"The future is not google-able"
After years in development, Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 with locations in Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London.
A mile stone for the human kind - running 1-2 marathons for 75 days in a row, crossing the US from coast to coast. Utterly unprecedented!
NEW YORK—Mega-marathoner Dean Karnazes (kar-NAH'-sis) has crossed the finish line after his coast-to-coast run.
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Samsung has already superseded its own inadequate ten-inch Galaxy tab with a brand new tablet that it thinner than the iPad 2. The company has also announced a tweener-sized 8.9-inch tablet.
This upgrade to the cheap-feeling Tab 10.1 we saw at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, measures in at 256.6 x 172.9 x 8.6 mm and weighs 595g. Compare that to the iPad 2, at 241.2 x 185.7 x 8.8 mm and 601 g for the Wi-Fi only model.
The International Space Station is now 'essentially' complete, says NASA
Point-of-Sale (POS) hardware specialist Verifone has confirmed it will be integrating NFC support into all of its new terminals, a move that should dramatically speed the adoption of wireless payments. Describing the decision as a reaction to “merchant resistance,” CEO Douglas G Bergeron told NFC World that those retailers upgrading their POS hardware will find that they are automatically able to process NFC and contactless payments. However, he also cautions that throwing in an NFC chip won’t be sufficient to kill off traditional payment methods.
The end of the credit card is nearing
Another day, another slice of evidence that NFC technology will be coming to Apple‘s next-generation smartphone. The latest leak arrives in the form of an iPhone 5 patent, showing an “e-wallet” icon on the handset’s touchscreen.
