The Year is Moving Right Along!...

The year of 2011 is going to be  BIG ONE!!!!

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1) As we know Apple CEO, Steve Jobs

is supposed to show up at the 2011 Macworld expo, which happens once every 2 1/2 years. (Steve Jobs's last one was in 2007 since he could not show up at the 2009 expo because he needed to get a liver transition).

The iPhone 4.

On Verizon February 10th, 2011

Now, the iPhone 4 (And future iPhones)

will be available on Verizon wireless as of February 10th. With all of the same features, But available on Both AT&T and Verizon

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The iPad 2. Available in April 2011. 

The iPad 2 is due in April 2011, with probably a re-designed look, which may run several MAC features and software (excluding iWork) along with iPhone and iPad apps in HD on a 7.0" retina display with total LED. Which will come with the latest iOS and could even run MAC OS, along with a 2.0 MP front-facing FaceTime camera and a 8.1 MP rear camera that works with iMove and can shoot HD video. with a 1.6 GHz. Processer with 1GB RAM and up to 256GB of Flash storage with 1/2 in weight and 1/4 an inch thick.

 

A possible MacBook Pro

 The New MacBook Pro is coming soon to the World.  It is not exact when the MacBook Pro will come out (Chart Below) But there have been some attempts to figure out its new features. The MacBook Pro will Probably have the Intel i5 processor included free of charge, 3.2 GHz, 8GB RAM for the price of 4GB along with a slimmer thinner lighter design to make the most of portability performance to insure Complete reliability on HD high-resolution display with the Next-Generation Graphics along with complete Flash-Storage, longer battery life (Up to 12 hours) with a 60-day standby time with the latest Mac OS X, and so forth. The following is a time chart and a useful advice recommendation;

MacBook Pro

Recent Releases  ??? 4/2010 6/2009 10/2008 2/2008 6/2007 10/2006 4/2006 1/2006 10/2005 1/2005 4/2004 9/2003 1/2003 11/2002

Product MacBook Pro Recommendation: Don't Buy - Updates soon * Notes * The 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro received a new build-to-order option for a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor on October 20th, 2010. The new option does not constitute a full update to the MacBook Pro line, but does suggest that a more substantial update to the full MacBook Pro lineup is not imminent. Last Release April 13, 2010 Days Since Update 278 (Avg = 208) Recent Rumors 01/10: NVIDIA and Intel Settle, NVIDIA Still Prohibited from Building Chipsets for Newest Intel Processors 01/03: Intel Announces 'Sandy Bridge' Core Processors 12/20: NVIDIA Exits Chipset Business for Good? Apple to Continue to Use Old NVIDIA Chipsets? 12/15: iMac and MacBook Pro Upgrades in First Half of 2011? 12/09: Apple Shifting to Intel Graphics for Future MacBooks and 13-Inch MacBook Pros? 11/18: Apple Releases EFI Firmware Updates for 2010 MacBook and 13-Inch MacBook Pro 11/04: LaCie Brings USB 3.0 Hard Drive Support to Mac Pros and MacBook Pros 10/20: 15-Inch and 17-Inch MacBook Pros Receive 2.8 GHz Core i7 Option 10/07: Firmware Updates Address Charging Issues With 2007-2008 MacBooks and MacBook Pros 09/29: NVIDIA Class-Action Settlement for MacBook Pro Owners ...more... You have probably known about this, or seen it in some of our other posts but we want to make sure you know, We are going to include a "The Week in the Future" image about technology contain a funny theme with a plot and a hint in text-- below is one.  Special Segments by PopSci;

This Week in the Future, January 10-14, 2011

By Baarbarian Posted 01.14.2011 at 5:44 pm 6 Comments

Six stories from this week on PopSci are immortalized here in Baarbarian's illustration. Hint: A certain buzzed-about gadget was announced this week.

[ Get the details, and win the T-shirt, after the jump ]

read more about > this week in the future, TWITF

Science

Fruit Flies' Neural Networks Solve Distributed Computing Problem Better Than Humans

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 5:30 pm 0 Comments

The burgeoning neural networks of fruit fly pupae solve a distributed computing problem, arranging sensory bristles in a very efficient, effective manner. Scientists who monitored the bristles‘ growth say they can mimic the flies’ method to build more effective communications networks.

