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Underwater neutrino telescope looks down to see sky

Construction of the ANTARES telescope, which will search for neutrinos under the Mediterranean Sea, is now complete (Image: ANTARES)

Underwater neutrino telescope looks down to see sky

Astronomers have finished building a detector called ANTARES under the Mediterranean Sea – it will look through the Earth at the southern sky

New Online Chat Service Encourages Sky Bet Customers to Talk

Real-time chat tool provides instant assistance to Sky Bet website visitors London, UK – 26 June 2008 – Sky Betting and Gaming, one of the UK’s leading sports betting, poker, casino and bingo companies, has launched a live chat facility on its websites to improve customer experience. Powered by Talisma Chat, customers to the Sky Bet, Sky Poker, Sky Vegas and Sky Bingo websites – www.skybet.com, www.skypoker.com, www.skyvegas.com and www.skybingo.com – can now receive live, 24 hour assistance simply by clicking on the “start a chat” button. The service has already increased the number of interactions with customers by 20%, despite a 30% reduction in incoming emails. Sky Betting and Gaming went live with Talisma Chat on 5th April, Grand National Day, and held 770 live chat sessions with visitors to its sportsbook, skybet.

First Underwater Neutrino Telescope Has Been Constructed

Construction of the first underwater neutrino telescope has just been completed. Since early June, the last two detection lines of Antares have been probing the bottom of the Mediterranean for neutrinos of cosmic origin. There are now 12 detection lines aimed at observing these elementary particles, which provide insight into the most violent phenomena in the Universe.

Sky to double its arts output

The broadcaster Sky is doubling its arts output with the launch of Sky Arts 2 on October 20. While Sky Arts, the existing arts channel will refocus to embrace more contemporary and “cult” programming, Sky Arts 2 will feature dance and the visual arts alongside classical music. The High-Definition Arts channel will draw its programming from both Sky Arts and Sky Arts 2.

Building a Telescope Made of Moondust

A gigantic telescope on the Moon has been a dream of astronomers since the dawn of the space age. A lunar telescope the same size as Hubble (2.4 meters across) would be a major astronomical research tool. One as big as the largest telescope on Earth — 10.4 meters across — would see far more than any Earth-based telescope because the Moon has no atmosphere. But why stop there? In the Moon's weak gravity, it might be possible to build a telescope with a mirror as large as 50 meters across, half the length of a football field—big enough to analyze the chemistry on planets around other stars for signs of life.

StarGazer's Telescope - Last Dance With Mars

StarGazer\'s ScopeHave you ever wondered what it was like to look through a real telescope? Tired of being clouded out night after night and would be happy with a look through any telescope? After all the exciting news we've heard about Mars, I thought it might be fun to let you take a look through a small telescope and see what Mars really looks like - flaws and all.

New Online Chat Service Encourages Sky Bet Customers To Talk

London, UK - July 15, 2008 - Sky Betting and Gaming, a UK sports betting, poker, casino and bingo company, has launched a live chat facility on its websites to improve customer experience. Powered by Talisma Chat, customers to the Sky Bet, Sky Poker, Sky Vegas and Sky Bingo websites can now receive live, 24 hour assistance simply by clicking on the "start a chat" button. The service has already increased the number of interactions with customers by 20%, despite a 30% reduction in incoming emails.

Upgrade to enable Hubble telescope to see farther than ever

By the end of the year, the world's greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will detect events closer to the big bang, explore the "cosmic web" of galaxies and intergalactic gas that make up the large-scale structure of the universe, and reveal much more about how and when distant stars and planets were formed.

Mass Effect - v1.01 Patch / Bring Down The Sky DLC Available NOW

WorthPlaying writes: "Bioware has released the Bring Down the Sky addon for PC, further expanding the Mass Effect story and universe. It includes a new uncharted world that introduces the deadly Batarian alien race, approximately 90 minutes of new gameplay and an original soundtrack. Also avaialble is a v1.01 patch fixing various audio issues, plugging bugs, crash and memory problems."

July 14th issue coming Monday: iPhone 3G and the App Store, hands-on first looks at iPhone applications, interview with 3 Doors Down, Q&A with Tim Bourquin of New Media Expo, and more!

July 14th issue coming Monday: iPhone 3G and the App Store, hands-on first looks at iPhone applications, interviews with musicians 3 Doors Down, Kirsten Price, Kari Kimmel, and Carla Lynne Hall, Q&A with Tim Bourquin of New Media Expo, and more!

