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Mozilla has shown off ideas for future versions of Firefox as it becomes less of a traditional browser and more of a "soft, friendly, human" ecosystem. Slides released on the web hint at a new desktop environ with a simplified menu, cleaner download interface, and a more functional startpage -- all the while maintaining the same curved-edge look as the mobile variant. A Windows 8 Metro tile-based version is also in the works that's similar to the Firefox tab layout on Android. There's no word when Mozilla's so-called Kilimanjaro project will come to fruition, but you can check out the slideshow after the break for an early glimpse.
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Future applications is a ?fan in the network? applications, the so-called ?fan in the net? is the ubiquitous network. Satellite communications may be in the industry and open a world of enterprise applications. France Telecom and Bell South America satellite radio and television and fixed line communications, Internet, mobile services bundled together. Carrier?s restructuring plan and timetable issued 3G licenses, became the last major news of 2008. Today, all have been settled. 2008 5 24, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance jointly issued the ?Circular on Deepening the telecom reform? pattern, formally established the Mobile, China Unicom, telecommunications carriers tripod. 2008, last the day, Premier Wen Jiabao chaired a State Council executive meeting, agreed to launch the third generation mobile license issued work Communicate. Finalized 3G licenses are issued by law: China Telecom CD MA2000, China Unicom WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, China Mobile. A result, China in 2008, called ?3G Year One,? the name of gone down in history. Contrast the past, China Mobile, ?a dominant? situation, the college president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, that reorganization is a method to resolve the current imbalance in the marketplace. Companies also hope to Achieve Through the restructuring of the industrial structure makes a turn for the better, to Achieve balanced development, improve the competitiveness, effectiveness, this is a good starting point. Reorganization plan was finalized, the government Subsequently Introduced a number of asymmetric regulation policy, Which for the development of other small operators who can be said to send the blood carbon, however, preferential asymmetric regulation is therefore a need to consider how to floor reality. In addition, Telecommunications, said, issuing three licenses shows that the Chinese government has enough confidence in TD, TD and the other two technologies is not much disparity. According to a press operator from the investment planning statistics billion, the reorganization of the 3G operators planned investment projects more than 280 yuan, 3G license issuance might begin to make these investments yuan, these investments can spur related invested more than trillions 500th Drastic reform in the telecommunications field process, Satellite Communications in the telecommunications field position and opportunities, once again, become important within the satellite industry first topic. Some communications experts have expressed this view. Telecommunications, Believes that the future application is a ?fan in the network? applications, the so-called ?fan in the net? is the ubiquitous network. Re-accelerate the pace of building such a network. ?Fan in the network? should be loaded into the satellite, the satellite is a beneficial supplement, satellite communications systems in such a system should find its location, new location. The fixed telephone installation in the town has a Relatively high popularity, so the satellite to remote areas, where the satellite will leave the market a little more. Same time, he told reporters stressed that in addition to satellite communications in remote areas of applications, it may be a large-scale applications, it is in the industry and open a world of enterprise applications. More suitable for mobile communications in the areas of population density, the larger the development, but some special areas, seeking team visits as geology, sea operations, the satellite is the best assurance measures. We should look for this market, rather than blindly talk to fixed telephone, mobile comparison, to compete for individual customers. In industrial applications, the satellite is a very high cost solution, this is a priority direction of development. Ministry of Industry and Information said, would be in according dance with the arrangements and requirements of the State Council, in according dance with legal procedures and enterprise applications, sound good TD-SCDMA and WCDMA, CDMA2000 issued three licenses work, stimulate domestic demand and promote growth , optimized structure of the telecommunications market competition. Accordingly, the satellite industry experts spotted ?six to three in the? pattern of opportunity. They believe that the reform process ?go to war,? the Quanchengquanwang mobile operators need to further optimize their networks, while the pattern and distribution of the current status quo is part of the communication network in the city, part of the communication network in remote areas, remote areas of communication capacity lags far behind the city. If the remote areas of the mobile base station and the base station to link up the whole structure into a network of terrestrial radiation, the cost will be very high.
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He's responded forcefully to Republican claims that it is a "celebration", criticizing Romney for statements from the 2008 campaign.
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is appropriate to mark an anniversary that Republicans charge is being turned into a campaign bumper sticker.
Skip to next paragraphHe then jumped at the chance to portray presumed Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney as unprepared to make the kind of hard call required to send U.S. forces on that highly risky mission. Without mentioning Romney by name, Obama recommended looking at people's previous statements on the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind.
Obama's re-election team has seized on a quote from Romney in 2007, when he said it was not worth moving heaven and earth to go after one person. On Monday, Romney said he "of course" would have ordered bin Laden killed, but his campaign criticized Obama for turning the successful death raid to political gain.
"I assume that people meant what they said when they said it," Obama said at a White House news conference. "That's been at least my practice. I said that I'd go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they'd do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it."
Obama is using the May 2 anniversary to help maximize a political narrative that portrays him as bold and decisive. Romney has sought to cast Obama as weak and too quick to compromise on other foreign policy matters, including Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Obama and his national security team will be featured in an NBC prime-time special Wednesday night that reconstructs the operation from inside the White House Situation Room. White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan discussed Obama's command of the raid on a Sunday talk show and in a speech Monday.
