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In mid-November of 2009 there appeared a file on the Internet containing thousands of emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. How this file got into the public domain is still uncertain, but the emails, whose authenticity is no longer in question, provided a view into the world of climate research that was revealing and even startling.

In what has come to be known as “climategate,” one could see unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation. The Climatic Research Unit is …

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2011 Porsche Cayenne review video

The journalists from AutoExpress shot this 2011 Porsche Cayenne review video putting the new SUV at work both on- and off-road.

The 2011 Porsche Cayenne has been unveiled back in back in February and it will be put on sale with a price tag starting at 46,400 Euro.

The top of the range 2011 Porsche Cayenne Turbo will go for 96,900 Euro.

The German carmaker will also offer a hybrid version of the 2011 Porsche Cayenne, but this one will set you back 65,900 Euro.

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Trine is a platformer that screams of uniqueness and art-style. Frozen Byte’s puzzle/platformer combo is by far one of the best games I’ve played recently in the action/adventure/puzzle/platformer hybrid/mix/#lotsofslashes genre. With a wizened narrator telling you this fantastic tale of three (two reluctant and one super-excited) heroes out on a journey to save the kingdom from the undead scourge. Sounds simple enough? Well, you can switch between Wizard, Thief or Knight by pressing 1, 2 or 3. What is the logic behind this? Well, their souls are bound – so they share the same body, but different souls!

The game is also unique in the fact that it mashes up a fantasy setting with realistic physics. Throw crates and stones at your enemies with Knight, or swing from wood and shoot at the skeletons with Thief. Feeling creative? Well, Wizard has you covered as you can make crates and floating platforms with mouse gestures! There are many ways of solving puzzles and getting secret items in Trine and with four difficulty levels, the game can be played through many times!

The game on Steam is available for $5 – 75% off from its original price of $19.99. The update features the v1.07 patch that adds a new level called Path to New Dawn! Also, however much I show you pictures of the game, nothing will tell you just how gorgeous it really is. You can try out a demo here, or watch the video below.

Have fun playing it and tell us how you liked it in the comments!

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ABC, CBS and NBC ignore ClimateGate scandal and still advance left-wing global warming agenda.

It’s been a rough five months for the credibility of many of the “leading” climate scientists.

First, the ClimateGate e-mails appeared to show unethical or illegal behavior of high profile scientists and a potential conspiracy to distort science for political gain. These weren’t just a few renegade scientists; in the following months, damning information came to light about the world’s leading climate alarmists and their work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Stern Report, the U.S. National Climate Data Center and even NASA.

Even with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day coming up on April 22, Americans are skeptical about the threat of climate change. A March 2010 Gallup poll found that 48 percent of Americans think the threat of global warming is “generally exaggerated.” That’s the highest in 13 years, according to Gallup.

The public’s receding fear of climate change may be related to the series of scandals and admissions that have been uncovered since Nov. 20 when e-mails from University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were leaked. Those e-mails provided “ammunition” to climate skeptics about the authenticity and ethics surrounding the CRU’s work on global warming science.

The networks news media were unshaken by the apparent bad behavior on the part of the very climate scientists and organizations whose claims they had pushed for years. Less than 10 percent of stories mentioning global warming or climate change since Nov. 20, 2009, referenced any of the climate science scandals.

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Article Tags: UK Election 2010

Ed Miliband accuses of Lib Dems of ‘ducking’ difficult issues at special debate organised by Guardian

Important differences between the major parties on the environment emerged last night, as they clashed over nuclear power, wind farms, expanding flying, and the number of climate change sceptics in their ranks. Despite similar-sounding manifestos, Labour’s climate and energy secretary Ed Miliband and his Conservative and Liberal Democrat shadow spokesmen attacked each other’s policies at a special debate organised by the Guardian.

On the Labour government’s planned expansion of Heathrow airport – which is opposed by the other two parties – Tory spokesman Greg Clark was forced to deny his party wants to expand another airport in the south-east. It is an idea supported by at least one shadow cabinet colleague and the Tory London mayor Boris Johnson. Speaking at the Guardian’s special green hustings, Clark said: “We have no plans to build another runway in the south-east.” Aviation critics, however, pointed out that this did not rule out increasing the use of a smaller airport such as Luton.

While Labour and the Conservatives agreed on new nuclear power stations, Miliband accused the Lib Dems of “ducking” difficult issues, and asked their spokesman Simon Hughes to explain how his party would meet their pledge to cut electricity emissions without it.

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Eco Factor: Temporary structure made from reclaimed materials.

