Bruce Sturman

AP - Farrah Fawcett, who has struggled with cancer since 2006, has checked into a Los Angeles hospital, a producer who has worked with the actress said Monday.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - Afghanistan’s Justice Ministry said on Monday a law for the country’s Shi’ite minority is on hold and under review after provoking an outcry in the West over concerns about women’s rights. Bruce Sturman

Reuters - The media was permitted on Sunday to cover the arrival of a U.S. soldier’s coffin at the Pentagon’s main mortuary in Delaware late for the first time in 18 years.

Bruce Sturman

AFP - US President Barack Obama began talks with Turkish leaders on Monday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at revitalising ties with a mainly Muslim ally and firmly anchoring it to the West.

Bruce Sturman

AP - The women of country have taken the wheel.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Six bombs rocked Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing 33 people and wounding more than 90 in a dramatic escalation of violence as the U.S. military is thinning out its presence before a June 30 deadline to pull combat troops out of the cities.

Bruce Sturman

AP - The women of country have taken the wheel.

Bruce Sturman

IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned. Bruce Sturman

AP - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

Bruce Sturman

AP - Six bombs rocked Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing 33 people and wounding more than 90 in a dramatic escalation of violence as the U.S. military is thinning out its presence before a June 30 deadline to pull combat troops out of the cities.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - Bankruptcy is not inevitable for General Motors Corp, said the automaker’s new chief executive on Sunday, who is under White House orders to win more concessions from bondholders and unionized workers. Bruce Sturman

Despite an enviable lifestyle well worth describing, celebrities on Twitter get their Pilates-tightened butts handed to them from online imposters daily – be it @cwalken or dead @Edgar_Allan_Poe rap-tap-tapping tweets from his grave in Baltimore. Fake famous people on Twitter are way better than the genuine articles.

Bruce Sturman

AFP - A powerful earthquake tore through central Italy on Monday killing more than 90 people as Renaissance buildings in a historic town were reduced to rubble.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Scratch an itch and you get … aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people. Bruce Sturman

AP - Airlines carried fewer people last year, but did a better job for those who did fly.

Bruce Sturman

AP - A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing more than 70 people in the country’s deadliest quake in nearly three decades, officials said. Tens of thousands were homeless and 1,500 were injured.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Airlines carried fewer people last year, but did a better job for those who did fly.

Bruce Sturman

We’re not sure if these are false color images, weird lighting, a Finnish sense of humor, or an actual production color scheme for the N97, but regardless, we like it. Nay, love it. Ship it, Nokia. Anyhow, the FCC has published full submitted details of one of the non-North American varieties of Nokia’s halo device for the year, putting GSM / EDGE 850 / 1900 and WCDMA band II (1900MHz, if you’re curious) through their paces along with the FM transmitter, Bluetooth, and WiFi. We’ve also got a manual to peruse — unfortunately, details on the Ovi Store are missing, but at least we can brush up on our phone basics before we get our hands on a device. Anyone else totally forget that it’s got an internal magnetic compass, or was that just us?

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Benjamin J. Heckendorn seems unusually enthused by his latest hack’n mod, calling the Commodore 64 laptop “probably one of, if not my favorite project I have done.” That’s saying something from the man whose brought the “Benheck” finesse hammer down upon just about every modern and classic PC / game console and accessory you can think of. The C64 lappie features a C64C motherboard, a Gamecube power supply, and special 1541-III DTV device that emulates a floppy drive using a FAT-32 formatted SD card — all while keeping true to the beige 8-bit spirit of the original. And if we’re not mistaken, he’s controlling it with an Atari joystick seen in the video posted after the break. Then again, there could be an Xbox 360 controller hiding in that joystick knowing Ben.

