The antimatter counterparts of protons have been detected in what appears to be a ring around Earth – one day, it could be mined to fuel spaceships
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Dutch Subway Slide: An Exercise in Efficiency
Leave it to the Dutch to make something from a playground seem like the most cutting edge innovation in the recent history of public transit. When it’s 8 am and you’re tripping down dirty subway stairs, jostling with a thousand other people… just remember that there is a better way.
How to Make a Wi Fi Booster Using Only a Beer Can
Not only is this clever use of a beer can an ultra cheap tech hack, it also means less fiddling around with cardboard and aluminum foil as required by other hack methods. This method has been proven to improve Wi-Fi reception from around 2 bars to about 4 on average, varying between 3 and 5. Give it a go – all you’ve got to waste is a beer can!
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- Gather the required materials and tools. These are listed below under “Things You’ll Need”.
- Clean the beer can. Make sure there is no residue left inside.
- Take the ring-pull off the can.
- Cut the end off the beer can where there’s no opening. Do this using the Stanley knife or similar suitable safety knife.
- Cut around the end with the opening almost all the way. Leave a little bit of metal to keep attached the part that will be the base (see the white line in the illustration).
- Cut along the middle of the can in a straight line, opposite to the piece of metal attaching the base.
- Being careful, open up the middle piece of metal by bending it until it vaguely resembles the shape of a radar dish.
- Place the completed Wi-Fi booster on your router. Place it so that the antenna pokes through the opening, and stick the base of the can to the router with a small piece of poster tack or other suitable adhesive. It’s time to test how much your Wi-Fi is now boosted!
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- Be careful of the sharp edges around the can. It’s easy to cut yourself on the sharp metal (and it’s a lot worse than a paper cut!). You can use adhesive tape to cover them and avoid dangers. Use duct tape to cover the cut edges of the can bottom and sides.
Edit Things You’ll Need
- An empty, clean 500ml (16.9 fl oz) beer can
- A Stanley knife or similar safety knife
- A pair of scissors strong enough to cut through thin metal (most will do it)
- A small piece of poster tack or similar adhesive
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Comcast’s Internet Essentials offers $10 internet access to low-income families
Earlier this year, when Comcast bought up NBC Universal, the company made a promise to boost broadband access in underserved communities and, with the launch of its new Internet Essentials service, it looks poised to follow through on that commitment. Originally laid out as the Comcast Broadband Opportunity Program, the plan offers internet access for only $10 a month to families with children who qualify for free lunch programs. Taking its commitment even further, the outfit is offering a $150 voucher for the purchase of a computer, access to free digital literacy training, and a Norton Security Suite. Of course there are a couple of requirements — one being that you have to have made good on previous Comcast bills — but we’re hoping this will help the old red, white, and blue climb a couple rungs on the broadband adoption ladder. Full details of the ambitious plan await you in the PR after the break.
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At $30,000/Week, Tuscany’s Mindblowing Castello di Reschio Will Someday Welcome Me And 11 Close Friends
Ladies and gentlemen, I think I just fell in love.
Dell’s Latitude XT3 tablet PC gets a product page, spins around for your amusement
Well lookee here — it’s the snazzy new Dell tablet PC that we first spotted way back in February. The Latitude XT3 finally has a product page to call its own, yet another hint that it will be swiveling its way into the hands and hearts of buyers in the near future — a notion further driven home by the convertible’s recent cameo on the FCC. The 13.3-inch laptop sports an Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 processor, Windows 7, and works with a finger or stylus — remember those?
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OS X Lion Ships With Faulty NVidia Drivers
TeaCurran writes with this mildly ranty objection to the most recent Mac OS X update; several friends who have made the leap on their MacBook Pros have various other complaints, too, including system slowdowns that resemble crashes (except that their pointers still work) and recurring black screens for some configurations (with or without the kernel panics TeaCurran mentions) — what's been your experience? “Apple OS X Lion shipped with new NVidia video drivers that are causing anyone with a mid 2010 Macbook Pro to get a kernel panic every 5-10 minutes. Apple knew about the issue before shipping lion, hasn't responded to the issue, and is censoring posts in their support forum that mention words like 'boycott' and 'petition.' NVidia has responded that the drivers are the responsibility of Apple so they won't deal with the issue. How a major hardware manufacturer can ship such a faulty product without getting much press about it is completely beyond me.”
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Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US
Peter Eckersley writes “The Netalyzr research project from the ICSI networking group has discovered that on a number of US ISPs’ networks, search traffic for Bing, Yahoo! and sometimes Google is being redirected to proxy servers operated by a company called Paxfire. In addition to posing a grave privacy problem, this server impersonation is being used to redirect certain searches away from the user’s chosen search engine and to affiliate marketing programs instead. Further analysis is available in a post at the EFF.”
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1.6-Terabyte Smart Optimus SSD Reads A Gig Per Second
Enterprise hardware company Smart Modular Technologies has announced a line of SSDs that appear to wipe the floor with pretty much everything out there. It comes in capacities from 200GB all the way to a current record capacity of 1.6TB. And not only is it the biggest single SSD available, it also is the fastest, using a Serial Attached SCSI interface to achieve (they claim) 1000MB/s read speeds and 500MB/s writes.
The interface is actually specced at 6Gb/s (~750MB/s, theoretically), so there might be a small amount of shenanigans going on here, but those are still monster speeds. Even the best consumer-grade SSDs only do about half that right now. And it fits in a 2.5″ form factor, too.
Smart is also touting their “Guardian Technology,” some on-drive tech that helps extend the life of the drive and, presumably, keep the data in order so it can be read off at those incredible speeds.
No pricing was given for the Optimus line, though it is described as being “cost-effective.” I’m guessing it’s going to be expensive as hell, but we may see some trickle down of this speed over the next year or so.
[via Geek.com]