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The orbiter has just landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 12-day - and final - mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Discovery is destined now to go to a museum. Nasa's two other reusable spaceplanes will follow it into retirement in the coming months. The landing at Kennedy occurred just before midday, local Florida time. On its final flight, Discovery delivered a new store room and a sophisticated humanoid robot to the ISS. The ship's crew also performed two spacewalks to carry out maintenance tasks on the exterior of the platform. The final act in Discovery's career was initiated with a two-minute, 31-second burn from its thrusters. This dropped the ship out of orbit and into a re-entry path that took it across the Pacific, over Central America and the Gulf, before a last sharp banking manoeuvre and a touchdown on Kennedy's Runway 15 at 1157 and 17 seconds EST (1657:17 GMT)
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As it did for recent devastating natural disasters in Haiti, Chile and New Zealand, Google has launched a Person Finder app, designed as a user-populated search tool for information on missing people in the area. Searchers can look up missing people by name, and get an update on their status. Several people listed in the database have taken to the site to post messages of their own, confirming their well-being.
At time of writing, the database has user-generated information on 8000 people, but will grow as more people search, and more information is logged.
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Until the results of long term test of the VT25 are Panasonic TC-PVT20/25 with 1080p/24 playback or the imperfection of its grayscale. But weighed against its excellent general color accuracy in THX, its improved anti-reflective screen and especially those inky black levels, the knocks against the initial 2D picture quality of the Panasonic TC-PVT20/25 series seem minor.
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An excellent dSLR for experienced shooters or Nikon professionals looking for a relatively cheap option, the Nikon D7000 delivers on almost all counts, including the company's best shooting design to date. Price : $1,059.00 - $1,299.00
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CT scans use X-rays to capture many slices through the body that can be combined to create a 3-D representation. This is a powerful tool for diagnosis, but it's far from easy to navigate, says Antonio Criminisi
When a scan is loaded into Criminisi's software, the program indexes the data and lists the organs it finds at the side of the screen, creating a table of hyperlinks for the body. A user can click on, say, the word "heart" and be presented with a clear view of the organ without having to navigate through the imagery manually.
Read more..., who leads a group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K., that is attempting to change that. "It is very difficult even for someone very trained to get to the place they need to be to examine the source of a problem, he says.
With the flick of a precisely placed light switch, mice can be induced to cower in a corner in fear or bravely explore their environment. The study highlights the power of optogenetics technology which allows neuroscientists to control genetically engineered neurons with light to explore the functions of complex neural wiring and to control behavior.
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Several of these services have made their debuts just this week, right before the opening on Friday of
Caleb Elston, one of the founders of Yobongo, which is based in San Francisco, said the timing of the app’s release, a week before South by Southwest, was "no accident"
Read more...GroupMe, FastSociety, Beluga, Kik, TextPlus, PingChat, HurricaneParty and Yobongo.South by Southwest, the technology and music festival in Austin, Tex. They hope to gain some attention at the festival, which attracts scores of technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists interested in seeing the latest innovative ideas.
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The new Core i5 and i7 vPro chips, designed for use in business-class laptops and desktops, include Intel Anti-Theft Technology Ver. 3.0 (AT 3.0), Intel Identity Protection Technology (IPT), Advanced Encryption Standard – New Instructions (AES-NI), new Host-Based Configuration functionality, improved Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) Remote Control, as well as “Sandy Bridge”-specific features such as Turbo Boost 2.0, Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), virtualization, and Intel HD integrated graphics.
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Microsoft announced an updated version of the Xbox 360 on June 14, 2010. The new model has a smaller chassis, 250GB hard drive, and built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, but no Blu-ray. See the Xbox 360 Slim product page for additional information.
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Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary TSystems International GmbH today announced it is migrating its managed desktop services to Windows 7 Enterprise.
The decision to move 250,000 managed seats to Windows 7 was part of the company’s decision to standardize desktop deployment on the latest information technology, which Microsoft provide increased security, reduced costs and greater productivity to Deutsche Telekom PC users around the world.
The new Chrome browser promises quick and responsive software handling running in the Web browser.
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