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A Chrome Marble Floating In Deep Space [Astronomy]

It looks like a metal marble floating in space. Or the palantír of Orthanc, magically teleported from Middle Earth to 11,000 light years away, in the Cassiopeia constellation. But it's just a visual effect. This is the Bubble Nebula . More
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Canon’s Ungodlynormous Image Sensor Sees London, France and Underpants in the Dark [Digital Cameras]

A full-frame image sensor , like in the 5D Mark II or Nikon D3s, is the equivalent of 35 millimeters. This image sensor is 300 millimeters. This is how well it can see in the dark: More
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Canon’s Single-Shot Multi-Band 50-Megapixel Camera Sees Colors the Human Eye Can’t [Canon]

You're not seeing the full picture—the picture that the world's first single-shot multi-band camera can see, because it's got six color filters mounted on its 50-megapixel CMOS sensor. Here's what it sees: More
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The World’s New Fastest SDHC Memory Card [Memory]

Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards are the fastest in the world. Now, good luck finding a camera that can saturate that kind of bandwidth. More
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The Earth Rolling Under an Astronaut at 17,239MPH Looks Awesome [Space]

I've never seen anything like this: The Earth captured in time lapse by an astronaut at the International Space Station, cruising at 17,239 miles per hour—that's 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second. More
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What It Looks Like When a Bullet Slices Through a Water Droplet [Photography]

For some reason I expected a bit more explosion (thanks, Hollywood!), but these high speed photography shots capture the fantastic moment when a bullet passes through a drop of water, slicing it in half with a bit of a splash. More
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The First Hands-On Impressions on All New Apple Gear [Apple]

We have collected all the information you need to know about today's Apple music event in a series of individual product articles. We just added the first hands-on impressions from the people who played with them in California. More
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The FCC Is Probably Bowing Down to Verizon and Google on Wireless Net Neutrality [Fcc]

The FCC says it's now thinking about making proposed net neutrality rules different (read: nonexistent) for wireless devices. It's an aboutface from what the FCC chairman originally talked up , and exactly what Verizon and Google wanted . Ah well. [ NYT ] More
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Why Is Steve Jobs Living a Lot of His Life Upside Down? [Blockquote]

Today, we're lucky to get a peek into Steve Jobs ' magical brain: "I live a lot of my life upside down," he said. Was it a life lesson? An admission of his favorite yoga position? What did he exactly mean? More
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Apple Store is Down—New Sh*t Is On Its Way! [Apple]

Please excuse the profanity, I'm merely quoting the brilliant " Apple Store is Down" song that Gizmodo's Editor-at-Large Joel Johnson wrote (and recorded!) while at Boing Boing Gadgets a couple of years ago . Check it out here . More
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