New windows 8 interface

My cousin thinks its more a "tablet device thing" . Certainly ... they dont show how it works in "mouse mode". I just hope it to run smoothly on atom powered netbooks.

Rumor: Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland Has Found The 'God Particle'

Rumor: Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland Has Found The 'God Particle': "The world's largest atom smasher is rumored to have found the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle otherwise known as the 'God particle'. The speculation is based...

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Particle Discovery Has Physics World Buzzing

Particle Discovery Has Physics World Buzzing: "Researchers at Fermilab physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill. using an atom smasher known as the Tevatron may have made an exciting discovery. The find, if it can be validated,...

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The Onion: Facebook “Is Truly A Dream Come True For The CIA” (Video)

The Onion: Facebook “Is Truly A Dream Come True For The CIA” (Video): "

You did know that Facebook is a ‘massive online surveillance program run by the CIA,” right? And that Mark Zuckerberg is a CIA agent codenamed the Overlord? Just watch the Onion video above. It explains the whole thing.

I especially like the Congressional “testimony” from the deputy CIA director:

After years of secretly monitoring the public, we were astounded so many people would willingly publicize where they live, their religious and political views, an alphabetized list of all their friends, personal emails addresses, phone numbers, hundreds of photos of themselves, and even status updates about what they were doing moment to moment. It is truly a dream come true for the CIA.

Not only that, think how much money it saves the CIA. Unfortunately, other CIA programs like Twitter aren’t doing so welll: “400 billion Tweets, and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted.”

Also note the chart showing the success of Operation Farmville, which “the CIA credits with pacifying as many as 85 million people after unemployment rates rose dramatically.” It plots time spent playing Farmville versus hours working.

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NASA's Prototype Mars Space Suit Gets a Frosty Antarctic Performance Test

NASA's Prototype Mars Space Suit Gets a Frosty Antarctic Performance Test: "

Mars is one seriously cold rock, so where better in the world to test a new spacesuit design then the permafrost of Antarctica? NASA researchers recently took the NDX-1 spacesuit prototype, designed at the University of North Dakota by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, for an Antarctic test drive where the suit was exposed to 47 mile per hour winds and frigid polar temperatures.

The NDX-1 has been under development for several years now at UND's Space Suit Laboratory, but this was its first test-drive in harsh, Mars-simulating conditions. The idea wasn't just to take the suit somewhere cold, but also somewhere isolated 'so that if something went wrong we couldn't just go to the store,' De Leon said to Reuters.

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Not that you could patch the NDX-1 together at the local hardware store. The $100,000 suit (funded by NASA) contains more than 350 materials, including weight-reducing carbon fiber and Kevlar.

A team of NASA scientists, including De Leon himself, took the suit through the paces of simulated spacewalks during which they collected samples and operated tools like drills--the very kinds of activities the first humans on Mars very well might undertake. If, that is, we ever get there. With NASA's purse strings tightening, developing an interplanetary space vehicle may not be in cards for quite a while, leaving America's astronauts all dressed up in their NDX-1s with no place to go.

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NOAA Video Shows Earthquake Tremors Propagating Across the World

NOAA Video Shows Earthquake Tremors Propagating Across the World: "

Ocean-Wide Waves This model from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory shows the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin. NOAA

Seismologists are putting together some impressive computer models of the devastating earthquake that struck Japan Friday. As the tragedy continues to unfold, it's pretty breathtaking to see the Earth's destructive power in action.

The map above is a model of wave heights, generated at the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory. Wave energy dissipates over longer distances, so Hawaii and the west coast didn't see the devastating waves that inundated Japan already, but the scope is still incredible - the entire Pacific Ocean is impacted. Waves were lower in areas where the ocean floor is deeper.

The animation below shows the tsunami as it propagated from the earthquake's epicenter, about 80 miles off the Japanese coast at a depth of around 15 miles. The ripples' calm, slow spread belies their destructive force.

The death toll keeps rising, now said to be more than 1,000, according to news reports. USA Today has compiled this list of ways you can help.

Aftershocks are adding to the problems, with almost 100 reported as of 1 p.m. EST Friday.

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