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A group of astronomers from the US and Europe believe that they have located the oldest galaxy ever discovered, with the help of the Hubble Telescope. The scientists believe the galaxy to be 13.2 billion years old, created when the universe was a mere 480 million years old.

The scientists say the universe was in “overdrive” mode during that period, rapidly forming galaxies and stars. “We’re peering into an era where big changes are afoot,” researcher Garth Illingworth UC Santa Cruz told the press. “The rapid rate at which the star birth is changing tells us if we go a little further back in time we’re going to see even more dramatic changes, closer to when the first galaxies were just starting to form.”

Richard Bouwens of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands added, “We’re seeing these galaxies–“star cities”–that are building themselves up over cosmic time.”

Bowens said that the team is “pretty confident” that it has discovered the oldest galaxy, but that the findings have yet to be verified. If it is indeed as old as suspected, the galaxy will give scientists new insight into the formation of the universe.

These beautiful speakers can focus their beam of sound so tight that only you can hear it. In fact, you can tune each speaker to send sound to just one of your ears, giving true binaural stereo. It’s like wearing headphones, only without the headphones.

The Klang Ultrasonic Speakers are designed and built by Minnesota-based industrial designer Adam Moller. As you may have guessed from the name, they use ultrasound to do their magic, using a well known trick to direct the sound.

The tiny wavelength of ultrasound lets you send a very tightly focused beam out through the air. Of course, being ultrasound, the only person that will hear it is your dog. When the sound waves interact with the air, though, they cause that air to vibrate at audible frequencies and sound appears out of thin air, as it were.

Moller’s Klang speakers use a small, snail-ear-shaped proboscis to produce the sound, which is ten reflected by the hand-machined brass dish behind it. By changing the distance between the two, the beam can be tightly focused for your ears only, or allowed to spread and fill the room. Thus you can enjoy an ear-splitting action movie without your neighbors ever knowing.

The Klangs are a class project, and won’t be seen in stores. Sad, because these things look awesome, and the lack of paper cones means that I could put them in the bathroom for my morning shower sing-a-long. I would hear the original music but the Lady would be left to “enjoy” nothing but the pure sound of my voice echoing throughout the apartment. The lucky girl.

Klang Ultrasonic Speakers [Adam Moller]

See Also:

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• Smart HD Speakers Bring the 'Sweet Spot' to You, Wherever You Are …
• LED Lightbulb Speakers for Wireless Music in Every Room

Sony says its upcoming new PSP, the Next Generation Portable, is as powerful as the PS3. Take a look at its graphics capabilities in this Uncharted demo.

This article was written on January 15, 2006 by CyberNet.

People are starting to find out about Firefox 1.5.0.1 RC1 which has recently been added to the Mozilla FTP server. It also appears that they have gone through and completed quite a few fixes in this build:

* Fixed: 319004 – Overlong page title causes hang on subsequent startups.
* Fixed: 312415 – Selected images (from a selection of the document to print) are black.
* Fixed: 319357 – Crash in browser when attempting to print a text selection [@ nsImageWin::DrawTile].
* Fixed: 296907 – <canvas> fill/stroke shouldn’t destroy path.
* Fixed: 299343 – Can’t copy and paste into the beginning of a line (Midas/designMode).
* Fixed: 301678 – XML object parsed from string from flash throws permission denied error when accessed.
* Fixed: 309044 – Flashplayer 8 “Bad NPObject as private data!”.
* Fixed: 312550 – Incorrect wrapping in RTL textarea with horizontal scrollbar.
* Fixed: 316821 – Crash with moz-border-radius and small font-size.
* Fixed: 318489 – Unable to create new XMLHttpRequests and DOMParsers from an XPCNativeWrapped window (e.g. in a Greasemonkey script).
* Fixed: 315434 – Security error with remote <xul:tabbox>: can’t switch tabs if chrome has focus.
* Fixed: 105894 – Clicking a partially off-screen link shouldn’t scroll the page.
* Fixed: 314222 – If link target URL has non-ASCII char that is not encoded by UTF-8, the default file name is always escaped at “Save Link As…”.
* Fixed: 315509 – Crash: array_unshift doesn’t handle holes properly [@ js_DeleteProperty – array_unshift].
* Fixed: 306067 – Crash involving autocomplete.
* Fixed: 320488 – Crash [@ nsSHistory::EvictWindowContentViewer].
* Fixed: 313988 – [Mac 10.3] Positioned select drop-down doesn’t work.
* Fixed: 298502 – [Mac 10.2] Empty pulldown menu and Firefox hangs.
* Fixed: 312154 – [Solaris] Start script does not take care of running instance.

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AT&T’s numbers are up, and they’re good: $31.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, $653 million more than Q4 the previous year. 4.1 million iPhones and 442,000 tablets were put online by the company that quarter, helping to drive 2.8 million new wireless subscribers, 95.5 million total, and a boost in revenue per subscriber of 2.2 percent. That’s $62.88 average per month per subscriber — maybe ditching unlimited data is paying off. Additionally, the company posted its best ever Q4 wireless churn (subscribers switching carriers) of just 1.32 percent (1.15 percent postpaid), but we’re thinking the launch of a certain smartphone on a certain competitor could possibly have that number increasing ever so slightly this quarter. We’ll circle back in three months and see where things stand.

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