Rubik v. God Lars Karlsson via Wikimedia
The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum number of moves it takes to solve a Rubik's Cube. Read more »
Terapixel Night Sky Microsoft's Terapixel project, part of Microsoft Research, stitched together more than 1,700 pairs of photographic plates from two powerful telescopes to create the clearest, largest night sky map yet. Microsoft
First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars -- now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It's a terapixel image: 1,000 000,000,000 pixels.
The software giant's Terapixel project stitched together 1,791 pairs of red-light and blue-light plates from telescopes in California and Australia. The result is the map above, which covers the night sky of the northern and southern hemispheres. Read more »
I’ve previously reported on my Kindle and Ipad purchases. Both are great technology so I am happy to praise both. Though I must say that – given its connectability to any part of the WEB – the range of things you can do with Ipad is much greater. And OK, this is fairly bourgeois, but the colour screen is a winner. Ipad is a fair bit more expensive than Kindle so you are paying for the extra capability – if you only wanted an E-reader Kindle might hacve an edge. The only real advantage of the Kindle for me was access to the enormous Amazon.com E-bookshop. But now that is gone too since Kindle provide an APP for Ipad that allows download and purchasing items direct from Amazon.com. I did this over the weekend and I think its navifgation potential within a document is better than Kindle.
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