Are Gorillas Doomed? Is the UN making a huge mistake?
Jul/090
Before I get into this important topic, please read my article on cancer dedicated to someone special to me, each view constitutes a larger donation to cancer research. http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/27/help-me-fight-cancer/
Problem
Almost one half of non-human primates are at risk of extinction, and none more so than gorillas. Gorillas are disappearing at an alarming rate, mostly a victim of their surroundings. Political unrest, wars, poachers, miners, and loggers all converging in a perfect storm of brutality and human depravity, killing one of our closest living relatives. Gorilla’s DNA is 98-99% an exact match for human DNA, just barely trailing our closest living relatives (genus Pan, chimpanzees and bonobos). Unfortunately for the gorillas, they occupy a region rich in tin, diamonds, gold and coltan (a rare mineral used to create capacitors for cellphones, games consoles and laptops).
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Are Gorillas Doomed? Is the UN making a huge mistake?
Innovative Community Outreach Programs in Uganda – and a Baby Rhino Named Obama
Jul/090
A unique rhino conservation program in Uganda is helping local communities with an outreach program that recruits for job openings from surrounding villages, teaches job skills, and visits classrooms.
Rhino Fund Uganda is making a difference in the lives of people by integrating local communities with rhino conservation goals and educating them about responsible resource management. Established in 1997 with the objective of reintroducing the Southern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) to Uganda, RFU has created programs to help the community every step of the way. Recently, RFU celebrated the birth of the first rhino born in Uganda after 27 years of regional extinction – and the baby rhino has been named “Obama.”
Creating employment opportunities and providing job training
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Innovative Community Outreach Programs in Uganda – and a Baby Rhino Named Obama
Don’t forget, Engadget is live at WWDC today!
Jun/090
Just a reminder to all you fine, fine folks out on the Interverse — we’re going to be live and direct from Apple’s WWDC keynote in just a few hours. You should tune in, we hear there may be some kind of new phone announced.
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Don’t forget, Engadget is live at WWDC today!
Sager NP9280 with Core i7 and triple SSDs is world’s most powerful laptop, anchor
Jun/090
This one slipped by us but the world’s first Core i7 laptop to ship is probably worth a double-back don’t you think?
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Sager NP9280 with Core i7 and triple SSDs is world’s most powerful laptop, anchor
Pixel Qi’s 3Qi LCD screen sized up with Kindle, CTO sheds light on your questions
Jun/090
Turns out Pixel Qi ’s CTO Mary Lou Jepsen reads Engadget, or at least the posts relevant to her company and her invention, the 3Qi screen. In addition to a side-by-side comparison of the display against the Kindle and a few other devices, in an interview with techvideoblog , she can be seen going through our most recent post and answering some of our readers’ questions, including clearing up what seems to be a pretty big misconception that the screen uses e-ink for being visible in direct sunlight — “it’s standard LCD, just clever design,” she explains
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Pixel Qi’s 3Qi LCD screen sized up with Kindle, CTO sheds light on your questions
MSI’s X-Slim X320 now shipping in the US for $599
Jun/090
MSI’s X-Slim X340 has already made its way out into this brave, new world, but the version that checks in at a score less (for whatever reason) is just now starting to do the same. If you’re looking for the least expensive way to snag yourself an X-Slim, head on over to one of a few reputable e-tailers and part ways with $599
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Mtube II mixes an Android tablet with an XP netbook
Jun/090
Been thinking about settling down with an XP netbook but can’t get the idea of an Android tablet out of your mind? We understand your pain — and so does Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry, which is showing off the Mtube II netbook / tablet at Computex . The slick remix of an HP Mini 1000 runs XP when in netbook configuration, but then switches over to Android on an unspecified ARM processor when the screen is pulled off and used as a tablet
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Mtube II mixes an Android tablet with an XP netbook
Acer shows off Android on a netbook, sneaks Firefox into the proceedings
Jun/090
After confirmation of basement experimentations, and then a surprising announcement of product , Acer’s now actually showing off an Android-powered netbook at Computex. Acer is careful to say that this isn’t their actual Android netbook in the flesh, they’re just the Aspire One D250 as a test platform
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Video: Pixel Qi’s e-ink / LCD hybrid screen demoed at Computex
Jun/090
Wow, just wow. We were about three months away from putting Pixel Qi on a temporary vaporware watch, and now we couldn’t be happier about shoving this crow down our throats.
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Video: Pixel Qi’s e-ink / LCD hybrid screen demoed at Computex
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