Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake
By Olivia Solon, Wired UK
A team of British researchers are preparing to dig down through three-kilometer-thick ice to sample a lake under the Antarctic in the hope of finding new species and clues about the future impact of climate change.
A team of engineers with 70 tonnes of gear are to head for Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica. The lake has been isolated from the outside world for at least 125,000 years — but it could be as many as a million. It’s about 10km long and two to three kilometers wide.The team’s mission is to prepare the way for the “deep-field” research missi...
Skyfire Lightens Up Online Video by Transcoding in the Cloud
“Client-aware cloud” is one of the buzzwords that Intel was pushing at IDF 2011, and despite the chipmaker’s ulterior motive for wanting to see synergy (read: “vendor lock-in”) between (x86-powered) cloud clients and (x86-powered) cloud servers, there’s definitely something to larger idea that the cloud should know something about and tailor data for the clients that are connected to it. HTTP proxies like Amazon’s Silk and Opera Mini before it (not that these are the same thing) are part of this client-aware cloud trend, as is Skyfire‘s new Rocket Optimizer 2.0 service.
Skyfire is probably...
HTC voit la vie en Extra Large
Quelque peu éclipsée par la keynote présentant l’iPhone 4S et surtout par la mort du gourou de la marque à la pomme, HTC tenait jeudi dernier, à Londres, une conférence où la marque taiwanaise a dévoilé le HTC Sensation XL ; elle en profite également pour nous présenter des chiffres format… XXL !
Un smartphone pas si « XL » que ça…
HTC Sensation XL, c’est sous ce nom que la marque taiwanaise a dévoilé la version grand format de son HTC Sensation, présenté en avril dernier. Avec un écran de 4.7 pouces, on comprend mieux le qualificatif de XL ! C’est 0.4 pouces de plus que le Sensation premier du ...