Free Pearl Jam Songs Offered by Verizon
	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 the tour, Verizon will record three tracks performed live by Pearl Jam. After each show, one of these tracks w ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Games Sell Music Better
	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 sa ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Beagle 2 Could Have Settled the Argument of 'Life on Mars'
	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 much is known about the whereabouts of the Beagle 2 probe, but the general belief is that either it was destroyed by the impact ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Grand Canyon May Have Appeared During the Time of the Dinosaurs
	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 the canyon was uplifted. This started millions of years ago. One research published one month ago dated this to ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rock Unveils 12-Inch MacBook Air-Lookalike
	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-like semi-mobile systems. You might remember the ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A World's Wonder: Rock Carved Cities
	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 Province, 83 km (52 mi) off Nigde. In the volcanic rocks, erosion carved mighty shapes protected by the basalt cov ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Search for Elusive Meteorite Begins Now!
	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 all-sky cameras specially designed to scan the night sky for evidence of falling meteors, thus becoming the only astronomical i ... [read more >>]
	08 March 2008, 03:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel's Tukwilla Comes With 30MB of Cache
	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 details regarding the biggest processor ever built. Tukwila is built on the 65-nanometer process and ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 04:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sun's Rock Processor Gets Delayed For Additional Testing
	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 estimations claimed that the ship will be available for the second half of 2008. "Rock is an entirely new design an ... [read more >>]
	08 February 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sun's 16-Core Hot Rock Processor, Stripped Down
	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 acclaimed than Intel, yet its new SPARC processor is as heavy and as powerful as ... [read more >>]
	05 February 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The American Chamois is White: Mountain Goat
	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 National Park (Montana) and Olympic Mountains (Washington), places in which they were transferred and quickly adapted. ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rock to Unveil Quad-Core, 8800 SLI Notebook
	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 system is built around an extremely unusual quad-core processor. You would have expected to find a Penryn incarna ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the Ocean Expand?
	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 upper part of the mantle, the layer located under the crust. Between the crust and the mantle, the Mohorovici (Moho) discontin ... [read more >>]
	23 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

8 Amazing Things About the Bottom of the Oceans
	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 expanding. The Atlantic, for example, grows by 2.5 cm (1 in) annually in the area of its median dorsal. In other ... [read more >>]
	18 January 2008, 07:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Most Spectacular Landscape: Calcareous Rocks
	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, resulting a soluble salt, calcium bicarbonate, which is transported as a solution. Another trait of the calcareous rocks is ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Petra, the Ancient City Built in Stone
	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 distances from each other. But camels, despite their extraordinary resistance, require halts for drinking. 2,000 years ago, Petra ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 08:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Rock Xtreme 770 Laptop Comes With HD DVD
	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 built by the Rock company to be the ultimate gaming and multimedia supporting machine. The Rock Xtreme 770 mobil ... [read more >>]
	06 October 2007, 07:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Formation of an Earth-like Planet Detected!
	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 star HD 113766 found a belt of dust and probably rock, the key raw materials necessary to create a pla ... [read more >>]
	05 October 2007, 05:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rock Notebook Featuring HD DVD Capabilities
	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 expansion is Rock, a laptop and notebook manufacturing outfit that now brings a line of product offerings that boast the latest in co ... [read more >>]
	04 October 2007, 08:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Russia Backs Its Claim of the North Pole with Rock Analysis
	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 spreading across the Arctic Ocean beneath the pole, is linked geologically to the Siberian platform. Based on the international ... [read more >>]
	24 September 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Amy Winehouse "better known for being an idiot than for being a musician"
	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 her choice for a Billboard-themed week. Ever since that break, KT's slowly getting to be known in Nor ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 09:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Highly Controversial Mars Sample Return Mission
	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 be a spaceflight mission to collect rock and dust samples from Mars and to return them to Earth for analysis. ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Expensive and Eccentric Rolling Stones
	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, but for tremendous amount of cash like the recent performance at the Barcelona's Catalan National Art Museum. The ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 11:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Meteorite Debris Found by Accident in What Was Once a Giant Crater
	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 fire was making classical trails inaccessible and their detour turned out to be a really good idea. Along the Gunf ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Egyptian Civilization, 10,000 Years Older than Thought
	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 Collection at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium. "The style is riveting. The art ... [read more >>]
	12 July 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Giant Cosmic Sponge May Have Ingredients for Life
	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 giant sponge's name is Hyperion, and it's a really strange satellite of Saturn. It's strange becau ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Largest Stone in the World
	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 from an ancient mountain. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings, being listed as a Wor ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 15:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rare Gem Triplite Discovered, Previously Used as Paper Weight
	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 aware of the precious stone. Initially, Morgan Sonsthagen, who found the rare gem, wrongly thought it was a rhodoch ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2007, 06:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Huge Tsunami Hit Britain 400 Years Ago; A Mega-Tsunami Will Do it Soon
	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 land, causing 2,000 victims and by that time the cause of the disaster was a freak storm surge. Still, researcher ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Crisp Darkness: The Sabian HHX X-Celerator Hi-Hats
	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 as the HHX series has a new member in the body of the HHX X-Celerator hi-hat. This new contraption form Sabian comes to t ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2007, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Lost Tracks of Danzig
	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 unreleased tracks are coming alive on a 2 CD-set entitled The Lost Tracks Of Danzig. Due to hit the stores on May 29th, the ne ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 11:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Hi-Fi Rock
	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 ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free "Dream Theater" Seminar
	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 each instrument means and very serious devotion to music itself. You don’t necessarily have to like rock music t ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia