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Derry, New Hampshire (CNN) — New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary is more than a year away, but Granite State Republican activists will be polled Saturday on which candidate they would like to see become their party's nominee in 2012. The straw poll organizers — WMUR-TV and ABC News – will survey the 493 members of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee at the group's annual meeting in Derry, though not every committee … Read More

via CNN Political Ticker

After years of animal trials, the first human has been injected with cells from human embryonic stem cells, according to Geron Corporation, the company which is sponsoring the controversial study. "This is the first human embryonic stem cell trial in the world," Geron CEO Dr. Thomas Okarma tells CNN. Geron is releasing very few details about the patient, but will say that the first person to receive cells derived from human embryonic stem cells w … Read More

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If your like me and you love the idea of the ipad, but don’t love the price or the fact that it cannot play flash videos,among a few other shortcomings,then take a serious look at the Blackberry Playbook Tablet. It’s smaller,clearer,cheaper,multitasking-er,flash friendly,and all around BETTER than the ipad! While the price hasn’t been announced yet, the playbook is expected to be cheaper as well. The release date isn’t set in stone either, however the goal is sometime early 2011. I know I will be waiting for the release!

Via: www.gizmodo.com

The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet: 10 Things You Need to Know

The BlackBerry tablet is here, and it looks astoundingly nice. Nicer than anybody expected it to be. Here’s what you need to know about the PlayBook, in 10 easy steps.

It’s a 7-inch tablet with a 1024×600 screen that weighs 0.9 pounds

Meaning it’s smaller and lighter than the iPad, with a more pixel-dense screen (i.e., text is gonna look cleaner and less pixel-y). It’s a little bigger and heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab, on the other hand. (Then again, the Galaxy Tab looks more like a really big phone.)

It’s running BlackBerry Tablet OS

As rumored, the BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t running “BlackBerry 6,” but the BlackBerry tablet OS, which is “powered by QNX technology.” QNX is a software company RIM bought in April, whose software is used in products by Cisco and GE, among others. The OS is built on QNX’s Neutrino microkernel.

It supports a whole bunch of standard platforms and technologies, like POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry 6, WebKit, Java, Adobe Flash and AIR, along with RIM’s new BlackBerry WebWorks platform. Apps written for WebWorks will run on BlackBerry 6 or the PlayBook, while Java makes it easier for developers to port Java-based BlackBerry 6 apps. Oh, and OpenGL means there’s serious potential for graphically intense games.

It’s got a tablet-optimized UI and multitasks out of the gate, unlike the iPad. And unlike Android, it has a nicer interface for navigating through applications, like a cross between webOS’s cards and Apple’s CoverFlow. It’s got an onscreen keyboard for typing. The snippets of App World in the preview video look a lot like what you have on BlackBerry phones, a grid of tiles. The music player looks a bit like the iPod app on the iPad, but skinned in a slate color.

Dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB RAM

That means it’s got the horsepower to multitask, output 1080p video and run high-powered apps. The 1GB of RAM is particularly important for running applications in the background, and opening multiple tabs in the web browser, as iPad owners know from opening more than a few tabs in Safari and watching them get flushed as the iPad runs out of memory.

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It’s got “true” multitasking

By saying the PlayBook has “true” multitasking, RIM seems to be pointing at the fact that multitasking on the iPad is still limited in a lot of ways. Apps can’t fully run in the background on the iPad like on a full computer, they can simply perform select actions, like playback audio or finish a download in a given amount of time. The implication is that the PlayBook will let things run willy nilly in the background, more like a standard BlackBerry phone.

“Flash-Loving,” with Adobe Flash 10.1 and Adobe AIR built in

It runs Flash and AIR, which means Flash sites that don’t work on the iPad will at least be viewable on the PlayBook. It’ll be interesting to see how well Flash works on the PlayBook versus less powerful Android phones, where it can run into performance issues. AIR, on the other hand, opens the door for some app opportunities. Combined with the WebKit browser, it should be a pretty decent web experience.

Dual cameras with video conferencing and lots o’ ports

This is swanky. The rear camera is a 5-megapixel shooter, while the front is three megapixels. From the back, it shoots video and from the front you can video chat.

It supports a handful of video formats—in 1080p—like h.264, WMV, DivX and MPEG, and it’ll output video through a mini HDMI port. Also, it’s got a standard micro USB port.

There’s a Kindle App on the way

The PlayBook is more book-sized than the iPad, so fortunately a Kindle app for reading is already on the way, Amazon confirms. We’re very excited about this.

Integrated with BlackBerry stuffs

It’ll pair with a BlackBerry phone, so you can use the tablet to look at anything that’s on the phone, like email, calendars or BBM without syncing the two. And it connects with BlackBerry Enterprise Server out of the box, along with all that entails.

It’s coming out next year, but don’t ask how much it costs

Specifically, RIM says it’s coming out in the US in early 2011, with other places getting it sometime after March. There’s gonna be 3G and 4G models in the future. RIM’s not saying how much it’s gonna cost yet, but since RIM loves the carriers, expect it to be offered through them for a discount. (In the preview video, it’s mentioned that it works with existing BlackBerry smartphone data plans, so we’ll see what that means.)

Overall, the PlayBook is a lot more exciting than anybody expected a BlackBerry tablet to be, especially given how thoroughly mediocre their last major product, the BlackBerry Torch, was. In fact, we’re a little more amped about it than the Galaxy Tab. Now RIM’s just gotta carry through the ball forward.

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Could we have found another Earth, I am surprised about how close it was found. This comes after 2 straight days with a ufo story on cnn, are they trying to tell us something people…lol

Courtesy of cnn.com:

(CNN) — Gliese 581g may be the new Earth.

A team of astronomers from the University of California and the Carnegie Institute of Washington say they’ve found a planet like ours, 20 light years (120 trillion miles) from Earth, where the basic conditions for life are good.

“The chances for life on this planet are 100 percent,” Steven Vogt, a UC professor of astronomy and astrophysics says. “I have almost no doubt about it.”

The planet is three times the size of Earth, but the gravity is similar.

Dr. Elizabeth Cunningham, planetarium astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, says the discovery is a huge deal.

“It could have liquid water on the surface,” she said. “That’s the first step to find life.”

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Def better than the original but you be the judge… ENJOY

Courtesy of GoodMusicAllDay:

This mashup mixes Kanye’s “Runaway” with Nas and AZ’s “Life’s a Bitch.” It has some great rapping in it. We just received this from Zach Caraher aka Big Z Remixes, so here’s what he had to say:

“Yo I did a mashup of Kanye West’s new song “Runaway” with Nas and AZ. When I heard the
song for the first time I thought the beat was sick but it was missing some good rapping so here’s
what I added to it.”

I gotta be honest, Cole did better on this beat than ‘Ye did… CLAP FOR ‘EM!!!

Courtesy of illroots:

Oh shit!!! J. Cole hops on the recently released Kanye West track ‘Devil In A New Dress‘ and absolutely murders it as you would expect. Word on the Tweets is that Hollywood Cole is in a zone and plans to drop a new mixtape soon. No complaints from us.

I love the beat, the lyrics are aiight… ENJOY

The highly anticipated 3rd mixtape from artist Big Sean of G.O.O.D. Music!!! Should be good and this should keep us full until he drops the Finally Famous Album!! ENJOY!!!!