Although the back and forth in this post is a bit off, it’s clear that the iPhone Chronic Dev Team is close to a jailbreak for the iPad 2 , thereby allowing owners of Cupertino’s latest access to their command lines. There were apparently a few jailbreaks for 4.3 but nothing available for the A5 processor.
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iPad 2 Jailbreak Coming Very, Very Soon
In a surprising show of growth, Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states.
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New milestone: 1 in 6 in US is Hispanic
Whether it changed everything, made you think different, or was just a sideshow to the Windows centerpiece of your life, there’s no denying version X of Mac OS has been the most successful and enduring piece of software Apple has ever produced. It is turning 10 years old today, so we thought we’d spare a moment to say congratulations and to dust off an image of our favorite logo of the bunch
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Mac OS X turns X years old today
We chatted with a fascinating French startup by the name of Wysips here at CTIA today that’s showing off transparent photovoltaic film — in other words, it generates power from light… and you can see right through it .
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Wysips wants to turn your phone’s display into a solar cell (hands-on with video)
It would probably look like this “Escape Machine” in Paris, which doles out free vacations (or oversized invalid tickets). It’s like HAL and the monolith had a bastard child, and it was adopted by a nice couple from Candyland. More
Samsung gazed into its crystal ball today, and what did it see?
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Samsung sees a Retina Display in your tablet future, and perhaps glasses-free 3D
Windows 7: If you’re looking for an attractive visual style for your Windows 7 desktop, Elune is simple glassy theme by deviantART user minhtrimatrix that’ll give your computer a relaxing, natural feel. More
In the search for Earth-like worlds, astronomers look for conditions that are roughly the same as those on our planet.
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Could dying white dwarf stars be home to habitable planets? [Exoplanets]
SunTech Power Holdings is planning on building a major solar power installation at one of the highest inhabited places on the planet: the Tibetan Plateau. The county of Sangri, 4000m (13,123ft) above sea level, has been chosen as the site for the latest of this company’s green power plants, and will generate around 20MWh of power yearly for the surrounding area. In areas like this, power is not always generated at a major regional installation like a nuclear or coal plant, and relying on hydroelectric power depends on weather patterns that are more prone to long-term failure (e.g.
Remember CRTs? Those big boxy things we used to stare at all day, instead of the new screens we stare at all day now? Photographer Stephan Tillmans does—and he's captured the dazzling colors they blast when switched off
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CRT Monitors Leave Futuristic Beauty Behind When You Shut Them Off [Art]