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“On 5 April, it experienced a major fault and its services were switched to a back-up spacecraft.”
“To ensure its TV customers experience no loss or degradation of service, SES plans on Tuesday to initiate a drift in AMC-11 to match that of Galaxy-15.”
“It has also already commanded a second satellite, SES-1, to come in behind the damaged platform.”
“Normally positioned at 133 degrees West, and some 36,000km above the Pacific, the satellite is now drifting east into the slot occupied by AMC-11...”
“We have to do slight manoeuvres with our spacecraft pretty regularly, but a manoeuvre of this nature and complexity - no, I'm not aware of anyone having done this before,”
“Engineers have not yet established the cause, but damage from a solar storm is one possibility being investigated.”
“Ultimately, it is expected that the Intelsat platform will lose the ability to point its solar panels at the Sun and experience total power failure. This could take some months.”
“The Pac-Man game Google put on its home page gobbled up almost five million hours of work time, suggests a study.”
“The playable version of the classic video game was put on Google's front page on 21 May to celebrate 30 years since the launch of Pac-Man in Japan.”
“On a typical day, it suggests, most people conduct about 22 searches on the Google page, each one lasting about 11 seconds.”
“Putting Pac-Man on the page boosted that time by an average of about 36 seconds, the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.”
“the firm said based on the browsing habits of 11,000 Rescue Time users.”
“Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day, this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours - equal to about 549 years.”
“Extrapolating this up across the 504 million unique users who visit the main Google page day-to-day”
“this represents an increase of 4.8 million hours”
“equal to about 549 years.”
“The research councils are investing £117m in a Digital Economy Programme to help drive research in this area and more than £30m is being invested specific projects relating to the semantic web”
“Our understanding is that the data.gov.uk portal will in fact grow significantly in the months to come.”
“The last episode of the hit US drama Lost attracted 13.5m viewers in the US”
“Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors that can fit on a given area of silicon, for a given price will double every 18-24 months.”
“who has been using large scale simulations on grid computers to study how the behaviour of transistors changes as they get smaller.”
“variations in manufacturing, environment, and workload can conspire to make a chip suffer errors.”
“To ensure correct operation you are purposefully running the chips at higher power than you need to”
“That insistence on perfection also pushes up manufacturing costs because many chips have to be discarded if they fall short.”
“The tiny components in chips are already starting to give rise to errors.”
“Depending on how many errors a designer is prepared to tolerate, power consumption can be cut by up to 30%”
“With only 1% error rates, power can be cut by 23%.”
“Through research part-funded by Intel, Professor Kumar and his colleagues are designing processors that forgo flawlessness.”
“The Streak is smaller than most tablets with a 5in (12.5cm) screen and runs Google's Android operating system.”
“Reports suggest Dell also has a 7in and a 10in tablet planned for the future.”
“"This year our estimates suggest that there will be 1.3 billion mobile devices sold around the world," said Ben Wood of analyst firm CCS Insight.”
“Some have put this renewed interest in tablet PCs down to the recent launch of the Apple iPad, which sold more than one million units in its first month and will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May.”
“The first model comes with 3G and wi-fi connectivity, 16GB of storage, GPS and two cameras; one on the front and one on the back.”
“"It reduces the need to take five or six different gadgets," he said.”
“5in (12.5cm) screen”
“7in and a 10in tablet”
“there will be 1.3 billion mobile devices sold around the world”
“sold more than one million units in its first month”
“will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May”
“16GB of storage, GPS and two cameras; one on the front and one on the back”
“from June”
“The Streak is smaller than most tablets with a 5in (12.5cm) screen and runs Google's Android operating system.”
“However, some have put this renewed interest in tablet PCs down to the recent launch of the Apple iPad, which sold more than one million units in its first month and will go on sale in the UK on the 28 May.”
“The touchscreen Streak will initially launch across Europe, followed by the US.”
“Other areas relating to Scotland include plans for a new high speed rail network and the scrapping of ID cards.”
