Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Q: My hardware is a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion a1410y system, with 1GB of memory, which, of course, is the problem. The a1410Y motherboard has...
Autopia (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Keith Barry The Chevrolet Volt has joined baseball and apple pie as an unassailable, non-partisan symbol of American can-do and know-how. General Motors won't start selling the plug-in hybrid for another 18 months (at least), but that hasn't kept...
GadgetGrid (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This kit will bring the geekiest out of you! Learn how computers work by building circuits and writing programs. Comes with Infrared interface that sends data between the microcontroller and your PC. You can build sensors to monitor and record data which can be use to control motors, buzzers, lights and more. [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Three men shown in a video being beaten by city police officers after a vehicle chase were ordered to stand trial Thursday on attempted murder charges for a triple shooting earlier that night.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
PHILADELPHIA - Three men shown in a video being beaten by city police officers after a vehicle chase were ordered to stand trial Thursday on attempted murder charges for a triple shooting earlier that night.Municipal Judge Nazario Jimenez Jr. ruled after hearing testimony from one shooting victim and four police officers — three involved in the chase on May 5 and one who said he found the gun weeks...
Springfield MO Soccer (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
KC Wizards vs Columbus Crew is the national broadcast tonight, the game begins at 7:00 pm on ESPN. I’ll be at Coester’s enjoying the game tonight - Jack Jewsbury and team in HD on the big screen with some food and beverage specials. Almost heaven if you ask me. And it’s always [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Also: A Kodak mini-camcorder that shoots HD video; an educational handheld game machine from Leapfrog.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Film News: Simon Brand in negotiations to direct -- Screen Gems is gunning to be the first out of the gate with a film based on the recent headline-making Colombian hostage rescue.
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In the solar cell market, there are three broad categories. Thin-film manufacturers produce cells that convert little of the sun’s energy to electricity, but are dirt cheap. Opposite thin-film, companies like Spectrolab and Emcore make highly efficient, but very expensive cells. Between are the standard solar photovoltaic makers, with average efficiencies, and average prices. [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, David Howell, Ricki Sheriffe and Michael Worrincy are all suspended for home match against bottom club Castleford after an ugly brawl at the end of 32-26 defeat at Catalans.
TypePad Featured Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
“News, reviews, and features” for all things that bounce, fly, walk, cry, and assemble pepper ToyTalk, David Smith’s blog that covers the toy world. David rediscovered his love of toys following the arrival of his two sons, and this allows...
Open the Future (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I'll start this essay by leading with my conclusion: do we make it through this century? Yeah, but not all of us, and it's neither as spectacular nor as horrific as many people imagine. Techno-utopianism is heady and seductive. Looking...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Microsoft's Plan B for Search, Catherine Holohan, Business Week (Jul 1) Analyzes advantage to Microsoft of having the semantic search engine Powerset. "The technology itself is difficult to develop. Though Google has hired some semantic search experts, the technology behind...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The tradable commodities the Tigers have are all either too old or signed to contracts that are either too rich or too long. There really is no flexibility. So even if the Tigers could find a trading partner, I highly doubt they'd receive a bounty in return.
d4d (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I know, I’m writing a lot about driving standards at the moment - it’s mainly because I seem to be doing one hell of a lot of driving at the moment on some of the poxier roads in the region, namely the A14, A127, M11 and M25. The great majority of those roads are dual-carriageway. Obviously [...]
