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1691. Scientists' Good News: Earth May Survive Sun's Demise in 5 Billion Years
There is new hope that Earth, if not the life on it, might survive an apocalypse five billion years from now. That is when, scientists say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-calle...
1756. IBM Prints Tiniest Image In Gold 'Ink'
Researchers at IBM and ETH Zurich (an international research organization) have demonstrated a new, advanced way to "print" REALLY SMALL IMAGES with unprecidented accuracy and resolution. The technique enables printing with 60-nanometer "dots" (100 times smaller than a human red blood cell) at a resolution of 100,000 dots per inch. The researchers showed off by printing this image of Robert Fludd’s 17th-century image of the sun (the alchemists’ symbol for gold). The image is made, according to a press release, with "roughly 20,000 gold particles, each of them 60 nanometers in diameter. The printing method precisely placed one particle per dot, thus creating the smallest piece of artwork ever printed from single pigment particles."
2589. Sun Offers Reward Program to Boost Open Source Effort
e5rebel writes to tell us that Sun Microsystems has announced they they will be creating a reward program in order to compensate open source programmers for their work in a hope to boost open source efforts. The program will involve communities like OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK, OpenSPARC, NetBeans, and OpenOffice.org according to Simon Phipps, Sun's open source officer. "Phipps' post comes some months after Rich Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, voiced skepticism over the open-source status quo, where developers who contribute to various efforts go uncompensated while corporations are enriched. 'It really is a worrisome social artifact,' Green said at the time. 'I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable. We are looking very closely at compensating people for the work that they do.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
2999. San Francisco could offer credits, rebates to promote solar panel usage
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It's hard to deny San Francisco's infatuation with solar power, and a new plan could further showcase its adoration for the sun (and Mother Earth, too) by throwing out tax credits, rebates and even loans for individuals and businesses that choose to equip their buildings with solar panels. Under the proposal, businesses would reportedly be "eligible for rebates of up to $10,000," while residents could fetch somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000 to help offset the high cost of installing panels. Furthermore, the city itself would underwrite loans that could be paid back "through annual tax assessments on properties." As it stands, the plan still has to be approved by voters and legislators, but Mayor Gavin Newsom is aspiring to have the whole shebang in place by next summer.
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