Tropical lakes of methane spotted near Titan's equator

  In the dark, chilly tropics of Saturn's moon Titan, the Cassini probe has spotted what appears to be a lake of liquid methane, fuelling speculation that caverns below might harbour life. Titan has a rocky, icy surface coated by a thick atmosphere of nitrogen and methane. It's a geologically-young moon, but below its dense atmosphere the surface is dotted by mountains and several possible cryovolcanoes, which are thought to erupt methane rather than magma. It's the only extraterrestrial object to have even shown clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid -- in Titan's case, methane -- but these lakes of hydrocarbon have previously only been spotted in the planet's polar regions. In 2009, exometeorologists saw evidence of...

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Time’s up: Sony presents the Facebook-friendly Xperia Miro

The Xperia Miro has been launched on Sony's Facebook page, following its clever Fast Forward marketing campaign. Sony’s Fast Forward Facebook campaign has come to its conclusion, and it has announced the Xperia Miro. The campaign started on Monday, when Sony put a countdown clock up on its official Facebook page, along with a fast forward button. When clicked, it shaved a few seconds off the time remaining, promising that when it reached zero a new Xperia phone would be revealed. The Xperia Miro appeared after 25,941 people sped up time with the fast forward button, and it certainly lives up to the “fun, social and colorful” tagline. But as with everything that’s not a quad-core, $800 device these days, it has prompted an angry response...

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Lamborghini to launch luxury phones in Russia this summer

As if the Porsche Design BlackBerry weren't enough to satiate the desires of those seeking exorbitant smartphones with an automotive twist, Lamborghini is here to help out those of a more Italian persuasion. Russian site Mail has the first details on the new Lamborghini lineup, which includes two gold-plated feature phones, a tablet, and an Android smartphone. The devices are expected to be released in Russia this August. The TL700 smartphone has a body made of metal and crocodile skin with sapphire glass protecting the display, which might go some way to explaining why Lamborghini is asking 90,000 rubles ($2,758) for an Android 2.3 device with a 3.7-inch 800 x 480 display and a 5-megapixel camera. Meanwhile, the L2800 tablet has the...

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HTC One X used as a hammer

The hammer test should be one that every smartphone goes through before arriving in our hands. If it isn’t tough enough to hammer a nail into a piece of wood, why would I want it? A recent video has surfaced showing an HTC engineer using the HTC One X as a hammer and I approve. Can your phone handle this? The video was originally uploaded on YouTube, but was quickly taken down. Luckliy a Chinese video hosting website managed to get a copy. I’m not sure how true this next part is, but it seems that HTC wasn’t happy about this video and the engineer in the video was fired Hopefully that is not the case. They should be promoting this guy. The phone survived and the video demonstrates how tough it is. This guy got them all kinds of free...

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After A Year In The Pacific Ocean, A Canon EOS Camera & Photographs Are Reunited With Its Owners

After spending more than a year being washed around the Pacific Ocean, a Canon EOS 1000D camera and the photographs contained on its SD card have been reunited with its owner. As you would expect the Canon EOS camera, pictured below, is no longer working. But the SanDisk Extreme III SD card inside of it was able to be washed, and more than 50 images were recovered. With a date stamp suggesting the camera had been in the salty depths for over a year. The camera was found during a scuba trip by Markus Thompson, who was diving in Deep Bay just outside Vancouver. After publishing some of the images on Google+, Markus was able to track down the Canon EOS 1000D camera’s original owner. A firefighter and his family from British Columbia and...

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Toshiba Portege Z930 is world's lightest 13in laptop

Toshiba continues to refresh its laptop line-up with the Portege Z930, a super-light ultrabook. So slight, in fact, that at 1.12kg, it's the lightest 13.3-inch laptop around. It's not the most lithe ultrabook full stop though. That title goes to the Gigabyte X11, which weighs just 975g, though its screen is 11.6-inches across, so it's not a fair comparison with the Toshiba. The Portege Z930 weighs less than the same size Apple MacBook Air (1.35kg). Impressive indeed. At its thinnest point, it's just 8.3mm. But because it's slim and light doesn't mean Toshiba has scrimped on the specs. Built for business, it boasts an 8-hour battery life that will last you the whole working day. Provided you're not too busy to power down for lunch, that...

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Could this concept Facebook phone be reality?

The world may not be ready for another Facebook-flavored smartphone, but that hasn't stopped designer Michal Bonikowski from dreaming one up. Ubergizmo reports that Mr. Bonikowski has imagined his own take on a handset targeted at Facebook addicts. Judging from the pictures posted by the tech Web site, unlike HTC's ill-fated Status phone, this fantastic device sports a big 4.2-inch display. It's also painted Facebook blue and has a distinctively HTC-esque aesthetic complete with a flat slab of a body with softly blunted edges. The handset even flaunts a unibody metal chassis like the HTC One S and HTC One V. Made to be an ultra-communicator,Mr. Bonikowski envisions the phone to have an 8-megapixel main camera plus a high-resolution 5-megapixel...

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Asus Transformer AiO runs Android and Windows 8

The Transformer AiO boots up in Windows 8, but you can switch it to Android at the touch of a button. Handy if you want a greater selection of apps, or want to play a game only available on Android. It's a touchscreen desktop, but take it out of its base and you can walk around with an 18.4-inch tablet. It'll be interesting to see what kind of battery life you get out of it when detached from its base. The screen is a 10-point multi-touch LED-backlit display. It can still switch between Windows 8 and Android when out and about, effectively giving you two desktops and two (massive) tablets in one package. Which has got to be worth a look. There's no word on price or availability yet, or which version of Android it'll ship with. But rest...

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ICS is now on 7.1% of Android devices

We've long bemoaned the Android rollout process, but now comes good news, of sorts. Ice Cream Sandwich -- the latest version of Android -- is now used on 7.1 per cent of devices, according to Google's stats. This is up from the 5 per cent a month ago. But it still pales in comparison to Gingerbread, which accounts for 65 per cent of all Android devices. So ICS still has a long way to go. The figures become all the more unimpressive when you consider Android Jelly Bean is due for release in the next couple of months. There is a caveat. These figures record Android devices which access the Google Play online store for apps and games, so they're not 100 per cent accurate. But they're about as close as we're going to get. More bad news if...

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Sony Xperia acro S Features, Specs, Release Date & Price

Sony Xperia acro S, the new flagship droid from Sony is a scratch resistant, dust proof and water proof phone that comes with a combination of Android 4.0 ICS and 1.5 GHz dual core Scorpion Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset processor. Basically, the phone resembles Xperia S and features similar hardware specifications but the additional protection features in the phone are newly added. Design and looks of Xperia acro S are also similar to Xperia S. The droid features 4.3 inches HD LED-backlit LCD Capacitive touch screen display powered by Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine. It has 16 GB on-board storage and micro SD card slot expandable up to 32 GB. Other features like high speed data network connectivity, 12 MP camera we already have seen in Xperia...

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1942-Battle of Los Angeles

Summary: It is very rare that among the annals of Ufology there should appear a UFO case which involved military, yet is accompanied with actual photographic proof. Such is the case of an event which took place over the Los Angeles area on February 25, 1942. A giant UFO would actually hover over the city, and be witnessed by hundreds of observers. Pearl Harbor Scare: As America was gathering its senses after the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, there was a heightened feeling of insecurity and anxiousness. The skies were being watched as never before as a giant UFO moved through California, alerting the military and civilian watchers as well. This case is known as the "Battle of Los Angeles," and is one of the most important...

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