NEW ORLEANS — An out-of-control natural gas well off the Louisiana coast has caught fire, hours after a blowout that prompted the evacuation of 44 workers.
Meanwhile, officials stressed that Tuesday’s blowout wouldn’t be close to as damaging as the 2010 BP oil spill, in which an oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and eventually spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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UAVs and UUVs may be unmanned, but they still need a ride to the mission area. Cue the Hydra: an undersea troop-carrier that transports drones. Unlike a submarine, this submersible can operate in shallow waters and charge the batteries of its pilot-free payloads as well as transmit collected data. Even more impressive, it can launch its flight-worthy passengers without surfacing. If this sort of thing turns your crank, head over to John’s Hopkins University next month to catch a presentation from DARPA. If your security clearance is high enough, you can even snag a special classified meeting after the regular Joes leave.
Filed under: Transportation
Via: sUAS News
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Sanwa Supply just released a magnet built-in tablet holder “MR-TABST8W” that holds 9-11 inch sized tablet.
By attaching your tablet or iPad on a fridge or a whiteboard with this tablet holder, you can make use of it in many situations, such as cooking dinner from a recipe shown on the tablet attached on the fridge, or attaching it on the whiteboard and showing materials in the meeting.
It is also attachable on a wall with the accompanying screws.
Price: ¥5,229
Size: W150×D30×H163mm
Weight: 180g
While it’s not their usual target, the crew of the Wizard couldn’t resist when they spotted a dead walrus floating in the Bering Sea on this week’s “Deadliest Catch.” Captain Keith called it the “trophy” of the seas. Walrus tusks can be worth thousdands of dollars, making this a worthy diversion for the crew.
Unfortunately, they were having difficulties getting the walrus body hooked from the boat, so deckhand Freddy decided to do something crazy. He decided he was just going to jump into the freezing waters and fetch it.
Figuring out what was about to happen, Captain Keith shouted, “No, no, no, no, no! Somebody go get a survival suit! Holy sh*t! What are you doing?”
It was just last week when we talked about how BlackBerry could very well reduce production of the BlackBerry Q10 by half, and here we are with whispers of the very same smartphone hitting Sprint this coming August 30th. Apparently, […]
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Looks like Verizon isn’t the only carrier that’s in line to receive the anticipated BlackBerry A10. In the latest leak from Tinhte.vn, the smartphone is shown off in a hands-on video wearing AT&T branding on the rear. A quick removal of the A10’s back cover reinforces the claim of a beefy 2,800mAh battery and 5-inch HD AMOLED display (unlike the LCD panel on the Z10), along with slots for both micro-SIM and microSD cards. Touring the device, micro-USB and micro-HDMI ports are both visible on the phone’s left side — another similarity to the Z10 — along with BlackBerry’s traditional three-button volume rocker on the right, and a both a power button and headphone jack on the phone’s top. You can see the comparison between BlackBerry’s current flagship and the A10 in the hands-on video, but you’ll need to learn Vietnamese to gain much in terms of impressions.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Blackberry
Source: Tinh Te (YouTube)
This evening, the new Nexus 7 was spotted in a couple shots posted by a Reddit user, complete with packaging and a timestamp. A few short hours later, the folks over at Android Police have produced a full roster of specifications and benchmarks for the 7-inch slate, giving the most detailed look at the upcoming Nexus 7 yet.
The Nexus 7 is codenamed Razor, and according to the benchmarks features a 7-inch 1920 x 1200 display, as various leaks have suggested. With the bar on the screen, the actual resolution works out to 1200 x 1824 pixels. Under the hood, there’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core 1.5GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Andreno 320 is pegged for the GPU.
Also as leaks have suggested, the slate runs Android 4.3, but we’ll have to wait a bit longer to find out what exactly the changes that come with that entail. As far as the hardware goes, the new Nexus 7 is pretty much on par with the Nexus 4, although the Quadrant benchmarks for the slate show it scoring a bit higher at around 5500 rather than 4200.
The Quadrant benchmarking tool is akin to the more commonly known AnTuTu, and looks at 3D graphics, I/O, and CPU. In the screenshot, we see a comparison between this device and some other handsets, with it scoring above the HTC One X, Motorola ATRIX 4G, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Nexus, Optimus 2X, and HTC Desire HD.
A 3DMark graphics benchmark was also run, with Android Police stating they ran it in “extreme” mode with a 1080p action sequence. During the test, the new Nexus 7 scored 7,188, with it staying around the 30fps mark. This is in comparison to the Nexus 4, which scored around 6300, and the previous Nexus 7, which scored 1877 on the Ice Store Extreme test.
SOURCE: Android Police
Nexus 7 2 full specs and benchmarks surface with codename “Razor” is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We hope you weren’t just getting used to having 2GB of RAM in a smartphone, because Samsung is already moving on. The company is now mass-producing 3GB LPDDR3 packages whose 0.8mm (0.03in) thickness can accommodate most device sizes. The capacious, 20nm-class memory should also be quick when there’s a pair of symmetric channels to keep data flowing. The first smartphones with 3GB of RAM should ship in the second half of the year; Samsung isn’t revealing which phones will have the honor, but it’s not hard to make some educated guesses.
Filed under: Storage, Mobile, Samsung
Source: Samsung
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