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read more about > computers, computing science, distributed computing, drosophila, fruit flies, neural networks, wireless networks

Gadgets

Johannesburg Thieves Raid Traffic Lights for SIM Cards, Yielding Free "Burners"

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 4:45 pm 3 Comments

In Johannesburg, South Africa, some thieves have found that there's an even cheaper and more anonymous way to make phone calls than buying disposable "burners" (like those featuring so prominently in The Wire): Traffic lights. It turns out that some Johannesburg traffic lights use SIM cards and GPRS to alert authorities to malfunctioning lights--but those SIM cards can also be harvested and used in generic phones to make unlimited, anonymous, free calls.

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read more about > burners, cellphones, crime, johannesburg, sim cards, South Africa, thefts

Science

New NASA Game: Extreme Planet Makeover, Gliese 581d Edition

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 3:45 pm 2 Comments

Scientists are on the hunt for exo-Earths, distant cousins of our planet that are just the right distance from their stars to harbor liquid water and other ingredients for life. But even with plenty of data and some educated guesses, no one will ever see what these faraway worlds look like, so we’re left with the creative concepts of NASA artists.

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read more about > data visualization, exoplanets, gliese 581, interactive, jet propulsion laboratory, nasa, planetary science, planets, super-earths

DIY

A Nice DIY Sous Vide Setup, For Advanced Tinkerers

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 3:00 pm 0 Comments

You may be aware of our fondness for sous vide cooking here at PopSci. We've tested the Sous Vide Supreme, an off-the-shelf water bath cooker, and shown you how to convert your rice or slow cooker into a sous vide rig on the cheap. Now the good people at Make magazine have featured a nice-looking, built-from-scratch immersion circulator that, if you have the electronics expertise, can rival the expensive scientific equipment used by top chefs for a fraction of the cost.

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read more about > cooking, food, projects, sous vide

Science

Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 2:15 pm 8 Comments

A maned wolf that had been left for dead after being hit by a truck was released back into the Brazilian wild this month, granted a speedy recovery through the use of stem cells. The female wolf is reportedly the first wild animal treated with stem-cell therapy, according to the Brazilian National Journal.

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read more about > animals, brazil, broken bones, collisions, helpless animals, injury, stem cell therapy, stem cells, veterinary science, wolves, zoo

DIY

Video: Student-Built CakeBot Recreates MS-Paint-Like Drawings in Frosting

The AutoFrost robot converts digital scratchings to delicious cake decorations

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 1:15 pm 2 Comments

At Massachusetts's Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, a group of students got together in that most noble of tasks: Combining robotics and pastry. The end result is the AutoFrost, a dual-Arduino 'bot that takes simple digital drawings and recreates them in frosting on cakes.
The AutoFrost uses a custom-built drawing program, sort of like an even-more-barebones version of Microsoft Paint, and in one click sends that drawing over to the robot for frosting. The AutoFrost itself is a three-axis machine, controlled by two Arduino microcontrollers: One controls the movement of the froster along the XY axes, and one controls the excretion of the frosting.

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read more about > Arduino, cakes, desserts, DIY, frosting, robots, Video

Technology

Kraft Foods’ Dinner Decider Studies Your Face, Suggests (Kraft) Food Choices Based on Gender, Age

By PopSci Posted 01.14.2011 at 12:15 pm 1 Comment

Next time you’re hungry, but unsure what to make for dinner, don’t despair — Kraft Foods has some ideas for you. Are you a mom? KraftBot calculates that you need Mac ‘n’ Cheese. Is it game day? KraftBot wants you to make queso dip, so here’s a barcode for a brick of “cheese product.” Are you a hung over college dude? Take the Cheez Whiz and Ritz crackers.
Or maybe you’re morbidly obese. Go ahead, pick between a box of South Beach Diet fiber bars or a gallon jug of Hidden Valley Ranch — the choice is yours, shopper. Just as long as it’s Kraft, and only Kraft.

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read more about > consumers, cooking, dinner choices, food, Future of Food, grocery lists, Kraft, meals, shopping, snacks 

Google Translate's Conversation Mode Aims to Break Down Language Barriers

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 5:00 pm 4 Comments

Learning a new language is hard. All those new grammatical rules, the new spellings, new tenses, irregular verbs--it's a serious pain. Luckily, Google Translate just issued an update to enable what Google's calling "Conversation Mode." Basically, it translates a multi-language conversation in real-time, spitting out a translation just as soon as you finish speaking. Now you can quit those painful language classes!

