NASA’s James Hansen, a controversial and highly vocal voice of alarm about the planet’s changing climate, will retire as the director of the Goddard space institute, NASA announced Tuesday — and plans to immediately sue his former employer.
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NASA top climate scientist James Hansen to retire from Goddard Institute, sue gov’t
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on April 2, 2013
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Magician & Investigator James Randi Talks Directly to You (Video)
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on April 2, 2013
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Last week James Randi answered your questions. But that was text, and he’s a performer (“The Amazing Randi”), so you need to hear the man talk to get his full flavor. He’s a good talker, too. So Rob Rozeboom (samzenpus) got on Skype with The Amazing Randi to talk about his exploits, including his debunking of a whole bunch of (alleged) frauds, ranging from Uri Geller to Sylvia Browne. The resulting interview was so long and so strong that we cut it in half. Today you see Part One. Tomorrow you’ll see Part Two. (The video’s here now; sorry about the delay.)
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James Bond test drives the new 2014 Range Rover Sport
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on March 27, 2013
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James Cameron Gives Sub To Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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on March 26, 2013
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A year ago James Cameron made history by traveling solo almost seven miles deep in an area of the Pacific Ocean known the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep. He made the trip in a submersible he helped design, the Deepsea Challenger submersible system and science platform. To celebrate the anniversary, Cameron is forming a partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and donating the Deep Sea Challenger. From the press release: “Cameron will transfer the Deepsea Challenger to Woods Hole, where WHOI scientists and engineers will work with Cameron and his team to incorporate the sub’s numerous engineering advancements into future research platforms and deep-sea expeditions. This partnership harnesses the power of public and private investment in supporting deep-ocean science. “The seven years we spent designing and building the Deepsea Challenger were dedicated to expanding the options available to deep-ocean researchers. Our sub is a scientific proof-of-concept, and our partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a way to provide the technology we developed to the oceanographic community,” says Cameron. James even sent us a few early drawings of the Deepsea Challenger that he made during a conversation with oceanographer Don Walsh in November 2003. The sketches are proof that many great ideas start out on napkins or lined paper.
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BB10 is ready to ship, BlackBerry’s marketing department does its best Etta James parody (video)
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on March 19, 2013
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Their phones are fine and dandy, but we liked the band before it sold out.
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James Webb Space Telescope ready for its wings, on track for 2018 launch
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on March 16, 2013
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What’s a spacecraft need wings for? Packaging, of course. The James Webb Space telescope relies on a 21 foot diameter backplane mirror to steady it, but the assembly needs to fit inside of a 16.5 foot fairing to ride the rocket to the stars. A tight fit, to say the least. Fortunately, NASA technicians have just finished the mirror backplate support structure, a folding wing assembly designed with to safely collapse the beryllium mirror during flight, and expand it again in orbit. “This is another milestone that helps move Webb closer to its launch date in 2018,” remarked Geoff Yoder, the program’s director. Now that the wing assembly is finished, the team can focus on the support fixture for the instrument model, which will complete major construction and allow technicians to connect the finished pieces. We’ll miss old Hubble, sure, but we’re happy to see its successor pulling things together all the same.
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NASA James Webb Space Telescope arrives at SXSW
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on March 9, 2013
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The scientists and engineers of NASA were able to bring the NASA James Webb Space Telescope to SXSW despite terrible weather conditions. The telescope, which is set to be officially released in 2018, will be able to peer farther into the universe to discover all of the crazy and interesting mysteries that Space has to
James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Dive
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on December 5, 2012
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gbrumfiel writes “James Cameron has released the first batch of scientific results from his historic dive in March to bottom of the Mariana trench and an earlier series of test dives in the New Britain Trench. The Mariana Trench dive was the deepest by a human since 1960. Some of the most interesting results came from trips to the seafloor made by robotic vehicles built by Cameron’s team. At the bottom of the trench, one of those robots found bizarre carpets of microbes coating rocks, that scientists say may have implications for the origins of life on Earth and other planets.”
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My Best Tech Gift Ever: Meeting James ‘Scotty’ Doohan
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on December 4, 2012
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What’s even better than a Magnavox HeadStart 500 with a CD-ROM drive? For CNET’s Jeff Sparkman, it’s getting the chance to meet a geek icon. [Read more]
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James Bond in space: The world’s favorite spy soars
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on November 9, 2012
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The Engadget Interview: ARM’s Lead Mobile Strategist James Bruce (video)
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on November 5, 2012
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Last week we got the chance to spend a few minutes with James Bruce, ARM’s Lead Mobile Strategist, to chat about the company’s past, present and future. We discussed the recent Cortex A50 announcement and ARM’s broad history — including key products like the Nokia 6110 and how the company’s chip designs have “changed how people compute and lead their digital life” over the past five years. We also talked about the scalability and flexibility of the ARM architecture, from embedded systems to smartphones and tablets to servers. So what’s in the pockets of one of the most important people in the chip world? A Nexus 7 and a global Galaxy S III, it turns out. Go ahead and watch the full interview above.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Mobile
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Xbox gamer to become next James Bond?
