Shuttle takes quiet nettops down the Cedar Trail, intros XS35V3 and XS35GTA V3

Nettops have slipped a bit out of vogue, but Shuttle is keeping the flame alive for those who like their desktops tiny and hushed. The XS35V3 and XS35GTA V3 have moved on to more contemporary Cedar Trail-era, 2.13GHz Atom D2700 processors that keep the power draw to a fanless 27W, even when everything is churning at full bore. That limit might get tested with the GTA variant, which brings in Radeon HD 7410M graphics for a lift to 3D performance, but neither mini desktop will exactly make the power company beg for mercy. Either is a barebones kit with the laptop-sized hard drive, optical drive and OS left to the buyer -- if you don't get them at the same time, you'll have only the HDMI, VGA, USB and card reader to keep you company. Europeans are currently the only ones getting a crack, where it costs €172 pre-tax ($214) for the XS35V3 and €233 ($290) to get its faster GTA cousin.

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Tiny tweezers can grip little critters using sound waves alone

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Ultrasound, the same technology used to peer inside a mother?s womb to view a developing fetus, has been harnessed to non-invasively grip and move a millimeter-long roundworm.

The acoustic tweezers are about the size of a dime. The device is based on a piezoelectric material that converts vibrations into standing surface acoustic waves called SAWS.

The SAWs create pressure fields in the liquid medium that hold the specimen, according to Pennsylvania State University, where the technology was developed by bioengineer Tony Jun Huang and colleagues.

The electronics in the device can tune the SAWs to precisely and noninvasively hold and move the specimen, the university explained.

The researchers add that the technology is much cheaper than optical tweezers that use lasers to manipulate particles. What?s more, the acoustic tweezers don?t build up cell-damaging heat like their optical cousins.?

As a result, the acoustic technology can be used to mimic the conditions inside the body where cells are subject to waves of pressure and pulses of chemicals, the university said. This can, for example, allow researchers to study the effect of drug pulses on a cell?s biochemistry.

To prove the tweezers work, Huang?s team used them to spell PNAS and PSU in petri dishes with the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans,?which serves as a model organism for biological research.

A paper on the tweezers appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). PSU is the acronym for Pennsylvania State University.

John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.

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Shenzhou 9 Lands Successfully; Implications and What Comes Next

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Are You Going to BlogHer? Win A $1500 Style Makeover from Windows #sweepstakes

Susan and I love attending BlogHer every year. It?s the one major conference that she and I can attend together. We love meeting new faces and reconnecting with friends past and of course, always finding new products to share with you.

I am totally excited about announcing a really cool sweepstakes that will take place at BlogHer for the attendees there.

Windows is launching a sweepstakes and the prize is absolutely fabulous!? 5 BlogHer attendees will be chosen to win a $1,500 style makeover by a celebrity stylist, receive a new PC and more.

To enter this contest, all you need to do is simply post a video blog (or vlog), a blog post or create a Pinterest board that clearly states why you deserve a style makeover and what you?d like your new reimagined look to be like. You must include a sentence that says ?In writing this post, I?m entering the Microsoft Windows Style Makeover Sweepstakes for a chance to win a head to toe makeover!? Then tweet the link to @kristinalibby with the hashtag #windowstyle.

To read all the official details of this contest and more, please visit the Windows blog.

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Flyers name Terry Murray head coach of AHL Phantoms

PHILADELPHIA - The Flyers named Terry Murray coach of their AHL affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms, on Friday.

Murray, 61, was fired in December by the Los Angeles Kings, who went on to win the Stanley Cup under the direction of Darryl Sutter. Murray was coach of the Flyers from 1994-1997, leading Philadelphia to the Stanley Cup final in the latter. He was 118-64-30 in 212 games for the Flyers.

Murray was also coach of the Florida Panthers (1998-2001) and the Washington Capitals (1989-1994).

The Kings, who went 16-4 in the post-season, will still give Murray a championship ring, and Sutter rented Murray's house in Manhattan Beach after taking the job.

"We feel very fortunate to be able to bring Terry back to the Flyers organization," general manager Paul Holmgren said. "Terry brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, is an excellent teacher and a strong believer in the development process of young players."

The Flyers also named Ian?Laperriere the director of player development. Laperriere, 38, recently announced his retirement following a career that featured 1,083 games across 16 NHL seasons.

"It's a job that suits me well," Laperriere said. "It's one of those jobs that you need a relationship with the young guys and you need to have some experience, and I think I have both. I've always been able to relate well with anybody, from 18-year-old kids to 40-year-old veterans.

"It's always been one of my strengths, so I'm going to use that."

Laperriere missed the last two seasons due to a head injury. Last season, Laperriere won the Masterton Memorial Trophy for his perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey.

Source: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=399526

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Raptors take Washington?s Ross

Updated:?June 28, 2012,?10:00 pm?ET

The Toronto Raptors picked Washington swingman Terrence Ross with the No. 8 pick of the first round of the NBA draft on Thursday, and the Detroit Pistons selected Connecticut freshman center Andre Drummond.

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Astronomers use an old trick to open new window on extrasolar planets

Two teams of astronomers used a technique for finding extrasolar planets to directly measure one such planet. The approach could allow the study of more exoplanets' atmospheres than ever before.

By Pete Spotts / June 27, 2012

In this artist's conception Tau Bo?tis b looks at its sun.

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A method astronomers have used for nearly 20 years to indirectly find planets orbiting other stars has for the first time been used to take the direct measure of an extrasolar planet itself.

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The approach not only yields precise estimates of a planet's mass, a critical piece of information that can help determine a planet's bulk composition. It also can reveal its orbital inclination. And perhaps most important, it could allow astronomers to study atmospheres of more extrasolar planets than ever before.

The reason: The technique doesn't require a star to backlight a planet's atmosphere as the planet passes in front of its star. Until now, this kind of backlighting, during what's known as a transit, has provided the only window astronomers have had on the make-up of an extrasolar planet's atmosphere. And the number of transiting planets so far is only about one-third the number of planets discovered by two international teams of astronomers who used this approach and whose findings are published this month.

The orb the teams observed, known as tau Bootis b, was discovered in 1996 by a group led by astronomer Geoffrey Marcy at the University of California at Berkeley. It orbits a star nearly 51 light-years from Earth in the Northern-Hemisphere constellation Bootes.

Marcy's team found tau Bootis b via the slight wobble it imparted to its host star's spectrum as it orbits. As the planet swings around its star and its gravity tugs the star away from the viewer, it slides the star's bar-code-like chemical signature toward the red end of the spectrum. As the planet continues its orbit and tugs the star toward the viewer, the spectrum shifts toward the blue end. Over multiple orbits, the star's spectrum "wobbles" from blue to red and back.

The idea to use this approach to detect a planet directly is an old one, notes Simon Albrecht, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and a member of one of the two teams. His group was led by Matteo Brogi with the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. The other team was led by Florian Rodler, with the Institute of Space Science in Barcelona.

All it needed was the right combination of technology and a target close enough and bright enough to pursue. Tau Bootis b fit the latter requirement. For hardware, both teams used a new, exquisitely sensitive near-infrared spectrometer bolted to the back end of one of four eight-meter telescopes that make up the Very Large Telescope array. The facility, run by the European Southern Observatory, is located on a mountaintop in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.

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