Swappable Battery News: Better Place Opens Its First European Station, and the Renault Fluence is Cheap in the U.K.

Better Place, an Israeli company that developed an automated electric-vehicle-battery swap station, expanded beyond the Middle East this week, opening its first station in Europe. The Denmark station will function as do the other Better Place stations in Israel, automatically removing the enormous battery pack from a special Renault Fluence Z.E. electric car and reinstalling [...]

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At Bletchley Park, breaking Enigma codes and winning WW II

Road Trip 2011: Code breakers led by Alan Turing were able to beat the Germans at their cipher games, and in the process shorten the war by as much as two years. At Bletchley Park, all the work took place in secret, where it stayed for decades.

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Magnussen, Nasr top F3 practice

Kevin Magnussen and Felipe Nasr set the pace in free practice ahead of this weekend's British Formula 3 round at the Nurburgring. Dane Magnussen, who has raced here before in German F3 and the Formula Renault Eurocup, put his grand prix circuit knowledge to good use to clock the fastest time of the day in this afternoon's dry second session.

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The Nook Simple Touch Reader

I have been a long-time Sony Reader fan. I loved my PRS-500, and jumped at the chance to get a PRS-700 for its promise of a built-in light. Turns out the light was not so great a feature, but I quickly became addicted to the touch screen. I have been hoping that Sony would update [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/07/04/nooktouch/

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Samsung "Streamlines" Lawsuit Against Apple, Pledges to Fight On [Blip]

The ongoing patent lawsuit shenanigans between Apple and Samsung got a tad bit simpler this week after Samsung withdrew its coutersuit against Apple over some patents or something. The whole thing is—oh hey look new iPhones in October! [AppleInsider] More »


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The HP ProBook 5330m: Where Have I Seen This Thing Before?

Does this thing look familiar to you? Granted, there are plenty of little differences, but at a first glance, what does this remind you of? If you said MacBook Pro, congratulations, we?re on the same wave length. The brushed metal finish, the keyboard, the black bezel around the screen... it all screams Apple. That?s all I?ll say on the matter, but I maintain that it had to be said. Starting at $799 configurations, how will it stack up against competition from Lenovo, Toshiba, and others? Let?s see. I spent a week with the 13.3-inch ProBook and found that overall, it?s a very well-made little beast. Under the hood, you?ll find a 2.5 GHz Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, a 500GB 7,200-rpm drive, and Windows 7 Professional.

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