This morning Apple has finally updated their line of MackBook Pros from the old Core 2 Duo chips to Intel’s Core 2010 chips. Here are the specifics that we currently have on them.
Continue reading Apple MacBook Pros Now With Intel Core i5 & Core i7 Processors
The NASA and ESA’s sun observatory, SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory), snapped a pic of a newly found comet moments before it is gobbled up by the sun. You can see the comet here is pretty bright, though it dims as it gets closer to the sun and eventually disappears into the fiery mass.
[photo via Space.com]
The comet, which appeared in photos on Friday, finally disappeared a day later. With close to 1,600 comets in our solar system, watching one get eaten by the sun is surely a sight to see. Here are some more photos captured by SOHO:
Cotton candy doesn’t have to be something that you buy at ball games, amusement parks, or state fairs anymore. With this video, you’ll learn how to make a cotton candy machine at home using some of the simplest household items like batteries, sugar, and juice lids. Enjoy!
Continue reading DIY Cotton Candy Machine You Can Make From Home
Researchers have found is possible to use Twitter to accurately predict which movies are going to be successful at the box office. Computer scientists at HP have studied 3 million Tweets, on 25 movies, and found the rate at which messages were sent could be used to accurately predict the box office success of the films on opening weekend.
“Our predictions were incredibly close,” Bernardo Huberman, head of the social computing lab at HP, told BBC News.
The system predicted The Crazies would take $16.8m in its first weekend in the US and its actual take was $16.06m. Same goes for Dear John which they predicted would pull in $30.71 and actually brought it $30.46m.
The unpublished report is available on Arxiv’s website.
Twitter has gone and purchased the very popular iPhone and desktop client Tweetie from Atebits. Twitter will offer the new app for free from this point on and rename it Twitter for iPhone they state on their blog.
Twitter has been growing by leaps and bounds around the world. Mobile has always been a focus for us—starting with SMS which lead to the 140 character limit. People everywhere should be able to access Twitter without friction or confusion. Careful analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes AppStore revealed massive room for improvement. People are looking for an app from Twitter, and they’re not finding one. So, they get confused and give up. It’s important that we optimize for user benefit and create an awesome experience.
This is all very exciting news to anyone that uses Twitter frequently on their iPhones. Hopefully there will be a few improvements not only to the app but also to Twitter and how it functions from mobile phones.
The Solar Impulse aircraft has been in development, design, manufacturing and testing for nearly 6 years now. The project is an airplane that can take off, fly and land autonomously, day and night and all while using only solar energy. This is possible of course by using the energy gathered throughout the day to power it through the night, all while using no fuel and creating no pollution.
Just this past week they were able to launch it on its inaugural test flight and successfully flew it for 2 hours. The group behind the project hope to one day be able to circle the globe and see this as a huge first step. There will be a couple more tests flights in the near future.
With the success of the inaugural flight, we can now envision 2 more test flights in order to determine with precision the performance of the airplane. This will assist us in the preparations of a second airplane in which we plan to do an around the world flight.
Everybody is offering WiFi these days, coffee shops, bookstores, restaurants, even McDonalds. With so many gadgets using wifi to connect us all, it’s important to know when and where we can connect. This series of backpacks and carrying cases from Soyntec will help you do just that.
The bags are fitted with an integrated network WiFi detector that displays on a screen the level of the WiFi signal you’ve got around you.
A University of British Columbia doctoral candidate has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for silencing retroviruses, segments of genetic material that can lead to fatal mutations in a cell’s DNA.
The findings, published today in the journal Nature, could lead to new cancer treatments that kill only tumor cells and leave healthy surrounding tissue unharmed.
Danny Leung, a 27-year-old graduate student in the laboratory of Asst. Prof. Matthew Lorincz in the Dept. of Medical Genetics, UBC Faculty of Medicine, found that a protein called ESET is crucial to preventing the activity of endogenous retroviruses in mouse embryonic stem cells. Distant relatives of such retroviruses are more active in the cells of testicular, breast and skin cancers in humans.
If ESET can be blocked, retroviruses would become dramatically more active, thus either killing the cancer cells hosting them or flagging them as targets for the immune system.
Leung, who was co-lead author with a graduate student at Kyoto University in Japan, has devoted his studies at UBC to the growing field of epigenetics – changes to the genome that do not involve changes to the underlying genetic code. Such changes determine whether or not a gene is expressed.
Continue reading UBC Graduate Student Finds ‘Start/Stop Switch’ for Retroviruses
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