Sky to launch second arts channel

Sky Arts will be renamed Sky Arts 1 and concentrate on showing "cutting-edge documentaries, cult films, classic concerts and ground-breaking drama". Classical music, opera, dance and fine arts programming will shift to Sky Arts 2.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Harman International Drops to 5-Year Low

On Thursday, August 14 after-hours, Harman International Industries, Inc. (HAR) reported Q4 net income of $31.7 million or $0.54 per share on $1.07 billion in revenue vs. $105 million or $1.58 per share a year ago, down 70% (see earnings call transcript). Excluding items (restructuring, merger and tax related), HAR reported $0.68 per share vs. $0.98 per share a year ago, down 31%. Analysts expected $0.77 per share, widely missing expectations by $0.09 per share. Share on August 12 opened at $38.60, 10% lower, and drifted down throughout the day, closing at $37, down $6 or 14%.

Antares, First Neutrino Telescope to Go Underwater

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Tearing Down the iPhone 3G

The total tally for the chips and other components of the wildly popular iPhone 3G is $174.33, according to a tear-down analysis by iSuppli. Apple has succeeded in making the phone with more features and still bringing down its costs for production. A subsidy from AT&T helps in bringing the price down for consumers as well.

Can a VPN slow down a network with a T1 connection?

It will slow down your T1, but it depends on where the VPN is terminating. If the VPN is terminating on the router, it should not affect the LAN. The router would convert the regular packages over the LAN. If the VPN is going in through a server, then the processing overhead is required to do that conversion. So in that case, if you're using that server and you have all of those VPN connections going, then everything will slow down. That could cause access to the server to locally slow down.

NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant Earth-Like Planets

3PAR INC ("PAR-N") - NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant - Earth-Like Planets 3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage for a mission that will send the Kepler Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun to find planets in solar systems outside our own. Set to launch in February of 2009, the mission will use 3PAR Utility Storage to store digital images taken with the powerful telescope and its camera. NASA Ames chose the resilient 3PAR storage system to meet its strict cost and performance requirements while maintaining massive scalability and avoiding the need for a full-time, dedicated storage expert. "Even rocket launches have budget constraints," said Chris Middour, Deputy Manager for the Kepler Operations Science Center an

Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part I: KStars

"How many of Jupiter's four bright Galilean moons do you see? You can tell which ones are moons because the moons are all lined up. If you don't see any, try resting the binoculars on a fence or other solid support. A tripod mount is even better, if you have one. Now go back to KStars, center on Jupiter and zoom way in. Which moons did you see?"

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A few days ago, I dozed through a rather desultory conversation, on Lok Sabha TV, between painter Krishen Khanna (83) and art critic Geeti Sen, till Krishen said something that made me sit up. It matched what I have been saying for some time. He said, "Art history does not interest anyone anymore and, what is worse, they don't even think it is important."

Keeping an Eye Out When Sites Go Down

miller60 writes "Are major web sites going down more often? Or are outages simply more noticeable? The New York Times looks at the recent focus on downtime at services like Twitter, and the services that have sprung up to monitor outages. When a site goes down, word spreads rapidly, fueled by blogs and forums. But there have also been a series of outages with real-world impact, affecting commodities exchanges, thousands of web sites and online stores."

NASA Points to the Sky Tonight For a Different Celebration

In your daily dose of science geekiness, you may appreciate another event going on in the sky this July 4th than the annual combustion of your neighbor's illegal stash of gunpowder—Mars and Saturn will align for the evening. Then on the 5th, the Moon will join those two for a little celestial ménage à trois. We know, it's usually too much work to grab your telescope for these things. But since you'll be staring at the sky already... [NASA via TFOT, Image]

Eyes Evolved For 'X-Ray Vision': Forward-facing Eyes Allow Animals To 'See Through' Clutter In The World

The advantage of using two eyes to see the world around us has long been associated solely with our capacity to see in 3-D. Now, a new study from a scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has uncovered a truly eye-opening advantage to binocular vision: our ability to see through things.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

A prequel to the original open-world FPS with RPG elements, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky looks to make numerous improvements on the original including support for DirectX 10 and improved artificial intelligence. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky takes place one year before the nuclear event in the Zone. Play as Scar, a mercenary s.t.a.l.k.e.r. who must fight his way through hostile sectors of the Zone, eventually leading to the events described in Shadow of Chernobyl.

Lomo-fy Your iPhone 3G With Brando's Telescope

Crapware supremo Brando has released a new must-have add-on for the iPhone: a telescope. The $20 plastic chunk will magnify the iPhone's already poor camera by 6x. As you can see from the picture, it comes with a clear plastic case, onto which is affixed the telescope, and at this price it might be worth buying for the case alone.

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