tireless assistant astronomers, the Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble Space Telescope) image transmitted to Earth, which depicted the planetary nebula NGC 6210 – a cloud of gas dropped a dying star. Such objects are formed when a star of comparable mass of our Sun reaches the final stage of life. The next step is turning into [...]

Yesterday the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (ACU) gave the go-ahead to merge the assets of “VimpelCom” and the largest Ukrainian GSM-operator “Kyivstar”, carried out on the basis of Vimpelcom Ltd., thus leaving in place its the March decision. Application-controlled “Alfa Group” of companies «Altimo Holdings & Investments Ltd.» and «Telenor Group» to merge “VimpelCom” and [...]

During a press conference on record the results of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, Apple rumors touched on the development of a 7-inch “apple tablet.” He actually confirmed that such a tablet from Apple would not – too many disadvantages associated with small screen sizes. Steve Jobs explained that the size of a 7-inch [...]

According to the company, “VimpelCom” (“Beeline” brand), sales of its branded phone is about 5% of Russian mobile phone market. A100 mobile phone production for the “Beeline” deals with the Chinese company ZTE. Implementation of this device under its own brand of “VimpelCom” began in June of this year. Its cost is 850 rubles. executive [...]

Team Lab Space and Field Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Field and Space Robotic Laboratory) has developed a portable unit for water desalination, which operates solely on solar energy. The device will lead to the rapid supply of drinking water in regions affected by the disaster, or those areas in which the [...]

NoteUtopia-founder Ryan Stevens (photo: private) The California State University (CSU) has warned the site NoteUtopia. There, students can act university documents of all types: lecture notes, essays, tests or worksheets. The university calls on the site was launched two months ago with a reference to California law, to refrain from this at once. In section [...]

Apple does not leave the work on the Mac in favor of their mobile products. Despite the recent update line iPod, the iPhone 4 and the triumphant march of the tablet iPad, an important part of the company’s business are Mac. rumored that during the conference should be announced a new version of the operating [...]

By the spring of 2011 on the servers, Google will be placed Israeli first images of the Dead Sea Scrolls – biblical and apocryphal texts, which date from the beginning of our era were discovered in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran on the Dead Sea in 1947. In order to digitize all 900 [...]

The U.S. magazine Newsweek has published in its present output is a ranked list of the most environmentally friendly companies. Among them are many IT companies, of which Dell, IBM and HP are the best placed. Evaluation was based on three criteria: impact on the environment, policies and reputation. Newsweek has introduced two rank lists [...]

The German company be quiet! announced the launch of two new series of PSU – Straight Power E8 and Dark Power Pro P9. New items will be available next month. Straight Power E8 includes a conventional model with capacity of 400, 450, 500, 550, 600 and 700 watts, as well as models with modular cable [...]

In line high-performance accelerated graphics TGT Series Point of View company released a new accelerator GeForce GTS 450 Beast Edition. Novelty different frequency formula 920/1840/4008 MHz for the core, shader processors and memory, respectively. Recall the nominal frequencies are 783/1566/3608 MHz. overclocked monster includes 192 core CUDA, 128-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5-memory, two DVI [...]

month ago, reports appeared in which an operator China Telecom will take over the implementation of cheap Android-phones and Huawei C8500 ZTE N600. Last week in Beijing, the company has shown live ZTE N600. entry-level smartphone received a 600-MHz processor Qualcomm MSM7627, graphics chip, 2.8-inch touchscreen display with 320 x 240 pixels, 256 MB RAM, [...]

Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center reports a wave of attacks on Java, Oracle, as you’ve never seen them before. Employees Holly Stewart writes that it has come in the third quarter of 2010 to a rapid increase. According to Stewart, especially three vulnerabilities are attacked. CVE-2008-5353 describes a Deserialisierungsproblem in JRE, which was attacked within the [...]

ICY DOCK company announced a new portable box for placement of a 2.5-inch hard drive or SSD Interface SATA I / II or SAS. Model ICY DOCK MB991IK-B is made of stainless steel SECC in the form of a removable module that can be inserted into a 3.5-inch drive bay system unit desktop. It has [...]

manufacturers of electronic devices in anything they do not know and do not recognize the steps of semitones. They equip their products or do all the functions necessary and unnecessary, or create a gadget with only some basic features. In his new concept designer Gusta Heart Vicentino (Gusta Vicentini) decided to show them an example. [...]