GoogleEarthAnomalies.com lets you do field archeology from your desk. Researcher Angela Micol found four mounds that may be lost pyramids in Egypt. (You know: things get covered up if you don’t dust regularly.) One of them is 620 feet across, about three times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Ultra-thin laptops are often called “ultrabooks” and look a lot like the Mac Air. They’re popular because of their light weight and long battery life. They use solid state drives (memory chips), so they’re fast and you don’t need to carry discs. The downside for many models is if the battery needs replacing, you have to send it back to the manufacturer. Only the Sony Vaio T13 and HP Elite Book Folio 9470 have user replaceable batteries.
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Trying to get publicity for your business is a time-consuming process. But when Joy did public relations for a company inCalifornia, her boss said her p-r work landed more sales than all their ads put together. In short, public relations works. (We read a study recently that claimed over half the stories in newspapers and broadcast news are initiated by press releases.)
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KhanAcademy’s free educational videos have been viewed 178 million times on YouTube. Now they’ve launched a “Computer Science” program that teaches kids and adults how to handle JavaScript; that’s the computer language that dominates the Web.
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Turns out you don’t have to be a programmer to create your own apps. But you will need the patience to work your way through a lot of tutorials. If you can do it, you’ll save around $10,000, the standard price for a custom game.
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