Last week, Brookhaven National Lab hosted a press tour of their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider , one of only two active particle colliders in the US. The tour also included a briefing on the work that Brookhaven scientists are doing at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. We’ll cover the information in more detail in the near future, but we wanted to share some of the great photos we were able to take during the tour.
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feature: A photo tour of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
A rather surprising article hit the front page of the BBC on Tuesday: the next generation of hard disks could cause slowdowns for XP users . Not normally the kind of thing you’d expect to be placed so prominently, but the warning it gives is a worthy one, if timed a bit oddly
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feature: Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users
Several weeks ago, Federal Communications Commission press person Jen Howard sent me a note, apologizing for not responding to one of my e-mails. “I’ll only forgive you if you can get me 30 minutes with Blair Levin ,” I jokingly replied. Guess I should kid around with the FCC more often, because when Levin, the FCC’s lead on broadband planing, was in San Francisco for a conference on Wednesday, I got the interview
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feature: The end of analog: Blair Levin on the National Broadband Plan
More than fifty million netbooks have been sold since the phenomenon’s beginnings in late 2007, and of those, only a small fraction run Windows 7. With cheap licenses available in family packs and academic discounts, and XP installs increasingly decrepit, ugly, and vulnerable to malware, lots of Windows 7 upgrades are going to happen.
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feature: Seven steps to netbook marital bliss with Windows 7
The number of music buyers in the world tanked in 2009 compared to just two years prior, according to market research firm NPD Group.
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P2P use down, but 24M fewer people bought music in ‘09 vs ‘07
Excitement about the approach of the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan, due March 17, is inspiring ever more dramatic calls for greater high-speed Internet connectivity in the United States.
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feature: Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps ‘Net connections
Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser is coming to Google’s Linux-based Android operating system . Although the porting effort is still at an early stage of development, it is moving forward swiftly
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feature: Hands-on and under the hood: Ars tests Firefox on Android
Even if you’re a compulsive tweeter, you probably didn’t know what Twitter was a year ago. The 140-character broadcast machine has gone far beyond updating your friends about dinner plans, and, for those who use it, Twitter is slowly melding with the fabric of life and work
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feature: Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit
