Topic: north america

Universities, already early-adopters of earlier flavors of Wi-Fi, are also leading the charge towards 802.11n, especially in North America, says ABI Research. “Although current penetration of the higher education market is only 2.3%, that still represents a good rate of uptake for such a new, pre-standard technology,” says ABI Research vice president and research director Stan Schatt....

I may well be the last human being in North America to see The Dark Knight. It's strange, because it's a movie I've been looking forward to since the credits started rolling on Batman Begins. But somewhere between huge, surging, sweaty opening weekend masses and my usual apathy towards, well, everything, I almost forgot the movie even existed. It's a wonderful film, at least in part because it...

A couple of scientists from the Desert Research Institute in Reno came up with some interesting information on how dirty the air was a century ago in North America and Europe. Detailed measurements from a Greenland ice core showed pollutants from burning coal--the toxic heavy metals cadmium, thallium and lead--were much higher than expected. The catch, however, was the pollutants weren't higher...