, a submarine structure spreadi... |
24 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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For those of you who don't know, Katie "KT" Tunstall is a celebrated Scottish rocker who made a name for herself in British music and got to be known in the States when American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee contacted her asking to use one of her most successful singles, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" as h... |
21 September 2007
09:48 GMT |
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There is currently an important controversy at NASA, concerning a mission that would return samples from Mars. While many NASA planetary scientists agree, in view of the huge scientific importance of the mission, some disagree, fearing that it will dry up money for other missions.The Mars Sample Return Mission would... |
27 July 2007
08:21 GMT |
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When speaking of rock'n'roll music, a few names pop up in mind, that have reached myth status. Such is the case of Elvis, Queen, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Unfortunately for die-hard rock and roll fans, only the Stones are still alive and kicking, touring and playing wherever they're required,... |
17 July 2007
11:25 GMT |
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From time to time, scientists get a little bit of help from Lady Luck and when this happens, they discover something amazing. This is exactly what happened after a forest fire more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.A group of geologists were forced to find alternative routes for their field trip, since the fir... |
16 July 2007
10:20 GMT |
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While early Europeans were decorating cave walls with paintings of bisons, aurochs and lions, 15,000 years ago the ancient Egyptians made similar rock face drawings and etchings. "It is not at all an exaggeration to call it 'Lascaux on the Nile,'" said expedition leader Dirk Huyge, curator of the Egyptian C... |
12 July 2007
02:49 GMT |
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New observations of the giant cosmic sponge orbiting Saturn suggest that it might contain all the right ingredients for life. If proven, this could mean that ideal conditions for the appearance of life are not so scarce and that what we thought to be a probabilistic oddity may in fact happen a lot more often.The gia... |
6 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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In Central Australia, at the eastern edge of the Gibson Desert, there is a sandstone horst, Ayers Rock, appreciated to be "the world's largest rock", rising 348 m (1,142 ft) over the desert plateau (its maximum height is of 863 m (2,831 ft)), with a circumference of 9.4 km (5.8 mi). This is what erosion left fro... |
15 June 2007
15:16 GMT |
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A gem and mineral dealer from Denver stumbled upon an extremely rare specimen of triplite gem, while exploring the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. The interesting thing is that he didn't find it in a private collection as a prized exhibit, instead it was used as a paper weight by a dealer, who wasn't ever awa... |
5 June 2007
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They did not even know what struck them, but a tsunami was what hit an England shore 400 years ago, bringing about the deadliest natural disaster in the British history. The massive flood on January 30, 1607 went over the Bristol Channel (southwestern England), submerging over 190 square miles (500 square km) of lan... |
9 May 2007
04:16 GMT |
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There are few cymbal-manufacturers in the world and even fewer of them are leading the markets. Sabian is a name that can battle at any time any of the other giants from the industry, like Paiste or Zildjian. Until little time ago, the HHX was one of the top series at Sabian... this hasn't changed but for better... |
12 April 2007
10:34 GMT |
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This one is for the metalheads: you know or at least have heard about the rock legends called Danzig. At least your girlfriends should know their frontman, Glen Danzig (I just know they've dreamt many times about an evening in his company...)Well, for the fans out there, a piece of nice music news: old and unrel... |
4 April 2007
11:43 GMT |
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It looks like making the sound sources "visually" disappear has become more and more a very serious preoccupation for manufacturers and designers alike during the last months/year. From simply inserting speakers and even subwoofers in walls to disguising sound in daily or even common objects such as books or coffers,... |
30 March 2007
03:47 GMT |
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If you are a guitar player, no matter whether you are a (semi)pro or simply a guitar enthusiast and if you like music (of any kind) then I should say you have at least heard about Dream Theater, the progressive rock legends. What has King Crimson meant some 30 years ago, Dream Theater mean today: excellence in what e... |
26 March 2007
09:39 GMT |
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