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SpaceX capsule Dragon docks to the ISS
The Tuesday launched Dragon capsule with equipment for the international space station has successfully arrived. This may soon be started with the unloading of the cargo, as ruimtebedrijf SpaceX. The arrival was Friday as it was on the program. Tuesday, the Dragon capsule successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket. Now is the capsule attached to…
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MIT researchers come up with duimnageltouchpad
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a device, will be shown a thumbnail into a touchpad. With the on the nail confirmed NailO, for example, can a smartphone be operated. Lead authors of the research, two master’s students from the Media Laboratory of MIT. With their companions they present next week a paper…
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Vibrating ‘universal plate’ that connects turntable with digital media players
An American artist has a ‘universal plate’ developed by vibrations music originating from, for example, a mobile phone, a record player can be heard. For the wireless connection is bluetooth used. Jesse England, working as an artist, has a ‘universal plate’ has been developed. The device the size of a single can on a turntable…
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Author tcp/ip control drone with thoughts
Vint Cerf, the inventor of the tcp/ip protocol suite, controlled during the cybertop in The Hague is a drone with his mind. The ‘gedachtendrone’ was patched together by SURFnet, the need of existing technology lwa n used. SURFnet showed the ‘gedachtendrone’ during the Global Conference on Cyberspace in The Hague, where the creator of tcp/ip…
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Dark matter seems to interact with him
Dark matter is not only sensitive to gravity. It also seems to be other interactions with him, is evident from observations of colliding galaxies, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Hubble telescope, NASA and ESA. That writes the ESO on Wednesday on her site. A team of astronomers examined with the help of…
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Player from tournament put because of cheating with iPod
Gaioz Nigalidze, chess from Georgi lwa, is from the a is received in Dubai set after he was caught with the use of an iPod Touch to see what he could best do during a party. The iPod was rolled in toilet paper on the toilet. During a game of checkers of Nigalidze last weekend…
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Scientists make objects invisible in the microgolfspectrum
Physicists have succeeded in homogeneous cylindrical objects with a radius of 12mm and a height of 42cm completely invisible in the microgolflengtegebied. They got this for each other without the use of metamateriaalcoatings. The complete study of the ITMO university in St. Petersburg in Scientific Reports. The method used is based on a new understanding…
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Virtual around the world of cycling with the Oculus Rift
A group of developers has virtual tours developed for use with the Oculus Rift. By providing a link between the bike and the vr-glasses, users can exercise and at the same time, virtual around the world cycling. There is also support for the Samsung Gear VR. Widerun hopes with a Kickstartercampagne £ 30,000 to get,…
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Research: Dutch software developers drink almost most of the cafe lwa ne
Dutch software developers drink an average of more coffee, and another cafe lwa nehoudende drinks than peers from other countries. That would appear from an enqu lwa of Stack Overflow among thousands of developers worldwide. Only Norwegians are even more excited with the filling of a cup drop. On average, save Dutch software developers 3,04…
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The explanation for the similarity between the composition of earth and the moon
The protoplaneet that the early earth collided, and according to the most accepted theory is the moon formed, probably had an earth-like composition, it appears from simulations that Wednesday in Nature. The research describes how the agreements between the mantle of the earth and the moon arise. If the moon indeed formed by a collision…
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Fan brings its own sequel Half-Life 2 ep 2 after two years of work
A gamedeveloper has on its own initiative, a sequel to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 made. It is a singleplayermissie with the name Transmissions: Element 120. To the mod, the creator with the alias Shokunin000 to his own words, ” worked on for two years. The player gets in Transmissions: Element 120, the decision about a…
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Dutch bluetooth inventor is included in Hall of Fame
Jaap Haartsen will get a spot in the Us National Inventors Hall of Fame, in which major inventors included. He developed the technology for communication over short distances when he was employed by Ericsson. That reports The Volkskrant, which Haartsen has spoken. The National Inventors Hall of Fame, which many of the important inventors are…