[Via Nowhereelse]

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Reuters - Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc tumbled 24 percent on Monday after the company rejected rival computer and software maker International Business Machines Corp’s $7 billion offer. Bruce Sturman

AP - Airlines carried fewer people last year, but did a better job for those who did fly.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Scratch an itch and you get … aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people. Bruce Sturman

IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned. Bruce Sturman

AP - The women of country have taken the wheel.

Bruce Sturman

AFP - US President Barack Obama began talks with Turkish leaders on Monday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at revitalising ties with a mainly Muslim ally and firmly anchoring it to the West.

Bruce Sturman

AP - North Korea’s rocket may have fallen into the sea, but military experts cautioned Monday against calling it a complete failure, noting that it traveled twice as far as any missile the country has launched.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. fell in premarket trading Monday on news that IBM Corp. withdrew an acquisition offer. Bruce Sturman

Reuters - Bankruptcy is not inevitable for General Motors Corp, said the automaker’s new chief executive on Sunday, who is under White House orders to win more concessions from bondholders and unionized workers. Bruce Sturman

AP - Six bombs rocked Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing 33 people and wounding more than 90 in a dramatic escalation of violence as the U.S. military is thinning out its presence before a June 30 deadline to pull combat troops out of the cities.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - A powerful earthquake struck central Italy as residents slept on Monday morning, killing more than 90 people and making up to 50,000 homeless.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - The media was permitted on Sunday to cover the arrival of a U.S. soldier’s coffin at the Pentagon’s main mortuary in Delaware late for the first time in 18 years.

Bruce Sturman

AFP - OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia is pumping money from its huge 400-billion-dollar stockpile of reserves into the economy to keep up growth, economists and bankers in Riyadh said.

Bruce Sturman

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LiveScience.com - In Robot Madness, LiveScience examines humanoid robots and cybernetic enhancement of humans, as well as the exciting and sometimes frightening convergence of it all. Return for a new episode each Monday, Wednesday and Friday through April 6. Bruce Sturman

Reuters - As rapid advances in biotechnology make it easier to develop and produce deadly organisms, experts are calling for better industry oversight to stop that progress benefiting criminals and terrorists. Bruce Sturman

AP - Scratch an itch and you get … aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people. Bruce Sturman

Time.com - Ignoring warnings from the U.S. and east Asian neighbors for Pyongyang to stand down, North Korea launched an intercontinental rocket on Sunday, saying it bore nothing more than a communications satellite Bruce Sturman

Nokia N97 hits FCC with glorious photography

We’re not sure if these are false color images, weird lighting, a Finnish sense of humor, or an actual production color scheme for the N97, but regardless, we like it. Nay, love it. Ship it, Nokia. Anyhow, the FCC has published full submitted details of one of the non-North American varieties of Nokia’s halo device for the year, putting GSM / EDGE 850 / 1900 and WCDMA band II (1900MHz, if you’re curious) through their paces along with the FM transmitter, Bluetooth, and WiFi. We’ve also got a manual to peruse — unfortunately, details on the Ovi Store are missing, but at least we can brush up on our phone basics before we get our hands on a device. Anyone else totally forget that it’s got an internal magnetic compass, or was that just us?

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

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Source: IBM drops bid to buy Sun
IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned.

Despite an enviable lifestyle well worth describing, celebrities on Twitter get their Pilates-tightened butts handed to them from online imposters daily – be it @cwalken or dead @Edgar_Allan_Poe rap-tap-tapping tweets from his grave in Baltimore. Fake famous people on Twitter are way better than the genuine articles.

Bruce Sturman

After two years of waiting, our adoption agency has a child for us. And though I’ll eventually consult the slew of books, Web sites and online forums for new-parent tips and advice, for now, I’m using Facebook.

Bruce Sturman

IBM Corp. withdrew its offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion, clouding the prospects for a deal that would shake up the computing industry, The Associated Press has learned. Bruce Sturman

AP - Scratch an itch and you get … aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people. Bruce Sturman

AP - North Korea’s rocket may have fallen into the sea, but military experts cautioned Monday against calling it a complete failure, noting that it traveled twice as far as any missile the country has launched.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - The media was permitted on Sunday to cover the arrival of a U.S. soldier’s coffin at the Pentagon’s main mortuary in Delaware late for the first time in 18 years.

