A new energy concept called a solar tower could generate enough electricity for 200,000 homes. Looking like a giant smokestack, it would release no noxious fumes ? just sun-heated air. Demonstrated more than 20 years ago, the basic design calls for solar collectors to warm the air near Earth’s surface and then channel it up the tall central tower.

On a sunny day, the air at the top of the tower would be 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), whereas the air in the greenhouse could reach 160 degrees Fahrenheit (70 degrees Celsius). As this hot air escapes up the tower at…

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T-Mobile has announced three distinct iPhone 3G plans for the Netherlands starting at $48 USD, meanwhile Telia of Denmark has introduce a single plan for $128 USD that will see a 33 percent reduction after the first six months. T-Mobile of…

Diggers have no fear The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world as this geek learned how to master it, By the end of the year, he had six girlfriends simultaneously, all maintained through a complicated system of instant messenger, e-mail messages and heavily orchestrated dates.

It started in my sophomore year in high school. I went to one of those big Eastern public schools that pumps out students in a way that would make 19th-century industrialists throw their top hats into the air and shout…

It wasn’t so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. But now we are about to enter the age of “GP-GPU,” general-purpose computing on a GPU, and it’s about ready for the mainstream. Here’s some of what you can look forward to.

The first hint of graphics cards doing something “more than 3D” was with the introduction of video acceleration. It started out simple, with partial decoding of MPEG video, moving gradually into full acceleration of the MPEG2 used in…

In the spirit of linux and open source (not so much for opera), it is only fair that we are aware of alternate options for linux browsers out there.

Latest Posts: 9 Web browsers for Linux New Look for Intrepid Ibex 10 IRC client for Linux Vi Assistant Installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC). Sometimes When I Wake Up: xkcd 3 Ways to Try Out Linux, For a Windows User Converting RPM to…

Original iPhone owners upgrading to an iPhone 3G can hand-down their old iPhone to a family member or friend with a few simple steps, the most complex of which entails a trek down to a local AT&T retail store to pick up a fresh SIM card.

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New video walkthroughs of iPhone 3G help illustrate how to use the phone and what’s changed in software, but also spill details of changes to the hardware design, a free official AOL instant messenger client, and more.

New video walkthroughs of iPhone 3G help illustrate how to use the phone and what's changed in software, but also spill details of changes to the hardware design, a free official AOL instant messenger client, and more. The guided tours are…

The innovative part involves the distribution plan. Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the Family Guy target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static ad on a Web page, Google will place a Cavalcade? video clip.

But Media Rights Capital, a boutique production company that has the ability to invest about $400 million a year in movies, television and Internet episodes, thinks it has figured out a sustainable business model with the Google Content Network….

Apple is marketing the idea of there being no new features? for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, thanks to a diligent code optimization and refactoring cycle discussed in the previous article. At the same time, there are plenty of significant new features coming in Snow Leopard

You say that ZFS has only limited relevance to most laptop and desktop users, which is partly true in that most people, especially those with only a single HDD, won’t benefit from ZFS’ pooling and the various benefits that come…

On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and…

They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?

Lewis said there are at least a half dozen other governments, besides China's, that have highly sophisticated hacker capabilities. This includes the United States. In fact, he said, attacks are common enough that they're almost not…

An episode of FusionCast where we look at an entirely new plugin, Stackswitch, made by Onestone. Excellently designed plugin! Enjoy!

Really polished video. You've made astounding improvements, and it looks like kdenlive is treating you well.Those annotations worked out really, really well. It's great to have helpful labels pointing out what to look for, especially…

This screenshot displays a HUD display running in front of iTunes, seemingly pulling music videos down from YouTube, one of Apple’s major partners. Can’t wait for the next version of iTunes!

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3892/picture1jk2.pngBigger: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3433/screenjb4.jpgThis is really running, and it's so awesome. But it makes me want to buy so much more music on ITMS Sweet! Someone dugg it

MySpace, the second most popular social-networking site in the UK, will unveil a new layout on Wednesday following a major redesign.
Changes will include improvements to search and navigation, a new-look homepage, improved profile editing and a better video player, including support for high-definition programmers and full-screen playback.

New editing tools will be introduced to help people easily edit their profile and page layout with needing to understand HTML coding, and a new finder tool built on the open-source Lucene search engine will structure search results according…