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John Stracke
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Captain Piccard's Solar Impulse starts runway testing

Nov 24th 2009 10:08AM on Engadget

@abracadvr8 Yeah, probably not; I was just trying to be funny.

dig, dig...right, here's the Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse_Project

Top speed is 70 kph (!); they've got LiIon batteries in the wings. The plan is to make five legs of 3-4 days each, switching pilots for each leg.

Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first protonic bang!

Nov 24th 2009 9:21AM on Engadget

@Honza: Yeah, but in Switzerland you've gotta get it up to 142 kph.

Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first protonic bang!

Nov 24th 2009 9:20AM on Engadget

@(Unverified) "You just need a punctiform human" -- Here, hold still.

Datel sues Microsoft, wants its Xbox 360 market back

Nov 24th 2009 9:18AM on Engadget

Your sentence does not parse.

Captain Piccard's Solar Impulse starts runway testing

Nov 24th 2009 9:15AM on Engadget

If you move fast enough, the sun doesn't go down.

You'll go ga ga ga ga ga over Elecom's Like a Spoon mouse

Nov 24th 2009 9:13AM on Engadget

OK, I don't think I've ever said this before, but now I have to:

Gag me with a spoon.

Google Maps Navigation officially comes to Android 1.6

Nov 23rd 2009 3:22PM on Engadget

iPhone apps aren't allowed to provide turn-by-turn navigation. A year or two ago, Apple and Google were friendly enough that Google probably could've gotten an exception; but not now.

(Especially since the iPhone is on AT&T, who want you paying $10/mo for their navigation service.)

Google Maps Navigation officially comes to Android 1.6

Nov 23rd 2009 3:19PM on Engadget

And hey, with this, you won't need a sextant on your sex10.

AT&T's new DataConnect Pass plans serve up data a la carte

Nov 23rd 2009 2:59PM on Engadget

Yeah, but it's kind of a pain hopping across the pond every time I need bandwidth. ;-)

IBM PowerXCell-8i processor said to be last of its kind, but Cell will live on

Nov 23rd 2009 2:13PM on Engadget

Take a look at this paper that just showed up in ACM Queue:

"Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems"
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1658422

The idea is that, since different programs (or the same program at different times) exhibit different levels of parallelism, a machine which has many slow, simple cores and a few fast, complex ones can shift the load around to optimize the performance/power tradeoff. It works only if the various cores have the same instruction set--e.g., an x86 machine with a Larrabee GPU.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I own an iPhone 3G and I'm looking for a decent speaker / alarm clock for it. I am going to listen music in a mid-sized room, so I want nice quality speakers with solid bass. I also want to use it as an alarm clock, so it would be great if there is such a feature. The price can be low-mid to mid-high range. I was looking at the Klipsch iGroove SXT; it's powerful, slick and the reviews are good, but it doesn't have an alarm clock feature. It's no deal breaker if I can set it up from the iPhone, but I'm not sure. Thanks!"

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