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Students create ‘projector’ that moon phases display
Yingjie Bei, and Yifan Hu have a device constructed that the positions of the moon shows. It is possible to choose a date, and then on a screen, the corresponding maanbeeld is displayed. The control is based on an Arduino board. The two students of New York University have the project on their website and…
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Destroyed “Snowden-laptop’ of The Guardian is standing
The wreckage of a destroyed MacBook Air, coming from the British newspaper The Guardian, his standing in the British Victoria & Albert Museum. The laptop was in August 2013 in job of the GCHQ destroyed, because there are Snowden documents on the hard drive were. The remnants of the laptop to make part of the…
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E3: Highlights June 15 – Nintendo and Sony
The E3-Tuesday stood in the sign of the last two press conferences, with Sony and Nintendo with information, sprinkled, and of the first ever fair-hours. We were especially impressed with Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. Highlights of jurian pieter This blog may be ‘Nintendo, and Sony are called, but that press conferences were not my highlights.…
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E3: Highlights June 14 – Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft
After Microsoft Sunday, the striker had bitten off with a special for Kinect organized event, went Monday and no fewer than three parties with their E3 press conferences. Tweakers.net there was, of course, by. After Microsoft Sunday, the striker had bitten off with a special for Kinect organized event, went Monday and no fewer than…
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E3: Highlights 13 June – Microsoft reveals Kinect
Microsoft hired Cirque du Soleil to Project Natal to rename it to Kinect. The show was wonderful, but left many questions unanswered. Hopefully, the answers are still in the second personferentie. It is clever of Microsoft, a million-dollar press conference that leaves the audience with more questions than answers. Microsoft focused the attention on himself…
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Tweakers.net at E3
Just like last year Tweakers.net report of the E3-gamesbeurs from Los Angeles. This year there will be, in addition to news and previews of various games, also daily for fresh videos from LA to come online. From Sunday in Los Angeles, the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo. Just like last year Tweakers.net report of E3. Paul…
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Tweakers.net provides ten times Napoleon: Total War road
On the occasion of the announcement of Shogun 2: Total War gives Tweakers.net in collaboration with Sega of ten copies of Napoleon: Total War road. The game appeared earlier this year, exclusively for the pc. With the yesterday announced Shogun 2: Total War times the creators go back to the very first Total War game.…
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See live along with the overklokdemo
Tweakers.net organizes together with Asus a overklokdemo that thanks to Xs4all, live can be followed. During the demo is AMD’s fastest hexacore overclocked on a Crosshair Formula 4 motherboard. Tweakers.net and Asus jointly organize a overklokdemo, in which the Crosshair Formula 4 motherboard central. For the overklokdemo were four overclockers invited, but there could also…
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Tweakers.net and MSI to organize overklokcompetitie
Tweakers.net and MSI to organize the preliminary rounds for the Masters of Overclocking Arena in the Benelux. Four teams will progress to the final in the Netherlands, after which they, via Paris, eventually in Taipei city may end. Tweakers.net and MSI are also working this year to discuss the best overclockers from the Benelux to…
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Tweakers.net and Asus to organize overklokdemo
During the demoday of two teams to get started with 890FX-based motherboards from Asus and hexacores of AMD. Join the contest and get a chance to see everything up close to see and a Asus motherboard to win. During the demoday of two teams to get started with 890FX-based motherboards from Asus and hexacores of…
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Tweakers.net gives SC II-b lwa takeys road – update
Tweakers.net in conjunction with Blizzard Entertainment, keys road for the b lwa tatest of StarCraft II. Today we have the action closed and the final 500 winners will be selected for the StarCraft II-b lwa ta. Blizzard Entertainment is currently busy with the beta test of the pc strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty…
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Tweakers sort clothing for Ha lwa ti
The fundraising campaign for Ha lwa ti has hundreds of bags of clothing delivered. Last Saturday came more than twenty tweakers in Harderwijk together to make the collected stuff sorting and preparing to make. The fundraising campaign for Haiti has hundreds of bags of clothing delivered. Last Saturday came more than twenty tweakers in Harderwijk…
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