Ann Ha and Behrang Behin’s “Living Pavilion” has been selected as the winner of the first-ever annual pavilion competition organized by several architects. The winning project will be assembled on Governors Island in New York City this spring, where it will provide refuge from the heat.

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Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. And for the first time in many years, people, as well as companies have been actually working hard to go green all year long, instead of just doing something special on Earth Day alone. For example, we have previously talked about gadgets or old computer parts being recycled into kitschy wares. For instance, Steampunking was born from recycled old junk. Supermarkets and drugstores are selling reusable canvas bags so that way you can opt out of using plastic ones. Many banks, credit card companies, and utility companies have all gone green by offering paperless billing. Staples and AT&T are helping the cause by setting up drop off locations for discarded gadgets. Also, new generations of power strips and chargers are taking into consideration vampire energy, that not only sucks up electricity but wastes your money. Lastly, we must not forget the hybrid cars that are slowly but surely hitting the roads. This is not bad progress over a 40 year period, but there is still a ways to go. For now, check out the list below of the latest green innovations or activities you can participate in this week.

AT&T is sponsoring the Earth Day Network’s Earth Week event and hosting an interactive, solar-powered exhibit in Washington D.C. through April 25 on the National Mall. Additionally, today marks the launch of AT&T’s “One Million Eco Challenge,” a year-long program to engage one million youth around eco-friendly practices. AT&T customers can text ECO to 42345 to opt in for eco tips and Earth Week events provided by Earth Day Network and sustainability updates from AT&T.

Puma and Fuseproject just announced Puma’s Clever Little Bag. This new concept on shoeboxes is that it is no longer a box but a bag that will  replace the brand’s shoeboxes. Puma’s Clever Little Bag uses 65% less cardboard than your average shoebox. It consists of a  non-woven mesh and the recycled materials and it can be used as bag! Puma and fuseproject expect that Puma will reduce its use of water, energy and diesel consumption by more than 60% a year just because of this new unique design. Now if that doesn’t encourage you to buy their shoes, I don’t know what will.

If you can’t do something earth friendly today, why not fund an environmental classroom project.  DonorsChoose.Org lets you give a modest donation in order to help students plant trees, create a garden, study the atmosphere, and more. There is a plethora of projects to choose from and not only will it be good for the earth but educational for kids too.

SodaStream offers a selection of soda makers that look a bit retro, yet they are high tech and eco-friendly in concept. Prepare carbonated sodas at home without having to lug home heavy cans or bottles home because there is no bottles, cans, electricity or clean-up for that matter needed. Just add tap water and get ready to drink a cold beverage without hurting the environment.

Lastly Honeywell launched “Add Honeywell,” a new website that demonstrates how the company’s technologies and innovations are making the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive. Through their new website  you’ll be able to see Honeywell’s technologies in aerospace, homes, refineries, commercial buildings, and automobiles and its effect on the environment.

Reader btr1701 submitted this story about the UK testing speed cameras that “trap motorists from space.” Although the Telegraph article conjures up images of Big Brother spying on drivers from satellites, the facts are (somewhat) less sinister. The system essentially combines license plate recognition with GPS, taking advantage of the GPS to make the cameras more portable and easy to deploy.

As we’ve discussed before, plate capture technology has been shown to be abused in the UK, so any system that further proliferates the use of these cameras is cause for concern. After all, the main benefit of this new system is that it allows a camera to be quickly deployed virtually anywhere. As a result, those looking to avoid known camera installations will have a harder time, once these become more commonplace. So, while this is not a full blown “Big Brother in space” implementation, it does exacerbate an already troubling situation.

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by Jonathan Hiskes

Courtesy Atlanta Journal ConstitutionThe rallies that get all the attention these days are about stopping new
initiatives, like health-care reform. But here we’ve got rallies about
defending part of the shared social fabric.

Off-duty public transit workers in Atlanta plastered large red X’s on
buses and trains (with permission) to highlight the severe budget shortfall
that threatens as much as 30 percent of the city’s transit network. Riders
joined them in calling on state legislators to protect the transit network, asking
for both short- and long-term relief for the system, which has a $120 million
operating deficit.

It’s the first in a series of eight “Save Transit!” rallies around the
country organized by the Transportation
Equity Network (TEN), an alliance of local advocacy groups. They’re aimed
at state lawmakers who can help bail out the transit systems. Events are
scheduled for Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Paul, San
Francisco, Kansas City, and St. Louis.

