Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/302818938?client_source=feed&format=rss
Thursday, May 2, 2013
David Tisch Is Bored With His Smartphone's Apps
David Tisch has made quite the name for himself as an investor based in NYC. Most notably, Tisch spent years at TechStars as the Managing Director, and has since left to co-found another investment fund called BoxGroup. We sat the man down backstage at Disrupt today to chat out his thoughts on the NY tech scene, trends he's excited about and his transition to BoxGroup.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pGd1itwXqoE/
alyssa bustamante protandim weightless ellen degeneres jcpenney yeardley love nba all star reserves rock center
J.J. Abrams Eyeing John Williams For 'Star Wars' Reboot Score
'I believe that, going forward, John Williams will be doing that film,' Abrams says.
By Gil Kaufman
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706602/star-wars--vii-composer-john-williams.jhtml
reese witherspoon pregnant billy joel bent new york jets etch a sketch romney sean payton saints bounty program
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Saturn's youthful appearance explained
Apr. 30, 2013 ? As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn however is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age -- a question that has puzzled scientists since the late sixties. New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed how Saturn keeps itself looking young and hot.
Researchers from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon found that layers of gas, generated by physical instability deep within the giant planet, prevent heat from escaping and have resulted in Saturn failing to cool down at the expected rate.
Professor Gilles Chabrier from Physics & Astronomy at the University of Exeter said: "Scientists have been wondering for years if Saturn was using an additional source of energy to look so bright but instead our calculations show that Saturn appears young because it can't cool down. Instead of heat being transported throughout the planet by large scale (convective) motions, as previously thought, it must be partly transferred by diffusion across different layers of gas inside Saturn. These separate layers effectively insulate the planet and prevent heat from radiating out efficiently. This keeps Saturn warm and bright."
Characterised by its distinctive rings, Saturn is one of the largest planets in our Solar System, second only in size to massive Jupiter. It is primarily made of hydrogen and helium and its excessive brightness has previously been attributed to helium rains, the result of helium failing to mix with Saturn's hydrogen rich atmosphere.
Layered convection, like that recently discovered in Saturn, has been observed in Earth's oceans where warm, salty water lies beneath cool and less salty water. The denser, salty water prevents vertical currents forming between the different layers and so heat cannot be transported efficiently upwards.
These findings suggest that the interior structure, composition and thermal evolution of giant planets in our Solar System, and beyond, may be much more complex than previously thought.
Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google:
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by University of Exeter, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Journal Reference:
- J?r?my Leconte, Gilles Chabrier. Layered convection as the origin of Saturn?s luminosity anomaly. Nature Geoscience, 2013; 6 (5): 347 DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1791
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/space_time/astronomy/~3/E3GGjrhmn9I/130430131525.htm
nfl draft 2012 whitney mercilus 2012 nfl draft picks andrew luck andrew luck trent richardson robert griffin iii
One Device to Rule Them All: BlackBerry Isn't Wrong About a Tablet-Less Future
The Internet spent Tuesday morning laughing at a suggestion by BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins that tablets won't exist in five years, a scenario that is as plausible as it is predictive ? in fact, it's as exciting a plan for the future of gadgets as the one Apple built right under your fingertips. "In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," Heins told Bloomberg. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such." So the chief of the revamped cellphone company thinks that, soon enough, we'll all have one gadget that connects up to all the screens in our lives. Which amounts to a prediction about the commodification of our things, which sounds like an awesome plan that is, frankly, bound to happen.
RELATED: iPad 3 Mania Explained
Consider your purse, and your living room, and your briefcase, and your desk: Why do we need them filled with so many different sized screens, all of which do pretty much the same thing? We don't. Indeed, consumers have already stated a preference for less overlap. The allure of so-called "phablets" ? at least to?the legions who have opted to buy big-screen phones?? is that they have a hefty, near tablet-sized screen, perfect for streaming videos or reading magazines, without forgoing the telephone part of things (even if it does a look a little silly right now).