“The business, started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of technology giant Sun Microsystems, specialises in environmentally-friendly technologies.”
“Borrowing a quote from the late science fiction author Arthur C Clarke, Mr Khosla said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."”
“The research by Spot On Public Relations, a Dubai-based agency, says there are more than 15 million subscribers to the social network.”
“IBM is buying business software company Sterling Commerce from phone group AT&T for $1.4bn (£973m).”
“US-based Sterling makes software that helps firms do business with each other, and supplies more than 18,000 companies around the world.”
“good number two”
“great number one”
“Now we have just demonstrated the world's first electronic device in silicon systematically created on the scale of individual atoms,”
“The working transistor was created by replacing seven atoms in a silicon crystal with phosphorus atoms.”
“On chips where components are 22 nanometres in size, transistor gates are about 42 atoms across.”
“it could mean chips with components up to 100 times smaller than on existing processors.”
“Moore's Law predicts that the amount of memory that can fit on a given area of silicon, for a fixed cost doubles every 12-18 months.”
“two research groups have previously managed to produce working single-atom transistors.”
“If the new atomic transistor can be made in large numbers it could mean chips with components up to 100 times smaller than on existing processors.”
“However, the device is many times smaller than the components found in chips in contemporary computers. On chips where components are 22 nanometres in size, transistor gates are about 42 atoms across.”
“it could mean an "exponential" leap in processing power”
“The research team revealed their results in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.”
“"600 Twitter followers"”
“The project in Golspie, in Sutherland, has 23 lights on a timer that gives about 15 minutes to reach either end of the path.”
“The quitfacebookday website records that more than 13,500 Facebook members have committed to deleting their profiles on 31 May 2010.”
“Facebook said on Friday 21 May that it had changed how it shared data with advertisers on the site.”
“One of the runways was extended in 2006 to accommodate larger planes like the Boeing 737”
“Its Boeing 737-800 jet that crashed was less than three years old”
“Although the runway length was 8,000ft (2,400m) - long enough to operate aircraft like the Boeing 737 - it has a relatively short spillover area...”
“50th flight”
“at 2201 GMT”
“two telecommunications satellites with a combined mass of almost eight tonnes”
“its very first mission in 1996”
“About half the world's large commercial comms satellites now launch on Ariane.”
“The 5.4-tonne Astra 3B was the first to be deployed by Ariane some 27 minutes into the flight”
“the 2.4-tonne ComsatBW-2 was released six minutes later”
“two frustrating months”
“postponed three times since late March”
“early April even got to within a minute of blast-off”
“in 1999”
“nearly 10 tonnes of payload into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) some 36,000km above the Earth”
“two solid boosters”
“the 36th consecutive successful launch”
“14-year-history”
“last year”
“2bn-euro Envisat Earth-observation spacecraft in 2002”
“went to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008 weighing more than 20 tonnes”
“later this decade and give the vehicle a GTO capability of 13 tonnes”
“Arianespace promises to fly six further Arianes this year, including a second ISS freighter called "Johannes Kepler".”
“In 1987, when he read reports of an automated decoding machine, he soon had the first one in his lab.”
“In May 1998, he announced the formation of a commercial company, Celera Genomics, to crack the entire human genetic code in just three years.”
“Both efforts published their results in 2001.”
“In 2006, he formed the J Craig Venter Institute which would spearhead the labour to create the world's first synthetic life form.”
“At that point, the public project was three years into a 10-year programme.”
“But in the past week alone, over half had written an e-mail or message on a social networking site, the poll of 1,188 UK primary school children found.”
“Apple said it had investigated accusations of bad employment practices by Foxconn stemming from a June 2006 complaint”
“as many as a quarter of them were not taking at least one day off a week.”
“Foxconn says it has hired 100 counsellors”
“The page contains drawings and cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad and characters from other religions, including Hinduism and Christianity.”
“It entered the world's top 100 websites only last year, and is now sitting around tenth position globally, according to Alexa, a web information company.”