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on October 20, 2012
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James Bond tech still beyond reach — but nearing
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on October 3, 2012
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Wikipad CEO James Bower defends his gaming tablet’s $500 pricing, why one device beats two
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on September 28, 2012
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No matter which way you cut it, the Android-based Wikipad gaming tablet — dubbed as much despite not having any connection to Wikipedia — is unusually expensive. As a 10.1-inch Android tablet, it’s comparably priced with the leaders of the market (of the Apple and Samsung variety). The obvious problem comparatively with the big dogs: visibility. What is Wikipad, anyway? And who made it?
“This is our first product into the market,” consummate salesman and Wikipad CEO James Bower told us in an interview earlier this week — yes, the company’s name is shared with its first product. “We’ve self-funded the whole concept to this point with a couple of us founders. No VC money or anything,” he said (the company did, however, just close its first round of venture capital funding for marketing costs, post-development). Bower’s company took the idea of an Android-based gaming tablet with a proprietary, physical (and removable) gamepad from concept to reality in the last year, first revealing the tablet at CES 2012. “We’ve been able to accomplish a lot very efficiently and very effectively to this point,” Bower said, in reference to the approximately 80 people who created the device.
That said, despite our positive hands-on time with the Wikipad (even in its prototype state), $ 500 is a heck of a lot of money to plunk down on an unproven device from an unproven company. The argument gets harder when you remember Sony’s PlayStation Vita — an arguably much nicer device with a far larger library of gaming content that costs half the Wikipad’s price at $ 249.99. Bower doesn’t see the logic in this argument. “It’s double the price, but it’s also double the size,” he pointed out. “If you buy a tablet that’s seven inches, you can get a $ 199 tablet — it’s called a Google Nexus or a Kindle Fire. If you’re gonna get a full 10-inch tablet, a tablet to this quality, you’re gonna spend $ 499 to $ 749 … if we were talking about a 7-inch device or a 5-inch device, and we were at this price point, then it’d be a different story.” Admittedly, the tablet — as a standalone device — isn’t too shabby. But will it woo consumers away from the likes of Apple and Samsung? Bower hopes as much, but we’re not so sure.
Gallery: Wikipad hands-on
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Mirrors finished for NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope
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on August 21, 2012
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Domo’s Josh James: We’re Making Every Employee Embrace Social Media, And It’s Paying Off
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on June 24, 2012
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Back in May, Josh James, the co-founder of analytics company Omniture and now CEO of business intelligence startup Domo, announced an eyebrow-raising idea: He was kicking off an eight-week initiative that would require every one of Domo’s 130 employees to become active on social media. Now James says the initiative is paying off, and he has numbers and anecdotes to back it up.
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Google and James Cameron to hunt for natural resources on asteroids
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on April 21, 2012
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How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic
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on April 9, 2012
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MrSeb writes with ExtremeTech’s account of how director (and deep sea explorer) James Cameron spent a reported $ 18 million converting his blockbuster movie, Titantic, to 3D. The article “looks at the primary way of managing depth in 3D films (parallax), how you add depth to a movie that was originally filmed in 2D, and some of the software (both computer and human-brain) difficulties that Cameron had to overcome in the more-than-two-year process to convert Titanic into 3D.”
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James Cameron alters Titanic in one tiny way
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on April 4, 2012
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James Cameron’s epic 1997 movie “Titanic” is about to be re-released and re-packaged in a 3D presentation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ocean liner on April 15, 1912. Although few changes have been made to the movie itself, there is one tweak that will impress astronomers.
Exploring the deep: Director James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge
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on March 26, 2012
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The director of “Titanic,” “Avatar” and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles to the deepest point on Earth, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. local time on Monday, March 26. Read more
James Cameron hits the world’s floor — and returns
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on March 26, 2012
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The director pilots a submersible to the ocean’s deepest point in the Mariana Trench, becoming the first person to make the nearly 7-mile dive alone. Naturally, a 3-D film is in the works.
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James Cameron Begins His Deep-Sea Dive
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on March 25, 2012
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James Cameron is on his way down. The director’s long-planned trip to the deepest spot on Earth — the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep — is in progress; by the time you read this, if all goes well, Cameron will be navigating around in depths unvisited since 1960. National Geographic’s coverage of the dive is excellent as well, as is the BBC’s (with video).
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James Cameron to make solo dive 6.8 miles into the ocean abyss
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on March 9, 2012
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Director James Cameron has made some of the coolest movies out there for science fiction fans with hits such as Avatar and The Terminator. Cameron is sent to take a real world life risking adventure that will break records if successful. Cameron will squeeze into a submarine called Deepsea Challenger and plunge to the bottom
DARPA’s ‘Avatar project’ aims to give soldiers surrogate robots, make James Cameron proud
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on February 19, 2012
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In a fevered mash up of blockbuster films directed by James Cameron, DARPA is looking to put soldier controlled bi-pedal robots on the battlefield. Think Terminator meets Avatar. The agency has set aside $ 7 million of it’s $ 2.8 billion 2012 budget to develop an “Avatar program” that will “develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.” DARPA isn’t talking about simple remote control rigs, either — these ‘bots are being designed to clear rooms, and facilitate sentry control and combat casualty recovery. The new budget also sets aside $ 4.1 million to design laser countermeasures to protect military weapons, well, lasers — ensuring that the future’s robot soldiers will be nigh indestructible when they rebel against their human hosts.
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Complete James Bond Kit Coming to Blu-Ray
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on January 11, 2012
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