RELATED: How Microsoft Learned The Rumor Game From Apple
Now consider the iPod, which launched in 2001: Once we had a gadget that performed its core function and more?the iPhone, which debuted seven years later?nobody wanted to carry around redundancy in their pocket, or on their morning job, or on the car dashboard. Since the release of the iPhone, the iPod has seen a slow decline in sales, per this chart from ZDNet:
RELATED: Amazon Kindle Fire Review Roundup: You Get What You Pay For
RELATED: All the Possible Tablets Google Will Unveil This Week
Phablets might not replace tablets, per se. But, it's not hard to imagine, or at least dream, of a future in which there is one computer device that does all the things. (The iPad is only three years old, after all.)
RELATED: Amazon Is Changing the Future of Online Shopping
In fact, Dell ? yes,?that?beleaguered?Dell?? has already conjured a possible scenario: Project Ophelia. Rather than have multiple computing devices, Dell's project would pack the power of a PC into a giant USB stick you then plug into a flatscreen TV or computer monitor. That doesn't sound too far off from Heins's prediction, which involves having a big screen at your workplace, for which to plug in something like Project Ophelia. Or maybe it's not a USB port that kills the tablet so much as a pair of glasses, or a watch ? some sort of wearable computing that acts as the portable component, which hooks up to all of our screens.?
A lot can change in five years, even three ? and hopefully it does. Just look at how much the Mac business has receded since the advent of the iPad since the Apple tablet debuted in April 2010:
Remember: When the iPad first came out, people likened it to "just a big iPod touch." Most people want less stuff. Perhaps some of us have replaced their PCs with tablets and smartphones. But, ideally, it would be nice to have one thing that does it all. It might not be a BlackBerry, but here's hoping it's something.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/one-device-rule-them-blackberry-isnt-wrong-tablet-203441585.html
buenos aires train crash argentina train crash nancy pelosi nancy pelosi gop debate republican debate lewis black
Gettysburg College Athletics - Vote for MAC All-Century Spring Teams
GETTYSBURG, Pa. ? Online voting is now available for the Middle Atlantic Conference 100 All-Century Teams for spring sports, including baseball, men's golf, men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, softball, men's tennis, women's tennis, men's track and field, and women's track and field.
?
Gettysburg, which was a member of the MAC until 1993, is well represented in the list of candidates for spring sports. Hundreds of former Bullets fill the lists with last names like Gray, Koury, Howell, Corroon, Marshall, Beck, Cross, Ardinger, and Spencer. Legendary track star Howard Bostock '18 is the oldest Gettysburg athlete on the list. Bostock won three events at the 1915 MAC Championship and he still holds the program record in the long jump.
?
Each sport is broken down into several eras with each voter being permitted to vote for a select number of candidates per era. Online voting will remain open until Friday, May 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. All-Century Teams will be announced shortly after that time.
?
Online voting can be accessed at gomacsports.com or at the following link: http://www.mascac.org/sports/2012/5/29/MAC100CenturyTeamsSpringSports.aspx.?
?
Gettysburg, which was a member of the MAC until 1993, is well represented in the list of candidates for spring sports. Hundreds of former Bullets fill the lists with last names like Gray, Koury, Howell, Corroon, Marshall, Beck, Cross, Ardinger, and Spencer. Legendary track star Howard Bostock '18 is the oldest Gettysburg athlete on the list. Bostock won three events at the 1915 MAC Championship and he still holds the program record in the long jump.
?
Each sport is broken down into several eras with each voter being permitted to vote for a select number of candidates per era. Online voting will remain open until Friday, May 24, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. All-Century Teams will be announced shortly after that time.
?
Online voting can be accessed at gomacsports.com or at the following link: http://www.mascac.org/sports/2012/5/29/MAC100CenturyTeamsSpringSports.aspx.?
Source: http://www.gettysburgsports.com/news/2013/4/30/GEN_0430133817.aspx
All Star Game 2012 directv rashard lewis curacao curacao home run derby kourtney kardashian
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)