Solar plane makes record flight - BBC NewsA solar-power plane goes for three days using stored energy in a solar-powered battery.
10 things to know about Biden and energy - Earth2TechGood summary by Katie Fehrenbacher of Biden’s energy-related policy positions.
Bacteria power: Future for clean energy lies in ‘Big Bang’ of evolution - Science DailyMore research in [...]
I’m still wary to recommend Postica over something like Shifd, a similar Web-based sticky note service that does a much better job integrating URLs, addresses, and letting you access and sync up your notes on both desktops and mobile phones. The one area where Postica has the leg up is file sharing, but you’ve got [...]
Daily Tech also says Apple plans to always have a capacity gap between the
iPod Touch and the iPhone. Right now, a 32GB iPod Touch is available, but the iPhone carries no more than 16GB of memory. The philosophy going forward is to maintain that discrepancy as Apple increases the capacity of the devices, probably [...]
News.com’s Anne Broache contributed to this report.
Yahoo spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said the company supports some of the “key principles” of the bill, such as creating an office within the State Department charged with leading the way against Internet censorship. But the company continues to negotiate with members of Congress to come up with a version [...]
The fourth major label, Sony BMG, has been negotiating with the start-up.
In the digital music industry, 2008 really was the year of the playlist. Streaming music companies took off, and improved social-network sharing features made it easy to swap your favorite music lineups with your friends.
This could come across negatively because MySpace runs MySpace [...]
Last week I chatted with Petar Djekic, the service’s marketing manager, about this process and its origins. What’s interesting is that it’s a spinoff from the technology that was created to identify songs from short clips–the same thing that’s found in Midomi and Shazam. The difference here is that songs must first be worked through [...]
Google is hoping that companies will flock to a service that doesn’t require them to host servers or worry about huge amounts of data. This is a bottom’s up approach, according to Glotzbach. It used to be that companies were willing only to pay for high-level executives to make videos for internal communication, but Google [...]
Update at 10:44 a.m. PDT: I added Google’s “no comment.” Update at 9:50 a.m. PDT: I added more details from the complaint.
“Domain and error page ads accounted for approximately 16.2 percent of all clicks on plaintiff’s ads during his campaign, yet did not result in a single person completing the online form on the site, [...]
Earlier today, Google was keeping mum about a three-day-old security fix to its Chrome browser, but now the company has revealed details of two critical-risk vulnerabilities and some lesser issues it says are fixed.
An update to Google Chrome means the browser now can head off a particular technique that previously could crash the browser.
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Thing is, the quality of the conversion has everything to do with the sound quality you hear. That’s why audiophiles pay big bucks for the best ones, and Chord Electronics, a British high-end stalwart has just released the QBD76, which contains a real contender for world’s best digital-to-analog converter (DAC) chip.
QBD76
To hear digital audio it [...]
