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Revving up for Grand Theft Auto IV

Raluca Dina — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:20:59 +0000

Eager fans await the release of the latest Grand Theft Auto game. Take Two could benefit from a big win with Grand Theft Auto IV, because it will give it more leverage as it fends off a hostile takeover bid from rival Electronic Arts.

Hydrogen car project begins

Raluca Dina — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:49:53 +0000

Researchers in the British Midlands have set up a filling station for their pollution-free hydrogen cars.

Via Just Elite Cars

Microsoft Surface Arrives at AT&T Stores

Raluca Dina — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:43:42 +0000

WSJ’s Amol Sharma gets a first look at how AT&T stores are using Microsoft Surface, a new technology that uses a sensitive tabletop interface to provide users with an interactive way of getting information.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – computer-animated film

Raluca Dina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:58 +0000

George Lucas is giving a sneak peak of his computer-animated film, ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ due in theaters this August. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name that will air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall (March 14)

Fastest fingers in the world

Raluca Dina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:30:28 +0000

Sixteen-year-old Chris Chike breaks a world record for the fastest fingers in gaming.

Office Google Video Tour

Raluca Dina — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:03 +0000

A tour of Google’s Zurich HQ, where staff ride a slide to lunch and shimmy down a fireman’s pole.

GDC

Raluca Dina — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:28:38 +0000

Inside Game Developers Conference in San Francisco where Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony all unveiled new titles for their consoles.

Toy Fair report

Raluca Dina — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:27:25 +0000

Welcome To Toy Fair

US missile destroys satellite

Raluca Dina — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:25:59 +0000

The US government has confirmed it successfully shot down an out-of-control satellite above the Pacific.

U2 3D

Raluca Dina — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:34:24 +0000

The Technology Behind ‘U2 3D’: Peter Shapiro, producer of ‘U2 3D,’ talks about the origins of the film project and the technology.

Turning bodyheat into energy

Raluca Dina — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:28:15 +0000

A Swedish company plans to harness the bodyheat of commuters to provide the heating for an office block.

Walking power

Raluca Dina — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:26:36 +0000

B.C. scientists harness ‘walking power’ to generate electricity

Organ transplants – Manufacturing Body Parts

Raluca Dina — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:34:26 +0000

The field of regenerative medicine works under the theory that organs can be grown outside the body. The science could revolutionize organ transplants and make big bucks.

Tankpitstop the Robot

Raluca Dina — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:26:20 +0000

A trip to the gas station of the future may no longer require the driver to leave the car. Tankpitstop the Robot will do it all for you.

Solid State Drive

Raluca Dina — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:24:56 +0000

Review a new kind of storage for laptops called SSD, or Solid State Drive, an alternative to the conventional hard disk.

Google Eyes Microsoft’s Plans

Raluca Dina — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:05:46 +0000

Google, the number one Internet search engine, is reportedly trying to block Microsoft’s purchase of Yahoo’s search site. Anthony Mason reports.

Americans Make Risky Spacewalk

Raluca Dina — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:25:15 +0000

The space station’s two American astronauts went out on a riskier than usual spacewalk Wednesday to fix one of two equipment failures that have crippled their power system, hoping to enable a solar wing to tilt toward the sun.

Satellite could fall to Earth

Raluca Dina — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:55:21 +0000

A US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected to crash to Earth, government sources say.

MacBook Air review

Raluca Dina — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:59:36 +0000

Walt tests out Apple’s first sub-notebook computer, the MacBook Air. The thin machine doesn’t compromise on screen and keyboard size, he says, but it could mean some deal-killers for frequent travelers, he says.

ow Well Do Cheap Laptops Perform?

Raluca Dina — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:58:22 +0000

The push to get low-cost laptops to children in developing countries is being spearheaded by two competing units, the OLPC and the Classmate PC. The AP looks at how well these units fared when compared to more powerful PCs.

High tech for Olympic team

Raluca Dina — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:31:40 +0000

Jason Queally, who won gold at the Sydney Olympics, tells James Munro how technology has changed cycling

Teachers’ low gravity flights

Raluca Dina — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:37:35 +0000

School teachers in the US are being sent on low gravity flights to encourage pupils to study science.

Online Photos with GPS

Raluca Dina — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:08:26 +0000

A new practice called geotagging is allowing photographers to embed GPS location into their photos. The process is opening up a whole new way of looking at online photos.

Human embryo ‘cloned from man’

Raluca Dina — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:05:53 +0000

An American researcher, Dr Samuel Wood, has cloned human embryos from his own skin cells.