Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Science

Panayiotis Zavos Has Cloned Dead Humans, Implanted Other Cloned Embryos

11:40PM April 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

This is Cady, who died at age 10 in a car accident. More recently, Dr. Panayiotis Zavos infused her DNA into a cow’s egg to study human cloning.

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Computing

A $US500 PC That Rocks Out Crysis

11:20PM April 22, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Okay, for $US699, you might not be able to buy the best laptop in the world. But for $US500, you can build a PC that plays Crysis at a solid 40 frames per second.

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Cars

First Commercial 747 Is Now a Crappy Restaurant in Korea

11:00PM April 22, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

It may not be in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list and, looking at it, you don’t have to wonder why. But this rusty Korean restaurant is special: It’s the first commercial 747 ever flown.

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Gadgets

iSuppli: The Kindle 2 Costs $US185.49 to Build

10:33PM April 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

According to an iSuppli teardown, the Kindle 2 costs $US185 to build—or about half the device’s $US360 sticker price. That’s $US176.83 in parts, $8.66 in construction costs. Here’s the major component breakdown:

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Geek Out

Earth in HD from the Space Station

10:20PM April 22, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Today is Earth Day, you hippie treehugging commies you—you too in your jet, Al Gore—and to celebrate NASA has posted high definition video of our home planet from the space station. Ain’t it pretty?

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Gadgets

The Future Is Not Coming Soon Enough

10:00PM April 22, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

JJ Abrams may want mystery, but reading the last issue of Wired made me realise that I don’t want mysteries. I want to know. Which is why I used to love their future Found gadgets.

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YI Sound Concept Brings the Hot Jean-Crotch Aesthetic to Earbuds

9:25PM April 22, 2009 | John Herrman

This zippered earbud concept might not truly solve the eternal tangling problem, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fantastic.

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Cars

Lazy Porsche Demands Elevator Service

8:17PM April 22, 2009 | John Herrman

At first, the organisers of the Shanghai Motor Show probably thought Porsche was joking when they suggested holding a press conference for their Panamera sedan on the 94th floor of an office building. They weren’t.

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AMD Continues to Hemorrhage Money, Mindshare Through Q1

6:55PM April 22, 2009 | John Herrman

Q1 results are in for the processor industry’s #2, and they’re ugly. This news, combined with recent spinoffs, makes the company look kind of sick—and its executives’ obvious lack of optimism doesn’t really help matters.

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OK, But Will The Inevitable Robotapocalypse Be Green?

5:52PM April 22, 2009 | John Herrman

While scientists all over the world strive to create a mechanical equivalent to the human brain, one guy is getting kind of concerned about these posthumans’ power bills. They’re pretty high! At least, at first.

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