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Explosive bursts normally seen only on the surface of the sun can now be captured in a 13-foot-long tube using lab-created plasmas and bursts of laser light.

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Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we're getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows... maybe the phone-maker will decide to throw a new device our way to go along with the OS. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Starting tomorrow, a select (though rather wide, says Palm) group of developers will be able to start toying around with the latest and greatest SDK for the company's mobile operating system, and it looks like the new software brings some tasty morsels to the table that you're definitely going to want to chow down on. We got the scoop directly from Palm on just exactly what kind of changes you'll be seeing in the first version of 2.0, and we've rounded them up in a neatly digestible form below, so read on after the break and get the full story.Continue reading Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting todayPalm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments

The D-pad on the existing 360 controllers is, to put it mildly, utter garbage. If you want to play any games relying on precise movements, such as fighting games, buying a third-party controller is a requirement. Microsoft hopes it has this problem licked, however, and is releasing a controller with a new, updated D-pad on November 9. The catch? You won't be able to buy the controller alone; you'll need to grab the Play and Charge Kit to get it, and the final cost will be $64.99. Read the comments on this post

Controversial social news site Digg has hired Amazon.com's Matt Williams to be its new CEO, according to a scoop by TechCrunch this morning. Williams has more than a decade of experience in online ecommerce and small business services, but little discoverable social media participation. He'll take the helm of a site that was groundbreaking just a few short years ago, still drives more traffic than any other technology news aggregator, but struggles to remain relevant as larger, more general interest ways to share and discover news have arisen. Sponsor Williams will replace site co-founder Kevin Rose at the helm of the ship and Rose will return to the position of chief architect, TechCrunch reports. Rose spent less than 6 months as CEO, a position he told Kara Swisher he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. He led the company after the departure of Jay Adelson, one of young Silicon Valley's most respected executives. All leading sites fall, in time. Williams faces a big challenge in forestalling that fate for Digg.Last week Digg's business development director Matt Van Horn left the company to join former Facebooker Dave Morin's pre-launched startup Path, so there's no shortage of shake-up among Digg's leadership right now. Of course all this is going on in the glow of the site's biggest relaunch in years. Version 4 of Digg offers a more personalized stream of news to users and undercuts the power of the cabal of power users whose shadowy influence has dominated the front page of the influential site for years. The relaunch has been dramatic and controversial. Williams will join Digg in trying to navigate a user revolt, hardly the first one the site has faced. Can Digg remain relevant, much less grow beyond tens of millions of tech fans it has visiting it today? New CEO Williams is not taking on an easy job. All leading sites fall, in time. Williams faces a big challenge in forestalling that fate for Digg. Discuss

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As we mentioned earlier today, some third-party Twitter applications may stop working because Twitter has made some big changes this morning regarding how other applications and websites gain access to your Twitter account. Unfortunately, some unfriendly types out there have tried to take advantage of the situation with a fake Tweetdeck update that is actually a trojan horse virus. Tweetdeck posted a warning on its blog yesterday about the fake update, but today will be the real test, as many of us go searching for the real update. Sponsor If you're seeing what I'm seeing this morning (see above), the only place to go is to the official Tweetdeck website. According to Tweetdeck, there are a number of tweets getting passed around urging users to update to the latest version of Tweetdeck. While many do need to update, the only place users should go to download this update is http://www.tweetdeck.com/desktop/. The tweets about the fake update link to a file named "tweetdeck-08302010-update.exe" and often are from the URL http://alturl.com. The Tweetdeck blog warns that many of the suspect tweets include the following: TweetDeck will work until tomorrow, udate now! 1.Download TweetDeck udate ASAP! 2.Update TweetDeck! 3.Hurry up for tweetdeck update! 4.Sorry for offtopic, but it is a critical TweetDeck update. It won't work tomorrow! Trend Micro researcher Paul Ferguson told Network World that the file is "a generic Trojan horse program that is not detected by most antivirus products", so installing the fake update could be harmful and go completely unnoticed. Discuss

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ShareI often wonder how we attain fulfillment through Social Media. Its an interesting question, and how you answer truly hinders on which school of thought you belong to. Either you immerse yourself in Social Media for yourself. Or you immerse yourself in Social Media for others. Personally, I belong to the former but can understand [...]

Neat little update for Pogoplug owners today: the latest firmware update adds printing support, allowing iPhones, Android devices, and anything else that can hit the diminutive home server's web interface to print files. Any HP or Epson printer from 2005 or later is supported over USB -- network printers just need to be on the same network -- and the firmware is rolling out now. Pogoplug is also shipping that 802.11 b/g/n wireless adapter it announced earlier this month today, as well as the more enterprise-focused Pogoplug Biz. We're also told the new firmware will enable some other features, but there's no breakdown yet -- we'll let you know when we find out. PR after the break.Continue reading Pogoplug adds printing support, wireless adapter and Biz start shippingPogoplug adds printing support, wireless adapter and Biz start shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | |Email this|Comments

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I was woken in the middle of the night by this(along with the sound of my cat getting ready to pee on the rug). Think about it. It'll be just like Colbert's mockery of GW Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondent's Dinner, but 500,000 people will be able to participate with him. We'll all stay totally in character as teabaggers. The kid with the microphone that interviews all the idiots at these things can come by and we'll ramble into his microphone. This would be the high water mark of American satire. Half a million people pretending to suspend all rational thought in unison. Perfect harmony. It'll feel like San Francisco in the late 60s, only we won't be able to get any acid. I know you're out there somewhere, Stephen, watching LOLcat gifs along side us. We need you. There's no way to have a logical public discussion with the teabaggers. The best we can do is to mimic them. Show them a mirror and hopefully some will realize how ridiculous they actually are... Or maybe they won't even realize that they're being mocked, which could be even more awesome. Note: This is a repost. First one never popped into New. submitted by mrsammercer to politics [link] [8 comments]

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