Let’s face it, we’ve only got what, maybe three or four hundred years left to enjoy the great outdoors before pollution levels eventually prohibit even stepping foot outside without our personal breathing apparatus. Well Suzuki thinks that it will be in this bleak and toxin-filled future that motorized single-passenger vehicles like the will finally thrive, and is preparing to capture a piece of this potentially lucrative market with a concept transportation system known as PIXY + SSC. (Read content ‘Suzuki’s PIXY + SSC concept thrives in post-nuclear wastelands’…)
ALBANY, N.Y. - The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. (Read content ‘Facebook warned in N.Y. on safety claims (AP)’…)
NEW YORK - IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company controlled by media mogul Barry Diller, plans to relaunch its Web site Monday with new games, more prizes and plans to add social networking functions. ADVERTISEMENT
The site also now incorporates a search toolbar that links iWon users to the company’s search engine. (Read content ‘Barry Diller’s IAC revamps iWon.com (AP)’…)
Thermaltake’s DH 102 HTPC chassis rocks 7-inch touchscreen
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We know, not everyone sits within touching distance of their HTPC, but tossing a seven-inch touch panel into such a chassis provides excellent if nothing else.
(Read content ‘Thermaltake’s DH 102 HTPC chassis rocks 7-inch touchscreen’…)
Like most teens, Richmond, Va., eighth graders have active online lives — and that’s exactly why they’re so taken with Rusty McGuire’s class.
“What you guys have to think about is, how much information do you put on your social networking pages?” McGuire says to the assembled students.
McGuire is not a teacher. He’s a prosecutor who goes after online sexual predators. (Read content ‘How Virginia Teaches Kids Online Safety’…)
The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled country continue to use new media sites and other technologies to protest military activity in the Southeast Asia country. (Read content ‘Internet Blackout in Myanmar Stalls Reports, Oversight (PC World)’…)
They sure do look beautiful flying in formation during their annual migration, but when one of Illinois’s rare crashes and burns on a busy Moscow street corner, well, it’s never a pretty sight. Check out another pic of the carnage after the break…
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Audio Technica’s no to high-end cans, and we must say, its flagship set for 2007 (its words, not ours) looks mighty sexy. The ATH-ESW9 Sovereign Wood Headphones are crafted from “Japan’s finest Hokkaido cherry tree,” feature 42-millimeter neodymium magnet drivers with fiberglass housing support, and come bundled with a carrying case to keep these beauties clean when not in use. (Read content ‘Audio Technica unveils ATH-ESW9 Sovereign Wood Headphones’…)
This article was written by Mark Clayton.
With this week’s application to build a new nuclear plant - the first such filing in nearly 30 years - the industry says the U.S. is on the verge of a nuclear power renaissance.
With virtually no greenhouse-gas emissions, reactors are touted as part of the solution to global warming. (Read content ‘A Nuclear Power Surge Is Coming’…)
Hello Newman, your MP4P E350 video player is looking a little smudgy today, but but we’re willing overlook that for your 3.6-inch screen and touch controls. Well, not really, but maybe somebody in China will, ’cause it’s available there now, and that’s probably where it’s going to stay.