There are hundreds more cities with networks under threat: Fifty-nine
percent (!) of public transit systems have cut service or raised fares since
January 2009 and many others are considering similar steps, according to a recent report by the American Public Transportation
Association. The Transportation for America campaign has a chilling map of regional transit systems under threat.

“America’s transit systems are in crisis just when we need them the most—for access to jobs, education, health care and opportunity,” Laura Barrett,
executive director of TEN, said in a prepared statement. “Service cuts and fare
hikes are hitting low-income people, people of color, students, retirees and
the disabled especially hard, and they’re robbing all of us of a proven engine
of economic growth. TEN is calling on Congress to keep America moving by
letting our transit agencies use federal funds for operating expenses.”

Elana Schor at Streetsblog DC reports on the corresponding inaction in Washington:

Despite the Obama
administration’s infusion of $8.4 billion in stimulus money and public goodwill, transit budgets remain stretched to the
breaking point amid no sign of Senate movement on the second round of infrastructure spending that the House
approved in December.

Meanwhile, a
financial regulatory overhaul and an upcoming climate change bill continue to
dominate the upper chamber’s schedule, leaving some of the capital’s leading
transportation policy players to abandon hope of a new jobs bill before
November’s midterm elections.

Maybe the better
approach would be to mark our lawmakers with red X’s—fire a senator, keep a
bus line running. Or put the senators to work driving buses? It might be good for them to do something useful.

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Eco Factor: Zero-emission vehicle gets an operating range of 345 miles on a single charge.

One of the biggest hurdles in the global adoption of electric vehicles is their slow speed and less operating range, which makes EVs impractical for a long drive. With frequent updates in battery technology, Sanyo has powered a Daihatsu Mira EV for 345 miles on a single charge, making a new Guinness World Record.

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BBC The Beauty of Maps: Seeing the Art in Cartograpy [bbc.co.uk] is yet another example of a BBC television series which focuses on matters concerning data visualization. It is another proof how visualization is becoming an interesting feature in popular press.

While the online video clips are restricted to people living in the UK (snif), foreigners are still able to explore a couple of compelling example projects, such as a NASA Map of the dark side of the Moon, Phillippe Bourcier’s map of the movement of data on the Internet, the most complete map of the universe, a map of social conversations on blogs, next to a whole section dedicated to historical maps. The last episode even delves inside the world of political and satirical maps.

People living in the UK are welcome to make the rest of us jealous, and describe the quality of the series in the comments section below.

In the meantime, others have the chance to marvel at YouTube’s surprising top search results of the query “beauty of maps“.

Eco Factor: Zero-emission vehicle powered by electric engine.

Electric Cars of Springfield, Ecos Motors, has unveiled its second electric vehicle after the Lamborghini-styled Harbinger. The newly launched vehicle, dubbed Fun seems to be inspired by the Jeep and has been designed to offer a cost-effective EV to those who’re eagerly waiting for a zero-emission transport alternative.

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has unveiled more information about its forthcoming Bluetooth Core Specification 4.0 that is expected to start appearing in devices late this year or early in 2011. Central to the new spec, which will replace the Bluetooth v3.0 + HS standard that was officially adopted on April 21, 2009, is a low energy mode designed to enable the expansion of Bluetooth technology into a range of low power devices, such as watches, remote controls, and a variety of medical and in-home sensors…
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Small newspost to round out the night, but it has been announced a member of the infamous “Dev-Team”, Planetbeing, has managed to port Android’s Mobile OS to the Apple iPhone.

The iPhone Dev Team is responsible for a number of tools that circumvent the iPhone’s security, and the fact that they’ve been able to throw Android on the iPhone is kind of a big deal. As far as I know, this is the first time anyone’s been able to throw a completely different manufacturer’s OS onto the device.

Whether this is just a side project (which is still in alpha, by the way) or something that opens up a realm of multi-booting possibilities, it’s great to see Android being worked with in new and creative ways.

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I’m a little late with this one, my apologies. Rory let us know that Twinkler Software is having a Spring Cleaning Sale on two of their apps: InstantLog and WiFiHero. The sale began today and will run through Friday. How much of a sale? How bout $.99 for each one? That’s a great savings of over 75% to 80%! And the even better part? How bout no coupons or codes? Just hurry and grab your apps!

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New phone by Dell this little beast is codenamed Smoke and it kinda resembeles the Samsung Blackjack but thats as far the comparisons go the Smoke is one hell of a phone and it will make babies cry. The Dell Smoke wont be out on the streets till 2011 next year 2nd Quarter which is pretty sad but with the phone looking so hot and sexy along with its 2.8 QVGA display we can wait another year.Information known about the Dell Smoke right now is that it will run on Android 2.2 Froyo

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This is the first quantum computing post in a couple of months. This is a promising finding.

