What’s new in technology? The new USB cable 3.0, also called SuperSpeed (SS), can transfer more data and will be 10 times faster than the current 2.0 USB cable. The cable will be blue and it will have the SS label on it. There is a 3.0 adapter available that is currently on the market. […]

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The future is now. If you are interested in electronics, or more specifically police scanners, then big changes are being made at this very moment. Long gone are the crystal days when all stayed the same. When it comes to police scanners, digital is the new kid on the block and digital is king. Software […]

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Defy gravity one minute at a time with the Tourbillon Watch. This timepiece is a classic. #womw “Developed around 1795 and patented by the French-Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet on June 26, 1801, a tourbillon aims to counter the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, to negate the […]

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I own an Acer laptop and I needed a wireless mouse with it. I do not like the scroll pad. I recently bought the Logitech Wireless Mouse M310 (Silver).  I know, it’s just a mouse. Anyways, it looks nice and it works. It works well. Logitech is a company that has grown in the last […]

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Forget about these new smartwatches that track bodily functions and give boring details that I don’t have any desire for. I just want an atomic digital wristwatch that keeps solid time and is accurate. It would be nice if it announced it upon being prompted. My atomic watch should give me UTC time. This one […]

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Just imagine all of the radio frequencies that surround us as we step into our backyards. What if there was a way to capture those signals and turn them into electricity? Some scientists have designed a new gadget that proposes to generate electricity from captured microwave signals. Allen Hawkes and Alexander Katko are those scientists. […]

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In the not-so-distant past, satellites had to be worked with the use of cumbersome equipment such as satellite dishes and so forth. Fast forward into the future and now the military can access satellites with only a handheld. Satellite communication ((SATCOM)) with the handheld transmitter is now a reality. Communications satellites are used for military […]

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If you were listening to HF radio on September 10, 2014, you would have discovered that the bands dropped out completely for several minutes. At 1:45 p.m. EDT (1745 GMT) on Wednesday, a major solar flare disrupted radio communications. Aurora watchers in the northern U.S. should be looking for possible activity both Thursday and Friday […]

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It’s unofficial, but it is believed that Microsoft Service Pack 4 has been launched. This must be a big relief to the many fans of Windows XP that have not upgraded to a newer version. Even though Windows XP support has ended, Windows XP is just too popular to go away. Consider all of those […]

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