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Another earthquake hits Turkey.

A 6.0- magnitude earthquake hit Elazig province of eastern Turkey early Monday. A Turkish official said eleven people died in this earthquake.

Local NTV channel quoted Selcuk Aslan, Kovancilar Town sub-governor of Elazig province, as saying that 11 villagers were killed and more than 20 others injured at Okcular Village in Kovancilar town of Elazig province.

Turkish rescue teams have been rushing to Kovancilar town, the center of the earthquake in Elazig province, according to the NTV channel report.

The powerful quake struck Basyurt region of Karakocan town of Elazig province at a depth of 5 km at 4:32 a.m. local time (0232 GMT), said a report from istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Turkey’s Bogazici University. continue reading…

Michigan Central Station has been abandoned for years, and the last time it was used was in 1988. It has been 20 years now since the last train left the platform of Michigan Central Station. During all this time Michigan Central Station has stood neglected since no renovation or restoration of this site was done.

While some people don’t care about history and would like to see the Michigan central station torn down due to its decrepit state, but there are others who would like to see it as a relic from the past; a site to preserve and treasure rather than to be torn down.

The Michigan Central Station is 97 years old and it carries with it many stories and memories, it is actually a landmark for the area. For those who want the Michigan Central Station to be demolished; their reasons are that it is just an ugly site for the area, with cracked walls, and huge useless structure, they just consider it as the ugliest behemoths of Detroit.

It is yet to be seen which side will win and whether the Michigan Central Station will survive through the coming years or its end has come!

Why not bring Michigan back from all its glory it once was.

Houston the fourth most populated city in US is plagued with humidity and intense sun and also lots of flooding. SoHouston is paying to build this geodesic dome over the city of Houston, called the Houston Dome.

The Houston Dome Project is the design and builds The Houston Dome.

The material used to build the Houston Dome to cover the entire city of Houston must be durable, but also lightweight enough. The Houston Dome Project is expected to use a project called Texlon EFTE, which is light-weight and durable and is expected to withstand winds up to 180 MPH. Texlon EFTE is able to hold up against fire as well as water and even a hurricane with the strongest category 5. The Texlon EFTE will be used in conjunction with steel for support. continue reading…

Last month its in Haiti taking live of thousands and 5 days back  it  hits Chile killing 800 people. People are still in the shock and panic of Chile.

And now a powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday morning, causing buildings to sway in the county of Kaohsiung.

No deaths were reported yet except some injuries. Kaohsiung is about 400 kilometres south of the capital Taipei.  Power lines were brought down and the island’s high-speed rail service was immediately suspended.

No tsunami alert was issued. The quake was centered in the same mountainous region of rural Kaohsiung County that endured the brunt of the damage from Typhoon Morakot, a devastating storm that killed about 700 people last August.

Earth’s days may have gotten a bit shorter due to the massive earthquake in Chile, but don’t worry about your office hours. According to NASA the difference is about one-millionth of a second.Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday’s quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.

The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one rotation — 86,400 seconds or 24 hours. Conversely, a quake can slow the rotation and lengthen the day if it redistributes mass away from that axis, Gross said Tuesday.

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Apple now charges $1.99 per episode for standard resolution and $2.99 for a high-definition episode. Those are very high prices for content that is free over the air or with a cable subscription and that can be viewed only on PCs, iPods and iPhones.

But with the March release of the iPad, Apple is hoping that reasonably priced content plus the iPad’s huge, high-resolution screen will make paying for TV content more compelling.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple met with at least one network last week to discuss the 99-cent pricing model. Apple is trying to “ignite the video part of iTunes,” a source said. Apple had originally been trying to strike subscription deals with TV networks and producers, but those efforts have stalled.

Will 99-cent TV shows drive adoption of the iPad? “That in itself probably won’t drive a lot of sales,” said Greg Sterling, principal analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence. Sterling believes the conventional wisdom that consumer disinterest in the iPad will dissipate when the device actually appears.

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$550 Apple iPad Tablet Computer Releasted at March: Apple brings out its iPad tablet computer in late March, but other companies are already preparing a new batch of tablets running Windows. Judging by a model that’s already out, the $550 Archos 9, the Windows tablets have a rough road ahead.

Windows just doesn’t seem at home when squeezed into this 1.8-pound slab, with a touch-sensitive screen that is 8.9 inches on the diagonal. It’s sluggish, and the controls aren’t adapted to the size of the screen or the fact that there’s no real keyboard or mouse.

On-screen keyboards kept popping up in the wrong places, blocking the fields where I wanted to enter text and the buttons I wanted to push. I struggled to hit the little “x” in the corner of the window to close it, so I had to fall back on guiding the mouse cursor with a small touch pad that’s built into the tablet’s frame.

It’s also a bad idea to couple a touch screen with a slow computer. When I pressed an on-screen button, I found myself wondering whether the computer had failed to register the press or whether it was just working on reacting. I kept jabbing at the screen like I was poking at a lazy dog, just to be on the safe side.

Archos 9 is lethargic because it runs Windows 7 on a processor that’s even slower than those used in netbooks — those slow, small laptops. How slow is it? Windows rates computers from 1.0 to 7.9 based on how fast the hardware is, and places the Archos 9 at a 1.3 — the lowest I’ve seen. It takes nearly two minutes to boot up. TV shows on Hulu.com stutter so badly they’re like slide shows with a soundtrack.

It’s a little disconcerting that the Windows tablet experience is so poor, nine years after Microsoft made a big push for its Tablet PC version of Windows XP. Clearly, Microsoft hasn’t really adapted Windows properly for this type of device.

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Nikon has unveiled another one of its upcoming point-and-shoot camera namely the Coolpix S8000. Measuring just 27.3mm at its thickest point, this ultra slim camera sports a 14.2-megapixel CCD image sensor, 10x optical zoom lens, a 3-inch LCD display, Image Stabilization, an HDMI interface and 720p HD video recording at 30fps. The Coolpix S8000 will start shipping in mid-Feb for £249.99 (about $398).