…ssor Ng. Lytro has an original design. It was compared to a lipstick case both in shape and dimensions. It measures 1.61 inches x 1.61 inches x 4.41 inches (41 mm x 41 mm x 112 mm) and weighs 7.55 ounces (214 g). It has an anodized aluminum frame and a rubber back-end with two buttons (one for shutter and the other for power). Its 1.46 inches (33 mm) back-lit LCD display with glass touchs…
At least 13 people have been injured, including two in critical condition, after thousands of fans stormed the field and tore down goalposts after Oklahoma State’s 44-10 victory over archrival Oklahoma last night. According to emergency services, spectators were trampled and one person fell 15 feet to the concrete during the wild celebrations. No 13 Oklahoma State routed the Sooners on Satu…
Washington DC and New York in the coming weeks. Solar Impulse plane has the same wingspan as an Airbus A340 but it weighs just 1.6 tonnes. It has already made a day-and-night flight lasting more than 26 hours, and the team aims to eventually circumnavigate the globe in 2015. Solar Impulse plane, which is powered only by the Sun, has completed the first leg of a journey that aims to cross the US…
Ray Harris, a businessman from Marion, Indiana, and his two teenage daughters died in a plane crash yesterday afternoon after the parachute failed to slow the craft down. Ray Harris, 47, and his daughters, Ramie and Shey, perished, along with a man believed to be the co-pilot, after the single-engined Cirrus-SR2 plummeted into a farm field near the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake. It shattered int…
Nov 27 2011 | Posted in
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o have found herself so far in as today marked the day of the highest and lowest tide of the year. Humber Estuary Services estimate that water levels at Albert Dock, near Hull went as high as 9.5 m by 7:00 a.m. today, and went down to 1.3 m by 2:00 p.m. The whale, found at 2.30 p.m. last Friday, is the latest of a number to have died in the Humber estuary. Andy Gibson, of the Yorkshire Wildlife Tr…
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len at the one-yard line, Scottish-American kicker Lawrence Tynes would have had an easy field goal attempt to win the game as time expired. Giants running back Bradshaw, who impressed throughout with 72 rushing yards from 17 attempts, could not stop himself from scoring, setting up a nailbiting final minute in which Brady – who completed a Super Bowl record 16 passes in a row during the gam…
Williams into the world. Announcing the happy news on his blog, Robbie Williams wrote: “Praise be, it’s Theodora Rose Williams, affectionately known as Teddy….. Born 3:33 p.m. on 18.9.12, 7Ibs 4oz… “Baby, Mummy and Daddy are all rockin…. Thank you for your best wishes XXXX.” It is the first child for the couple, who married two years ago. Robbie Williams and Ayda Field we…
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Phobos-Ground, the $170 million Russian probe, is now heading back to Earth and will crash between January 6 and January 19, but it’s not possible to predict where until a few days beforehand. The Phobos-Ground craft, which was supposed to travel to Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, became stuck in Earth orbit after its thrusters failed. What’s more, one of the probe’s gauges has a small amount of…
During the on-field celebrations right after New York Giants won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots, linebacker Greg Jones got down on bended knee and proposed to his girlfriend Amanda Piechowski amid the confetti and the rapturous screaming and cheering from fans. Greg Jones’ girlfriend, who he refers to as Mandy, said yes and immediately started crying. Speaking to the New Jersey S…
Feb 8 2012 | Posted in
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Hillary Clinton has met the head of Egypt’s top military council, Field Marshal Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, on the second day of her visit to the country. The US Secretary of State discussed the transition of power to newly elected President Mohammed Mursi and stressed the need to protect the rights of all Egyptians, US officials said. Hillary Clinton met Mohammed Mursi on Saturday. Mohammed M…
seems set once again to remain secret. X-37B – military spaceplane Mission: Described as a re-usable testbed for new sensors and other space technologies Length: 9 m Wingspan: 4.5 m Height: 3 m Mass: 5,000 kg Origins: Started as a NASA project in 1999 before being handed to the military in 2006 Operating altitude: 180 – 800 km Cost: The budget line for the X-37B programme continues to be cl…
The ultimate millionaire’s toy is a $190,000 flying hovercraft, which is able to glide over land and water and soar through the air. Available through U.S luxury goods firm Hammacher Schlemmer, the bright yellow amphibious and airborne vehicle features a 130 horsepower twin-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine and can hit speeds of up to 70 mph. The craft can take to the air in short bursts and r…
