Surrey's Mayor is also not a fan of the Provincial audit which found 139 million dollars per year in savings within Translink. Dianne Watts says some of those savings come from service cuts when what is needed, especially south of the Fraser, is expansion, "And that is the assessment we are going to have to do to see what the impacts are and … [Read more...]
Terahertz bandwidth: the key to 1,000x faster smartphones, laptops and pipe dreams
March 13, 2012 by
Much like carbon nanotubes and quantum computing, terahertz technologies have been promising miracles for nearly as long as humans have been able to distinguish water from fire. We exaggerate, but barely. A crafty team assembled at the University of Pittsburgh seems to have no qualms with moving forward, however, recently announcing a new physical … [Read more...]
iPad 3 rumored to bring faster CPU, higher-resolution display and LTE this March
January 28, 2012 by
On one hand, it's just another iPad rumor. On the other, there's an interesting wrinkle here that hasn't been confirmed -- let alone talked about seriously -- in past reports. Bloomberg is reporting that the iPad 3 will go on sale as early as March, boasting a higher-resolution screen, a speedier processor and support for "next-generation wireless … [Read more...]
Get to your lobster roll and blueberry pie faster by avoiding weekend traffic on the Maine Coast.
August 1, 2011 by
Weekend traffic heading to the Maine Coast along its feeder roads, I–95 and U.S. 1, can be brutally frustrating, especially at the tollbooths. If you travel midweek instead (or outside of peak season), you won't find yourself nearly as stymied. Fodor's Travel Wire … [Read more...]
