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• Chrome's Close Tab Behaviour Analysed

  "Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching? This is a short piece concerned only wi ...

• Psion PDAs Resurrected?

  UMPCPortal reports on a new 3G-connected handheld computer called the PsiXpda: PsiXPDA UMPC Launches in UK, US, Europe. Apparently, PsiXpda is made by a former Psion engineer with rights to use the Psion 5 series design, which explains that familiar sliding clamshell shape.

• *Storing Your Data on the Internet: Ignorant and S ...

  Now that everything is moving to the cloud internet, you might think that data loss is a thing of the past. Sadly, as the past few months have taught us, this actually isn't true; we first had the Microsoft/Danger disaster, and now we have Palm and Sprint facing a class-action lawsuit over data loss ...

• Microsoft Merges Windows Server, Azure Divisions

  "In a much anticipated move, Microsoft has created the Server & Cloud Division within the Server & Tools Business that merges the Windows Azure and the Windows Server & Solutions groups. The move shows that Azure isn't just an advanced development project for the software giant, and the company is r ...

• Apple Launches RSS Feed for iPhone Developer News

  "Apple announced an RSS feed for iPhone developers, opening a communication channel for news and announcements surrounding the App Store. Although the App Store has proven a considerable success for Apple, currently hosting more than 100,000 apps, its size and exponential growth have led to outsider ...

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• New Study Shows Solar System Is Uncommon

  Iddo Genuth writes "Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are need ...

• ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years

  Kligat writes "For the first time since 2003, the International Space Station has utilized the rockets on the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle to dodge leftover remnants of a defunct satellite. The Russian Cosmos-2421 was launched in June 2006 to track Western Navy vessels and is b ...

• Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home

  Ostracus writes to share a new take on the word "treehouse." Engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv have taken the application of tree shaping to the next level, designing everything from streetlamps to houses. "A home built from trees, the researchers said, would be a natural storm protector. ...

• Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter

  KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model where a particle called a "Wino" is responsible. R ...

• Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label

  Anti-Globalism writes to tell us that in a new book titled The Numerati, author Stephen Baker introduces us to some of the math wizardry that is used to label or track our movements through purchases, phone calls, internet usage and other habits. "One of the most promising laboratories for the Numer ...

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