…Egypt’s highest state honor, the Grand Collar of the Nile. Tensions between the Egyptian presidency and the military have been exacerbated since Islamist militants in the Sinai peninsula killed 16 border guards in a raid last week. Both sides have tried to use the incident to strengthen their position. …
tistics, and his position, as perhaps the greatest strong menace in National Football League (NFL) historical past, is likely to make him a strong candidate for the Hall of Fame. His career began with 7 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings prior to he went inactive for two years in Oakland. He re-emerged as a force with the New England Patriots in 2007, lifting in a single-season record 23 touchdown…
er 11 10th anniversary at Ground Zero The annual “Tribute in Light” will then begin from the World Trade Centre site at sundown, visible for more than 60 miles. Two blue lights, made up of 7,000 watt bulbs, were switched on for the first time this year on Tuesday night. Law enforcement agencies around the country have stepped up security at airports, nuclear plants, train stations and…
St Louis Cardinals beat Texas Rangers 6-2 in the decisive seventh game and won baseball’s World Series 2011. Both teams drove in two runs in the first innings, but St Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter then began to dominate as the runs dried up for Texas Rangers. Allen Craig’s solo home run in the third put St Louis Cardinals ahead before Texas Rangers bullpen contrived to walk…
…Venice has imposed its first ever ban on motorboats, launches and barges on one of its main waterways, Grand Canal But the day-to-day reality of life in Venice can be a little less than serene. Around 7,000 small craft are registered to use its waterways. They are an essential part of the private and commercial lives of many Venetians, but the sound of buzzing, growling, or throbbing engines often…
NASA has identified a 460 ft wide asteroid, 2011 AG5, soaring through space and calculated that it could potentially impact Earth on February 5th 2040. The 2011 AG5 has already attracted the concern of the UN Action Team on near-Earth objects, which has begun discussing ways to divert it. The UN Action Team has put the odds of it hitting us at one in 625, though that could change nearer the time….
…at it with a rare earth metal,” he says. “It looks just like a regular hook.” Several countries are now testing his so-called SMART hooks to see if they work. Some tests show a 60 to 70 per cent reduction in the number of sharks caught. Eric Stroud received an award from the World Wildlife Fund for his invention, and he’s hoping to sell the hooks commercially before long. I…
riter of the show, points out the different items on the map, displayed on a screen. They include a huge tangle of the remains of a deckhouse; a large chunk of the side of the ship measuring more than 60 feet long and weighing more than 40 tons; pieces of the ship’s bottom; and a hatch cover that blew off of the bow section as it crashed to the bottom. Other items include five of the ship…
…athletes trying to compete on a level playing field. “There have been times where I would specifically give my leg or my toe a couple of really good electric shocks” says Brad Zdanivsky, a 36-year-old Canadian quadriplegic climber who has experimented with boosting in the gym. “That would make my blood pressure jump up and I could do more weights and cycle harder – it is ef…
Aug 23 2012 | Posted in
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…ents that could be representative of a Higgs boson being produced in the LHC. The hints of the Higgs revealed in 2011 had a statistical certainty of just two sigma. Three sigma represents about one in 700 likelihood that a “bump” in the data is down to some statistical fluctuation, in the absence of a Higgs. But the benchmark for a discovery is five sigma, denoting a one-in-3.5 million…
ce of conservative bloggers. Republican Texas Governor, Rick Perry is running for the US presidential race. Rick Perry will then travel to New Hampshire and on to Iowa Sunday — hitting 3 of the first 4 states to hold nominating contests next year. Rick Perry makes his entrance about six months before the Iowa caucuses, the traditional kickoff of the nominating season (the first major electoral ev…
abuse when he was playing and after his retirement, he had affairs and felt into a depression that almost led him to suicide. The author said he worked on the book two and a half years and interviewed 678 people. Sweetness narrates Walter Payton‘s life, from his childhood in Mississippi, his college years at Jackson State, his NFL career (13 years) and his life after his career ended in 1987…
…h to certify the six new galaxies and the one re-classification. The objects lie in a range that covers redshifts 8.2-11.9 – the technical way of describing a period in time that runs from about 600 million years to 380 million years after the Big Bang (current cosmology suggests the Big Bang occurred some 13.77 billion years ago). The most distant object, UDFj-39546284, was first announced…
