Topic: NEWS - on December 14, 2007 at 3:38:00 PM CET
The transistor turns 60
The transistor, the ubiquitous building block of all electronic circuits, will be 60 years old on Sunday. The device is jointly credited to William Shockley (1910-1989), John Bardeen (1908-1991) and Walter Brattain (1902-1987), and it was Bardeen and Brattain who made the first working point-contact transistor on 16 December 1947.
The Transistor and the Dawn of the Information Age Wikipedia.org
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Topic: VIDEO - on December 14, 2007 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Hand written J.K. Rowlings book sells for 4,000,000 dollars!
BBC reports on a hand written book for J.K. Rowlings that was auctioned off for a record breaking price.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 14, 2007 at 3:29:00 PM CET
Rudy Giuliani made millions off domestic spying
Keith Olbermann explains how Rudy Giuliani appears to have made large sums of money in the domestic spying scandal.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 14, 2007 at 2:12:00 PM CET
Top 10 famous celebrities arrested in 2007
Like most of the media world, we here at MTV News obsess and argue relentlessly over our year-end top 10s.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 14, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Top 10 Celebrity Sex Tapes in 2007 - links included.
Here’s a list of 10 celebrities who have sex tapes in circulation, or have rumored sex tapes that might surface anytime soon. This exclusive post was constructed from the list of articles in our archive.
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Topic: Universe - on December 14, 2007 at 2:03:00 PM CET
Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007
Astronomy is arguably the most beautiful of the sciences. I’m biased, of course, but it’s nearly impossible to gaze upon a picture of a galaxy, a moon, a nebula, and not see in it something compellingly artistic. Sometimes it’s the color, sometimes the shape, and sometimes it’s the knowledge that we can understand the subject of the picture itself.
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Topic: W A R - on December 14, 2007 at 1:59:00 PM CET
Laser Gunship Revealed
During a phoner press conference, Boeing officials mentioned in passing they were working on another system that could engage ground targets. To me, this seems far more logical for such a weapon than one that's designed to knock out missiles...that mission strikes me as redundant.
Well, now it seems Boeing has taken the first step in making the laser gunship a reality by installing the weapon on a C-130H...
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Topic: WEB - on December 14, 2007 at 1:57:00 PM CET
Mozilla Japan Get Firefox video awards
Mozilla Japan is currently running the Get Firefox Video Awards event, an online promotion for Firefox where over 100 Japanese video artists and animators have created some amazing videos to promote Firefox within 30 seconds.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CET
Digital and Analog: Simultaneous pursuit of technology and sensibility
Capturing the real sounds and sensations of an outdoor field or stage environment, Sony's "Densuke" series gave birth to a live recording boom in the 1970s. The "PCM-D1" linear PCM recorder has transformed the "Densuke" series' spirit to its current cutting edge state. Two designers who created the design reveal the source of their ideas and their approach to design in relation to sound quality and ease of use.
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Topic: Phone - on December 14, 2007 at 1:49:00 PM CET
Hack Turns iPhone Camera Into HD Camcorder
Monsters and Friends has just released the beta of Drunknbass, a new iPhone hack that allows the unit's camera to capture video. 'While the iPhone's 2.0 megapixel camera resolution may be mediocre for a still camera, it is excellent resolution for a consumer video camera.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 14, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM CET
When will Amy Winehouse Die?
We’ll all have a date with our maker someday, but Amy Winehouse just can’t seem to wait. She can write and sing a beautiful tune, but for some reason Amy has landed in a self-destruction derby.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM CET
Army 'losing battalion' to drugs
The Army is dismissing the equivalent of almost a battalion of soldiers every year for taking drugs, a report says.
The Royal United Services Institute said the number of positive tests for illegal drugs, like ecstasy and heroin, rose from 517 in 2003 to 769 last year.
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