On Oct. 26, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was joined by U2 band members Bono and Edge to announce several new additions to the industry leading iPod product line. Top of the line iPods will now feature color screens. Although they do not play video, they will allow users to display digital photos.
The Cassini spacecraft, which provided scientists with amazing images of Saturn's rings in July ("Cassini-Huygens completes seven year journey to Saturn," The Triangle, July 9, 2004) is now trying to repeat the feat with Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Tuesday morning the spacecraft was just 745 miles (1,198 kilometers) away from Titan.
Over five millennia ago, the first areas of the world began the slow transition from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age. Quality of life increased dramatically with the new technology made available and the rise of complex urban civilizations and cultural centers.
I've been told that one of the best ways to open a speech or a paper is with an inflammatory, bold statement, so here goes my best shot: The dead lie cold, beyond our abilities to communicate them, lost eternally to the world of the living. Now let me ruin this bold opening with a qualifying statement: I'm not talking about religion.
Want to remove the Curse of the Bambino, Red Sox fans? How about surgery, six innings pitched, zero earned runs, and four strikeouts? After being hampered by a dislocated tendon in his ankle during Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, Curt Schilling's status for the rest of Major League Baseball's postseason was very much in doubt.
Virginia Tech announced earlier this week that its System X supercomputer received a recent upgrade. The new system incorporates 1100 Apple XServe G5 2.3 GHz dual processor cluster nodes up from Power Mac G5 towers. After the upgrade, the system now operates 12.