"The death of bin Laden was our most strategic blow yet against al-Qaida," Brennan said at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Credit goes to the special forces who carried out the raid and the intelligence experts who led them to the hideout, Brennan said, "and to President Obama, who gave the order to go in."
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs. The terror leader was living in a compound outside the capital of Islamabad, having evaded capture for nearly 10 years.
Obama sent in the U.S. forces with no assurance that bin Laden was at the site, leading to a heart-pounding scene in the Situation Room that was captured in one of the most famous photos of Obama's presidency.
"It's unfortunate that President Obama would prefer to use what was a good day for all Americans as a cheap political ploy and an opportunity to distort Gov. Romney's strong policies on the war on terror," Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Monday. "President Obama's feckless foreign policy has emboldened our adversaries, weakened our allies, and threatens to break faith with our military."
Romney was scheduled to appear Tuesday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to help mark Wednesday's anniversary of bin Laden's death.
"I hardly think you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here," Obama said at the news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. His voice was taut and his smile thin.
"I think that people, the American people, rightly remember what we as a country accomplished in bringing to justice somebody who killed over 3,000 of our citizens."
In 2007, Romney told The Associated Press that it was not worth "moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
In a debate days later, he clarified the remark: "We'll move everything to get him. But I don't want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person ? Osama bin Laden ? because after we get him, there's going to be another and another," Romney said.
Romney was critical of then-candidate Obama's vow to strike al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan if necessary. Obama said at the time that he would be willing to launch military strikes inside Pakistan with or without the government's approval.
Ultimately, that's exactly what Obama did to get bin Laden. The decision outraged Pakistan's U.S.-backed civilian government and fanned anti-U.S. sentiment across the country.
Romney and his advisers suggested Monday that the decision to order the raid was an easy one.
"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said Monday following a campaign appearance in New Hampshire.
Romney probably meant that as a jab at the Democratic record on foreign policy generally, but invoking Carter may actually cloud Romney's message.
Carter demonstrated how dangerous and politically perilous such decisions can be when he ordered an attempt to rescue American hostages held in Iran
The 1980 mission ultimately embarrassed the nation, ending with the death of eight servicemen and the loss of several American helicopters. The hostage crisis lasted more than a year and helped deny Carter a second term.If the bin Laden raid had gone similarly awry, Obama would have been badly damaged by a military debacle on top of the country's economic woes.
A spokeswoman for Carter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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It's no secret that Bluetooth 4.0 is energy efficient, but now a startup called Rowdy Robot wants to use it for something rather less predictable than monitoring heart palpitations during your Tour de France training. A network of little beacons ("t?ds") interacts with your iPhone or iPad and lets you receive movement-triggered alerts: like when your kid wanders too far, or when they finally return home after hanging out with the corner cartel. Many uses will be similar to NFC tags, but with the advantage of a vastly greater range of up to 500ft -- plus a single beacon can last for years on a single battery. Of course, it could also work with location-based services, triggering automatic updates as you pedal past the Arc de Triomphe -- but none of this will happen unless you check out the video after the break and help Rowdy Robot meet their $50,000 target.
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2012) ? Penn State University astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emissions from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering the previous record for the lowest stellar temperature at which radio waves were detected.
The team from Penn State's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, led by Alex Wolszczan, the discoverer of the first planets ever found outside our solar system, has been using the giant 305-m (1000-ft) telescope to look for radio signals from a class of objects known as brown dwarfs. These objects are small, cold stars that bridge the gap between Jupiter-like giant planets and normal, more-massive, hydrogen-fusing stars. The astronomers hit the jackpot with a star named J1047+21, a brown dwarf 33.6 light years away in the constellation Leo, in a result that could boost the odds of discovering life elsewhere in the universe.
Matthew Route, a graduate student at Penn State and the lead author of the discovery paper, said, "This object is the coolest brown dwarf ever detected emitting radio waves -- it's half the temperature of the previous record holder, making it only about five times hotter than Jupiter."
The new radio-star is much smaller and colder than our Sun. With a surface temperature not much higher than that of a giant planet, and a size comparable to Jupiter's, it is scarcely visible in optical light. Yet the radio flares seen at Arecibo show it must have a strong magnetic field, implying that the same could be true of other similar stars.
Wolszczan, an Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the leader of the project, said, "This is a really exciting result. We hope that in the future we'll be able to detect yet colder brown dwarfs, and possibly even giant planets around other stars."
The possibility that young, hot planets around other stars could be detected in the same manner -- because they still maintain strong magnetic fields -- has implications for the chances of finding life elsewhere in our Milky Way Galaxy, Wolszczan explained. "The Earth's field protects life on its surface from harmful particles of the solar wind. Knowing whether planetary magnetic fields are common or not throughout the Galaxy will aid our efforts to understand chances that life may exist beyond the Solar System."
The discovery of radio signals from J1047+21 dramatically broadens the window through which astronomers can study the atmospheres and interiors of these tiny stars, using the radio detection of their magnetic fields as a tool. At the temperature of this brown dwarf, its atmosphere must be made of neutral gas, which would not give off radio signals like those seen. SO The energy to drive the signals is likely to come from magnetic fields deep inside the star, similar to the field that protects Earth from dangerous high-energy particles. By monitoring the radio flares from J1047+21, astronomers will be able to tell how stable the magnetic field is over time, and, from flare duration, they can infer the size of the emitter itself.
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