The Billion Dollar ALMA Observatory Can Spot a Golf Ball from 15 Kilometers [Video]

The windswept, sunburned Chajnantor plateau in Chile rises 16,500 feet above sea level and has some of the driest air on Earth. That makes it the perfect location for the world's biggest, most sensitive, and most complex ground-based telescope. More »


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Tesla Model S to get faster Sport edition, leave sedan in the dust

Tesla looks set to offer another slightly more aggressive, slightly faster model alongside its Model S sedan [pictured]. The high-performance, zero-emission (and tentatively-named) Model S Sport packs a larger battery, extending its single-charge range to 300 miles. Green Car Reports adds that it'll even get optional aerodynamic wheels adding another 20 miles to the car's range. Acceleration has also been boosted, with 0 to 60MPH cut to under 4.6 seconds in the sporty upgrade. This should be the perfect vehicle for evading capture in the gasoline-poor robopocalyptic future. The Sport is reportedly set to launch alongside the standard Model S next year.

Tesla Model S to get faster Sport edition, leave sedan in the dust originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Report: Sprint Makes Multibillion Dollar Bet on the iPhone

If there's one device that could save Sprint from a losing battle for customers with wireless giants Verizon and AT&T, it's the iPhone. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told the company's board that the carrier agreed to purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years. Today, a purchase of that size amounts to $20 billion US.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/sprint-iphone-purchase-report/

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Growing Up Geek: Jesse Hicks

Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today we have our very own Contributing Editor, Jesse Hicks.


I've never been one for nostalgia, but if I had to choose a Proustian element from my geeky childhood -- a singular sense-memory that evokes a whole constellation of related feelings -- I'd pick the eerie keening of a 28.8 modem. That high, quavering sound, for me, conjurs up the earliest days of my geekdom, when computers were slow, landlines were king and the internet was young.

I was twelve when my family got our first computer: a 486DX that first appeared without a hard drive. My mom had found a great deal at a computer show...or so it had seemed. That missing 120MB hard drive, as you may have guessed, severely limited functionality. But once that problem was remedied, I was off and running with DOS and XTree, happily deleting essential system files. The learning process had begun.

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Growing Up Geek: Jesse Hicks originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 coming to T-Mobile on October 26th, price remains a mystery

Clue's in the title, really. Get ready to whip yourself into a frenzy at the news that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will arrive in T-Mobile stores on October 26th. You want proof? You can't handle the proof. Or, maybe you can. Once you've decided, head on past the break for a little... well, you know.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 coming to T-Mobile on October 26th, price remains a mystery originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.2 gets smarter, faster

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Auslogics Disk Defrag has been part of my system maintenance toolkit for quite some time. With the release of version 3.2, it's now even better at tidying up and optimizing your system's hard disk drives. In addition to a cleaner, easier-to-use interface, Disk Defrag 3.2 offers improved single file and folder defragging, better processing of multiple disks, a simplified scheduling screen, and more informative tool tips. Auslogics has also fine-tuned the program's defragmentation and file consolidation algorithms.

For laptop users, there's a new option to lock the program if your system is running on battery power -- so scheduled operations don't kick in and drain your power source at an inopportune moment. If you happen to have an SSD installed in your PC, you can head to the Disk Defrag options and exclude it from scanning (many think that defragmenting an SSD is a very bad idea).

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a free download and works with most versions of Windows.

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WSJ: Sprint Is Betting $20 Billion on the iPhone [Sprint]

For Sprint, it all comes down to Apple. With the new iPhone ready for debut tomorrow, sources at the Wall Street Journal say that Sprint forked over a cool $20 billion to get in on the action. The decision could make or break the carrier. More »


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Developers get Google Wallet on original Nexus S, squares wiping your phone with $10

Previously the exclusive phone-swiping domain of Sprint's Nexus S 4G, it now seems possible to get the wonders of Google wallet on its decidedly 3G predecessor. However, it's not an operation for the faint-hearted. If the words Cyanogen, full wipe, flash and kernel resemble white noise, it's probably worth waiting for an official release. See how the forum members at XDA Developers got their NFC wallet fix at the link below.

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Developers get Google Wallet on original Nexus S, squares wiping your phone with $10 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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magicJack gets an iOS app

Bill’s review of the magicJack Plus have been really popular with our readers. Now iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners can make free calls to U.S. and Canadian phone numbers or to any magicJack number, anywhere in the world using WiFi or 3G. The calls won’t use your mobile minutes or require any purchase. It’s [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/09/29/magicjack-gets-an-ios-app/

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64GB iPhone 4S and 8GB iPhone 4 Show Up on Vodafone Germany's Site [IPhone]