Bruce Sturman

LiveScience.com - In Robot Madness, LiveScience examines humanoid robots and cybernetic enhancement of humans, as well as the exciting and sometimes frightening convergence of it all. Return for a new episode each Monday, Wednesday and Friday through April 6. Bruce Sturman

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to help Turkey resolve its differences with Armenia as the United States sought to strengthen ties with a crucial NATO ally in its war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - Bankruptcy is not inevitable for General Motors Corp, said the automaker’s new chief executive on Sunday, who is under White House orders to win more concessions from bondholders and unionized workers. Bruce Sturman

AFP - US President Barack Obama began talks with Turkish leaders on Monday at the start of a two-day visit aimed at revitalising ties with a mainly Muslim ally and firmly anchoring it to the West.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

Bruce Sturman

Reuters - The United Nations failed to agree on a response to North Korea’s long-range rocket launch despite pressure from Washington and its allies for action, while regional powers weighed the extent of the new security threat.

Bruce Sturman

AP - Farrah Fawcett, who has struggled with cancer since 2006, has checked into a Los Angeles hospital, a producer who has worked with the actress said Monday.

Bruce Sturman

Time.com - Ignoring warnings from the U.S. and east Asian neighbors for Pyongyang to stand down, North Korea launched an intercontinental rocket on Sunday, saying it bore nothing more than a communications satellite Bruce Sturman

AP - Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. fell in premarket trading Monday on news that IBM Corp. withdrew an acquisition offer. Bruce Sturman

On Twitter, you’re nobody unless you’re fake

Despite an enviable lifestyle well worth describing, celebrities on Twitter get their Pilates-tightened butts handed to them from online imposters daily – be it @cwalken or dead @Edgar_Allan_Poe rap-tap-tapping tweets from his grave in Baltimore. Fake famous people on Twitter are way better than the genuine articles.

Waiting for baby (on Facebook)

After two years of waiting, our adoption agency has a child for us. And though I’ll eventually consult the slew of books, Web sites and online forums for new-parent tips and advice, for now, I’m using Facebook.

Speech-controlled garbage can makes trash fun again

Have you ever stared at a garbage can and wished you could command it to come towards you? No? Then you may still be interested in this new speech-controlled trash can built by DIY-er Amnon, which will respond to your beck and call yet never stray beyond the safe confines of your carefully laid out tape route (sure to complement any room). Unfortunately, there isn’t a step-by-step guide for building a little trash buddy of your own, but Amnon has provided a shot of the all-important underside (linked below), and a complete parts list, so it shouldn’t be too hard for experienced folks to follow along. Head on past the break for the video.

[Via Hack a Day]

Continue reading Speech-controlled garbage can makes trash fun again

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The RailPod is one track short of a train car, the future of transportation?

Think the PRT podcar is the pod that will re-invent transportation? Prepare to get those opinions railed, as the RailPod is on its way to get you where you’re going — and to put all those striking cabbies out of work. The idea is that unused (or underused) railway lines can be turned into bi-directional traffic routes, with the RailPod using gyros to balance precariously on a single strip of iron, taking up only half the width of the line. Two passengers can ride facing away from each other on this car of the future (presumably to discourage any hanky-panky of the future), whisked away after swiping a credit card and punching in a destination. The Boston-based startup is still in the “please oh please give us money” phase, but hope to have a working prototype ready by the end of the year. Until then you’ll have to simply enjoy the video after the break, which you might be surprised to learn was created entirely using computer graphics.

[Via Mass High Tech]

Continue reading The RailPod is one track short of a train car, the future of transportation?

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The RailPod is one track short of a train car, the future of transportation? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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