The release:

Bizarre matter could find use in quantum computers

Rice physicists: Odd electron mix has fault-tolerant quantum registry

		IMAGE: From left, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du, graduate students Chi Zhang and Yanhua Dai, and former postdoctoral researcher Tauno Knuuttila (not pictured) have found that odd groupings of ultracold electrons could… Click here for more information.

HOUSTON — (April 21, 2010) — There are enticing new findings this week in the worldwide search for materials that support fault-tolerant quantum computing. New results from Rice University and Princeton University indicate that a bizarre state of matter that acts like a particle with one-quarter electron charge also has a “quantum registry” that is immune to information loss from external perturbations.

The research appeared online April 21 in Physical Review Letters. The team of physicists found that ultracold mixes of electrons caught in magnetic traps could have the necessary properties for constructing fault-tolerant quantum computers — future computers that could be far more powerful than today’s computers. The mixes of electrons are dubbed “5/2 quantum Hall liquids” in reference to the unusual quantum properties that describe their makeup.

“The big goal, the whole driving force, besides deep academic curiosity, is to build a quantum computer out of this,” said the study’s lead author Rui-Rui Du, professor of physics at Rice. “The key for that is whether these 5/2 liquids have ‘topological’ properties that would render them immune to the sorts of quantum perturbations that could cause information degradation in a quantum computer.”

Du said the team’s results indicate the 5/2 liquids have the desired properties. In the parlance of condensed-matter physics, they are said to represent a “non-Abelian” state of matter.

Non-Abelian is a mathematical term for a system with “noncommutative” properties. In math, commutative operations, like addition, are those that have the same outcome regardless of the order in which they are carried out. So, one plus two equals three, just as two plus one equals three. In daily life, commutative and noncommutative tasks are commonplace. For example, when doing the laundry, it doesn’t matter if the detergent is added before the water or the water before the detergent, but it does matter if the clothes are washed before they’re placed in the dryer.

“It will take a while to fully understand the complete implications of our results, but it is clear that we have nailed down the evidence for ’spin polarization,’ which is one of the two necessary conditions that must be proved to show that the 5/2 liquids are non-Abelian,” Du said. “Other research teams have been tackling the second condition, the one-quarter charge, in previous experiments.”

The importance of the noncommutative quantum properties is best understood within the context of fault-tolerant quantum computers, a fundamentally new type of computer that hasn’t been built yet.

Computers today are binary. Their electrical circuits, which can be open or closed, represent the ones and zeros in binary bits of information. In quantum computers, scientists hope to use “quantum bits,” or qubits. Unlike binary ones and zeros, the qubits can be thought of as little arrows that represent the position of a bit of quantum matter. The arrow might represent a one if it points straight up or a zero if it points straight down, but it could also represent any number in between. In physics parlance, these arrows are called quantum “states.” And for certain complex calculations, being able to represent information in many different states would present a great advantage over binary computing.

The upshot of the 5/2 liquids being non-Abelian is that they have a sort of “quantum registry,” where information doesn’t change due to external quantum perturbations.

“In a way, they have internal memory of their previous state,” Du said.

The conditions needed to create the 5/2 liquids are extreme. At Rice, Tauno Knuuttila, a former postdoctoral research scientist in Du’s group, spent several years building the “demagnetization refrigerator” needed to cool 5-millimeter squares of ultrapure semiconductors to within one-10,000th of a degree of absolute zero. It took a week for Knuuttila to simply cool the nearly one-ton instrument to the necessary temperature for the Rice experiments.

The gallium arsenide semiconductors used in the tests are the most pure on the planet. They were created by Loren Pfieiffer, Du’s longtime collaborator at Princeton and Bell Labs. Rice graduate student Chi Zhang conducted additional tests at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla., to verify that the 5/2 liquid was spin- polarized.

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Study co-authors include Zhang, Knuuttila, Pfeiffer, Princeton’s Ken West and Rice’s Yanhua Dai. The research is supported by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Keck Foundation.

Eco Factor: Sustainable floating homes powered by solar energy.

RAFAA Architecture & Design have recently won a competition organized by Internationale Bauausstellung in Germany with a futuristic floating home dubbed “The Last Resort”. The win and adequate funding will make sure that the team beings fabrication on these sleek floating homes by the end of this year.

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