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Can the designer of an $80,000 speaker also make a great $129 one?
2013-07-28 17:16:00| CNET News.com
What do Pioneer's remarkable $129 SP-BS22-LR and TAD's legendary $80,000 Reference speakers have in common? Andrew Jones designed both of them. [Read more]
Heatwaves will make crops produce smaller grains
2013-07-28 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: "The wheat is usually green at this time, but its already gone brown," says Laurence Matthews, overlooking a bone-dry and dusty field on his 3,000-acre farm near Dorking in Surrey. "It's like a tinderbox: there's a real risk of fire." The summer heatwave is having a dramatic effect on his crops. "Without water, the plants just shut down," he says. But it is the twists and turns of increasingly erratic weather that is making farming more difficult, Matthews says. "In spring 2012, it was unbelievably...
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Open-source project Crypton seeks to make encryption easier
2013-07-26 16:46:08| InfoWorld: Top News
An open-source software project aims to give software developers a simple way to wrap encryption into their applications to thwart online surveillance efforts.
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HISPASAT to make Ultra HD channel available
2013-07-25 19:10:17| Digital TV News
HISPASAT has announced that it will soon launch a dedicated channel in Ultra High Definition (Ultra HD). The channel, to be called Hispasat 4K, will be available for use by the television industry.
The future is a desert, but we can make it bloom
2013-07-25 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Over a decade ago, Gary Paul Nabhan moved to the plateau above the Grand Canyon to raise sheep. His timing was terrible: the beginning of one of the worst droughts on record. Some 80 percent of the pine trees around his new home, stressed by lack of water, succumbed to bark beetles. Every time he planted pastures, seedlings would push out of the earth and then wither. He was buying hay year-round, and paying dearly for it: Most of the springs that farmers relied on had gone dry, which meant that...
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