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Hubble’s portrait of everybody’s favorite ex-planet

By melissa | Published: February 8, 2010
While the Hubble space telescope has provided the world with some of the most amazing images ever taken of the very edge of our universe , it has now revealed details of something much closer. The newest images, set to appear in the March issue of the Astronomical Journal , are of everybody's favorite ex-planet—now dwarf planet—Pluto. The images reveal an "icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world that is undergoing seasonal changes in its surface color and brightness." The changes in color are believed to be the result of seasonal variations where surface ice sublimes from one pole and migrates to the other. This transformation occurred over a short, two-year period from 2000 to 2002—that's less than one percent of the total orbital period/seasonal cycle of Pluto
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Apple fourth best among build quality study for portables

By melissa | Published: November 19, 2009
SquareTrade, Inc. , a company that offers extended warranties on all sorts of consumer electronics, has published a study on laptop longevity based on 30,000 costumer experiences. The numbers show that Apple is fourth in terms of reliability, as machines from the Cupertino company suffered a smidgen over 10 percent failure rate over a two-year period and an estimated 17.4 percent rate over three years. Asus, Toshiba, and Sony all had lower two-year and estimated three-year failure rates, with Asus taking the top spot at just under 10 percent over two years and an estimated 15.6 percent over three
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