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Dismantling Fukushima reactors will take decades
Japanese expect it will take decades before the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant can be fully dismantled, according to a draft report. A temporary cover may limit some radiation leakage.
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VMware releases View Client for Android tablets
Android tablets could become more appealing to the enterprise with VMware’s View Client for Android. VMware View lets people see their Windows desktops and interact with Windows applications from remote devices, like tablets or laptops.
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Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying d...
For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).
Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won’t kill you so quickly.
What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn’t reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you’re into the whole retro-gaming thing.
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Switched On: The bedeviled bezel
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
One of the few homages that the Palm Pre paid to the Palm Pilot was the gesture area, a separate part of the display face below the screen used for swipes just as the Pilot had a separate area devoted to entering Graffiti strokes. Unfortunately (like Graffiti before it), the gesture area was one of the least intuitive aspects of the Pre’s operation, and HP has been moving away from it as a required navigation element. On the TouchPad, the gesture area has been scrapped in favor of an iPad-like bottom button.
But HP hasn’t outright ignored the bezel on the TouchPad. Users can still swipe inbound from the bezel as an alternative way of bringing up its card view. Indeed, in 2011, it seems like nearly everyone has been taking a swipe at the bezel around touchscreen displays. First, RIM introduced inbound bezel swipes as a key navigation element on the PlayBook for activating menus, bringing up applications to launch, and its own webOS-like app switching interface. Microsoft showed how inbound bezel swipes will be part of the navigation for touchscreen devices in Windows 8. And MeeGo also uses the inbound bezel swipe as its keystone user interface element on smartphones…
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Report raps ‘hollow hybrids’ for weak ...
Union of Concerned Scientists guide of hybrids shows that the technology is not living up to efficiency potential because some models favor power over efficiency.
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Being Green and Beautiful
London brand Hulger and designer Sam Wilkinson have designed a CFL bulb named Plumen 001, the world’s first designer low energy light bulb. Plumen is a bulb that finally doesn’t need to hide behind a lampshade. This bulb consumes 80% less energy than incandescent bulbs and life expectancy is eight years. Plumen 001 can [...]
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