newVideoPlayer("/themisrecon1.flv", 506, 423,""); Five NASA satellites from the THEMIS mission were recently able to closely witness the chain of events that occurs to create the northern lights for the first time. Complex stuff going on here, but it involves the Earth’s massive electromagnetic fields being stretched to their limits by magnetic bombardment from the sun, and then snapping back into place like giant rubber bands, all of which the five THEMIS birds were able to witness at precisely the right moment. Awesome. "Explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon," says NASA, "power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis...We discovered what makes the Northern Lights dance." The process is called magnetic reconnection (check back to that incredible video of visible magnetic field lines for a general idea) and when we’re talking about the fields generated ...
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Hector Ruiz steps down as AMD CEOFrom: iklangadget.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 15:56:00
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Don’t say the writing wasn’t already littering the walls, because it was. Just months after AMD hacked its workforce by 10% and let its CTO walk away without being replaced, the company’s second CEO after Jerry Sanders has spent his last day in AMD’s biggest corner office. Hector Ruiz has decided to walk away from his role in the flagging outfit, leaving his right hand man (that would be Dirk Meyer) to take over whatever there is...
more Voodoo’s Envy 133 gets handled by Maximum PCFrom: iklangadget.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 15:23:00
Filed under: Laptops
The folks over at Maximum PC have gotten themselves a chance to go face-to-face (and tongue-to-laptop) with Voodoo’s newest show-off -- the Envy 133 -- and they’ve shared with the rest of the world. There’s not much to say based on these pictures, save that they clearly were stoked to be getting this close to the sexed-up excuse for maxing out a credit card. If you hit the read link, you’ll catch a slew of pictures, some size comparisons with ...
more ASUS’ Chinese site reveals Eee PC 900 with 30GB hard driveFrom: iklangadget.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 14:55:00
Filed under: LaptopsAs if it wasn’t already clear that ASUS has descended into self-parody, the company’s Chinese website has now revealed yet another Eee PC model which, by our estimation, brings the total number of variations to about on par with the number of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors. This latest model, dubbed the Eee PC 900 30G, boasts a 30GB hard drive in place of the usual 12GB or 20GB SSD drive, and is apparently set to be available in both black and white Linux v...
more Question of the Day: What is Your Take on Push Email? Love it, Hate It, Or Somewhere In Between? [Question Of The Day]From: iklangadget.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 14:30:00
I don’t know about you, but I receive far too many emails to be messing around with push email. Those emails constantly chiming in annoy me, which is why I have everything set to manual update. However, that is certainly not the case with everyone. Some people really need to be on top of every email, while others receive only a few emails here and there—so the need for push updates varies. So, I have to ask: What is your take on push email? Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you&...
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