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One of the bigger announcements at the Steve Job’s keynote presentation today was the new App Store—a native application on the iPhone that will allow users to purchase, download and install third-party software for their phones. It’s the only place iPhone owners can get the software, and most of the keynote today was dedicated to [...]

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Fitting for a programmers conference, this Apple keynote focused on software—and the announcement of a new iPhone felt almost like an afterthought. Nearly an hour of the keynote was dedicated to a parade of developers who had built iPhone programs using the software developers kit (SDK). But is it really as easy to write iPhone [...]

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Well, the official announcement is in—and it’s exactly what we were all expecting. The new iPhone, equipped with 3G, GPS, and a much slimmer price, will be available for purchase in 22 countries (including the US) starting July 11.
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Twenty years ago, duck hunter Stan Hewitt built his first amphibious vehicle, a clunky 10-wheeled truck-boat hybrid that topped out at 10 mph on land and just 7 mph on water. Hewitt wanted to tackle the prime duck habitat of the Alaskan tundra, an area hard to access using regular vehicles, and needed to improve [...]

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iPhone 3G: Photo by Apple

It’s official. The iPhone has gotten a birthday facelift, and the juicy details are all in line with the rumors we’ve been hearing all month—3G, GPS, an integrated app store, and a glossy new plastic back in black or old-school Apple white. Perhaps most surprising is a substantial price drop—down [...]

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DNA provides the genetic code for everything from bacteria to blue whales through combinations of just four DNA units, or bases. Now chemist Floyd Romesberg of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego hopes to expand biology’s potential by adding more bases to the mix.
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If Steve Jobs’ demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be “scared [expletive-]less.”

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The keynote speech from Apple’s CEO at the 2008 Worldwide Developers’ Conference will offer a first look at the new iPhone, with 3G network access, and maybe even a videocamera and GPS functionality. Popular Mechanics is live at the Moscone Center.

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If Steve Jobs’ demo today was any indication, stand-alone nav unit makers like Magellan and TomTom really do have every reason to be “scared [expletive-]less.”

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The keynote speech from Apple’s CEO at the 2008 Worldwide Developers’ Conference will offer a first look at the new iPhone, with 3G network access, and maybe even a videocamera and GPS functionality. Popular Mechanics is live at the Moscone Center.

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