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    PopSci's iPhone App

    By John Mahoney Posted on 9.16.2009 3 Comments

    Thanks for your interest in our new iPhone app! Soon, you'll be able to read PopSci on your iPhone or iPod touch with full text and images and the ability to save articles for offline viewing. And it's free! That is, just as soon as Apple approves our app. We've been pending approval for several weeks now, so hopefully it should be soon. Thanks so much for your interest and patience--when the app is available, we'll let everyone know.

    9.17.2009 at 04:01pm - Comment by Seen

    Hurry Up Apple!!! geez! i've been waiting for this app lol

  • Science

    Who Protects The Internet?

    By Posted on 4.2.2009 126 Comments

    For the past five years, John Rennie has braved the towering waves of the North Atlantic Ocean to keep your e-mail coming to you. As chief submersible engineer aboard the Wave Sentinel, part of the fleet operated by U.K.-based undersea installation and maintenance firm Global Marine Systems, Rennie--a congenial, 6'4", 57-year-old Scotsman--patrols the seas, dispatching a remotely operated submarine deep below the surface to repair undersea cables. The cables, thick as fire hoses and packed with fiber optics, run everywhere along the seafloor, ferrying phone and Web traffic from continent to continent at the speed of light. The cables regularly fail. On any given day, somewhere in the world there is the nautical equivalent of a hit and run when a cable is torn by fishing nets or sliced by dragging anchors. If the mishap occurs in the Irish Sea, the North Sea or the North Atlantic, Rennie comes in to splice the break together.

    3.25.2009 at 04:17pm - Comment by Seen

    just wanna say great article! i had no idea the internet was that hard-wired around the globe.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    TV on the Internet

    By Tom Conlon Posted on 10.20.2008 2 Comments

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    10.20.2008 at 02:23am - Comment by Seen

    One of the coolest things about Hulu, is you can embed a video on myspace(or whatever site).. and you can Search for videos right in the embedded video player, including some Full Length movies!

  • Gadgets

    New Nokia Phones to Debut

    By Posted on 5.5.2008 1 Comments

    Nokia indicated today that it intends to release a bunch of new phones through U.S. carriers in the next few months. The Finnish manufacturer sells 40 percent of the mobiles worldwide, but only accounts for about 10 percent of the U.S. market. But a daily paper in Finland quoted a Nokia chief designed as saying that the company plans to ramp up its U.S. presence.

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    5.17.2008 at 04:26pm - Comment by Seen

    the unlimited access music is a good idea..



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