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read more about > android, google, google translate, spanish, translators

Science

At 6.6 Billion Suns, The Largest Black Hole Ever Measured Could Swallow Our Solar System

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 4:00 pm 7 Comments

A universal heavyweight champion was crowned this morning at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle: A giant black hole weighing a staggering 6.6 billion suns accepted the title of the most massive black hole for which a precise mass has been determined.

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read more about > astronomy, astrophysics, black holes, event horizons, m87, Space

Science

Upgrading Your Quantum Memory? Don't Forget the Crystals

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 3:00 pm 9 Comments

Quantum communication offers myriad advantages over conventional fiber optic networking, but manipulating electrons or photons to behave in the proper fashion has long kept quantum networking a “theoretical” pursuit. But University of Calgary researchers working with German colleagues at the University of Paderborn have pushed quantum networks a big step closer to reality by demonstrating that specially doped crystals can store and retrieve information encoded in entangled photons.

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read more about > communications, physics, quantum communication, quantum computers, quantum networks, quantum physics

Science

New Genetically Modified Chickens Can't Transmit Bird Flu, Scientists Say

They still get sick and die; they just can't spread the disease

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 2:00 pm 7 Comments

Future chicken cutlets may come from birds that have been genetically modified to resist bird flu, after a breakthrough in Britain announced this week. Researchers have produced chickens that cannot spread avian flu to other chickens, a major step toward protecting birds — and humans — from the deadly virus.
The transgenic cluckers still died from bird flu, however, so there’s still much more to be done before scientists produce a truly flu-free bird.

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read more about > animals, Avian flu, bird flu, chickens, Future of Food, Genetic Engineering, Genetically Modified Food, influenza, livestock, transgenic animals

Technology

In Warmup Match, Jeopardy All-Stars Defeated By IBM's Supercomputer Watson

Can a computer beat a human in the most challenging trivia game on TV? Today, at IBM's headquarters in New York, we learned that the answer is yes

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 1:35 pm 10 Comments

Today at IBM's headquarters in Yorktown, New York, an historic battle was staged. Two superstar Jeopardy! alums (Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter) faced off against IBM's supercomputer Watson in a preview round of America's most challenging trivia game, and we were there to see the thrilling man-on-machine action first-hand.

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read more about > IBM, jeopardy, ken jennings, robots, trivia, watson

Science

Can Our DNA Electromagnetically 'Teleport' Itself? One Researcher Thinks So

By Clay Dillow Posted 01.13.2011 at 1:00 pm 21 Comments

A Nobel prize winning scientist who shared the 2008 prize for medicine for his role in establishing the link between HIV and AIDS has stirred up a good deal of both interest and skepticism with his latest experimental results, which more or less show that DNA can teleport itself to distant cells via electromagnetic signals. If his results prove correct, they would shake up the foundations upon which modern chemistry rests. But plenty of Montagnier’s peers are far from convinced.

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read more about > chemistry, dna, electromagnetic fields, quantum teleportation, spooky action, teleporation

Technology

'Galaxy X,' an Invisible Satellite Made of Dark Matter, Could be Lurking at the Milky Way's Edge

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 12:00 pm 9 Comments

Some astronomers spend their careers peering at and discovering distant galaxies; Sukanya Chakrabarti is trying to discover one a lot closer to home.

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read more about > astronomy, dark matter, galaxy x, planet x, satellite galaxy, Space, theoretical astrophysics

Technology

Live Tweeting Now: Ken Jennings vs. Watson, the Jeopardy!-Playing Supercomputer

Remember Watson? We're currently at IBM's offices watching the world's best Jeopardy-bot take on Ken Jennings, the winningest human to play the game. Follow @PopSci on Twitter right now for the live blow-by-blow, and stay tuned for a full report later today.

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read more about > artificial intelligence, games, jeopardy, supercomputers, watson

Technology

The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?

Even as we imagine the day when robots finally turn against us, scientists are at work on how best to control them

By PopSci Posted 01.13.2011 at 11:05 am 11 Comments

Last August, U.S. Navy operators on the ground lost all contact with a Fire Scout helicopter flying over Maryland. They had programmed the unmanned aerial vehicle to return to its launch point if ground communications failed, but instead the machine took off on a north-by-northwest route toward the nation’s capital. Over the next 30 minutes, military officials alerted the Federal Aviation Administration and North American Aerospace Defense Command and readied F-16 fighters to intercept the pilotless craft.

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read more about > january 2011, machines, military, Terminator