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No black holes from Large Hadron Collider, say scientists
News If such black holes were to be created by a chance cosmic ray, for example, their runaway growth would be most evident from feasting on the super-dense matter of white dwarfs and neutron stars, but there are plenty of those stars that are very old.
Tags: stars, physics, atmosphere, holes
10 September 2008, 9:43
Photos: Top 10 new species
News Electrolux addisoni is the largest known member of the electric ray family and made the list because it carries the name of a maker of vacuum cleaners -- due to the 'vigorous sucking action' it makes while feeding in the Western Indian Ocean.
Tags: ray, international, university, pink
7 July 2008, 9:42
News.blog: Xbox 360 price cut rumoured
News The post goes on to note that the "Xbox 360 could also get a new hardware SKU with added features" (Blu-ray anyone? With Metal Gear Solid 4 finally available for the PlayStation 3, it doesn't take a genius to predict that the PS3 is going to get a...
Tags: gear, hardware, console, sales
16 June 2008, 9:04
News.blog: Google moving towards cloud computing
News While chief software architect Ray Ozzie may worry most about open source, Google sees all enterprise trends pointing towards cloud computing, and it wants a piece of the action. The next 10 years of innovations are going to be in the cloud.
Tags: consumer, enterprise, translate, computing
11 June 2008, 8:59
News.blog: US HDTV users still not hip to Blu-ray
News A new report released on Tuesday says that less than half of high-definition television owners in the US know what Blu-ray Disc is. While that's an improvement over a year ago, it still means that more than half of that group -- the target audience...
Tags: definition, cent, ray, high definition
4 June 2008, 9:04
Microsoft telescope puts universe on your desktop
News The WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web application that accesses high-resolution images taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Tags: explore, earth, star, location
20 May 2008, 10:28
News.blog: Blu-ray player sales droop
News Looks like it wasn't the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle that was keeping potential customers away from high-definition video players after all. The NPD Group released some of its retail sales tracking data on Wednesday that showed sales of Blu-ray...
Tags: cent, sales, consumers, ray
1 May 2008, 9:33
BD Live coming on PS3 update
News The upcoming firmware update for the PlayStation 3 is going to bring with it a whole host of new Blu-ray and PlayStation Portable features. System software update 2.20 will be released in "late March", according to Sony, and will add Blu-ray Disc...
Tags: psp, title, disc, enhance
20 March 2008, 15:56
Microsoft fares poorly in Greenpeace guide
News Second from the bottom came Philips, mainly as a result of its continuing use of cathode ray tube technologies in televisions. Environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace has published its latest study of the green credentials of electronics...
Tags: guide, products, cent, toshiba
19 March 2008, 9:17
News.blog: Microsoft denies 360 Blu-ray talk
News Microsoft has denied that it plans to integrate Blu-ray high-definition DVD drives into its Xbox 360 game console.Rumours have circulated recently that Microsoft was considering a Blu-ray replacement for the Xbox's now-discontinued external HD DVD...
14 March 2008, 9:19
News.blog: Microsoft, Sony talk 360 Blu-ray drive
News CNET.co.uk's sister site Gamespot.co.uk posted a news blurb on a report that "Microsoft has entered into talks with Sony to bring Blu-ray to the Xbox 360". Microsoft "are not simply discussing a successor to the Xbox 360's now discontinued, dirt...
7 March 2008, 9:19
News.blog: Pioneer drops plasma production
News LCD sets have quickly become the fastest-growing TV technology, displacing traditional cathode-ray tube sets, as well as rear-projection and plasma. Pioneer plans to let someone else make its plasma TV panels, according to several reports.
Tags: pioneer, cent, plasma, panels
6 March 2008, 9:12
News.blog: A new focus for photographers
News Ng offers an analogy: where a photograph is like an X-ray image, the light field is like a three-dimensional CT scan that lets a doctor effectively look at the interior of a person from any direction.
Tags: fix, field, research, raw
29 February 2008, 9:22
EU PlayStation 3 bundles coming in March
News The first new European PlayStation 3 bundle, due to arrive on 19 March, is movie-focused -- it will include a 40GB PS3 and the films 300, Casino Royale, and Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray as well as a Sixaxis controller.
Tags: lite, european, playstation, controller
29 February 2008, 8:53
News.blog: Microsoft abandons HD DVD drive
News Microsoft's answer to Sony's PlayStation 3 console, which contained an integrated Blu-ray Disc drive. Wal-Mart Stores, consumer electronics store Best Buy and all the major movie studios have all now said they will exclusively support Blu-ray.
Tags: disc, definition, hd, playback
25 February 2008, 8:46
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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