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Image via Wikipedia 4 Rare Earth Elements That Will Only Get More Important - Popular Mechanics : "Rare earth elements—a set of 17 related metals, mostly shunted off to a tacked-on lower line of the periodic table —are crucial to the way we live now; responsible for miniaturizing computers and headphones, powering hybrid cars and more. Increasingly important to technology, they're also playing a larger role in geopolitical maneuvering. Today, more than 95 percent of all rare earth elements come from China, while the United States produces at most 2 percent." .. .ero . Related articles The rise of rare earth elements (guardian.co.uk) Rare earth metals bill faces Senate tie-up (financialpost.com) Rare Earth Shortages Hit Germany (online.wsj.com) China Blocks Minerals Needed for Toyota's Hybrid Cars (livescience.com) Lynas Says Rare Earths Demand to Grow at 9% a Year (businessweek.com) Factbox: What are rare earth elements? (reuters.com) Rare-Earths Supply

Huawei Technologies of China’s Bold Push Into U.S. - NYTimes.com : "Anticipating these hurdles, Huawei has hired a remarkable array of Washington lobbyists, lawyers, consultants and public relations firms to help it win business in the United States. It has also helped create Amerilink Telecom, an American distributor of Huawei products whose high-powered board includes former Representative Richard A. Gephardt, the former World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn and the one-time chief executive of Nortel Networks, William A. Owens." .. .ero .

New Firefox add-on hijacks Facebook, Twitter sessions - Computerworld : "Firesheep adds a sidebar to Mozilla's Firefox browser that shows when anyone on an open network -- such as a coffee shop's Wi-Fi network -- visits an insecure site. 'Double-click on someone [in the sidebar] and you're instantly logged on as them,' said Butler in his short description of his add-on." .. .ero .

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education : "Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model)." .. .ero . Related articles JAX Library of the Future (jaxlibrary.blogspot.com) Will Technology Kill the Academic Calendar? (downes.ca)

Image via Wikipedia Thief returns stolen laptop contents on USB stick - Telegraph : "However, a week after the theft, the professor received a USB stick containing all the documents - which would have taken several hours to download" .. .ero . Related articles Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick (idle.slashdot.org) Thief Steals Computer... Then Sends Its Owner USB Stick With All His Lost Data (techdirt.com) Thief Steals Researcher's Laptop But Returns Data (neatorama.com) How Kind Of You!: Man Has Laptop Stolen, Thief Mails Zip Drive Of Personal Data To Him (geekologie.com) Thief steals laptop, sends victim backup files (cnews.canoe.ca) Laptop thief backs up victim's data, mails it to him (news.cnet.com)

Image via Wikipedia The 600 Years on Vimeo : "Mapping during 600 years anniversary of the astrological tower clock situated at Old Town Square in center of Prague ." .. .ero . Related articles Graphics Transform 600-Year-Old Clock Tower Into A Virtual Masterpiece [Science] (kotaku.com) Beautiful video-mapping show projected on 600-yo Astronomical Clock in Prague (boingboing.net) Prague's 15th Century Clock Gets a 21st Century Light Show [Video] (gizmodo.com) Prague Astronomical Clock - 600th Anniversary Show (longnow.org) MULTINAUTS IS HERE!!! from Cyclopeatron (cyclopeatron.blogspot.com) Video Projection Mapping on IAC Building at Vimeo Festival + Awards (laughingsquid.com)

Image via Wikipedia Apple and Verizon Get Cozy With iPad Offer | Gather : "Consumers anxiously awaiting news about the Verizon iPhone should be excited about today's announcement from Verizon/Apple. According to Verizon Wireless (Verizon press release), beginning the last Friday in October (28th) , shoppers will be able to purchase and Apple iPad and data package at 2,000 Verizon stores nationwide." .. .ero . Related articles Verizon Wireless to start selling iPads (sfgate.com) The iPad Will Also Be Available On Verizon Stores On October 28 (teabreak.pk) Verizon to start selling iPad in October (money.cnn.com) Verizon to carry Apple's iPad (v3.co.uk) Verizon iPad Coming October 28th (FULL PRESS RELEASE) (blippitt.com) iPad-MiFi bundle lowers monthly data cost for heavy users (macworld.com) IPad Coming to Verizon Wireless and AT&T Stores (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) Apple And Verizon Finally Meet (inflectovita.com)

Image via Wikipedia Quincunx | Define Quincunx at Dictionary.com : "[C17: from Latin : five twelfths, from quinque five uncia twelfth; in ancient Rome , this was a coin worth five twelfths of an as and marked with five spots]" .. .ero . Related articles Why Study Latin? (lewrockwell.com) Looking up Words in a Latin Dictionary: Nouns (brighthub.com) A Review of Words by Whitaker's Online Latin to English Dictionary (brighthub.com) Looking up Adjectives in a Latin Dictionary (brighthub.com) Latin's Ablative of Comparison with Comparative Adjectives (brighthub.com)